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Title: Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: American Home Missionary Society Congregational Home Missionary Society
Subjects: Home missions--Periodicals Missions--Periodicals
Publisher: New York : Congregational Home Missionary Society
Contributing Library: Presbyterian Historical Society
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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RUSSIAN MAN AND WIFE EXCLUDED the streets of a foreign city as abeggar, penniless, homeless, with noone to care for her and finally to fillan unknown grave. When two or more girls come overtogether and one is excluded theyhave to return together because thatis the law; the other can come againand probably be admitted. TwoPolish girls, sisters, were recentlythe objects of the missionaries care.Jessa Veronica was afflicted with an of their lives together until deathparted them, for now the one had tosupport the other and perhaps be-came afflicted with the same disease.Here is a curious case. On theway to the boat the inspector has afamily in charge who are apparentlyabove reason for deportation. Butthey have to sail immediately forRussia. The mans face has a de-termined and dogged expression ashe passes the crowd coming off the THE HOME MISSIONARY
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STRANGERS WHOM NO ONE CLAIMS boat. But one of the passengersrecognized him as a fellow country-man and an acquaintance and in theshort conversation that followed somelight was thrown on the situation.It seems that he had stoutly main-tained before the inspectors that be-sides his railroad tickets for theWest he had but two dollars andfifty cents, too little to supply foodfor his family for one day. He hadbeen warned not to show or tell ofhis money, for the Americans werethieves and would take it all away.Rather than take any chances hewas returning to Russia, where hecould buy another farm and live,rather than have his all stolen fromhim here by pigs. The situationwas rapidly explained to the in-spectors and the man and his familywere admitted. He carried threemoney bags on his person, the goldcontents of which ran above 8,000roubles. On a bench in the womens de-tained sits a mother and seven children, all girls, patiently awaitingthe fathers arrival from Chicago. Itis for a final far

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