BEGGARS IN MOTOR-CARS.
The ancient "beggar on horseback' has found a successor at Tombstone, Arizona, in the : motoring tramp, y . • • The city '" of Tombstone, twice in the • last, few months, lias been canvassed by women, carrying V babies seeking charity to purchase food, while near-"/ was parked ' a car in.' which an ablebodied ? man lolled at his ease. , • ;; The couple -in each -; case were work- . ing their way to the coast. 1 CoraptMnt is .made ;!all over the American south,west ■of motoring tramps, : who - provide themselves with new tyres orether, «up- s plies; from : cars that; are stripped in j the < to\Vns, and : who even steal the petrol,.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 20 (Supplement)
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108BEGGARS IN MOTOR-CARS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 20 (Supplement)
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