Spokane Farms Use Japs from Centers

ID: 4336 ~ Source: "Spokane Farms Use Japs from Centers." Spokane Daily Chronicle. July 3, 1943. Google News Archive.
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Agriculture was a crucial part of the defense industry during the war. With many eligible farm hands fighting overseas, Japanese-Americans were released from camps to assist in harvests.

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By Anna Harbine
In the first half of the twentieth century small Japanese farms peppered the outskirts of the city. The produce from their farms in Bigelow Gulch, Nine Mile Falls, Spokane Valley, and Latah Creek…