Pike County AlArchives News.....Troy Boy Does What Every Normal Boy Would Like To Do October 13 1936
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Troy Messenger
William H. Harvey, Jr., son of W. H. Harvey of Troy, is now away on a jaunt 
which would doutless fill the desires of every 18-year-old boy. A jaunt filled 
with new experiences, travel into foreign lands and a taste of hard work and 
unique pleasures that are a part of the new stock in trade of the hardy "boys 
of the sea".
Young Harvey left his home in Troy several weeks ago, his entire stock of funds 
consisting of from $80.00 to $100.00, according to his folks here. He shipped 
on a freighter at Mobile and after a 4,700 mile trip docked at Havre,France. He 
evidently did some kind of work on the frighter to pay passage, the trip 
consuming 14 days. After reaching the French shore he made trips to Paris and 
other cities in France, later going to England and touring that "tight little 
isle" on bicycle. The bicycle is a favorite mode of locomotion in England as 
automobiles are not so plentiful as they are in the good old U. S.
Going to Liverpool from London, he shipped on the S. S. Artgus, bound for 
Boston. Before heading to Boston, the ship went to Hamburg and Bremen in 
Germany and is now on the high seas. This will be about a 15 days trip and he 
is about due in the city of beans. He is making this voyage on a "workaway" 
basis.
William will have plenty of experience to relate to his boy friends and elders 
when he again lands at home in Troy.

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