Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1920 — Long Walk for Job. [ARTICLE]

Long Walk for Job.

Chicago, Ill.—A 2,600-mile hike from Toronto, Canada, to Oakland, Cal., is being undertaken by John Thornton, twenty years of age, who arrived here the other day. Thornton has been promised a Job on his brother’s ranch In Oakland, and not having the price of a ticket, decided to walk. “I expect to say ‘hello’ to my brother some time in March, 1920,” he said. He sleeps in the open after reeling off some 18 or 20 miles a day.