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Packing grass seed at $2.50 an hour is happiness for David O'Reilly, almost totally blind since he was 8. The 20-year-old Snelgrove man book job four (...)
Packing grass seed at $2.50 an hour is happiness for David O'Reilly, almost totally blind since he was 8. The 20-year-old Snelgrove man book job four (...)

Packing grass seed at $2.50 an hour is happiness for David O'Reilly, almost totally blind since he was 8. The 20-year-old Snelgrove man book job four (...)

Date3/23/1974
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  • Packing grass seed at $2.50 an hour is happiness for David O'Reilly; almost totally blind since he was 8. The 20-year-old Snelgrove man book job four weeks ago; giving up his $130 allowance from the government because I would feel very dissatisfied if I did not work. He left the Brantford School for the Blind to complete Grade 12; then took a 17-week course in garden merchandising.
  • Packing grass seed at $2.50 an hour is happiness for David O'Reilly, almost totally blind since he was 8. The 20-year-old Snelgrove man book job four (...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Packing grass seed at $2.50 an hour is happiness for David O'Reilly; almost totally blind since he was 8. The 20-year-old Snelgrove man book job four weeks ago; giving up his $130 allowance from the government because I would feel very dissatisfied if I did not work. He left the Brantford School for the Blind to complete Grade 12; then took a 17-week course in garden merchandising.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0020862F
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