Dutch Bill Creek is a 6.5-mile-long (10.5 km) north-flowing stream in the hills of western Sonoma County, California which empties into the Russian River at Monte Rio about 7 miles (11 km) from the Pacific Ocean.
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“Too nice is neighbor’s fool.”
—Common Dutch saying, trans by Johanna C. Prins.
“The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
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—State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)