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The Cleveland County Herald reacted to the shortage of financial currency due to the Depression by publishing a notice saying that it would accept “any article of food, poultry, eggs, stove wood, corn, cotton seed or any other item of value” at market value for newspaper subscriptions. Most of its published editions also gave public notice of people being sued for nonpayment of debts, especially concerning loans on land. During the Great Depression, Cleveland County suffered as many did across the nation, but since most residents were either farmers or had sufficient land to garden nearby, few actually went hungry. Ready money for things like newspaper subscriptions was in very short supply, however.