>'Warchalking' is based on a similar system practised by tramps during the US
>depression who marked the outsides of buildings where they had been
>successful in finding food or shelter.

An ounce of research...

Tramps don't work, but travel. Hobos travel and work.

1880s to 1940s, not just Great Depression.

All well documented that the signs stretch over that period.
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