Neville recalls arriving in America in 1922 with no training, and at seventeen or eighteen being turned away for jobs he sought (climbing telephone poles, lumberjacking in Canada) for lack of trade experience.
Date (happened)
between 1922 and 1923
unresolved
between 1922 and 1923
stated · preferred
Reasoning
Neville directly states the year he arrived (1922) and separately states his age during this job search as seventeen going on eighteen, which agrees exactly with his corroborated birth date of 1905-02-19 (age 17 through mid-February 1922-1923, turning 18 in February 1923). Two independent statements in the same passage agree, so held certain across the 1922-1923 span rather than a single year.
Told / reported
7 February 1969
stated
Reasoning
The lecture in which Neville recounts this job search, 'Maker Maker Things', is dated 1969-02-07 by its certain catalog claim, the lecture's only delivery claim.