My University Year and the St Louis Dispatch Offer
Homer Croy recalls farm life in Missouri and his journey to the University of Missouri and Drake through work, study, and journalism. He describes family, independence, first taste of city life, the shock of St Louis, and becoming editor in chief of a student journalism group headed to the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Drake University
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Bellman
Minneapolis
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Nelson C. Field
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
Walter Williams
George S. Johns
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Orrick Johns
Midwest
Dainty Frock for Little Girls Opens Flat for Ironing
Sewing circle needlework presents a dainty frock for two three and four year old girls. It features a gay four inch duck applique and opens out flat for ironing. Pattern includes sizes 2 3 and 4 years and scraps can be used for the applique.
Civil War Draft Agent Lost Life in Notifying Draftees
A grave near Washington Indiana marks Captain Eli McCarty who was killed while notifying drafted men. A Civil War veteran, he left the Union army in 1862 to enroll draftees and was slain after southern sympathizers planned to shoot a government agent on sight.
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