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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1945
Page
6
Amos Croy settled on a Missouri farm where he married, had son Homer, and raised calves hams and sausages. The Croys attended the Omaha Exposition where Homer saw a horseless carriage and the first motion picture. Bemro the hired hand left and later returned buying a farm and gaining acceptance as landed gentry.
The narrator recalls leaving home for university life, facing fear and self doubt, and earning work with the Kansas City Star and St Joseph papers. He joins a university journalism program, becomes editor of The Savitar, and wins a summer trip to St Louis with the St Louis Post Dispatch. He reflects on rural roots, campus culture, and the pull of farming.
Washington columnist notes reconversion ahead with 80 percent of factories needing no major retooling as civilian demand surges. He highlights Burl E. Sherrill of Peru Indiana who built a compass for steel lifeboats and military vehicles, forming a self-sustaining civilian factory ready for postwar production.
An official navy bulletin warns personnel not to panaport monkeys to or from India. A congressman jokes the government moved west from the Hudson, and wonders if the pace will slow at the Mississippi. The piece notes rising horse meat sales and a medal for a high officer who stopped a runaway horse 20 years ago, suggesting he was closer to his aim than his award implies.
Inisfail refers to a legendary or mythic locale, its legal status in Canada varies by context. The questions compare terms, stories versus stogies, spreadheads in newspapers, the oldest US public park, bee wings, maladdress meaning, the world’s largest bridge, and the inscription in St Paul’s Cathedral about observing the monument by looking around.
A set of clues: poetic name for Ireland, definitions of stogy and stogie, a Boston headline location, a number four, social tact lacking politeness, Oakland Bay Bridge clue, quarry stone resemble Portland limestone, and Sir Christopher Wren noted as architect.
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