Woman Leads Farm Family After Husband’s Death
In a tight-knit township a widow and her seven sons kept the farm united after Jim’s departure. She refused help, stating the family would stay together. They quarreled about the farm but proved their bond by mortgaged-free, successful crops and a new car for Jim Junior. Other townsfolk acknowledge their grit and call them salt of the earth.
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Gossips and domestic quirks stir old time talk
The column satirizes gossip about women and men. It jokes that a woman reads time by clocks and notes husbands’ petty power plays. It mocks fashion dignity, male appeasement, and the idea of scandal printed in tiny type, closing with Eve's gossip over the back fence.
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