Pioneers of Ohio Tie to Missouri Homestead Life
Amos Croy a Civil War sergeant from Ohio settled near Marysville Missouri, married Susan Sewell and built a farm with a log home sod barn orchard and well. Early years focused on clearing land and outbuildings as roads and a school gradually arrived for the growing settlement.
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Amos Croy
Ohio
Marysville
Missouri
Susan Sewell
A Child Recalls a Rural Ohio Home and Sunday Best
The narrator recounts an early life in an Ohio township with a growing family, barn memories, and a cyclone cave. Recollections span a split orchard, a rebuilt barn after a cyclone, school days, and a pivotal Sunday dinner with a white cloth table, peacock fan, and company.
United Nations San Francisco Talks Loom Over World Hope
The piece reflects on the forthcoming United Nations conference in San Francisco with key figures like Vice President Truman Senators Connally Vandenberg and others weighing fear of Russia and the path to a durable international organization. It notes Hull's view of Russo American need for cooperation and Vandenberg’s push for an escape clause to address injustices and future adjustments.
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Senate
Truman
Connally
Vandenberg
San Francisco
United Nations
Administration
Russia
Churchill
Stalin
United States
Britain
Roosevelt
Edward Flynn
Vatican
Kremlin
Communist Party
Walter Lippman
Cordell Hull
America
United States Senate
Congress
Barbs by Bankhage on spring and commerce
The column muses on cherry blossoms beating winter, nature favoring free enterprise, and remaining oddities. It recalls cattle, a stuffed longhorn, photographs in offices, and jokes about Brahmin and Indian priests for Southwestern farmers. It ends with a WWII era service reminiscence.
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Washington
Washington Zoo
Houston
Texas Congressmen’s
Sewing Circle Patterns Jumpers and Jacket Popular
A sewing guide highlights a versatile jumper jacket and a slim princess dress with a jaunty jacket for sun tanning gardening sports and street wear.
Practical Home Care Tips and Sewing Tricks
A compact guide offers sewing and homemaking tips for children and families. It covers finishing seams to prevent skin irritation, reheating small foods in one pan, using a folding card table as a bed tray, safely cracking nuts, rotating clothing, waxing paper to keep pastry from sticking, and machine stitching pajama drawstrings to avoid detachment.
Reinforce Towels With Tape For Heavy Use
Instructions advise reinforcing heavy bath towels along each side with one inch tape. This strengthens them for hard pulling by men and boys and suggests rubbing hard after shower baths.
Fish With Bifocal Eyes Sees Up and Down
A strange Central American fish, Anableps dowei, inhabits streams and has eyes divided in halves. Two eyes look up when at the surface, two stay submerged to watch for threats. The six inch to one foot fish swallows river currents like an eel, with upper eyes for distance and lower eyes for close vision.
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Anableps Dowei
Central America
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