Homeward Bound on the Prairie A Family’s Shifting Times
The narrator recalls Amos Croy and family returning from New York to a Missouri farm, watching rural life evolve. He notes farm consolidation, barn signs fading, and a new cityward pull as older pioneers retire. Pa plans to move to town while Phebe adjusts, and the land passes to a chosen successor as changes reshape work, transport, and community life.
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Amos Croy
Missouri
Homer
Croys
Omaha
Renzo
Croy
Post-Dispatch
New York
Free Lancing
Phebe
Dave
Mother
Sedalia
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Delineator
Butterick
Boone Stop
William Dean Howells
Hostetter
Kansas
Nebraska
Wyoming
Montana
Frank Halls
Coast Guard celebrates 155th anniversary with wartime feats
The United States Coast Guard marks its 155th founding anniversary on August 4, highlighting its role as a first fleet and its World War II service. The article traces its origins to 1790, its cutters, and notable actions from Pearl Harbor to Normandy, including rescue work, anti submarine patrols, and the loss of cutters Hamilton and others, underscoring life saving missions and evolving responsibilities from past to present.
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United States Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Alexander Hamilton
the Treasury
Hamilton
United States
Congress
France
Taney
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Carolina
Atlantic
Iceland
Acaccia
Muskeger
Natsek
Escanaba
Leopold
Serpens
Normandy
Dwight H. Dexter
Guadalcanal
Tulagi
Samuel Chase
Sicily
International Ice Patrol
Coast Guard Maintains Peacetime Duties Amid World War
Throughout the war the coast guard kept peace time tasks such as aiding navigation and enforcing laws while also contributing to wartime efforts. It also deployed crews to man ships in all theaters and found uses for peacetime skills in war, including a mission to Italy in fall 1943 to restore fishing.
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Coast Guard
Italy
Glass Prisms Save Lives in War Effort Highlighted
The Libbey Owens Ford Glass company developed laminated plate glass prisms that gave tank crews a 360 degree view without exposing the hatch. Early periscope improvements boosted visibility by about 58 percent and mass production ensured widespread use. By now over 2,000,000 prisms have been produced for war instruments.
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U. S
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company
Happy the Duck Pattern and Accessories
Pattern number 258 offers an actual-size design of Happy the Duck and her ducklings for wood toys weather vanes and wall decorations. Includes color guide cutting painting stencil instructions and complete dimensions for a matching wheelbarrow pattern priced 15 cents including mailing with Mrs Spears as the contact.
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Appy
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North Pole
New York State
Newt Kennedy
Horse Pond
Big Foot Lake
Renzo Davis
Peace Coast Guard
Naval Bank
Adm
Russell R. Waesche
U. S. Coast Guard
Manila
Philippine
Happy
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
Billings
McCall's
Darwin Crossman
Mont
J.M Wylie
Broadway
Fargo
Srp
W. A. Mitchell
Main Street
Miles City
Kohler OF
Kohler Electric
Kohler
Farm Light & Service
Montana Avenues
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Nature
Aydia
Pinkhams Src
WNU
Doan
Doans
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