Homer Croys Early Life and Family in Missouri
Amos Croy and wife raise Homer on a Missouri farm with church meals and farm work including dehorning calves curing hams sausage making and calf care. The Croys attend the Omaha Exposition where Homer encounters a horseless carriage motion pictures and a hula dancer. Renzo the former hired hand returns to farm nearby and Homer starts high school as the first Croy to attend despite initial trouble fitting in.
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Amos Croy
Missouri
Homer
Croys
Omaha Exposition
Renzo
Return to the Farm and the Push Toward New York
Homer recalls family life on the Kansas farm his frail mother, supportive father, and hard work shaping his choices. He leaves for New York to pursue writing, driven by a vow to write clearly for readers while his father contemplates farm expansion and the pull of city life.
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Homer
Knabb
Phebe
Cain Cemetery
McCormick Reaper
Cain Farm
Booth Tarkington
New York
St. Joseph
University
St. Louis
Puck
Blueprint for Peace and Postwar World Views
A May 194x columns piece exhorts pacific action from leaders and peacemakers. It lists fifteen practical specs for durable peace, including no double talk, a strong League of Nations, armed cooperation against threats, and resisting forced cultural models. It mixes satire with earnest demand for clear aims and global responsibility.
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G.I
David
Mickey Mouse
League of Nations
Pompeii
Orson Welles
A Heartbreak Dilemma in East St. Louis Romance
Rosamond Kay faces a grave choice between returning to Robert, her first husband presumed dead, and continuing with Peter, her devoted partner and father to Mollie. The letter traces two lives, a son and a daughter, and the toll of war, separation, and jealousy as she seeks guidance. The columnist urges prayer, noting God’s ways may bring healing beyond human plans.
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Rosamond Kay
East St. Louis
Rosamond
Robert
Tunisia
Peter
Little Bob
Baby Mollie
En
Enigmatic dilemma mirrors Enoch Arden as Rosamond faces a returning husband. Robert, believed dead in Tunisian campaign, must confront a settled life with Peter and a newborn Mollie. Torn between happiness and duty, Rosamond weighs returning to war weariness or staying with her chosen family.
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Rosamond
Robert
War Department
Peter
Mollie
Have a Savings Plan For Postwar Farm Incomes
Many farm families, for the first time since World War I, enjoy incomes above essentials. They may not last. Lower prices are expected in the postwar years, so farmers should set definite but simple savings and investment goals for the future.
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Doan
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Mass
Connecticut
By Kathleen Norris
Pete
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Felicity
Bobby
Kathleen Norris
Litle
Ollie
Enoch Arden
United States
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Plymouth
G.M.C
Hardin
Montana
Billings
Darwin Crossman
Broadway
Fargo, N
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W. A. Mitchell
Male Street
Miles City
Maat
E.W
Joseph Aspirin
Kohler
Kohler Electric
Farm Light & Service
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Mendenhall
J. C. Mendenhall Medicine CO
Evansville
Indiana
Soretone
McKesson & Robbins
Lydia E. Pinkham
WNU
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