Homer Croy early life and farming beginnings in Missouri
Amos Croy settled on a Marysville farm where his son Homer was born. Homer recalled a cyclone that wrecked the sod barn and orchard. Sundays included church and visits. He helped with dehorning calves and curing hams. He devised a rubber tube method to wean calves faster and sent the idea to the local farm paper, which printed it in full.
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Amos Croy
Marysville
Missouri
Homer
A Rural Saga of Sausage Days and Newt Kennedy
The narrator recalls hog butchering, sausage making, and a joyful yet rough childhood. Newt Kennedy, the One-Horse Farmer, sends in humorous notes, organizes plays, and outrageously breaks mules, turning labor into neighborhood entertainment and lasting memory.
Power of the people drives postwar world order debate
In San Francisco the United Nations conference weighs whether a new world body will emerge. The author argues that while Molotov and Clemenceau shape rival security aims, the true force is the people’s will. If a blueprint succeeds, the credit goes to absent voters who lacked a voice in Vienna and Paris.
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San Francisco
United Nations Conference On International Organization
Europe
Napoleon Bonaparte
Elba
Congress
America
Vienna
George
Paris
Clemenceau
Lloyd George
Wilson
France
Germany
Molotov
Russia
Stalin
Stettinius
Talleyrand
Delta
World Organization
Demos
Barbs by Bankhag at the San Francisco conference
Foreign delegates at the San Francisco conference felt out of place amid moving picture cameras and Hollywood vibe. They noted unusually fine weather nearly erasing the word unusual. Taxi doors opened automatically as drivers controlled fare exits. A San Francisco restaurant ran out of orange juice amid shortages.
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San Francisco
Hollywood
Cut-Out Scallops Add Finish and Style to Rooms
Ruth Wyeth Spears explains scalloped window cornices and scallop trimmed shelves to enhance living spaces. The article notes plywood and lamination options, suggest patterns for sizing, and offers Pattern 207 with actual-size scallop templates for 10 basic shapes and curves.
No End to Growth Among Aquatic Creatures
Describes that many aquatic species including fish clams oysters shrimps crabs and lobsters continue to grow in size throughout their lives.
Also Mentioned on This Page
County
Omer
Washington Digest
Chapter
Amos
Newt Kennedy
the Weekly
Newt
Wilcox
Knobb
Homer Croy
Newt's
WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Kaiser Wilhelm
Britain
Ezequil Padilla
Man of Steel
Moscow
Bankhag
Uscharger
By Ruth Wyeth Spears
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Eveready
Ayaa
National Carbon Company, Inc
Incharger
Wincharger Corporation
Dept
Sioux City
P. O
Om Penn Patel
Maer
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