Homer Croy and Community Life in Marysville Missouri
Amos Croy retired on a Missouri farm at Marysville where he married and raised a son Homer. Sundays meant church and dinner. Homer helped with dehorning calves curing hams weaning calves and sausage making. A notable moment was helping neighbor Newt train his mules using a running away method that neighbors disapproved of.
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Amos Croy
Marysville
Missouri
Homer
Newt
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Russell Lowell
Edgar Allan Poe
Newt Kennedy
Patchwork Quilt of a Simple Life in Iowa Memory
A narrator recalls rural life in Iowa with family gatherings, quilting, mail orders, and a small windfall from a true dream contest. The piece weaves community scenes, subscription papers, and a mother's quiet support as a swimming party and a cherished relic panel illuminate a boy's growing sense of self.
Capitol Routine and Controversy Highlight Senate Pay Increase
The piece surveys a day at the Capitol where lawmakers voted a $2,500 a year tax free salary hike, while the Senate fumbles for a quorum and witnesses face hostile subcommittee treatment. It notes the public outcry over inflation and wage controls versus lawmakers raising their pay.
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WNU
Washington Bureau
Union Trust Building
Capitol Building
Capitol
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Senate Agricultural Committee
Invasion of Okinawa told by Ernie Pyle on Love Day
Ernie Pyle describes the Okinawa assault with about 1,500 ships and thousands of landing craft forming a massive fleet. He details the planned four mile front, the sequential waves of assault troops, and the overwhelming naval bombardment as waves 1 and 2 hit with minimal beach opposition.
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D-Day
Normandy
Europe
Okinawa
Bedlam
Marines Find Perfect Defensive Position on Hillside
The First Marine Division unit reports a three thousand yard long by one hundred yard wide hill position with dug in troops and a mortar platoon at the base. The commander calls it the most perfect defensive position they have had, claiming one company could hold off a whole battalion for days.
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Marine Regiment
First Marine Division
Trivia Quiz From ASK ME ANOTHER
The questions cover Beau Brummel realism the tactile sense the number of women on Noahs Ark the star and stripes coat of arms the one thing left in Pandora's box which Biblical figures went to heaven without dying current height of modern soldiers vs WWI armies and time difference between London and Chicago at 6 p m
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Phebe
Beau Brummel
Heaven
London
Chicago
Real and The Sense of Touch in Biblical Notes
The list references names and themes such as Brum mel, Noah's family wives, the Washington coat of arms, Hope, Elijah and Enoch. It notes height trends in soldiers of a war with two thirds of an inch taller average and more men over six feet tall. The entry ends with Noon.
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Real
George Bryan Brummel
Noah
Shem
Japheth
Ham
Washington
Hope
Elijah
Enoch
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Chapter
Geralda Knabb
Mrs. Knabb
Wallaces
Iowa
Nebraska
Ohio
Hayden Carruth
Comfort
Augusta
Maine
Bors
Newport
Post-Office Department
Ozarks
Mr. Croy
Susan
Walter Shead
Ernie Pyle
Pacific
Big Guns
Island
Ie Island
Che
Mee
Billings
Montana
CAL. Matson
Shelby
Inman Poultry Farms
Aberdeen
South Dakota
W. A. Mitchell
Main Street
Miles City
Ment
E.W
St. Joseph
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Tebecco By-Products & Chemical Corp. Incorporated
Louisville 2
Kentucky
Dean
Doans
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