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Utl8sawkncthetruthe*j Ever since the earliest recol-»f; lection of most of tho middle e aged people in Medina the friended I ly old home of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Dannley on N. Broadway street has been a second home and a , place where they could run in day | F or night, tell their joys or troubles 1 nnr to their sympathetic host and hos- u,0, tess, or just reminisce awhile. !° /One time, some 30 odd years ago, a group of youngsters gath- j q ered in the Dannley home, .start- pved to argue about which was the a*rotallest and so finally, to settle the ‘l){ argument, Mrs. Dannley suggest- vve, ed that they mark their height on tru the inside of the door in the den. ' anrj They drew lines on the door even {thr with the tops of their heads and | trai then wrote their names on thelines.ises,I.rt,yeiin.iie apRE|OUofMrs. Dannley didn’t have the 1 heart to wash the names off and i othjso they stayed, and as months and age[■years went by more names wenadded. DolThen came World War I. and as {he her boys went off to fight for their country, Mrs. Dannley pasted a 'va! star beside the name of each boy alt;that left She hung a horse shot*over the door and typed a prayer- STsong on a card and tacked it atthe top of the door.Miltifitwlt; lierev\ booD , , ! StnBring them home, safely home, j Tar Lord of Hosts.” | [ngThe wives and sweethearts of IV the boys “over there” went often Mei to the Dannley home and together! toll they sang the song. j rogAnd then the war was over and all 37 came “safely home” and the door came to be known as “Mrs. Dannley’s lucky door.”More years went by and Mrs.The song could be sung to the tune of “Taps, and though the typing is somewhat faded over the past quarter of a century, you can still read the words—they are:Lord of Hosts hear our prayer,! Save our boys in Thy care over rhere.
Newspaper Details
Medina County Gazette
Medina, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 15, 1943
Page 1
Full Page
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Akron S.
OH, USA 27 Jul 2021
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