First Croy to Attend High School and Journalism Class
Amos Croy and wife settled on a Missouri farm where Homer was born. He saw his first horseless carriage and motion picture at the Omaha Exposition. Renzo moved nearby and joined the community. Homer became the first Croy to attend high school and later enrolled in America’s first journalism class, editing the Post-Dispatch for one day before visiting a New York editor.
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Croy
America
Post-Dispatch
New York
From Missouri to Dreiser: A Cub Editor's New York Tale
A Missouri native recounts arriving in New York to pursue journalism, befriending Theodore Dreiser at Butterick magazines, and rising from aspiring cub to editor while evading poverty. He describes hotel stationery pranks, the pet story contest, and Dreiser’s decisive moment over a cigarette in a magazine edit.
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Theodore Dreiser
Butterick
Carrie
Philadelphia
Lorimer
Bob
New York
Dreiser
Vitala
Frock Pattern 1302 for 11 to 18 size range
Sewing Circle introduces Pattern No 1302 a smooth long waist frock with a sweetheart neckline lace edging and bodice lacing designed for sizes 11 through 18. Size 12 uses 33g yards of 35 or 39 inch material and 2 yards ribbon for bow and lacing.
Sewing Circle Needlecraft South of Border Towels
South of Border tea towels brighten kitchens with cross stitch transfer pattern 7159 showing seven motifs averaging 6.44 by 0.07 feet.
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Border
GIs Mistakenly Enter Hall of Remembrance
Two American soldiers on leave near London explore a building marked Hall of Remembrance. One enters, returns in haste after seeing many black-clad figures around a cremation pit with flames, joking that he wondered what was cooking.
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London
Hall of Remembrance
G.I
Household tips for everyday repairs and prep
Practical advice on preventing sticking when rolling pastry with waxed paper, sewing pockets on pajamas, drying water damaged feathers, reinforcing towels with tape, using a nutcracker, easing strap strain with elastic, salvaging fabric scraps, and reusing leftover foods by reheating in a single pan for efficiency.
Quiz questions about history and language
A set of six trivia prompts asking why dykes are used in Holland which tribe supplied Manhattan to the Dutch what a poltroon means whether army and navy first had lieutenants how many major countries require peacetime military training and which country uses Sanskrit as its language
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Holland
New York City
Army
Navy
Answers to six quiz prompts reveal varied facts
The land is below sea level. The Manhattans. A coward. No. Lieutenant means anyone who has authority in place of a superior and was used first to mean those serving the government or the church. In 45 major countries, while it is voluntary in only 10, including Great Britain and United States. Sanskrit is the principal literary language of India.
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Great Britain
United States
India
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