Story of Amos Croy and Homer Croy in Missouri and beyond
Amos Croy and his wife settled on a Missouri farm where Homer was born. Sunday routines included church and family meals as the Croys attended the Omaha Exposition. Homer saw his first horse less carriage and motion pictures. Kenzo moved nearby and became part of the community. Homer was the first Croy to reach high school and college, answered 4 Wire, and returned after his mother died. He finished college then worked for the Post-Dispatch before moving to New York to pursue writing, achieving some freelancing success.
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Amos Croy
Missouri
Homer
Croys
Omaha
Kenzo
Croy
Post-Dispatch
New York
Free Lancing
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Hazardous
Dave
Phebe
Moving to the City Ends Farm Era in A Family Tale
The narrative follows a narrator returning from New York, noting rural changes from straight roads to brick byways, farm signs fading, and a shift from carts to buggies with rubber tires. Pa reveals plans to marry Phebe and later contemplates city life as farms consolidate and youth move to town.
Hollywood Notes From The Screen Scene Highlights
A collage of 1920s film industry snapshots including Yvonne De Carlo’s big break in Salome Where She Danced and Gary Cooper’s lost chaps story. Monogram expands New York set, RKO moves studio school to a showboat, and Jo an Crawford appears as a theater audience extra. Esther Williams buoyed as bullfighter in Feista Bem Bete. Joan Mowery wins Welk vocal contest for his Mutual show.
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Salome
Walter Wanger
Universal
Yvonne DeCarlo
Paramount
Gary Cooper
Montana
Hollywood
Jones
Cooper
Reko
Joan Crawford
Phillip Terry
John Auer
Joan Blondell
Gable
Greer Garson
Esther Williams
Metro
Bete MacDonald
Joan Mowery
Waukegan
Ill
Lawrence Welk
Mutual
Dainty Frock for Little Girls Opens Flat for Ironing
Sewing circle needlework feature offers a dainty frock pattern for two to four year olds with a four inch duck applique. Includes sizes 2, 3 and 4 years and advises using scrap fabric for the applique.
Civil War Draft Agent Killed While Notifying Draftees
A tombstone near Washington Indiana honors Eli McCarty who was killed while notifying drafted men. McCarty, a Civil War veteran wounded early, left the Union army in 1862 to enroll men for the draft and was killed by southern sympathizers seeking to shoot a government agent.
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Washington
Ind
Eli McCarty
McCarty
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North Pole
New York State
Mother
Newt Kennedy
Horse Pond
Big Foot Lake
Renzo Davis
Delineator
Butterick
William Dean Howells
Kansas
Nebraska
Wyoming
Bhebe
Frank Halls
Western Newspaper Union
Virginia Vale
Monogram
Bowery
RKO
Donna Lee
Alfalfa Switzer
Our Gang
Pat Kirkwood
California
England
van Johnson
Robert Walke
Parks Johnson
CBS
Texas
Parks
Warren
House of Representatives
Dickie Tyler
Eddie Breen
St. Mary’s
Leo McCarey
Dickie
McCarey
Sharon Douglas
Babs
William Bendix
Riley
Blue Network
Sewing Circle
New Montgomery
San Francisco
Calif
Kellogg’s
America
Soil Conservation Service
Firestone
Columbiana
Ohio
Harvey S. Firestone
Future Farmers of America
Firestone Champion Farmers Association
Firestone Farm Service Bureau
Akron
Wbon
Tawa
The
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
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