Family table memories and rural life in Missouri
The narrator recalls Amos Croy and family meals in Marysville Missouri. Descriptions cover farm life, neighbor gatherings, stock weighing rituals, and the social rhythm of Sundays with kin, plus elderly relatives and neighbors sharing news.
Duck Design Makes a Jolly Toy and Ornament
A wheelbarrow craft using plywood ducks with a wooden wheel. It explains cutting ducks by jig saw or coping saw, nailing to the wheelbarrow, and painting with a color chart. Pattern 258 provides actual size cutting and painting guidance for large wheelbarrow ducks and smaller lawn ornament ducks.
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Duck Design
Repairing Blankets with Old Yarn and Wool Patches
Old blankets can be mended using scraps from those blankets and new yarn. Whenever possible use wool patches to reinforce worn areas as wool fabrics resist fraying. Stitching without turning speeds repairs on heavy blankets and satin weave bindings can be replaced with machine stitching for neat edges.
Columbus redheaded Explorer Tall and dignified, new view
Professor Daniel Sargeant of Haverford University says Christopher Columbus was a tall dignified redhead in youth, who turned white by his voyage to America in 1492. He describes a long ruddy face with gray eyes and an aquiline nose and notes a taste for yellow beads and crimson apparel.
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Proment
Newt
Susan
Mrs. Kennedy
Minnie
Phebe
Molly Bates
Syracuse
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Lynn
Reno
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China
Junior
Xen
San Diego
Adele
Mollie
Christopher Columbus
America
Daniel Sargeant
Haverford University
Columbus
Sargeant
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