My City Newspaper Quest to Prove Myself in St Joseph
Homer Croy recounts leaving the Missouri farm for St Joseph to pursue journalism. He endures a sobering city welcome, finds work on competing papers, confronts rejection, and learns the city beat while letters from home frame his uneasy journey back to family. His telescope and parents frame the growing pains of independence and ambition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos Croy
Missouri
Homer
Newt
Croys
Omaha Exposition
Croy
Dave
Cox
St. Joseph
Croy Farm
Omaha
Oregon
Old Cave
St Joe
Horatio Alger Jr
Eugene Field
Henry M. Stanley
Walter Hines
Maryville
Star
Press
Puck
Mr. Knabb
Ann
Reno
War letters and faithfulness questioned by a wartime widow
Kathleen Norris laments collapse of old wartime fidelity among American wives and mothers. She cites letters claiming wives are unfaithful while husbands fight abroad, describes the morale harm to soldiers, and urges courage and traditional virtue despite loneliness.
Aiding the Enemy Saboteurs of Wartime Marital Strife
Wartime wives’ infidelity erodes morale as letters of separation surge. Miss Morris labels disloyal wives saboteurs, arguing misconduct threatens husbands and country by weakening fighters and undermining unity while husbands are away at service.
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Miss Morris
Sanitary Dishwashing Tips From Old Household Guide
Washing dishes does not insure cleanliness if the dish cloth has lain wet. Scalding dishes after washing removes the film that holds bacteria. Dish cloths and towels should be boiled and sun-dried often. Yellow laundry soap and hot water act as disinfectants. A half teaspoon concentrated lye in towel-boiling water helps whiten towels and kill germs.
Sewing Circle Slip Covers Pattern No 5835
Directions for six sofa and Davenport slip cover styles. Requires 22 yards of 35 inch or 16 yards of 50 inch material. Include complete cutting sewing and finishing instructions. Send 16 cents, name, address and pattern number 5835. War conditions slow orders.
Giant Australian earthworm’s ground roar heard above ground
A giant Australian earthworm measuring ten to twelve feet tunnels underground. Its gurgling and sucking sounds are so loud that a person on the surface can clearly hear them. The extraordinary creature bores through soil, creating audible subterranean noise.
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de Omer Cure Dees
Undertakers
YMCA
Will Sewell
Kennedys
Oliver
The
Gazette
Kathleen Norris
Pouglas
By Kathleen Norris
Mary
France
Ethel
Sewing Circle Needlewore
New Montgomery
San Francisco, Calif
Will
Sue
Fleischmann's
Fleischmann
New York
Fiore Eli Soy Zel
Mi Beh
Ben-Gay Cuonce
Ben-Gay
Sree Reyes
Lgelique Baume
Childrer
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