Homer Croy Early Life and Farm Ties Highlight Ohio County
Amos Croy and his wife settle on a Missouri farm where Homer is born. He attends church, visits the Omaha Exposition, finishes school, goes to New York City to work, and returns after his mother's death. His father urges him to keep the farm as the farm’s owner dies soon after.
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Amos Croys
Missouri
Homer
Croys
New York City
New York
Boone Stop
Mr. Croy
Boerner
Salvation Army
Billy Sunday
The Farm and the White Barn of Homer Cray
The narrator recalls returning to a damaged family farm facing a crushing mortgage of 8500 dollars. A new tenant and a rebuilt barn bring hope, while personal finances and Hollywood offers shape a tense, hopeful dawn. A call from an advertising agency hints at renewed work, leading to questions about a possible training film assignment for Standard Oil Indiana.
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Standish Road
Will Rogers
Irving Trust Company
Spide Logan
Spide
Spider
Nellie Logan
Joseph Jackson
McCann-Erickson
New York
Indiana
Sewing Circle Patterns for Pleasant Summer Afternoons
Patterns for a Teen-Ager two piece and a junior peplum outfit describe waist slimming and bright trim. An afternoon frock for larger women features slenderizing lines and light ruffling. Pattern No. 1312 covers sizes 36 to 52. Pattern No. 1984 covers sizes 11 to 18.
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Oriad.a Co
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Pattern No Name and Size
Pattern request notice from Sewing Circle Pattern Dept at 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco California requires enclosing 25 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Readers are instructed to include pattern number name and size with payment.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
New Montgomery St
San Francisco, Calif
Household tips from wartime pamphlets on daily chores
Squeeze lemon juice through the meat grinder to loosen chopped dates figs prunes or raisins. Cook dishes to table heat to save dishwashing. Make a soap shaker from two worn pre war tea strainers. Stand on a rug to reduce fatigue while ironing. Cold eggs separate better when broken promptly. Rub salt on a hot pan to prevent pancake sticking. Jab two holes in a paint can to pull out excess paint with a wire.
Using Crankcase Oil for Woodwork and Rubber Handling
Instructions advise using crankcase oil to paint fences and gates, and recommend painting only in dry weather. It suggests dusting rubber gloves with talcum or corn starch to prevent sticking, applying powder to both inside and outside surfaces, and to any folded rubber material.
Salt Harvest on Roofs in China
Curious saucer like roofs along streams host China’s salt industry. Salt water is ferried from wells to roofs to evaporate and yield salt for home use or sale. Women perform most tasks as men fight the Japs.
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China
Fragmented Dramatic Snatches In A Gossiping Parlor
A montage of quick banter and gossip tension unfolds in a parlor scene. Speakers trade jests about marriages, commissions, secrets, and social circles, with sly quips and innuendo punctuating conversations among Mrs Clum Mrs Longjaw and others.
Longest canal in the world and related trivia
Questions cover geography and general knowledge including the world’s longest canal location congress attendance rules track calling and other factoids about science language and sports figures.
The Answers Quiz Challenge
In China it stretches 2 100 miles and took 600 years to complete finishing in 1350. A skier is the responder. James Whistler is referenced. The subject remains the same with emphasis on Chinese language and culture. A weak man and Soldier Field in Chicago hosted 150 000 attendees with the hummingbird mileage listed as 101 601 604 miles.
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China
James Whistler
Soldier Field
Chicago
Hummingbird
Empress Seal Stamps Coin Design in Seventh Century
A coin used in China today bears a thumbnail impression accidentally pressed into the wax model of its seventh century design by an empress. The incident links royal influence to modern currency markings in a compact historical note.
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China
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Homer Cuveds Sron
Nellie
Homer Cray Farm
J. Theodore Logan
Owen Davis
Hollywood
Mr Fox
Madison Avenue
Stone Hotel
Bill
Johnny
Jasper
Joan
Jobson
Costlisa
Mamie
Algie
Lottie
Jenky
Ste
U. S
B. F. Goodrich Company
Koksaghyz
Begoodrich
She
Seon
CESS
Joey
Mom
Fleischmann
Fielschmann
Mus Mn Ta Sloan’s. Tis Bs
Cutter
Cutter Laboratories
Berkeley
California
Cutter Vaccines & Serums
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