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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1945
Page
3
Instructions describe making a wheelbarrow with a wooden wheel and plywood ducks for decoration. Cut ducks from plywood, assemble on the wheelbarrow, then paint with a color chart for eyes bills and feet. Pattern 258 provides full diagrams and material lists. send 5 cents with name and address to obtain it.
The narrator recalls hard work from hog ringing to calf weaning. Pa leads the ringing with rings, clippers, and axle grease while Newt and John Murphy assist. Mother prepares the smoked ham and gravy as the family endures long days and meals.
Professor Daniel Sargeant of Haverford university argues Columbus was tall dignified and redheaded in youth and white by his voyage to America in 1492. He describes a long ruddy face gray eyes and an aquiline nose with a taste for yellow beads and crimson attire.
A wounded World War II veteran recalls ducking shells on the Normandy road to St Lo. He credits blood plasma and later whole blood transfusions from Army nurses who stayed by his side, urging others to join the Army Nurse Corps.
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