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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1945
Page
3
Amos Croy settles on a Missouri Marysville farm, marries, and has son Homer. Homer recalls a cyclone destroying a sod barn and orchard, church on Sundays, steer weight guessing, calf dehorning, and ham curing. He pioneered using a rubber tube in the milk pail to wean calves, a method later printed in a local farm paper.
Homer recalls childhood in a rural town with Pa preparing sausage and hog processing. Newt Kennedy, the community’s rough but tender helper, writes the One-Horse Farmer column, chronicling school life and mule breaking adventures that thrill the neighborhood.
Due to high demand and war conditions, some top pattern numbers require extra time to fill orders. Send orders to Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept at 564 W Randolph St Chicago 80 Ill with name and address.
A reader submitted trivia set asking if the United States owns the Panama Canal Zone and the meaning of comme il faut. It includes a quote about the White House and asks about submarine lubrication, animal water storage, and the cost of the first B 29 bomber.
The document notes a perpetual lease requiring a $10 million down payment and an annual rent of $250 thousand. It references conditions, Roosevelt as a figure, and a note on underwater cooking with peanut oil not smoking below 450 degrees. It mentions the first B-29 cost $3.39 million to build, now estimated at $600 thousand.
Navy legend traces christening origins to a toast from a silver cup tossed into the sea. The practice evolved to breaking a bottle. one breakage incident allegedly led to a spectatorial lawsuit against the Admiralty, explaining why bottles are tied with a lanyard today.
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