Homer Croy’s Early Years and First Journalism Class
Amos Croy and his wife farmed in Missouri where Homer was born. He attended Omaha Exposition and saw a horseless carriage and motion pictures. Homer became the first Croys to finish high school then college and joined America’s first journalism class, editing the Post-Dispatch for one day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos Croy
Missouri
Homer
Croys
Omaha
Renzo
Croy
America
Post-Dispatch
New York
New York Herald-Tribune
New York World
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Brooklyn
New Brunswick
New Jersey
Hotel Astor
From Missouri to Dreiser and a New York World
A Missouri writer recalls decades of hustling in New York journalism. He meets editor Theodore Dreiser in a hotel lobby, lands a ctypes of work at Dreiser’s Butterick magazines, and learns the craft of contest judging and story editing. He notes the tough wake of NYC life and the lure of genuine connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Theodore Dreiser
Butterick
Carrie
Philadelphia
Lorimer
Bob
New York
Dreiser
Planning a 1945 Victory Garden for Better Yields
The guide emphasizes tailoring gardens to family needs and space, selecting crops to fit tastes, sun, drainage, and soil type. It advises close-to-home, daily attention, forward planning with a scaled map, staggered plantings, and proper placement of perennials to maximize continuous production and avoid shading.
Quaint Garden Bed Linens Pattern Description
An old fashioned garden themed linen pattern described as quaint and charming with natural colors on sheet and pillow cases. Notes lazy daisy stitch and a transfer with motifs and edging instructions. War conditions cause delays for popular pattern numbers.
Hand and Tongue Aid Clear Speech in Japanese Enunciation
A speaker often writes the ideograph of a word in the air to distinguish meanings when words sound alike in Japanese. The practice helps convey precise sense by signaling the intended character among many homophones, improving understanding in spoken discourse.
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Countn George
Kansas
Lexington Avenue
Twenty-eighth Street
Eden Musee
Fiss, Doerr & Carroll
Washington
Franklin County
St. Louis
Maine
New Mexico
Europe
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph St
Chicago
Ill
Kellogg’s
Mae
Exchange General Products CO
Albany, Ga
High Command
Admiral Land
Arine
Merchant Marine
O. Warren
Frank J. Taylor
American Merchant Marine Institute
War Shipping Administration
Maritime Union
U. S. Employment Service
Washington, D. C
Recruitment & Manning Organization
War Advertising Council, Inc
Office of War Information
U.S. Maritime Commission
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