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We bought our groceries on credit in “Jim Trout’s” store in Drumright. Dad paid the bill when he came home. On bill paying days Mr. Trout always filled a paper bag with penny candy and gave itto Mother, to be doled out to the kids. I am sure he was pleased...
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The 1940's began with hopefulness washing across the land. The "Great Depression,” under the assault of eight years of government welfare programs launched by America’s first socialistic president, while still alive and well was loosening its grip. More men were working and most children were going to bed with food in...
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We were driving home, having spent the day enjoying a belated Thanksgiving holiday in Tulsa with my oldest brother, Robert, and his family. The tires on Dad’s 1935 Dodge droned in harmony with its engine as it moved along at the stately, safe, 50 miles an hour Dad always chose. Other...
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Kansas, by law, was a dry state. The only legal alcoholic beverage was 3.2 beer, so-called because its alcoholic content cannot exceed 3.2% of its total volume. A person can become intoxicated drinking this beer but they have to work at it. Oklahoma, which was only one mile south, was just...
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When we first moved to Caney our house was a block north of the Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks. Just south of the tracks there were two grocery stores. Ferguson’s, on the east side of Wood Street, also sold gasoline and motor oil, and served as the office for what was then...
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What childhood chores or jobs do you recall? · Were the chores circulated around each week, as my Auntie Joan did with her 8 children? My three older sisters and I shared doing the dishes. If one were not there the other three would still have to share them, sometimes that...
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