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Smokey Bear
You probably know Smokey Bear as the face of fire prevention, but do you know that he was introduced in an effort to help win a war?
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It all started in 1942, during WWII. One year after firing on Pearl Harbor, a Japanese submarine approached the California coast and fired a blast of shells. The shells hit an oil field in Santa Barbara, near the Los Padres National Forest.
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The Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment brought about by the Civil War were important milestones in the long process of ending legal slavery in the United States. This essay describes the development of those documents through various drafts by Lincoln and others and shows both the evolution of Abraham Lincoln’s thinking and his efforts to operate within the constitutional boundaries of the presidency.
Random Thoughts....
If you're headed in the wrong direction, u-turns are allowed.
For every 60 seconds of anger, you lose one minute of happiness.
Kindness: a language the deaf can hear, the blind can see, and the mute can speak.
When you see someone without a smile, give him one of yours.
I do not think happiness is too hard to find -- it is how you treat it once you get hold of it that counts.
What holds you together is far greater than what can tear you apart.
RECIPES
Compiled by Women’s Society of Christian Service
Methodist Church
Grandview, Indiana
1955
Ice Box Cookies
Legacy of Dollie Robinson
Grandview, Indiana
2 cups brown sugar
½ cup lard or butter
2 eggs, beaten
½ cup chopped nuts
A story written by Fannie Lillian Terry Prothro prior to her death in 1979.
The first chapter to this history was printed last month history was printed September 1, 1996,
and contains information about Mrs. Prothro's childhood from her birth in 1895 to 1907. You can use this link to see that story. Click Here.
Remember, once you get over the hill, you'll begin to pick up speed.
I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
If it weren't for STRESS I'd have no energy at all.
Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some, like me, just don't have any film.
I always know God won't give me more than I can handle but there are times I wish He didn't trust me quite so much.
Never be too open minded, your brains could fall out.
Morry Gash and Jim Watson // AFP via Getty Images
When President Joe Biden was sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2021, he became the oldest person in U.S. history to assume the presidency.
The following has been attributed to State Representative
Mitchell Kaye from GA. This guy should run for President one day...
Kathleen Carlton Johnson's
Life Among the Arts
By
Susan Sampson
Bettmann // Getty Images
Throughout the early 1860s, the Northern and Southern states held sustained disagreements on several key issues, including economic policies, cultural values, the power and reach of the federal government, and slavery. The latter issue was of paramount concern for the Southern states, whose economy was highly dependent on agriculture, unlike the more industrialized states of the North.
Fear
It was Franklin D. Roosevelt that said, “the only thing we have t fear is feat itself” in his inaugural address in 1933. The entire line goes “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
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By the way, the fear of fear itself actually has a name. It is known as phobophobia.
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RECIPES
Compiled by Women’s Society of Christian Service
Methodist Church
Grandview, Indiana
1955
Applesauce Spice Cookies
Legacy of Vivian Dawson
Grandview, Indiana
½ cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
2 cups cake flour
½ teaspoon cinnamon
Submitted by: Randy Graham © July 2003 Roseville, CA
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Coming Home
Genealogy
Edith Higgins
The photograph above had the name Edith Higgins written on the back. We have no idea when or where it was taken or who Edith Higgins is, but we would like to return the photograph to her relatives. It was purchased at a flea market in Ottwell, Indiana, January 15th, 2005. If you can help locate relatives of Edith, please contact us.
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From Vikki Ayres
100th Birthday
From Christine Szewczyk
Hi!, My grandmother will be turning 100. Our family would like to do something special, a letter from President Bush or a letter from Pope Benedict. Can anyone kindly help me obtain this? It would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you! Email: christine@*****.net
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Stories From The Past.
From Alice Connor
Battered Fried Zuccinni
Name unknown
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 cup milk
1 tsp baking powder
salt and pepper
chopped garlic or garlic salt
parsley
chopped onion
¼ cup grated cheese
Beat eggs, add flour, milk, & Baking Powder, salt, pepper etc
Add 1 (med) grated zucchini
Fry in oil until brown
drop by large spoonfuls
drain on paper towels
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By Bill Hawksford
Following is an excerpt from the book titled,
The Silly Buggers by Bill Hawksford.
Things are a lot different now than they were 60 years ago. But, if I recall correctly, if there was even one shot fired at our troops from any location, the artillery and Air Force was called in, and the area was almost devastated, but it saved a lot of American lives. Case in point, at Salerno, Sept. 1943, the Nazi's holed up in a village (Battapaglia) just about two miles in from the beach head. We suffered a lot of casualties until the Navy was called in with 16" and 12" shells. I believe Bob (Ex Pow) was also in this area.
Yours in peace,
Bernie
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Landmark Supreme Court Cases and Chief Justices of the time
On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court ruled in two cases—regarding Harvard and the University of North Carolina's admissions practices—that using race as a factor for college admission violates the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause. With the ruling falling along ideological lines, this major decision ends race-based affirmative action in higher education.
1. How many steps does the guard take during his walk across the tomb of the Unknowns and why?
21 steps. It alludes to the twenty-one gun salute, which is the highest honor given any military or foreign dignitary.
2. How long does he hesitate after his about face to begin his return walk and why?
21 seconds for the same reason as answer number 1
3. Why are his gloves wet?
His gloves are moistened to prevent his losing his grip on the rifle.
Preserving Old Photographs
From Franklin T. Wike, Jr.
As I watch the current Presidential race I am struck by the obvious similarities to another such race over 140 years ago. As the presidential race of 1864 drew near President Abraham Lincoln, stuck in a bloody civil war, had serious doubts about his reelection chances. On a daily basis the war casualties came in and the newspapers attacked his administration and his thoughtless war. After three years of bloody war in which over 300,000 soldiers had been killed the general feeling was Lincoln would not be reelected, yet he stayed the course.
Glenn Rojohn and his crew. Glenn Rojohn and his crew.
by Ralph Kenney Bennett
Tomorrow they will lay the remains of Glenn Rojohn to rest in the Peace Lutheran Cemetery in the little town of Greenock, Pa., just southeast of Pittsburgh. He was 81, and had been in the air conditioning and plumbing business in nearby McKeesport. If you had seen him on the street he would probably have looked to you like so many other graying, bespectacled old World War II veterans whose names appear so often now on obituary pages.
The Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s recorded more than 10,000 life stories of men and woman from a variety of occupations and ethnic groups. The following is a sampling of these interviews. (From the Library of Congress.)
Anna Novak, Packing House Worker
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History of the US justice system
There are nearly 700,000 law enforcement officers working in the United States. Their efforts have put 2.3 million people in America’s 3,134 local jails, 1,833 state prisons, 1,772 juvenile correction facilities, 110 federal prisons, and 218 immigrant detention facilities. Although the United States has less than 5% of the world’s population, nearly one in four people incarcerated in the entire world are languishing in American prisons.
History Channel
I am being interviewed and the Patton jeep videoed on Thursday by the History Channel. They have a thing on Wednesdays about famous cars. Mine will be shown on August 17th. What did you think of my crazy ideas for a restaurant? I will get back to you. Milt Long
Philip E. Kaiser is the little boy standing on the stump
Kaiser Family
From Philip E. Kaiser
I am the little boy standing on the stump in the picture Kaiser Family in your May 2003 issue. A friend of mine gave me a clipping. I’d like to get a copy of that issue if possible. Please drop me a note as to how you came in possession of this photograph.
Reply
Welcome to Grandmas Kitchen
From the Editors Desk
By Rita Redd
I hope everyone has had a pleasant summer. August is usually the hottest month (well in Georgia anyway). Its also the month of children going back to school and the finishing of the garden harvesting and canning.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, when as many as one out of four Americans could not find jobs, the federal government stepped in to become the employer of last resort. The Works Progress Administration (WPA), an ambitious New Deal program, put 8,500,000 jobless to work, mostly on projects that required manual labor. With Uncle Sam meeting the payroll, countless bridges, highways and parks were constructed or repaired.
Isaac Newton is known for his numerous discoveries and inventions. However, you might be surprised to know that he also invented the doggie door. It actually started out as a cat door when he grew weary of hearing his cat scratch at the door to be let in.
Women are responsible for inventing solar panels, windshield wipers, Kevlar (the material
in bulletproof vests), the circular saw, the gas heating furnace and the fire escape.
The code name used for the microwave while it was in its testing phase was “Speedy Weenie.”