Front Porch Expressions

 Sometime in the early 1950s my parents and I left a second-floor apartment on Grand Avenue and moved to a new house at 2422 Dugan Court in Davenport. Before long I had a pet dog named Pat. Pat was a playful, rambunctious, black and white, medium-sized dog. Perhaps he was a spaniel. I really don’t [...]

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Note: This article appeared in the North Scott Press, Eldridge, Iowa. They call her the Beef Stick Lady. And that’s just fine with Dee Ann Paulsrud who, with her husband Ted, farms east of Danbury. That’s in west central Iowa. For the last two years, Paulsrud has run the Beef ‘n’ Up the Troops program. [...]

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