A certain little girl, when asked her name, would reply, "I'm Mr. Sugarbrown's daughter." Her mother told her this was wrong, she must say, "I'm Jan Sugarbrown." The Vicar spoke to her in Sunday School, and asked, "Aren't you Mr. Sugarbrown's daughter?" She replied, "I thought I was, but mother says I'm not."

For all of you with teenagers or who have had teenagers, you may want to know why they really have a lot in common with cats: 1. Neither teenagers nor cats turn their heads when you call them by name. 2. No matter what you do for them, it is not enough. Indeed, all humane efforts are barely adequate to compensate for the privilege of waiting on them hand and foot. 3. You rarely see a cat walking outside of the house with an adult human being, and it can be safely said that no teenager in his or her right mind wants to be seen in public with his or her parents. 4. Even if you tell jokes as well as Jay Leno, neither your cat nor your teen will ever crack a smile. 5. No cat or teenager shares your taste in music. 6. Cats and teenagers can lie on the living-room sofa for hours on end without moving, barely breathing. 7. Cats have nine lives. Teenagers carry on as if they did. 8. Cats and teenagers yawn in exactly the same manner, communicating that ultimate human ecstasy-a sense of complete and utter boredom. 9. Cats and teenagers do not improve anyone's furniture. 10. Cats that are free to roam outside sometimes have been known to return in the middle of the night to deposit a dead animal in your bedroom. Teenagers are not above that sort of behavior. Thus, if you must raise teenagers, the best sources of advice are not other parents, but veterinarians. It is also a good idea to keep a guidebook on cats at hand at all times. And remember, above all else, put out the food and do not make any sudden moves in their direction. When they make up their minds, they will finally come to you for some affection and comfort, and it will be a triumphant moment for all concerned.

Posted: Saturday, November 11, 2000 | 10:12 a.m. E-mail this Story to a friend Illinois veteran, recalls battle that helped end WWI By Harry Levins Post-Dispatch Senior Writer MURPHYSBORO, Ill. - Virgil Marks, age 106, was in the trenches on the day that gave rise to Veterans Day. That was Nov. 11, 1918, the day World War I ended. At 11 a.m. that day - the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month - an armistice stopped the shooting, and the war. "I was up front," says Marks. In November 1918, he was an Army infantry private with Company H of the 28th Division's 111th Infantry. Marks' regiment had just wrapped up its role in the Battle of the Argonne Forest. Although the Argonne is little remembered today, it was a 47-day bloodbath that finally broke the back of the German army in northeastern France. When the Americans and their French allies prevailed, the German situation turned hopeless. Germany asked for the armistice talks, thus ending "the war to end all wars." The next year, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Nov. 11 as Armistice Day. By then, Marks was a civilian again, living in the family farmhouse south of Murphysboro, about 100 miles southeast of St. Louis, and working for the Illinois Central Railroad. "He never talked about the war until just a few years ago," says his daughter, Marge Hand, 74. "And then he turned 100, and the reporters started coming to interview him, and they've been coming ever since." And Marks has been talking ever since, about the war and his part in it. His handshake is strong and his mind is clear, but his hearing is almost gone. As a result, Marks' answers don't necessarily line up with the questions that are put to him. In an interview at his kitchen table on Thursday, he spoke loudly and at some length about a shell that landed near his squad at one point, tossing him 20 feet. He remembered a long crawl on his belly under fire to get water. And, with a grin, he remembered sassing his company commander - and getting away with it. One day, it seems, the captain chose Marks for some risky chore. Marks said, "I told him, 'You son of a bitch - are you trying to get me killed?' And he said, 'Marks, you're the luckiest son of a bitch on Earth!' " His daughter shook her head, smiled and said, "I told him he shouldn't talk like that - but he even said it on television." Marks is, in fact, an independent cuss. He won't hear of a nursing home. Instead, he shares his modest cottage with two mutts and a cat that Hand says is "meaner than a snake." Until four years ago, when his son-in-law died, he cooked his own meals. These days, Hand drops by to cook for her father - or to drive him to Murphysboro's McDonald's. "He loves Happy Meals," says Hand. Marks gets around with the aid of a walker. "When you get to be 106," he said, "this is how you walk." Marks likes to show visitors a photo of him standing erect in his uniform, complete with high-necked tunic and khaki puttees. He held on to that uniform until 1942, when a house fire destroyed it. "I've needed that uniform several times since, " he said. "Is there any way you can get me one?" Marks apparently was referring to occasions like a ceremony last year in which somebody from the French consulate in Chicago came to town to pin a medal on him. In 1998, the French government decided to mark the 80th anniversary of the armistice by honoring the surviving Americans who had gone in 1917-18, as Marks put it, "over there to drive those Germans out of France." Each became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Marks got his medal a year ago August, at the American Legion post here. He has no special plans for this Veterans Day, the name that Congress gave the holiday in 1954 to honor all veterans of all wars. Marks was one of eight children and is the last alive. His wife of 60 years died in 1982. Their son, Dewey - a combat infantryman in WWII in Europe - died in 1979. His two stepchildren are dead. And so are almost all of the 4.7 million Americans who were wearing uniforms on that original Armistice Day 82 years ago. As of July 1, says the Department of Veterans Affairs, only about 2,400 WWI veterans remained. The department estimates that 55 live in Missouri and 99 or 100 in Illinois. Among all the veterans in Illinois, Marks is the oldest. His daughter says, "He's pleasant for 106. He's easy to get along with."

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The American G.I. >From disparate roots but united by patriotic courage, U.S. soldiers preserved freedom around the world By Colin Powell As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I referred to the men and women of the armed forces as "G.I.s." It got me in trouble with some of my colleagues at the time. Several years earlier, the Army had officially excised the term as an unfavorable characterization derived from the designation "government issue." Sailors and Marines wanted to be known as sailors and Marines. Airmen, notwithstanding their origins as a rib of the Army, wished to be called simply airmen. Collectively, they were blandly referred to as "service members." I persisted in using G.I.s and found I was in good company. Newspapers and television shows used it all the time. The most famous and successful government education program was known as the G.I. Bill, and it still uses that title for a newer generation of veterans. When you added one of the most common boy's names to it, you got G.I. Joe, and the name of the most popular boy's toy ever, the G.I. Joe action figure. And let's not forget G.I. Jane. G.I. is a World War II term that two generations later continues to conjure up the warmest and proudest memories of a noble war that pitted pure good against pure evil-and good triumphed. The victors in that war were the American G.I.s, the Willies and Joes, the farmer from Iowa and the steelworker from Pittsburgh who stepped off a landing craft into the hell of Omaha Beach. The G.I. was the wisecracking kid Marine from Brooklyn who clawed his way up a deadly hill on a Pacific island. He was a black fighter pilot escorting white bomber pilots over Italy and Germany, proving that skin color had nothing to do with skill or courage. He was a native Japanese-American infantryman released from his own country's concentration camp to join the fight. She was a nurse relieving the agony of a dying teenager. He was a petty officer standing on the edge of a heaving aircraft carrier with two signal paddles in his hands, helping guide a dive-bomber pilot back onto the deck. They were America. They reflected our diverse origins. They were the embodiment of the American spirit of courage and dedication. They were truly a "people's army," going forth on a crusade to save democracy and freedom, to defeat tyrants, to save oppressed peoples and to make their families proud of them. They were the Private Ryans, and they stood firm in the thin red line. For most of those G.I.s, World War II was the adventure of their lifetime. Nothing they would ever do in the future would match their experiences as the warriors of democracy, saving the world from its own insanity. You can still see them in every Fourth of July color guard, their gait faltering but ever proud. Their forebears went by other names: doughboys, Yanks, buffalo soldiers, Johnny Reb, Rough Riders. But "G.I." will be forever lodged in the consciousness of our nation to apply to them all. The G.I. carried the value system of the American people. The G.I.s were the surest guarantee of America's commitment. For more than 200 years, they answered the call to fight the nation's battles. They never went forth as mercenaries on the road to conquest. They went forth as reluctant warriors, as citizen soldiers. They were as gentle in victory as they were vicious in battle. I've had survivors of Nazi concentration camps tell me of the joy they experienced as the G.I.s liberated them: America had arrived! I've had a wealthy Japanese businessman come into my office and tell me what it was like for him as a child in 1945 to await the arrival of the dreaded American beasts, and instead meet a smiling G.I. who gave him a Hershey bar. In thanks, the businessman was donating a large sum of money to the USO. After thanking him, I gave him as a souvenir a Hershey bar I had autographed. He took it and began to cry. The 20th century can be called many things, but it was most certainly a century of war. The American G.I.s helped defeat fascism and communism. They came home in triumph from the ferocious battlefields of World Wars I and II. In Korea and Vietnam they fought just as bravely as any of their predecessors, but no triumphant receptions awaited them at home. They soldiered on through the twilight struggles of the cold war and showed what they were capable of in Desert Storm. The American people took them into their hearts again. In this century hundreds of thousands of G.I.s died to bring to the beginning of the 21st century the victory of democracy as the ascendant political system on the face of the earth. The G.I.s were willing to travel far away and give their llives, if necessary, to secure the rights and freedoms of others. Only a nation such as ours, based on a firm moral foundation, could make such a request of its citizens. And the G.I.s wanted nothing more than to get the job done and then return home safely. All they asked for in repayment from those they freed was the opportunity to help them become part of the world of democracy-and just enough land to bury their fallen comrades, beneath simple white crosses and Stars of David. The volunteer G.I.s of today stand watch in Korea, the Persian Gulf, Europe and the dangerous terrain of the Balkans. We must never see them as mere hirelings, off in a corner of our society. They are our best, and we owe them our full support and our sincerest thanks. As this century closes, we look back to identify the great leaders and personalities of the past 100 years. We do so in a world still troubled, but full of promise. That promise was gained by the young men and women of America who fought and died for freedom. Near the top of any listing of the most important people of the 20th century must stand, in singular honor, the American G.I. General Colin Powell, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is now chairman of America's Promise.

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What did you do today?... One afternoon a man came home from work to find total > > mayhem > > > in his house. His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, > > > > >playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the > front > > > yard. The door of his wife's car was open, as was the front > door > > > to > > > > >the house. Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess. A lamp had > > > been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall. * In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon > > > channel, And the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food > was spilled on the counter, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay > > under > > > the table and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door. He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and > > more Piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she may be ill, or > > that something serious had happened. He found her lounging in the bedroom, still curled in > the > > > bed > > > > >in Her pajamas, reading a novel. She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went. He looked at her bewildered and asked, "What happened here > > > today?" She again smiled and answered, "You know every day when you come home from work and ask me what in the world did I do today?" "Yes" was his incredulous reply. She answered, "Well, today I didn't do it."

>> > While taking a routine vandalism report at an >> elementary school, I was >> > interrupted by a little girl about six years old. >> Looking up and down >> > at my uniform, she asked, "Are you a cop?" "Yes," >> I answered and >> continued >> > writing the report. "My mother said if I ever >> needed help I should ask >> the >> > police. Is that right?" "Yes, that's right," I >> told her. "Well, then," >> she >> > said as she extended her foot toward me, "would >> you please tie my shoe?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > While working for an organization that delivers >> lunches to elderly >> > shut-ins, I used to take my four-year-old daughter >> on my afternoon >> rounds. >> > She was unfailingly intrigued by the various >> appliances of old age, >> > particularly the canes, walkers, and wheelchairs. >> One day I found her >> > staring at a pair >> > of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced >> myself for the inevitable >> > barrage of questions, she merely turned and >> whispered, "The tooth fairy >> > will never believe this!"

Maryland State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution Collection MSA SC 189 Dates: 1763-1877 Description: Tombstone records of the Lee family of Maryland and the Housh and Howlett families of Pennsylvania, indexed Medium: Typescripts Restrictions: No restrictions Accession Number: MSA SC 189 -1 -6 Location: 00 /09 /01 /11 Maryland State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution Collection MSA SC 189 Date Description Medium Restrictions Accession Number/[NL]Location Microfilm 1490-1823 Genealogy of the Clagett and Offutt families, Prince George's Co., indexed Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -3 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1622-1942 Genealogy of allied families--Chewe, Johns, Paca, Galloway, Raine, Brundige, and Crowther, indexed Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -2 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1667-1876 Abstracts of land records, Baltimore City and County, indexed Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -10 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1689-1866 Abstracts of Parish Records, Somerset Co., indexed Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -12 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1728-1897 Tombstone records from Old Whitemarsh Chapel Cemetery, Talbot Co., indexed Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -14 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1763-1877 Tombstone records of the Lee family of Maryland and the Housh and Howlett families of Pennsylvania, indexed Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -6 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1768-1942 Tombstone records of the Callender and Patterson families, Cecil Co., indexed Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -1 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1773-1848 Genealogy of the Davis and Dent families Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -4 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1774-1855 Tombstone records for Taylor's Venture Farm, Principle Furnace, Cecil Co., indexed Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -13 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1784-1806 Extracts of land records, Cecil Co., indexed Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -11 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1800-1941 Bible records of the Linn family, Pennsylvania and Baltimore City, indexed Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -7 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1806-1880 Tombstone records from the Kent Meeting House, or Hynson Chapel, Kent Co., indexed, (Methodist) Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -9 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1817-1895 Tombstone records of the Sterrett family, Cecil Co., indexed Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -8 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11 1824-1929 Bible records of the Evans, Rolph, and Townshend families, Kent Co. Typescripts No restrictions MSA SC 189 -1 -5 [NL]00 /09 /01 /11

-----Original Message----- From: Sandi Gorin [mailto:sgorin@glasgow-ky.com] Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 5:18 AM To: KYRESEARCH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: TIP #313 - KY PUBLIC LIBRARIES PART 3 - MENIFEE THRU SPENCER CO MENIFEE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, Route 460 W, P.O. Box 49, Frenchburg, KY 40322-0049 606-768-2212 FAX: 606-768-2212. Contact: Ebermann, Lilian MERCER COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, 109 West Lexington Street, Harrodsburg, KY 40330-1542 859-734-3680 FAX: 859-734-7524. Contact: Ison, Robin METCALFE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 202 Main Street, P.O. Box 626, Edmonton, KY 42129-0626 270-432-4981 FAX: 270-432-4981. Contact: Glass, Rhonda MONROE COUNTY - WILLIAM B. HARLAN MEMORIAL LIBRARY, 500 West Fourth Street Tompkinsville, KY 42167-1497. 270-487-5301 FAX: 270-487-5309. Contact: Penick, Stephanie MONTGOMERY COUNTY - MOUNT STERLING-MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 241 West Locust Street, Mount Sterling, KY 40353-1352, 859-498-2404 FAX: 859-498-7477. 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Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by US Air Force pilots and the replies from the maintenance crews. "Squawks" are problem listings that pilots generally leave for maintenance crews to fix before the next flight. (P)=PROBLEM (S)=SOLUTION (P) Left inside main tire almost needs replacement (S) Almost replaced left inside main tire (P) Test flight OK, except autoland very rough, (S) Autoland not installed on this aircraft (P) #2 Propeller seeping prop fluid, (S) #2 Propeller seepage normal - #1 #3 and #4propellers lack normal seepage (P) Something loose in cockpit (S) Something tightened in cockpit (P) Evidence of leak on right main landing gear (S) Evidence removed (P) DME volume unbelievably loud (S) Volume set to more believable level (P) Dead bugs on windshield (S) Live bugs on order (P) Autopilot in altitude hold mode produces a200 fpm descent (S) Cannot reproduce problem on ground (P) IFF inoperative (S) IFF always inoperative in OFF mode (P) Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick (S) That's what they're there for (P) Number three engine missing (S) Engine found on right wing after brief search (P) Aircraft handles funny (S) Aircraft warned to straighten up, "flyright" and be serious (P) Target Radar hums (S) Reprogrammed Target Radar with the words

Found this in the MD archives and thought that most of us have ancestors that were possibly hospitalized not only in Baltimore, but I would imagine in any hospital, would find this article interesting and shudder.. We have sure come a LONG way baby...... jd. <>< Medical care in the city of Baltimore, MD 1752-1919 >From its earliest beginnings, Baltimore was a city under siege. Although its residents were successful at defeating British invaders, it was homegrown enemies - yellow fever, consumption, typhoid, and cholera - that repeatedly struck at the heart of the city. The urban poor were particularly vulnerable. Inadequate diets, dense housing, poor sanitation and a variety of environmental ills - lumped into the category of "public nuisances" - reduced their chances of fending off infection. At the same time, the institutions charged with their care were themselves victims of inadequate funding, poor design, and labored under misconceptions concerning the cause and treatment of disease. Although the city experienced reoccurring outbreaks of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, and other infectious diseases, the fear of hospitals was so great that most cases were treated at home until the patient was near death. Nineteenth century public hospitals, both in Europe and the United States, were viewed as a medical means of last resort. Hospital wards were generally squalid, overcrowded, and badly ventilated. The insane, blind, and crippled were housed together with the sick. Since private hospitals often refused to admit contagious or incurable cases as well as those deemed morally unworthy, the local almshouse was usually the only source for medical care. In almshouse infirmaries, little was done to quarantine patients with infectious diseases, who, in turn, could potentially contaminated attending doctors, nurses, and other inmates. Nor were the sexes segregated, and prostitutes, often suffering from a variety of illnesses themselves, set up business in the wards with little interruption. A disproportionate number of cases were chronic, lingering illnesses, such as lung, heart, and kidney ailments, whereby the patient neither died nor recovered. Patients may have to share beds, sometimes lying among the dead for hours before the corpses were removed. Bed linens were infrequently changed and a new patient might rest in the last patient's sheets. In the lying-in wards, women had a better chance of surviving childbirth by birthing at home with a midwife than by giving birth in a hospital. Improvements in the medical care of Baltimoreans was dependent upon the professionalization of doctors and the institutionalization of medical education advocated by the University of Maryland School of Medicine and practiced in its clinical arm, the Baltimore Infirmary. The establishment of the Baltimore Infirmary permitted medical students to receive first-hand experience in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, learning through observation and hands-on experience rather than lectures and readings. The introduction of clinical experience in the teaching of medicine was a significant step. Incorporating clinical education into the medical curriculum and expansion of teaching privileges in hospitals across the city produced doctors with practical experience in anatomy, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of disease. This shift in medical education and practice gave rise to hospitals that were no longer places to die, but havens to get well.

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/homepage/html/homepage.html A good place to "play" for those of you researching any one in MD. jd

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The following is an excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Transportation Magazine. This was serious and written for male supervisors of women in the work force during World War II - a mere 54 (?) years ago! 1. Pick young married women. They usually have more of a sense of responsibility than their unmarried sisters, they're less likely to be flirtatious, they need the work or they wouldn't be doing it, they still have the pep and interest to work hard and to deal with the public efficiently. 2. When you have to use older women, try to get ones who have worked outside the home at some time in their lives. Older women who have never contacted the public have a hard time adapting themselves and are inclined to be cantankerous and fussy. It's always well to impress upon older women the importance of friendliness and courtesy. 3. General experience indicates that "husky" girls - those who are just a little on the heavy side - are more even tempered and efficient than their underweight sisters. 4. Retain a physician to give each woman you hire a special physical examination, one covering female conditions. This step not only protects the property against the possibilities of lawsuit, but reveals whether the employee-to-be has any female weaknesses which would make her mentally or physically unfit for the job. 5. Stress at the outset the importance of time - the fact that a minute or two lost here and there makes serious inroads on schedules. Until this point is gotten across, service is likely to be slowed up. 6. Give the female employee a definite day-long schedule of duties so that they'll keep busy without bothering the management for instructions every few minutes. Numerous properties say that women make excellent workers when they have their jobs cut out for them, but that they lack initiative in finding work themselves. 7. Whenever possible, let the inside employee change from one job to another at some time during the day. Women are inclined to be less nervous and happier with change. 8. Give every girl an adequate number of rest periods during the day. You have to make some allowances for feminine psychology. A girl has more confidence and is more efficient if she can keep her hair tidied, apply fresh lipstick and wash her hands several times a day. 9. Be tactful when issuing instructions or in making criticisms. Women are often sensitive; they can't shrug off harsh words the way men do. Never ridicule a woman - it breaks her spirit and cuts off her efficiency. 10. Be reasonably considerate about using strong language around women. Even though a girl's husband or father may swear vociferously, she'll grow to dislike a place of business where she hears too much of this. 11. Get enough size variety in operator's uniforms so that each girl can have a proper fit. This point can't be stressed too much in keeping women happy.

At a wedding rehearsal, the minister told the father of the bride, "As you give your daughter's hand to the bridegroom, you should say something nice to him." The father, a grocery store manager, took the advice. During the wedding ceremony, he placed the bride's hand on his son-in-law's arm and said, "No deposit, no return."