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There seems to be a lot of criticism of the behavior of our Army of Occupation [TIME, Nov. 19]. Some of our freeborn citizens are showing shocked surprise that the American soldier is not acting like the true, redblooded, 100% American the blueprints originally called for. Well, gentlemen, brace yourselves; I am coming out swinging...
...Freeborn farmers expect to pay for 50-75% of these goods out of current income. City families went in for heavier borrowing...
Albert Lea, Minn, is a clean, wide-avenued lakeside city* of 12,000, a hundred miles south of Minneapolis, smack in the middle of the rich northern dairyland. It won the honor of being Freeborn County's seat about 80 years ago in a horse race. But Albert Lea is about to become something of a household word. Reason: it has made such an excellent and meticulous study of its postwar prospects that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a 55-page pamphlet, is holding up Albert Lea as a good example...
...solid market exists in Freeborn County for 2,296 new cars, for 646 refrigerators, 578 furniture sets, 442 new city homes, 360 barns, 360 silos, 780 tractors, 810 prefabricated small farm buildings (Albert Lea has a factory that makes them), 986 vacation trips at an average cost...
...patient, simple-minded Wife Willie was always kind to Clorinda, but aging, jealous Wife Bathsheba was never. Abijah himself was a good man, but excessively sober. Because he bitterly resented Clorin-da's power to excite him, he was determined to discipline her. His son Freeborn was about Glory's age. They fell in love, but nothing happened except that they suffered. The birth of her first child eased Clory, but not Freeborn. When he was brought in killed by Indians, Clorinda miscarried her second child. The two deaths subdued and matured...