Word: mahnkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best rural correspondent it can find each year, Crowell Publishing Co.'s Country Home awards a money prize, a trip to Manhattan. Last year the Country Home award went to Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey for her writings in the Forsyth (Mo.) Taney County Republican (TIME, July 29, 1935). Last fortnight Crowell announced that this year's $200 prize had fallen to Mrs. Susan Frawley Eisele, whose farm home is nine miles from Blue Earth, Minn., in recognition of her column, With a Penny Pencil, which runs once a week in the Fairmont (Minn.) Sentinel...
...plump and gentle little body of 58, Mrs. Mahnkey's journalism is only a sideline. What she is really interested in is her poetry, which Missouri literary folk like Rose Wilder Lane would like to see properly published. A contributor of verse, letters and farm gossip to Country Home for years, Mrs. Mahnkey was partly responsible for the magazine's contest, having suggested such an event last spring. Editor Wheeler McMillen, once director of an Ohio country paper, and Editor Russell Lord, who takes more pride in his Maryland farm than in the fact that he edited...
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