Word: sikeston
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...hundred neighbors. Exciting examples: Joseph Chase Allen's "With The Fishermen" in the Martha's Vineyard Gazette (tangy dockside gossip about a picturesque industry); Douglas Meador's "Trail Dust" in his Matador, Tex., Tribune (sentimental homilies on the old Southwest) ; "The Pole Cat Editor" of the Sikeston, Mo. Standard...
...Sikeston's "Pole Cat" is Editor Charles Blanton himself, a salty, 75-year-old veteran of small-town journalism whose son Henry is Federal District Attorney in St. Louis, whose daughter, Catherine, is Senator Pat Harrison's secretary in Washington. Incensed by the Negro sharecroppers who camped alongside a road in nearby New Madrid County last month, "The Pole Cat" backed up and let fly as follows: "The question was asked if the babies and small children in the exodus to the roadsides had milk to drink, and was answered by an onlooker that the only milk given...