Stories from David T. Daniels
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Our Founding Printers
In our schooling we all learned that Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin were key figures in the creation of the Declaration...
My Favorite Holiday Memory
My favorite holiday memory took place in the war year of 1944. I was, as an infantry man, engaged in battle in France and Germany. This bega...
My Favorite Book
The Imperial Cruise By James Bradley In my last two years in high school we had weekly class for an hour in current events and I was able ...
MY EARLIER VACATIONS
My father was a combination of a postal carrier and farmer. It seemed he worked 12 hours per day, but he did find time to play, that is hunt...
My Advertising Memories
In the mid-twenties in rural areas, the noises around a farm house were crows from roosters, oinks from hogs and bellows from cows. Now a ne...
I Was a Mailman
In 1905 my Dad, age 18, passed a civil service exam to become a mailman. My town had 3 rural routes. Dad’s route #1 was 95% in Polk County...
Gone Fishing
My Dad was always intent to make fishermen out of my brother and me. One way was to go seining for catfish in a nearby muddy river. Dad and ...