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May 15, 2012
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Bagnell Dam

The picture is from the AmerenUE website, showing construction of the hydroelectric plant which created the Lake of the Ozarks. Bagnell Dam was built between 1929 and 1931. During that period more than 20,000 people helped in some way to construct the dam. One of them was my grandfather's half-brother. He died on the site in February 1931, a few days before his 45th birthday. My grandfather undertook the sad responsibility to bring his brother's body back to Illinois for burial. Although I've known pretty much my whole life that Great-Uncle Jim died at Bagnell Dam, it wasn't until yesterday that it occurred to me to visit the Missouri Secretary of State's digital archives and pull up his death certificate. Cause of death was given as cellulitis of right leg and thigh, followed by multiple abscesses. My understanding was that he got cement poisoning. He wasn't the only person who died during the project. I went through death certificates for Miller County for 1...

The Case of the Surplus Suitor

We didn't tune in until halfway through this Perry Mason episode. LohMan offered to stop our Netflix stream at 10:30 but I said this was another one that Perry (Raymond Burr) wasn't in, so I didn't much care. It featured Walter Pidgeon as the substitute attorney and Joyce Bulifant as the defendant. Since the first half-hour of the show gives all the background, red herrings, victims, etc., I had no idea what was going on. The defendant appears to be out to lunch. In fact, in one scene she is shown eating her lunch while Mr. Pidgeon is counseling her. She is also being courted by at least two fellas. This is from the Livedash transcript . Joyce: They're both so, well, impressive and sweet and polite. They even know what to say to head waiters. Her uncle is concerned about her scatterbrained approach to life. Uncle: I think perhaps it is time that we had a little discussion about your future. Joyce: Oh, no, my future's calling for me in in just a minute and I...
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The Case of the Treacherous Toupee

Another Perry Mason that uses the reappearance of someone to drive the plot. This time it's a businessman who left the area two years before and he returns to town the very day that his company is being sold. He's polite enough to call his home first. It may be the only polite thing Hartley does, since he is to be the victim. House Cleaner responding to Hartley's request to speak to his wife: She went downtown to some kind of meeting. Could it be “sharecroppers’ meeting”? Hartley crashes the meeting which disbands and he and his wife go home. Hartley: Do you still have to hide the liquor from that useless son of yours? Sybil: Would you like a drink, Hartley? Sybil is not happy to have Hartley back. She calls her (useless) son only to learn that he has just married a woman he barely knows. Sybil: It never rains but it pours. Sybil's new daughter-in-law is a witness in the murder. She enters Hartley's office just as a man -- the presumed killer -- is leavi...
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