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Adolph E. Peschke was born in St. Louis, MO, October 27, 1914, to Cecil and Adolph
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Peschke was keenly attuned to providing the assurance that boys of Scouting age could successfully build pioneering structures themselves. He referred to these projects as "boy-sized," and has been credited with the design of thirty original "boy-size" pioneering projects. Five of these are
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