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KNIVES, EVERYDAY AND SUNDAY
In this essay I am going to be talking only about pocket knives, as distinguish from knives that are meant to kill. I suspect that this again is an exercise in nostalgia. Looking back more than 70 or 75 years ago, there was a custom having to do with knives. My father, for example, would…
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CHARLES H. AND LITTLE AUGUST
Over the years I have introduced you, my readers, to the various members of my family. In total, there were eight children. Martha and Ruth, born in 1920 and 1924, were probably stillbirths. That was a subject that the children were never encouraged to ask about. Also in 1924 there was the death of my…