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papers would have some ready for the addressor who would address them by hand.  Then someone (probably me) would go to the store, which was also the post office, and get a mail sack.  Maybe even a bottle of pop or a candy bar.  The out-of-town papers were put in the sack and it and a stack of papers for the locals would be taken to the post office.  I remember one paper in particular.  It was addressed to Oscar Olson in Canada and it had to have a one cent stamp on it. 

I don’t think we kids know a week had a Thursday in it until we went to school.  I was always Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, PRINT DAY, Friday and Saturday.

I suppose most people view the four seasons in many different ways.  To some the seasons mean vacations and gaiety.  To others they mean more hard work and heartaches.  But to all they forewarn of the expectations to come.  To a small boy with his dog the seasons look different.  They seem to entroine in their entirety and open into a

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