I shared those charcoal grill instructions with my fellow tech writers and we were all amused.
I have my dad's journals and they have a lot of trivial details. He had symbols for the different Bob's Big Boy restaurants in the area because he needed to use them so often. He told me that after WWIII someone can use them to recreate our town.
After my dad’s passing several years ago, as we were cleaning out his house we found two 3” three-ring binders chock-full of obituaries of his friends, business contacts and acquaintances. The binders were arranged alphabetically by last name with tabs for each letter. The entry for each departed individual included a formatted cover sheet which detailed how he knew the person, details of services and their final resting place. His activities related to the person’s services (whether he visited to pay respects, who he talked to when there, whether he attended the burial, just sent a card, etc.) were also detailed on the cover sheet. Copies of their obituary from the local paper were inserted behind the cover as well copies of cards he may have sent or posts he wrote on the person’s website obit page. It was an amazing compilation of information for seemingly no real reason or purpose. It must be something about the water here in Ohio.
Small world! I'm a teacher at New Lexington Elementary School! it's always unexpected to see the town show up somewhere given our size. A few of the last names in the newspaper articles are ones I recognize, and given we're a small town with a population that's slowly declining, wouldn't surprise me if they're distant relatives of people I know
Wow! Allan, feel free to reach out to me if you think this artifact might contain information that would be useful to your community (and/or if you think you could deduce Lexi’s identity). I’d be happy to discuss.
Not sure I'd be much help with figuring out her identity. That said, one of the names that pops up a few times in the news articles is the same as a coworker of mine, and I plan to ask her about it at work tomorrow and see if she knows if they're indeed her relatives.
The "stork card" could have been a birth announcement, informing Lexi of a child's birth. It's possible that the card had a drawing of a stork on the cover, which is fairly common for those types of cards.
Ah, of course -- a birth *announcement.* I had been thinking that it was a congratulatory card (i.e., Lexi was either expecting or had recently given birth), but an announcement totally makes sense. Good call, Tom!
Charcoal grill safety instructions likely was written by a legal team. One strategy is to sue a company and ask for a settlement lower than their legal costs. On the flip side, it takes two to five years for a lawsuit against law enforcement to even reach trial stage as qualified immunity is debated and appealed.
From time to time, the trading card company Upper Deck will have pieces of fossils in their packs. A few years ago a warning appeared on the packs saying "Artifacts intended for collection purposes only ... Not intended for human consumption." I can only imagine people were chewing on amber or trying to make bone soup.
The alternating quote marks on the Aimee Mann flyer is because most design software considers the first one you type the beginning of the quote, and the second the end.
Fun stuff, odd but fun!. And now, thanks to Lexi, I don't feel so bad about keeping car gas fillup journals for the last 40+ years. Journals that I've never once had the need to refer to but I've kept anyway.
I shared those charcoal grill instructions with my fellow tech writers and we were all amused.
I have my dad's journals and they have a lot of trivial details. He had symbols for the different Bob's Big Boy restaurants in the area because he needed to use them so often. He told me that after WWIII someone can use them to recreate our town.
I’ll throw this out there for a reason she didn’t start using this book until 11.5 months after receiving it:
-She already had a different book she was writing in.
-Her daughter knew it was filling up, so got her a new one.
-Being the obsessive organizer she was, she held onto it until the following year started.
Of course, we’ll never know, but it seems pretty plausible that this isn’t her only letter log!
As usual, great fun, Paul!
That's what I thought, too.
As somebody who used to work in the optical business, I'm impressed that she was able to order and receive her glasses in a week in 1925.
After my dad’s passing several years ago, as we were cleaning out his house we found two 3” three-ring binders chock-full of obituaries of his friends, business contacts and acquaintances. The binders were arranged alphabetically by last name with tabs for each letter. The entry for each departed individual included a formatted cover sheet which detailed how he knew the person, details of services and their final resting place. His activities related to the person’s services (whether he visited to pay respects, who he talked to when there, whether he attended the burial, just sent a card, etc.) were also detailed on the cover sheet. Copies of their obituary from the local paper were inserted behind the cover as well copies of cards he may have sent or posts he wrote on the person’s website obit page. It was an amazing compilation of information for seemingly no real reason or purpose. It must be something about the water here in Ohio.
Small world! I'm a teacher at New Lexington Elementary School! it's always unexpected to see the town show up somewhere given our size. A few of the last names in the newspaper articles are ones I recognize, and given we're a small town with a population that's slowly declining, wouldn't surprise me if they're distant relatives of people I know
Wow! Allan, feel free to reach out to me if you think this artifact might contain information that would be useful to your community (and/or if you think you could deduce Lexi’s identity). I’d be happy to discuss.
Not sure I'd be much help with figuring out her identity. That said, one of the names that pops up a few times in the news articles is the same as a coworker of mine, and I plan to ask her about it at work tomorrow and see if she knows if they're indeed her relatives.
If you're interested, I could try putting you in touch with people that are more well-versed in the history of New Lex though!
Sure -- that'd be great!
The "stork card" could have been a birth announcement, informing Lexi of a child's birth. It's possible that the card had a drawing of a stork on the cover, which is fairly common for those types of cards.
Ah, of course -- a birth *announcement.* I had been thinking that it was a congratulatory card (i.e., Lexi was either expecting or had recently given birth), but an announcement totally makes sense. Good call, Tom!
Charcoal grill safety instructions likely was written by a legal team. One strategy is to sue a company and ask for a settlement lower than their legal costs. On the flip side, it takes two to five years for a lawsuit against law enforcement to even reach trial stage as qualified immunity is debated and appealed.
From time to time, the trading card company Upper Deck will have pieces of fossils in their packs. A few years ago a warning appeared on the packs saying "Artifacts intended for collection purposes only ... Not intended for human consumption." I can only imagine people were chewing on amber or trying to make bone soup.
The alternating quote marks on the Aimee Mann flyer is because most design software considers the first one you type the beginning of the quote, and the second the end.
25th and 27th are odd numbers with different styles. They just alternate, not related to even dates or odd dates, so I think you might be correct.
Fun stuff, odd but fun!. And now, thanks to Lexi, I don't feel so bad about keeping car gas fillup journals for the last 40+ years. Journals that I've never once had the need to refer to but I've kept anyway.
Even though he wasn't around at the time, Mr. Zip approves.