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The very last thing I will ever write about gnats!

I vow to never write another word about gnats, because everyone else on this noospaper and every other sheet is yelling about the pests. My sign-off on the subject is Absorbine Jr., claimed as the best potion to shoo them away.

A 4-year wait as Time goes by ...

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IT’S four years later, but Kathryn Bohn’s picture has finally made it into Time magazine.

The lovely sound of a slamming screen door

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THERE is no more perfect summer sound than the slamming of a screen door, an old-fashioned screen door, a wooden door.

A four-year-wait, as Time goes by

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It's four years later, but Kathryn Bohn’s picture has finally made it into Time magazine.

Counting down to the long July 4 weekend

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HERE we are in the middle of a summer’s week when no one expects to accomplish anything. By Thursday noon, everyone will be in a slumbering hiatus, waiting to slip away for the big Fourth-of-July weekend.

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All Elizabeths reign on their special day

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IT’S not likely anyone ever had seen so many Elizabeths in one single place at one time — 406 of them, which is more than half the population of Elizabeth, Ill., a dozen miles from Galena.

A Catholic shampoo, and the cheap parrot

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Everywhere she goes, Dorothy meets a friend

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STEP up and give a hand to Dorothy Holst. Dot is one of the multitude whose names never appear in the newspaper. But she is someone everyone knows. Dorothy is limping these days because she had knee surgery. She wanted to get it over with this summer, so she can get back to duty as an adult crossing guard at Harrison School, Davenport.