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Working at Westclox: 'That was the only place you worked'
When Erwin Hageman graduated from high school, he went to work at Westclox as so many of his peers did.
"That was the only place you worked," said the Peru resident.
Shortly after he graduated from La Salle-Peru High School in 1935, Hageman joined the Westclox workforce for.......
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Westclox was a big industry in a small town
While sitting in a restaurant in New York City in 1905, George Kern was given a challenge that eventually benefited thousands in Peru and the surrounding area.
He was asked to design a clock with an alarm that could wake up tired coal miners, and did so with a model that used the whole.......
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This Life (Peru)
You can't miss her — Lady Liberty, that is. Anyone driving down Fourth Street (U.S. 6) in Peru can't help but see the Statue of Liberty dancing along the sidewalk in downtown Peru. Actually, Lady Liberty is none other than Margaret Gonzalez, who is promoting a local tax preparer service. She.......
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BOOK REVIEW: The funny side of C.S. Lewis
"Surprised by Laughter, The Comic World of C.S. Lewis," by Terry Lindvall, Ph.D.Whether your thoughts go to "The Screwtape Letters", "The Great Divorce," "The Chronicles of Narnia," "Till We Have Faces," or "Surprised by.......
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BENEFITS: Car wash will raise swimming pool funds
OTTAWA — Route 6 Pro Wash, 122 W. Norris Drive, will be the site of a Camp Tuckabatchee swimming pool fundraiser from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. Pro Wash will donate a percentage of its day's income for the new pool at Camp Tuck, located north of Ottawa in Dayton Township. A bake.......
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Roadshow coming to Peru Feb. 7-11
PERU — The Ohio Valley Roadshow is coming to the Peru Holiday Inn Express from Tuesday, Feb. 7, to Saturday, Feb. 11. Hours are Tuesday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Show organizers are looking to purchase gold, silver, antiques or other rare.......
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AMERICAN POETRY: 'I know he will ask me about flossing'
Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004 to 2006, writes: "Jaimee Kuperman is a poet living and working in the Washington, D.C., area, and she shares with many of us the experience of preparing one's self for a visit to the dentist. Do you, too, give your teeth an especially thorough brushing.......
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AMERICAN POETRY: 'Let me hear the wind paging through the trees'
Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004 to 2006, writes: "The title of this beautiful poem by Edward Hirsch contradicts the poem, which is indeed a prayer. Hirsch lives in New York and is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, one of our country's most distinguished cultural.......
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