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Remembering early family design firms

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Father’s Day is a good time to remember that many design firms of the 19th and 20th centuries were family businesses. Some of the most famous glassmakers, ceramicists and metalsmiths followed their fathers into business, and many famous company names end in “and Sons.” This coin silver coffee pot, which sold for $1,860 at an auction by Leland Little, was made by S. Kirk & Son of Baltimore, one of the best-known American silversmiths. Samuel Kirk opened his first silver store in 1815. He started partnering with his sons in 1846; the company was known as S. Kirk & Son from 1846 to ...

Technology and the news

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Algorithms, artificial intelligence, echo chambers, fake news, misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, deepfakes, censoring, shadowbanning, doxing, mainstream, fringe, experts, fact check, misspoke, alternative facts, and many more terms are thrown around these days. It’s easy to feel confused, overwhelmed, desensitized, or just fed up with the flood of information sent our way twenty-four hours a day. There are so many voices all clamoring for your time, attention, information, and your money. In many ways, technology has provided tremendous benefits to our everyday life. ...

Jerry & Linda Schueler

Anniversaries

Please join us for a 60th Wedding Anniversary Celebration honoring Jerry & Linda Schueler Sunday June 16, 1-4pm at the Sleepy Eye Event Center, 110 12th Ave. NE. No Gifts Please.

PITT SPECIAL biplane

Health

PITT SPECIAL biplane made by Ronnie Grieser of New Ulm is on display at the State Bank and Trust Company. It has been inspected by the Federal Aeronautics Authority and approved for covering. Grieser,who has been flying since 1941,hopes to have it ready for the air this year. He made it from a ...

Early American glassmaking

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With the invention of the mechanical glass press in the 1800s, the glassmaking industry moved away from free-blown, hand-decorated pieces and embraced new ways to mass-produce inexpensive decorative glass. But not everyone wanted to leave the old ways behind. Brothers Henry Thomas, Lorenzo, and William Elbert Clevenger were apprentices at the Moore Brothers Clayton Glass Works, where their father, William Henry, also worked. The Clayton Glass Works closed in 1912. In 1930, the Clevenger brothers constructed their own glass furnace in their backyard in Clayton, New Jersey. They used ...

Arden & Marilyn DeBoer

Anniversaries

Arden & Marilyn (Friskup) DeBoer of Lafayette will celebrate their 70th anniversary and 90th birthdays on Sunday, June 16. They were married June 6,1954 at United Methodist Church in Lafayette. They are celebrating with and open house, cake & coffee, Sunday, June 16 at First Lutheran Church, ...