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From: ".... valentine53179" <>
Subject: Re: [ML] Onion Skin Paper
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 14:56:19 -0600
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then
lets wish on them
carpal tunnel!


On 1/1/06, Walter Barge <> wrote:
> It was stolen! from my office on a weekend where I kept it in a locked
> cabinet. I know who did it; I just never could prove it.
>
> Walter
>
> ".... valentine53179" <> wrote:
> some one stole it...
> or
> you let it be stolen???????
> i let mine go about 5 years ago
> and then a friend, who was cleaning house, gave me a manual, smith
> corona in its own box... i it works perfectly... i have it in my
> office...and if that computer printer ever is on vacation or i am
> tooo laxy to do what i hve to do to get something from this laptop to
> THAT printer, i will use that manual-hand-strengthening beast...
>
> walter,i think thatif that thesis had something that was FUN,
> interesting or practical for every day life...perhaps along the lines
> of ERMA, she would willingly have typed it again!
>
>
>
> On 1/1/06, Walter Barge wrote:
> > I can't resist this one. I watched my grandfather sit for nearly all of
> his retirement years (1942-1957) at an old Remington upright typewriter,
> writing the history of the various branches of his family and my
> grandmother's family---both in Northern Virginia. He made several onion skin
> copies and bound them. I still have one of them and use it constantly in my
> own genealogical research. Through college and graduate school, I continued
> to use the onion skin, or sometimes a thinner alternative, for carbon copies
> for class papers, etc. Eventually somebody invented a carbon--second sheet
> combination that eliminated the black ink on shirtsleeves and the problem of
> putting carbon in backwards. When I had almost finished my doctoral work, my
> mother gave me a Smith-Corona electric portable so I could type my
> book-length dissertation, but Mom didn't reckon with what a poor typist I
> turned out to be. So I hired a young woman in our church who was out of work
> to type it for me. !
> > She made
> > an original and three copies of 275 pages with only 11 typos that I could
> find when I was proofreading it. After she corrected those, she said she
> never wanted to type again.
> >
> > I join the thanksgiving for computers and word processors. A poor typist
> like I am can get by with murder and let spell-check do about 95 percent of
> the spotting of errors.
> >
> > I had that old Remington upright for a number of years after I moved here.
> But someone stole it from my office about two years before I retired. A
> contemptible thing that was!
> >
> > Walter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Eleanor Richardson wrote:
> > > I also remember "many moons" ago, when I did some secretarial work, we
> had
> > > to make an original copy and 6 or 7 copies on the onion skin....there
> > could
> > > not be one mistake. First there were the erasers that were round like a
> > > wheel, with a brush attached, then came the pencil, one end for the
> > original
> > > and one end for the carbon copies, then liquid paper, etc. A couple of
> > > months ago when I was going through some boxes of "Life's treasures", I
> > > found my little metal template that I used to use to make corrections.
> It
> > > opened a compartment of my brain that had not been stimulated in
> > years...it
> > > was wonderful.
> > >
> > > Eleanor
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Walter S. Barge
> >
> > ---------------------------------
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> >
> >
>
>
>
> Walter S. Barge
>
> ________________________________
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