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• Clinton immediately went to work mixing large batches of the new product. His sons became the company salesmen, selling primarily to druggists store to store. One day his son Alan was on his way to make a sales call when a series of individual signs along the road advertising a service station caught his attention: “Gas, Oil / Restrooms / Coffee & Etc. / 1 Mile Ahead.” Why couldn’t shaving cream be marketed the same way? After some persuasion, Clinton finally agreed with the idea and the Burma-Shave sign campaign was born.

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• The first sets of signs were assembled with boards, nails and paint. They consisted primarily of marketing claims: “Shave the modern way / Fine for the skin / Druggists have it / Burma-Shave.” With their first set of • In 1963, the Odell family sold the business to a dozen signs placed along the most traveled Philip Morris, Inc., who decided to spend their roads around Minnesota, the company began ADVERTISING advertising money in other areas.PROOF Across the MON., SEPT. 9 getting their first repeat orders. country the DUE: signs slowly disappeared. Final Changes 5:0

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Let’s Just Reach Into the Mailbag I have just returned from a six-week trip to Australia and New Zealand. (I met more than a few Australian and New Zealand pensioners on this trip, and I’m thinking of a future column comparing their Social Security systems with ours.) But right now, I’ve got hundreds of backedup emails to answer. So, for today’s column, instead of concentrating on a single issue, I’m going to just reach into that electronic mailbag and answer whichever question I pull out.

My husband recently died. I am 60 years old and working full time, making about $70,000 per year. Should I file for Social Security now? Or should I wait until I retire, which will probably be in three years?

First of all, you can’t file for Social Security now. Anyone who is under full retirement age (currently 66) and working full time isn’t eligible for any kind of Social Security. But once you retire, you will have some options. It sounds like you’ll be about 63 at the time. At that age, you could file for reduced widows benefits. You’d get about 86% of your husband’s normal retirement benefit. Then, at 66, you can switch to 100% of your own retirement rate. Or you could wait until 70 and switch to 132% of your full benefit. On the other hand, depending on the money amounts involved, it might be more advantageous for you to file for reduced retirement benefits when you retire and then switch to a 100% widows rate when you reach age 66. (There is no bonus for delaying widows benefits beyond full retirement age, so there would be no advantage to waiting after age 66 to file for widows benefits.) And just so other readers know, this option of starting one benefit at a reduced rate and later switching to another benefit at a higher rate is available only to widows and widowers.

I don’t understand this. Why should a woman who has been married to her husband for only 10 years get the same widows rate that I do? My husband and I were married for 40 years. I think the benefit should be prorated based on the number of years you were married.

I’ve heard arguments similar to yours before. I’m not really sure why ideas like yours have never seriously been considered. I’ve got a hunch it would be kind of messy to calculate and administer such prorated benefits. I will share this bit of trivia from my Social Security past. When I started working for the Social Security Administration in the early 1970s, the law said a divorced woman had to be married for at least 20 years to get benefits from her ex-husband’s Social Security. Sometime in the 1980s, following pressure from lots of women in this country, Congress lowered the duration of marriage rule to 10 years. I remember watching Congressional hearings on the issue in which the women testifying essentially said: “Being married to that jerk for 10 years was

I am 66 and plan to wait until age 70 to file for my Social Security. My wife is 62 and eligible for a smaller Social Security check on her own account. If she takes a reduced retirement benefit now, will that reduce her future widows benefit on my account?

No. Only two things affect your wife’s eventual widows benefits on your record. One is whether or not you took reduced benefits. If you did, that reduction carries over to her future widows rate. But you’re not doing that, so it’s not an issue. The other thing that affects your wife’s eventual widows benefit is her age at the time she files for such benefits. Assuming she is over her full retirement age when that happens, she will get 100% of whatever you were getting at the time of death. And that will include the 32% bonus that is going to be added to your retirement check for waiting until age 70 to file. And one more note about that 32% bonus: As I said, a widow shares in that bonus. But a wife does not. In other words, while you are alive, any spousal benefits she might be due on your record will be based on your age 66 benefit rate. But after you die, her widows rate will be based on your age 70 rate.

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of your full Social Security benefit rate. The benefit computation formula is way too complicated to explain in this short space. But essentially, they figure your benefit as though you had turned full retirement age at the time you die. And again, each child gets 75% of that every month. And they will get those benefits until they are 18 years old. The checks will come in your wife’s name on behalf of the kids. If your wife is working, she won’t get her own survivor benefit. But if she is not working, she might be due a small monthly amount on your record. The rules are too messy to explain, but there is a maximum amount that can be paid to the family of a deceased parent. The two survivor benefits paid to your kids won’t reach that maximum. But usually, adding a third beneficiary (in this case, your wife) would cross that maximum threshold. So, she wouldn’t get a full 75% benefit, but she might be due something. * * * If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM

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on the bottom of my small Irish Belleek cream pitcher. It is decorated with a floral pattern in relief, stands about 3 1/4 inches tall and is in excellent condition. I bought it over 40 years ago at a local antiques mall. Any information you can provide about its histor y will be appreciated.

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This is a photo of an antique milk glass double egg cup. It stands about 4 inches tall, has a basket weave pattern and is in mint condition. On the inside of the small part are the words “Pat’d June 30th, 1874.” When I hold the cup to the light, I can see a red-orange flame quality to the glass. I have had it for over 50 years and would like to know more about its maker, age and value. Your opaque double egg cup is a good example of antique opal milk glass. The flame you see when the cup is held to the light is similar to fire opal stones. The smaller portion of the cup was used for placing a soft-boiled egg, and the larger part is for an egg that has been broken. The patented date, “June 30th, 1874” documents when Milk glass double egg cup was the pattern patented in 1874. was registered with the government. Atterbury Glass Co. made your cup. They were in business in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, from 1859 to 1902. Their basket weave pattern was available in several other pieces that include cream pitchers, candy dishes and sugar bowls. Opaque milk glass was also made in blue and green. Whimsical milk glass pieces were made in the late 1800s. Covered chickens, covered ducks and animal figures appeal to collectors of milk glass. Milk glass production reached a peak in the late 1800s and waned after World War I. Your circa-1874 double cup egg dish would probably be worth $25 to $50. *** This is a photo I took of the mark

Irish Belleek was made in Belleek, on banks of the Erne River in county Fermanagh, Ireland, from 1857 to the present. John Caldwell Bloomfield inherited an old castle and established his pottery. The region was rich in feldspar, flint, kaolin, clay, shale and peat. In the beginning, they produced earthenware. By the late 1860s, they were making Parian china. Your cream pitcher is an example of Belleek’s Lotus pattern and is marked with their third black mark that was used from 1926 to 1946. Similar Belleek pitchers are offered on the internet in the range of $15 to $30.

Belleek, Ireland, was located in County Fermanagh.

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* On March 15, 1820, Maine is admitted into the Union as the 23rd state. Administered as a province of Massachusetts since 1647, the entrance of Maine as a free state was agreed to by Southern senators in exchange for the entrance of Missouri as a slave state. * On March 12, 1894, Coca-Cola is sold in glass bottles for the first time. It had previously been available only as a fountain drink. A bottle of Coke cost 5 cents, and it stayed that way until 1959. * On March 11, 1918, a U.S. Army soldier reports to the hospital at Fort Riley, Kansas, complaining of cold-like symptoms. By noon, over 100 of his fellow soldiers had reported similar symptoms, marking what are believed to be the first cases in the influenza pandemic of 1918. The Spanish flu would eventually kill 675,000 Americans and up to 50 million people worldwide. * On March 13, 1942, the Quartermaster Corps of the U.S. Army begins training dogs for the newly established War Dog Program, or “K-9 Corps.” * On March 9, 1959, the first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Barbie was the first mass-produced toy doll in the United States with adult features. Ruth Handler, co-founder of Mattel, named the doll after her daughter, Barbara. * On March 14, 1967, the body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent spot at Arlington National Cemetery. The president had been assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. The gravesite includes a natural gas line with a continuous electronic flashing spark that reignites the flame in case it is extinguished by rain or wind. * On March 10, 1988, disco sensation Andy Gibb dies at the age of 30. With his heart greatly weakened from years of cocaine abuse, Gibb succumbed to an inflammatory heart virus. (c) 2020 Hearst Communications, Inc.

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