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Naming Towns (from page one) • So much mail was being sent to Mount Tabor, South Carolina, instead of Mount Tabor, North Carolina, that residents in South Carolina dropped the “Mount” from their name and spelled “Tabor” backwards to become the town of Robat. So there!

• Finally, on September 4, 1890, President Benjamin Harrison established the U.S. Board of Geographic Names and appointed ten men to bring order out of the chaos.

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town of Thurber and the town of Grayson both jumped at the chance. What to do? Bicknell named one town after himself and the other town after his wife, whose maiden name was Blanding. The books had to be divided up between the two town's libraries.

new town after him. However, the humble Mr. Ralston felt he was not worthy of such an honor and declined. Impressed with his modesty, officials instead named the town Modesto.

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• Pioneer Ezra Meeker thought his hometown of Franklin, Washington, was a boring name. He decided to change the name to the Indian word Puyallup just because he liked it. It’s an Indian word meaning “generous people.” No one objected, so Puyallup it is.

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STRANGE NAMES

A town in Kansas could not agree on a name, so they decided to settle the matter with a poker game, and the winner would decide. E.H. Cawker won the game, and the town is now called Cawker.

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Laundering Big Items, Where to Sell Books, When to Cancel Term Everyday Life CHEAPSKATE Insurance and More

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Dear Mary: Now that it’s summertime * Only two animals have the ability to I would like to wash the large blankets and see behind themselves without turning comforters on the beds, but they’re too big around: the rabbit and the parrot. Their for my standard size washing machine. A eyes are on the sides of their head, givlarge machine at a laundromat is at least $5 ing them 360 degree view around them. a load! Yikes! What’s a better and/or cheaper way to get them washed and hang them out * Not that we ever gave any real on the clothesline at home to air-dry and thought to the matter, but “snow-bones” freshen? Thanks again for all you do! -- Marie are the lines of snow or ice left at the

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Dear Marie: If your home is like most, has melted. you have the perfect vessel large enough to hand-launder blankets, making them line-ready * David Babcock broke a Guinness to air-dry. It’s the bathtub. Read this post; then World Record for his time in the Kansas adapt the method for your blankets according to City marathon, at 5 hours, 48 minutes their specific laundering instructions. and 27 seconds. But not for running -he managed to complete the race while

Basically, run a tub of water. Add your knitting a scarf that measured just over preferred detergent, being careful to err on the 12 feet long. As he said later, “Knitting side of too little, but not too much! If you use too the whole way really did help distract much detergent, you’ll have a challenging time me from the hard parts of the maragetting it all rinsed out. thon.”

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buying on any particular day. It all depends on trends and what a particular buyer believes is hot for its particular audience.

Rather than try to find all of the individual companies that purchase used textbooks yourself, I suggest you go to BookScouter.com.

This is a one-stop shop that searches more than 20 different online book buyers with one click. You’ll quickly discover which book dealer, if any, is interested in buying the texts you have.

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Most buyers make it easy to send the books by paying for shipping and allowing you to simply print a prepaid mailing label. Just keep in mind that IT is a quickly-changing field.

Good luck. I hope you can make a lot of sales.

Dear Mary: I enjoy your column and just read about life insurance. My husband and I and are both 64 and retired last year.

We live on our social security plus investment income from 401(k) and SEP/IRA accounts. We don’t have a lot of “extra” income, but we live frugally and are doing fine.

I have a $250,000 term life policy and my husband has a $150,000 term policy.

Should we keep these or reduce our monthly expenses by cancelling them? -- Gail

Dear Gail: There is only one reason to have life insurance and here it is: To replace income that would disappear upon your death.

Specifically, that would be minor children, and perhaps elderly parents you support financially who are so dependent that without your financial support, would become financially destitute.

Let’s look at your situation. You do not mention any dependents, such as children, grandchildren or elderly parents who depend on your income. That leaves each of you. If your husband were to precede you in death, even with the provision that you would continue to receive the higher of your two Social Security monthly benefit checks, would the loss of the smaller monthly check put you into a financially difficult position? If you answer yes, then life insurance is an excellent way to replace that income that will go missing and upon which the remaining spouse will depend.

As for the funds in your 401k and SEP/ IRA accounts, either of your deaths should not affect them, provided you have named each other as beneficiaries.

Once you have determined the monthly income you will need to replace upon either of your deaths, if any, multiply that by a reasonable life expectancy of the remaining spouse. That is a good estimate of the amount of term life insurance each of you need.

I suggest you leave the policies in place for now while you do your own independent research. As we age, life insurance becomes more expensive and many companies require a health exam as part of the application process. I wouldn’t cancel any term insurance until you are confident a remaining spouse will be well protected without it.

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Mary invites you to visit her at EverydayCheapskate.com, where this column is archived complete with links and resources for all recommended products and services. Mary invites questions and comments at https://www.everydaycheapskate.com/ contact/, “Ask Mary.” Tips can be submitted at tips. everydaycheapskate.com/. This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of EverydayCheapskate.com, a frugal living blog, and the author of the book “Debt-Proof Living.”

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• It was long assumed that Ötzi died of exposure.

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The wound had been treated with a medicinal moss but had not healed when he died. Ötzi also suffered a head injury, which may have been a result of him falling after being struck by the arrow. He also had many bruises. It appeared that Ötzi was a victim of murder.

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If you were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and you noticed a shark circling your boat, would you jump in the water? No. Would you feel scared or threatened? You bet.

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“He was OK with her until she started crawling. He follows us with her everywhere. Even when she is sleeping in her crib, he has to be in the room with her. He won’t leave her side. We feel that he is protecting her. When she is crawling, it is a different story. “‘Barnie’has had a tough life. We rescued him at 2 years old, and we were told at the shelter that he was beaten as a puppy.

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So I’m always surprised when I get questions from readers who have misinterpreted something fairly straightforward from a past column.

For example, I can’t tell you how many times I have written that a woman will get a benefit as a spouse on her husband’s record only if it pays a higher rate than her own retirement benefit. And then I get dozens of emails from readers who say something like: “In your recent column, you said all wives should get spousal benefits on their husband’s record.”

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Q: In a recent column, you said a wife can take part of her husband’s Social Security, and then at 70, switch to her own benefits. I thought that was a good idea, so I called the Social Security toll-free number to set that up, and they said I could not do that. What’s going on?

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A: You misunderstood what I wrote. And there is nothing to retract. You made the same mistake the person as the prior questioner did. In that past column, I wrote that a widow who remarries after age 60 can continue to receive benefits from her first husband’s record. You’re not a widow.

Q: In a past column, you said that a wife can get benefits on her husband’s Social Security record even if he isn’t yet claiming Social Security himself. I am 62 and have never worked outside the home. My husband is also 62. He plans to wait until 70 to file for Social Security. I called Social Security, and they said I can’t file for benefits until he files.

I told them what you wrote, and they said you are wrong. How can you mislead your readers like that?

A: You misunderstood what I wrote. And I didn’t mislead anyone. Please go back and check that past column. You will note that column was about divorced spouses and what they are due from Social Security. A woman who is divorced can claim benefits on her ex-husband’s record even if he hasn’t filed for Social Security. He has to be at least 62 years old, but he need not have applied for benefits yet. But for reasons too messy to explain in today’s column, a woman who is currently married to her husband, as you are, must wait until he is collecting Social Security before she can file for benefits on his record. And by the way, your potential eligibility for spousal benefits might be an incentive for your husband to consider signing up for benefits before age 70.

Q: In a past column, you said that the full retirement age is 66 years old and two months. But my full retirement age is 66 years old and four months. Please explain the discrepancy.

A: You misunderstood what I wrote. I said that the full retirement age for someone born in 1955 is 66 and two months. If you were born in a different year, you have a different full retirement age. There is a chart listing the various FRAs in my Social Security guidebook (see ordering instructions below).

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sets of surveyors to tell him what they thought.

Neither team knew about the other. Deakins was amazed when both groups recommended the very same plot of land. Deakins considered this an accident of fate and dubbed the land “The Accidental Tract.” Today the town that grew there is known as Accident, Maryland. But the Highway Department has trouble keeping their interstate signs from being stolen. The signs read, “Accident Ahead.”

• Settlers in Massachusetts were trying to think up a name for their town when someone pointed out that if you started digging a hole in Massachusetts all the way through the planet, you’d come out in Canton, China. They suggested it would be symmetricaly proper to have a town named Canton at each end of the hole. With no other name suggested, Canton, Massachusetts it became.

• After residents of a town in Virginia argued hotly and stubbornly over an appropriate name, it was finally decided the only thing to do was to name it Disputana.

• Hop Bottom, Pennsylvania was so named because of all the wild hops growing in the nearby bottomland.

• A town in Tennessee wanted to name itself after the Biblical town of Jericho, but a clerk with bad handwriting filled out the form, and today the town's official name is Jellico.

• Montana once had a town called Pair o’ Dice.

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• In 1887 settlers in Washington state named their town Slaughter after Lt. W. A. Slaughter, who had played a prominent role in the Indian wars of the area. But as the town grew and new businesses sprang up, local jokes about the name were rife. It was decided to rename the town Auburn when a new hotel opened and the owner objected to calling it “The Slaughter House.” □

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