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We got a check in the mail this week from someone to pay a bill at the Leader. We think it wasn’t so much about frugality but rather for entertainment. The check came in a pre-used envelope and the person cut the corner off the Leader envelope, which we sent the bill in, to address it to us....

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We've all raided the old man's beer and wine stashes. Well this one's been around a while. At a gathering the other night Don Hagfeldt hit his dads old supply and brought a 1938 wine to the dinner party. It was a gift to his dad Cliff from my dad, Larry Bowler, and it had a...

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We stand corrected. Two weeks ago we featured the old Ames Mill House (at left) and this 1930’s photo, when the house was being torn down. Someone asked us if the grain elevator in the middle was really the Occident Flour Mill. As soon as the question was asked we knew we had misstated. Under a m...

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*T*I*P* The United States produced more crude oil than any nation at any time, according to our International Energy Statistics, for the past six years in a row. Crude oil production in the United States, including condensate, averaged 12.9 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2023, breaking the pr...

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After departing Glasgow High School following a game at the East C Divisional Basketball Tournament, it was decided to take a drive on the north side of the city where I grew up. With the Leader camera always at the ready, there it was, a photo that would make a good *T*I*P*. Let’s title it “...