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The “Fix-It-Yourself Manual” features advice for some tasks that
are no longer applicable to today’s world. 


Posted: Saturday, September 3, 2011 9:04 pm
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Updated: 9:13 pm, Sat Sep 3, 2011.


Home-repair guide dated

By Dan Lyksett
Leader-Telegram staff

Leader-Telegram

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I went to bed early, and when my wife crawled in later she
nudged me gently and whispered endearingly:

“The dryer quit working.”


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