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by Otto Ringle Mom had just passed away and Dad moved my sister and me to his hospital where Portage Brewery is now, so the nurses and cooks could help take care of us. While we were there, I had to help with many of the hospital chores — doing laundry, washing windows, keeping the huge wood-burning furnace going, and carrying out the garbage. Oftentimes the garbage consisted of body parts from dad’s surgical, gangrene amputations. That was not much fun, but an even more disturbing ch...

by Otto Ringle Did you know Christmas has only been a federal holiday in our United States since 1870? Our country was almost 100 years old! Actually, people around the entire world had been celebrating long before then. They celebrated simply for warmer weather!. Of course, when Jesus was born, people world-wide celebrated as a sacred religious holiday — even some who were not Christians celebrated Christmas. Nowadays for many, the wonderful joyous Christmas season has become a world-wide...