Proof reading is evidence of
the truth or correctness of something to establish a fact. When I was thirteen
years of age I became aware of the word proof reading. I had to read original
text and my Papa would make the corrections. When we printed grain ingredients
it was something else, they all had to be listed on the tags of the grain sacks
The hardest ones to proof read
were cook books. They had to be very accurate; we didn't want to be responsible
for a failure of a Baked Alaska! Papa published at least a dozen different cook
books.
Most were for the different Catholic
churches, the recipes were quite simple. They called for a ten cent box
of Jell-O or twenty-five cents worth of hamburger. Things were measured by
money or by your hand, such as a closed hand for salt, things were so much
simpler than.
We even had an order for merchandise
catalogs from Nebraska;
they sent us towels and mittens.
I still have a big monkey made
so its arms and legs are moveable, a beehive big enough to put honey in with a bumblebee
on top, really cute. They were talented and did a lot of craft work.
It was quite a production
when we had to assemble the pages from all around the print shop. I would hold
a shoebox cover in my hand, put in one sheet at a time from the piles and than
once assembled they were sent to the book binders and shipped to our customers.
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