Gene Grime

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April 23, 2025

2 days ago | northwestsignal.net | Gene Grime

Happy birthday Ann!Yes, today is the ?????th birthday of my wife. I am sworn to secrecy as to which birthday this is, but her two sons have already celebrated their 50th birthdays. If you knew her in school, you have a pretty good idea. I can admit that I robbed the cradle when we got married, so she is less than 80. Your hometown newspaper is something you count on, day after day, week after week and year after year.
April 19, 2025

6 days ago | northwestsignal.net | Gene Grime

More than 100 years ago, the world’s smallest billboards set the advertising world on fire. I am, of course, referring to matchbooks, used by just about every business or even politician. We still have some “Vote for Bob Downey for Henry County Commissioner” matchbooks from years ago. For decades, the most popular advertising medium was that matchbook, which fit in the palm of one’s hands as easily as a smartphone, and got the message across in a way that was succinct, graphic and mobile.
April 17, 2025

1 week ago | northwestsignal.net | Gene Grime

“Game of Thrones,” an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO is an adaptation of “A Song of Ice and Fire,” a series of high fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, the first of which is “A Game of Thrones.” The show premiered on HBO in the United States on this date in 2011, and concluded on May 19, 2019, with 73 episodes broadcast over eight seasons.
April 16, 2025

1 week ago | northwestsignal.net | Gene Grime

It’s been a drawn-out dose of colder than normal temperatures for the past several days, but it didn’t bother Ann or myself. We have been in Florida since the 5th, returning to the Buckeye State last evening. We flew out of Toledo en route to St. Petersburg, where my sister Deanna picked us up and drove us to her home in Ocala. Temps were basically in the 80s most our time in Florida, making our morning walk quite enjoyable, seeing the various corners of her gated community Summerglen.
April 15, 2025

1 week ago | northwestsignal.net | Gene Grime

I’m giving you a friendly reminder your income tax returns are due to be submitted today. Are you one of those who wait until the last minute, or did you file your taxes in February and have already gotten your refund check, laughing at all those who are hustling around at the last minute to get their filing complete?
April 14, 2025

1 week ago | northwestsignal.net | Gene Grime

One of the biggest summer-time warnings was that if you swam too soon after eating, you’d get a cramp and sink like a rock. Parents insisted on a strict waiting period, usually around 30 minutes to an hour, to avoid an aquatic catastrophe. But there’s no actual evidence that eating and swimming are a dangerous combination. While digestion does redirect some blood flow to your stomach, it’s not enough to make your limbs stop working.
April 12, 2025

1 week ago | northwestsignal.net | Gene Grime

It was on this date in 1861, Fort Sumter in South Carolina was attacked by the Confederacy, beginning the American Civil WarThe Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina, by the South Carolina militia. It ended with the surrender of the fort by the United States Army, beginning the American Civil War. Following the declaration of secession by South Carolina on Dec.
April 10, 2025

2 weeks ago | northwestsignal.net | Gene Grime

Some words of wisdom to get your day off to a great start:“The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food; the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.” (Andy Rooney)“If you have a job without aggrivations, you don’t have a job.” (Malcomb Forbes)“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” (Napoleon)Our present-day various “dollar stores” must remind some of the old-time dime store, or “five and dime” stores.
April 9, 2025

2 weeks ago | northwestsignal.net | Gene Grime

Okay, now. Let’s check your memory once again. How many remember the Fuller Brush man coming door to door? Alfred Carl Fuller began what was to become the Fuller Brush Co. in a basement shop in Somerville, Massachusetts. In 1906 he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, and founded the company. The company began with door-to-door sales of brushes of various sorts, including hairbrushes with a lifetime guarantee for which they are famous.
April 8, 2025

2 weeks ago | northwestsignal.net | Gene Grime

On this day in history in 1766, the first fire escape was patented. The first patented fire escape consisted of a wicker basket on a pulley and chain. In 1784, Daniel Maseres of England invented a machine called a fire escape, which on being fastened to the window, would enable people to descend to the street without injury.