Christmas Twist at Clarkson’s Store Ends Manners’ Ordeal
In Washburn a man named Walter Manners hides a family secret while helping with Christmas preparations. A visitor from Peters offers a better salary, prompting Manners to accept the job before Clarkson reopens his old post with a salary bump. The return to the old store finally restores Manners’ self confidence and fulfills his greatest wish for belonging.
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Christmas Wrench in Walter Manners Career
Walter Manners, a veteran of twenty years at Clarkson, is dismissed for a small error. He wrestles with self doubt and fears for his family's Christmas while weighing a return home with the bad news. He wanders town, eyeing rival Peters' store as he contemplates his ruined future.
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Hall's Catarrh Medicine combines an Ointment and a Tonic to treat catarrh. The ad argues catarrh is affected by constitutional health and sales are made by druggists for many years from J Cheney and Co Toledo Ohio.
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