Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

kept this in her cedar chest until the day she died,” Evelyn said, untying the string with careful, deliberate movements.

She pulled out a single sheet of paper, the letterhead bearing the company’s circular red logo from the nineteen-thirties.

“This is the termination letter dated July twenty-second, 1937,” Evelyn said, pushing the paper toward me.

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