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“I just got this dog from the pound. She eats well and sleeps with me, and she’s very intelligent.

But she keeps leaving me little poops and puddles in the house. I leave the door open and she still poops in the house, right by an open door. She is 4 years old or so, and the pound has no history on her. I have not beaten her yet, but I am about to.”

Brute force is never an effective teaching tool. Most people, if told their child’s eye had been blackened not by a bully but by his English teacher because of his inability to spell, would run to the nearest happy hour full of ACLU lawyers and scream “civil rights violation!” And the teacher’s defense would be embarrassingly lackluster: “No, I never taught him how to spell, but I left the dictionary right there on his desk.”

Dogs are not born housebroken. It is not a matter of better breeding, bad genes or big bucks.

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My husband and I got married 30 years ago. About 25 years ago, we got a divorce. But a year and a half later, almost on a whim, we got remarried. But we never got any kind of papers from the minister who remarried us. Frankly, I’m not really sure he was an actual minister. Is this going to be a problem now that we are about to turn 62 and want to sign up for Social Security? My husband worked all his life. I mostly stayed home.

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You’ve got an interesting story, and possibly a troubling dilemma with respect to any potential wife’s and eventually widow’s benefits you might be due on your husband’s Social Security account.

And that’s because in order to qualify for spousal benefits on his record, you are going to have to provide some kind of legal documentation that you were married to him. And I’m talking the second time. That divorce you got legally dissolved your first marriage. And because that marriage lasted less than 10 years, it’s an irrelevant issue for Social Security purposes.

You said that you never got any papers from the minister who married you the second time. I’m not entirely clear how state laws work, but didn’t you have to get a legal marriage license for your second marriage? If so, those papers must exist in the state or county where marriage No. 2 occurred.

If those papers don’t exist, and if you really did just run off and remarry this guy in front of a storefront “minister” who kept no records, you still may have some options. The Social Security Administration follows state laws with respect to the validity of a marriage. So if your state recognizes common-law marriage, you should be able to prove that you have had a common-law marriage for the past 20 years or so.

If there is no marriage license for marriage No. 2, and if you don’t live in a common-law state, I can think of only one other option. You could simply file for spousal benefits citing only your first marriage. I’m betting that marriage wasn’t done “on a whim,” so there must be a marriage license and/or certificate for that marriage. And then just don’t mention the divorce. What SSA doesn’t know won’t hurt them, but certainly will help you. In other words, just make like the divorce never happened. SSA doesn’t check divorce records for the thousands of spousal claims filed every day. So you should get the benefits you are due. But remember, I never told you to do that!

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My husband and I divorced more than 20 years ago. We haven’t spoken or had any kind of communication since the divorce.

He has remarried and lives in another state.

I have never remarried. My concern is that when he dies, I want to make sure I know about that so I can file for widow’s benefits on his record. I asked the Social Security people if they would notify me when he dies. They said they can’t. That doesn’t seem fair. How

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Assuming you have been working and paying into Social Security, you are likely not due any benefits on his record if he is alive. In oth You face a dilemma millions of di- er words, your own retirement benefit would be vorced women face, especially those who are out much higher than any spousal benefits you might of touch with their ex-husbands. be due. But if he’s dead, it’s a different story. You

The Social Security Administration would could be due higher benefits on his account. Or contact you after his death IF you were already you could employ the widow’s option. That would listed as a spouse or ex-spouse on his account. In involve filing for reduced widow’s benefits now other words, if you were already getting benefits and switching to full benefits on your own record as a divorced wife on his record. But you are not. at 66 -- or even higher benefits at 70.

Without that connection, SSA has no idea who you But of course, you can only do that if he is are or where you are and that you were once mar- dead. If you have his Social Security number burried to this guy. So you can forget about the gov- ied in your records somewhere, just go to your loernment notifying you when he dies. cal Social Security office and ask about him. Even

So what can you do to keep track of your without his number, they should be able to help husband? Could you possibly maintain contact with you if you give them some identifying informasomeone who knows him? This might seem bi- tion. If he is alive, then privacy laws would prevent zarre at first, but how about trying to connect with them from telling you that. (And the fact that they his current spouse? If you explain to her that any don’t tell you anything would be a good clue that benefits you might be due on your ex husband’s he is still alive.) But if he is dead, his privacy rights record takes absolutely nothing away from what were buried with him, so they should share that she would be due when he dies, perhaps she’d DCCS be information with you and help you file a claim for - SPRING SEMESTER inclined to help you. If none of those ideas work, widow’s benefits.

1/16th pg here is one more. Many divorced women have told * * * me they read the online version of the newspaper If you have a Social Security question, Tom in the town where their ex-husband lives and they Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.marcheck out he obituary section daily -- looking for genau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from his name!

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DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: I need to find some help with selling my elderly mother’s house – where she’s lived for almost 50 years – and relocating her to an apartment or condo closer to where I live. Can you recommend any businesses or services that specialize in helping seniors relocate?

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Dear Overwhelmed: The process of selling a house and moving to a new home, or downsizing to a condo, apartment or senior housing facility is a big job for anyone. But it can be especially overwhelming for seniors who are moving from a long time residence filled with decade’s worth of stuff and a lifetime of memories. Fortunately, there are several specialized services available today that can help make your mom’s move a lot easier.

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could be purchased by paying $5 down and $3.50 a month.

By 1929, the company faced financial setbacks. Liquidation began in 1932, and by 1933, all assets had been sold and creditors were paid.

Your stem-wind 21-jewel open-face steel escape with original presentation box would probably sell in the range of $300 to $600. ***

This mark is on the bottom of my porcelain teapot. It is white and decorated with pastel flowers and gold trim, and it is in perfect condition.

It has been in my family for four generations, and I would never part with it but would like to know more about the maker and the value.

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This is a picture of an antique pocket watch that has been in our family for years. It belonged to my grandfather, who passed it down to my father. He gave it to me, and now I intend to give it to my son.

I researched it and know it is a South Bend open-face steel-escape 21-ruby jewel movement, adjusted to temperature and position. It is in excellent working condition and was made in 1870.

I have the original wooden box with the original guarantee bond paperwork.

The price was $35. About 30 years ago, South Bend Watch Company when I asked an was founded by three Studeantiques dealer baker brothers. about its, he told me he didn’t know but would buy it for $200. A watchmaker recently told me that it was in remarkable condition.

I know these watches aren’t overly valuable but would love to be able to put a fair evaluation on it when I gift it to my son.

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Your pocket watch is not as old as you thought. South Bend Watch Co. was formed in 1902 in South Bend, Indiana, by three Studebaker brothers, Clement Jr., J.M. and George. They were the sons of Clement Studebaker, who made wagons and cars. The trio bought the Ohio Watch Co. and renamed the business South Bend Watch Co.

They opened the new factory between South Bend and Mishawaka. They employed 145 German watchmakers and at one time produced at least 60,000 watches a year. Their stem-wind pocket watches were 15, 17 and 21 jewels. After World War I, they ventured into mail-order watches that

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Oscar Schaller & Co. was located in Germany.

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Oscar Schaller & Co. made your teapot. It was located in Schwarzenbach-Saale, Germany, and this mark was used from 1882 to 1909.

It would probably fetch $75 to $125 in an antiques shop.

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* On Aug. 27, 1955, the first edition of “The Guinness Book of Records” is published in Great Britain. The book was intended to be given away for free in pubs to promote the Guinness brand; however, it became so popular that the Irish brewer started selling it . * On Aug. 28, 1996, Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, and his wife, Princess Diana, formally divorce. In 1981, nearly 1 billion television viewers in 74 countries tuned in to witness their marriage ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London * On Aug. 29, 1962, American poet Robert Frost leaves for the Soviet Union. The goodwill tour was sponsored by the U.S. State Department in an effort to thaw Cold War relations. * On Aug. 30, 1983, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Colonel Guion S. Bluford becomes the first African American to travel into space following lift off aboard the space shuttle Challenger. During their six days in space, the Challenger crew launched an Indian communications satellite. * On Aug. 31, 1888, the first known victim of London serial killer “Jack the Ripper” is found murdered in the city’s impoverished Whitechapel district. At least four more women were found murdered in similar fashion over the next few months. In 1892, with no leads found and no more murders recorded, the Jack the Ripper file was closed. * On Sept. 1, 1928, Robert Pirsig, author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” is born. Despite being rejected by more than 120 publishing houses, his 1974 book became a cult classic, selling more than 4 million copies over the next 25 years. * On Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II. (c) 2018 Hearst Communications, Inc.

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• In San Luis Obispo, California, there’s a wall where people stick their used gum. It’s called “gum alley” and people have made large designs and spelled out words with gum wads on the brick wall.

• The British Royal Air Force Dirigible R-34 was over the middle of the Atlantic on the way to America in 1911. Suddenly the forward motor started hissing and began to overheat. The water jacket had sprung a leak. All the adhesives and putties on board failed to plug the leak.

In desperation, ten crewmen were each given sticks of gum and told to chew as if their lives depended on it— which it actually did. The collective wad of gum plugged the leak when everything else had failed.

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• The Fleer gum company was the first to sell gumballs in a penny dispenser. An enterprising vending machine salesman convinced the company’s president to go with the machines by challenging him to an experiment. He suggested putting a penny vending machine at an extremely windy tourist spot in New York with a sign saying “Drop a penny in the slot and listen to the wind blow.” Curious tourists obliged, and were rewarded with a gumball.

When the machine filled up with pennies, Fleer ordered a fleet of the machines.

• In Columbus, Ohio in 1939, a ladies club was trying to raise money for a children’s wing at the hospital. When they learned that 20 percent of the merchants' proceeds came from gumball machine sales, they asked businessmen to donate the proceeds to the hospital. In just six months the children’s ward was finished. Today, some 3,500 service clubs collect about $2 million a year from gumball machines. 

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typewriter eraser? Or, if you’re younger, have you moved your belongings into a long-unused HAPPY FROM TIDBITS! desk, onlyHALLOWEEN to find a strange-looking gadget with fiber-like hairs bushing out of one end? What SCARY MOVIES you’ve foundbyisRyan a typewriter Toepfer eraser. Usually shaped likejust a pencil, tiphaving was made of an Some people seem tothe love the living especially-abrasive to daylights scared out ofrubber, them.which Why was else used would “erase” typing error.

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