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concoction and in 1956, she sold her first batch of “Mistake Out,” a small bottle of opaque • Maria Beasley’s first invention was patented white liquid with an extended brush attached in 1878 for a barrel-hooping machine, which under the cap. It didn’t take long until she was by K enabled manufacturers to make 1,500 barrels bottling the product full-time, working from a day, an invention that netted Beasley a small her home in Dallas with the enlisted help of her fortune. She also was responsible for a coffeeW son and his friends. By 1958, Graham had 1. a brewing system using a filter made of thick, patent in hand and had renamed the invention sc absorbent paper perforated with tiny holes. She Liquid Paper.

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OK, maybe I’m not the big hero with women that I thought I was. Maybe I just confuse the heck out of them, and that’s why they are sending me all these emails.

I certainly am sorry I didn’t make things clear enough in that recent column. I should have explained that I was talking only about retirement and spousal benefits -- not widow’s benefits.

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