INGREDIENTS.

Transcribed below. The typewriter is a Tower Constellation (made for Sears by Smith-Corona) with a special-ordered Elite Gothic 16 type face—a combination that may be unique in the world, since the type was not offered with this model in Sears catalogues.

Toer Constellation
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PLACES TO VISIT.

Museum of Dead Bonsai. Largest collection of expired bonsai trees in the Northeast.

Five Mile Run Battlefield. Famous site of Black Friday skirmish over limited quantities of forgotten toy in 2021. Interpretive center in former Boston Market at right end of strip mall.

Museum of Rocket Science. More than 8 galleries of hand-lettered equations in elaborate gilt frames. Don’t miss the graffiti in the men’s room on the third floor!

Envelope World. One man’s tribute to a forty-year career in the envelope industry. If his wife is home, just say you’re here about the taxes.

Blandville Public Library. Mrs. Craig, the librarian, gives hourly demonstrations of silent reading.

DARK SECRETS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN UNDERGROUND.

From an 1884 fire-insurance map of part of downtown Pittsburgh:

The long-gone First United Presbyterian Church (not First Presbyterian—that’s a different church, still going; these were the United Presbyterians) on Seventh Avenue. Note:

1. “Meat storage” in the basement of the church.

2. “Passage under gr’d” to the J. Stevenson & Co. ham house.

Fortunately, some Presbyterians repented of their evil ways and left the First United Presbyterian Ham House, as we can see by the fact that there was a church for reformed Presbyterians just behind First United Presbyterian.