Running for a Wrench, Gets a Wrenched Knee, 1955 Railroad Signal Dept. Typed Injury Report Japanese puzzle cube I've become so enamored of

I've become so enamored of very old books as objects and for the stories they tell about the people who owned them and how they were used

which captures a cased museum-type display featuring "the original Bowie knife

including that "the cigars herein contained were manufactured to retail at more than five cents each and not more than eight cents

Otherwise clean and bright and flawless

and a face that feels to me about as existential as they come--exactly right for the bowl of a pipe

Running for a Wrench, Gets a Wrenched Knee, 1955 Railroad Signal Dept. Typed Injury Report Japanese puzzle cube I've become so enamored ofI bought a handful of these hand typed cards from the 1950s documenting railroad worker injuries, this one completed by the Signal Dept. Terminal Division, Boston I believe. Some are more elaborate than others, but each evokes a vivid story through its matter of fact reporting, and all feel like found poetry to me. Here, it is especially the double use of "wrench" that I love our signalman Edward Clark having wrenched a knee while running for a