Word: bookmark
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suggestions which will enable them to preserve their friendly volumes through long grinds. The fingers should not be wet to turn the leaves, nor should the corners be turned down to mark the place. These tend to make dog ears. Rather mark the place with some bookmark. The simplest, and one of the best, is a card as large as a small visiting card. By cutting this twice longitudinally from one end almost to the other, you will have a three-legged book-mark which rides a-straddle on the page, one leg on the page below...