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...prime example of his period and place, Noah Webster (1758-1843) was a school-teacher who by zeal and persistence became a Citizen Fixit to the whole U. S. Because he insisted on bursting out of his own bailiwick to mend his neighbors' manners, he was not popular; but before he died the U. S. was proud of him. Even more than his Dictionary his famed blue-backed Speller (which sold nearly 100 million copies before it went out of use) knit U. S. dialects together into one more-or-less standard tongue, poured a patriotic iron tonic into...
...city editor (W. D. Frazier) is Mr. Fixit for the Columbus, Ohio, Citizen, although most of the complaints are run down by the city hall reporter. To unravel the red tape between the annoyed citizen and the city authorities is the prime duty of every Mr. Fixit...
...nothing is too trivial for him. In Cincinnati a family was in a stew over the naming of a puppy. In stepped Mr. Fixit (David Austin) of the Cincinnati Post and averted a domestic crisis by naming the puppy "Fixit...
...York Telegram is in the process of creating a Mr. Fixit. It has been suggested by many an apartment dweller that his first duty be the invention of a noiseless...
...Fixit has been featured in Scripps-Howard advertising during the last fortnight...