Word: garnavillo
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Ferdinand ("Freddie") Fisher, 34, was born and reared on a farm near Garnavillo, Iowa. His father, whom he still calls "the best butter maker in Iowa," wanted him to play the piano, compromised on a clarinet, but Freddie says he always broke the reed just before school band practice. When he was 21 and able to keep a reed intact, Freddie bought a dinner jacket and got a job in an Orpheum Circuit band. Later Freddie Fisher thought up the name "Schnickelfritz" (German slang for silly fellow), and assembled five men to play a permanent date in a tavern...
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