Positive anymore still once again

[Roger Shuy]

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> On 5/2/06, Roger Shuy <rshuy at montana.com> wrote:
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>>> Roger, you're from Akron, as I recall?
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>>         That's right. As McDavid used to say, people who moved to work in
>> Akron's rubber factories came from south of there, where there was low
>> fertility of soil and high fertility of family. It was made up of about
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>> West Virginians when I lived there (including the mayor).
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>> When I first started teaching at Ohio (late 60s) I was told by an Akron
> student of WV parents that her parents always said the 3Rs were "Readin'
> Writin' & Road to Akron"

Sounds almost right, but I believe the third R was Route 21.(same thing)
RS
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