With a quick pull of a wooden handle hanging from the ceiling, Harley Savage pressed the bottom of a round wooden box firmly into place at Frye’s Measure Mill using machinery more than twice his age.

KELLOGG, Minn. — Create with magical thoughts and hum gibberish. It’s the advice one of Santa Claus’ fictional elves shares with a gnome stuck on making useful items rather than the bright, dancing ...

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