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• The son of a Missouri Baptist minister, Jesse James had a good start in life, regularly attending church, was educated, and was known to refuse to use bad language. In 1863, the family farm was savagely attacked by Union soldiers, and at age 16, Jesse, along with his brother Frank, became Confederate guerrilla soldiers. When the Civil War ended, Frank and Jesse became the leaders of a band of outlaws of ex-Confederates, and began robbing trains, stagecoaches, and banks that were owned by Northern institutions. Their first bank robbery took place at Liberty, Missouri’s Clay County Saving Association Bank, and the gang had a take of $60,000 in cash and bonds. A 17-yearold bystander was killed as the gang made their escape. The gang’s 15-year crime spree produced 26 robberies with a take of more than $200,000, and the deaths of at least 17 men.

Jesse was killed by a member of his own gang, Bob Ford, for the reward money, shot in the back of the head as he was straightening a picture on the wall, dead at age 34. (turn the page for more!)

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BANK ROBBERS (cont’d) • Three months after Jesse James’ death, Frank surrendered to authorities, but juries were unable to convict him, based on insufficient evidence. He returned to the family farm, where he conducted tours of the family farm for 25-cents, living to the age of 72.

• Jesse James couldn’t have known how his life of crime would spur another on to the same life.

Arizona Donnie Clark was a Missouri native who as a child had witnessed the James Gang ride through her hometown, and developed a passion for the wild life. Kate, as she was nicknamed, married a farmer named George Barker and had four sons. All four became involved in crime at an early age, and Kate, who became known as Ma Barker, began traveling with her sons to locations of their crimes. As the matriarch who controlled the crimes, she was referred to by J. Edgar Hoover as “the most vicious, dangerous and resourceful criminal brain of the last decade.” Some say that Ma Barker never participated in any of the robberies, kidnappings, or murders that involved her sons, but nevertheless, she was killed by FBI agents during a shoot-out at her Florida home, along with one son. Another son committed suicide, one was killed trying to escape from Alcatraz, and the fourth was killed by his wife.

• In 2005, thieves in Brazil dug a 260-ft (79.3 m) tunnel, complete with wood paneling, electric lights, and a ventilation system from a building to Banco Central in the city of Fortaleza. The tunnel, 13 feet (4 m) below the surface, took three months to excavate and the team posed as landscapers to explain the truckloads of dirt being removed. They even sold plants and turf to cover their operation. The robbery took place on a Saturday, when the thieves took over $79 million, which remained undetected until Monday. While more than 40 arrests were made, only about $9 million was recovered. (continued on next page)

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I spy: watching pets with security cameras DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I found out recently that my son “watches” his dog while Did you hear about the family who got stuck at work by monitoring him with a security on Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? camera. I don’t think that’s a good way to Apparently, their vehicle would nevercare for a pet. What’s your take? -- Pat in never land.

Concord, New Hampshire DEAR PAT: While nothing replaces in-person, face-to-face interaction between pet and owner, many people are unable to be with their pet during the day. Having a dog walker or pet sitter helps to ensure a pet is cared for during this time, but still doesn’t replace an owner’s voice.

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• It’s estimated that Ray Bowman and William Kirkpatrick robbed 28 banks across the U.S. between 1982 and 1998, with a stake of more than $7 million. No one was ever hurt, and gunfire only occurred one time. One robbery alone, that of Lakewood, Washington’s Seafirst Bank, yielded $4.46 million. A simple stop for speeding in Nebraska brought an end to Bowman’s spree, when police discovered guns, fake badges, masks, and $1.8 million in cash in the vehicle. Just a few weeks later, Kirkpatrick’s career was over when he failed to pay rent on his storage locker. The owner opened it, found a large stash of guns, and notified authorities, who captured him.

• Due to his ability to make quick and narrow getaways from police, bank robber John Dillinger was given the nickname “Jackrabbit.”

Dillinger’s first robbery was the theft of $50 from the local grocery store. He was captured and served over nine years. He was released into a jobless Great Depression, and a month later he robbed his first bank, the New Carlisle, Ohio National Bank, getting away with $10,000. Six weeks later, he robbed another Ohio bank, but was captured. He escaped just four days later. Within 14 months, Dillinger had robbed an estimated 24 banks, and was suspected of 10 murders. The FBI billed him as “Public Enemy #1.” To avoid the heat, Dillinger hid in Chicago, living anonymously, working as a clerk. But within a matter of months, a tip from an informant led FBI agents to the Biograph Theater, where Dillinger was watching a movie.

He was shot four times, and his life of crime was over at age 31. (continued on next page)

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BANK ROBBERS (cont’d): • In 1983, six men broke into the Brink’s-MAT bank facility at London’s Heathrow Airport and made off with $30 million worth of diamonds, gold bullion, and cash. The operation was made easier with the help of one of the security guards who provided the robbers with a key and an outline of security measures. His fellow guards were soaked in gasoline and were told they would be set on fire if they didn’t cooperate. Although most of the gang were rounded up and convicted, the majority of the gold has never been recovered.

• The biggest news of 1974 may have been the kidnapping of 19-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Two months later, she was recorded on surveillance video robbing San Francisco’s Hibernia Bank, brandishing an M1 carbine, aiding her captors. When she was captured in September, 1975, she weighed just 87 lbs. (40 kg.), and was described in a “zombie-like” state. She told the story of repeated torture, being locked in a closet blindfolded for weeks, along with brainwashing. It was believed she had Stockholm Syndrome, a psychological condition that occurs when hostages develop positive feelings toward their captors. Hearst was initially sentenced to a 35-year prison term that was reduced to seven years, and she eventually served 22 months, having her sentence commuted by President Jimmy Carter. She was fully pardoned for her crimes by President Bill Clinton in 2001.

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• Mayonnaise is made up of eggs, vinegar or lemon juice, oil, and spices. It’s an emulsion, which is a combination of two liquids that normally can’t be combined. By adding one ingredient to the other and mixing rapidly, the droplets of one liquid are suspended through the other. Because the liquids quickly separate, an emulsifier must be added, and in the case of mayonnaise, this is egg yolk.

• There are several theories as to the origin of the name mayonnaise. It may be a variation of the French word moyeunaise, derived from the old French moyeu, meaning “yolk of egg.” Some say the sauce was named “mayonnaise,” after Charles de Lorraine, the Duke of Mayenne, while others say the chef of the Duc de Richelieu invented the sauce and named it “Mahonnaise” following the Duc’s victory over the British in a 1756 battle at Port Mahon on the Mediterranean island of Minorca.

• German-born Richard Hellmann started out as an apprentice at a food market there until moving to London to work for Crosse & Blackwell, a food production company in business since 1706. At age 29, he moved to New York City, and rented a former tailor shop, opening Hellman’s Delicatessen with his wife. Each day, they whipped up a small batch of mayonnaise for sale. Their successful operation soon expanded into the space next door.

• In 1912, after becoming ill from overwork, Hellmann and his family took a sabbatical to Europe. When it was time to return, he was urged by the travel agency to book his passage to New York on the brand-new ship, Titanic.

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• When the mayonnaise business outgrew the back room of the delicatessen, Hellmann sold the store and opened a factory in 1915. In 1922, “The Chef’s Standby: Blue Ribbon Recipes,” a mayonnaise cookbook, was published. Hellmann certainly wasn’t without competition.

By the mid-1920s, there were more than 600 companies vying for the mayonnaise business.

So Hellmann improved his emulsifying process, enabling his factory to produce three tons of mayonnaise every hour. By 1927, his annual profit was upwards of $1 million.

• The company was sold to Best Foods in 1927, and by 1932, the familiar mayonnaise was renamed Best Foods mayonnaise. Although the company sold a multitude of food items, mayonnaise was by far its most profitable item.

• Lots of folks prefer Miracle Whip to mayonnaise. So what’s the difference? Kraft Miracle Whip was introduced at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair as a “salad dressing” rather than mayonnaise. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires that mayonnaise must contain a minimum of 65% vegetable oil. According to Kraft, their product’s content is too low to meet that standard. Taste-wise, Miracle Whip is sweeter and contains a few additional spices.

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Why photography? It can strengthen our memory as we need to remember settings and pay attention to composition. It can give us pleasure and raise self-esteem as we (and others) appreciate our results. Photography is art, and it awakens our creativity. Best of all, for now, it can be done indoors.

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CALL 523-1167 THEINFORMATION “X” FACTOR (continued): FOR MORE • Do you suffer from xeroderma? If you have If you want to step up snapping picsapplies with abnormal dryness offrom the skin, this term a cellphone, to you! try taking a free online photography course to get ideas about what kind of • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on camera you might want. of thethreethe Mediterranean SeaExplore sailed one a small free online classes through Harvard Extension masted vessel with square and triangular sails School, or checkthem YouTube.

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To the botanist, You’ll learn how to select photo equipment init’s theprice effectrange, of pollen onshots, a seed.

And to those your set up handle light andin Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, more. a community 21 miles (34 want km) a from If you need to buyabout a camera, do you big Dayton. camera or a small one? You can find excellent • Xystus is an architectural term, referring compact point-and-shoot cameras that will fit to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, in your pocket for a few hundred dollars. If of ancient gymnasiums.

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February 8 marks the 117th anniversary of the establishment of the Boy Scouts of America.

Tidbits commemorates this youth organization with a few facts about its founding and growth.

• The BSA was modeled after the Boy Scout Association, an organization founded by British Army officer Robert Baden-Powell in Britain in 1908. An American newspaper entrepreneur named William Boyce was aided by a Boy Scout while traveling overseas, and was so impressed that, four months after his return to the States, he and two others incorporated the Boy Scouts of America, applying for a congressional charter. In 1911, they held their first annual meeting at the White House, where they were addressed by U.S. President William Howard Taft, and the oath, laws, badges and policies were adopted.

• The name of Arthur Eldred isn’t a familiar, but in the world of scouting, he is remembered as the first recipient of the Eagle Scout medal, awarded to this 17-year-old Long Island, New York scout in 1912. By 1965, there were 500,000 Eagle Scouts, and one million in 1982.

The two-millionth Eagle Scout medal was awarded in 2009. Only about 4% of Boy Scouts are awarded this rank, and only after a lengthy review process and years of efforts on the part 3rd Quarter 2016 of the scout. An Eagle Scout must have earned 21 merit badges, Week 34 and have served as a patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, or senior August 14 -August 20 patrol leader, as well as complete a service proj8 an organization outside of the ect thatPage benefits Boy Scouts.

• The first Boy Scout World Jamboree was held in 1920 in London, with 8,000 Scouts from 34 countries attending. (continued on next page)

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• The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of our words use it for a prefix.

Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants with yellow stems are xanthopous. To those suffering from the abnormal vision condition known as xanthopsia, everything they see seems to have a yellow hue.

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“What youngster has not dreamed of flying with Peter Pan over moonlit London, or tumbling into Alice’s nonsensical Wonderland?”

-- Walt Disney

MOre ANSWERS A second California Disney theme park, California Adventure, opened in 2001 on the site that had functioned as Disneyland’s parking lot for over 40 years.

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BOY SCOUTS (cont’d) • The Cub Scouts were formally launched in 1930. By 1936, total membership in the BSA surpassed 1 million. The group enrolled its 20 millionth member in 1952, and by 1965, the Boy Scouts of America had 40 million registered members.

• Through the efforts of the BSA during World War I, Liberty Loan bonds totaling $147,876,902 were sold in 1917 – 1918. During Did you hear about the family who got stuck World War II, the Scouts collected 30 million on Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? lbs.Apparently, their vehicle would never(13,607,771 kg) of rubber during a twoweek drive, as well as collecting aluminum and never land. salvage for the war effort, along with serving as messengers and assisting emergency medical units.

• Camping has long been associated with the Boy Scouts. The first Boy Scout camp, the Philturn Rocky Mountain Scout Camp, opened in 1939, following a generous gift from Oklahoma oilman Waite Phillips. Phillips donated 35,857 acres of land near Cimmaron, New Mexico to establish a wilderness camping area. That first summer, 189 Boy Scouts from Texas, Kansas, Louisiana, andO Oklahoma RLO T D O attended A N WtheMcamp at a cost of $1 per week per camper. Two years Home of “Mission to Mars,” “Space later, Phillips added to his gift, increasing the Mountain,” and “Finding Nemo Voyage” size of the property to 127,395 acres. An additional piece of land was purchased in 1963, boosting the total area to 214 square miles.

• The song “God Bless America” is familiar to most, but not everyone knows its importance Disneyland to1.the Boy Scouts andParis Girl Scouts. In 1940, its 2.

Frontierland composer Irving Berlin created a foundation to 3.

The distribute the Monorail royalties from the song to these 4.

Space“for Mountain organizations the benefit of the youth of America.”

Sixty years 5.

Fantasyland later, at the turn of the 21st century, $6 million had already been donated to the Scouts.

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