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Today 50% of Americans chew some gum, but 10% of chewers make up for 75% of sales. We average 500 sticks per person per year. There has been a 500% increase in gum consumption since World War II. Come along with Tidbits as we chew gum!

JUST DESSERTS • In 1898 the “New York Daily Tribune” ran an article from London which warned, “Health authorities here have issued a warning against American chewing gum, which is fast becoming a rage among the children of the East End. The authorities consider it more dangerous than the ‘ice cream’ which the Italians sell in the street, and which has been the subject of a rigorous crusade.”

• Some 35 years later, it was still widely thought that chewing gum would exhaust the salivary glands and lead to an early death.

• Today we know that it does not lead to an early death; nor does it cause buck teeth or clog the intestines when swallowed. The Wrigley Company advertised that gum would steady nerves, sweeten breath, soothe the throat, relieve thirst, quicken appetite, aid digestion, and improve teeth— and all these claims are true. Gum stimulates blood flow to the mouth; increases jaw strength; relieves pressure in the ears from flying; and can curb the craving for a cigarette. (Continued on next page)

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• The word xenia has a variety of meanings.

To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown to those far from home. To the botanist, it’s Pageeffect 2 the of pollen on a seed. And to those in Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, a community about 21 miles (34 km) from Dayton.

• Xystus is an architectural term, referring to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes would exercise during inclement weather.

To the Romans, the xystus was the garden walkway in front of the porticoes, where they planted flower beds.

• Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a surgical instrument used for scraping bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest.

• 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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GUM (cont’d) WILLIAM WRIGLEY • William Wrigley worked as a travelling soap salesman for his father. He later opened a branch soap factory, and began giving away premiums and gifts to people who ordered his products. Next he started a baking powder company on the side, and gave away two packs of gum with each can. When he found out how popular the gum was, he quit soap and baking powder in favor of making gum.

• Wrigley once said, “Anybody can make gum.

The problem is selling it.” He decided the solution was advertising, and he turned into not only the world’s largest gum manufacturer, but also the world’s largest advertiser. He spent $100,000 on an advertising campaign in New York City that flopped. So he tried spending another $100,000 just on Broadway, and it also flopped. Then he spent $100,000 advertising in small New York towns, buying every billboard, all the streetcar space, and huge newspaper spreads. Orders poured in. He was more than repaid for his previous losses.

• He sent coupons to every grocer in the nation for a free box of gum. Sales tripled. “Tell ’em quick and tell ’em often” was his motto. He got his poster on every one of the nation’s 62,000 streetcars; spent $14,000 to light a sign in Times Square; mailed 4 sticks of gum to every person listed in every phone book in America; erected a chain of billboards half a mile long, containing 117 signs; and started wrapping gum in redeemable wrappers with over a thousand premiums to choose from.

• When a recession hit in 1910 and World War I started in 1914, Wrigley said, “People chew harder when they’re sad”— a theory later substantiated when sales soared during the Great Depression and World War II. By 1910, William Wrigley’s gum was the most popular in the nation. Today, Wrigley’s gum still holds 35% of the U.S. chewing gum market. (continued on next page)

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PAW’S CORNER

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FAT CAT BROUGHT TO TEARS BY DIET

DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Help! My 6-year-old cat, “Misti,” has a serious weight problem, and the veterinarian said she needs to drop several pounds.

The vet told me to feed her less, but Misti cries constantly around feeding time and won’t let up until I put more food into her bowl. What else can I do? Are there weight-loss supplements for cats?

-- Helen T., via email DEAR HELEN: Helping your cat lose weight can be a struggle, but we all know that getting Misti down to a healthier weight will improve her quality of life.

There are several supplements and cat foods formulated specifically for cats that say they help with weight control. One supplement, L-Carnitine, may be helpful, but consult Misti’s vet first for the proper amount to give her.

A calorie-restricted diet is the most effective way for Misti to lose weight. However, according to veterinarian and clinical researcher Dr. Mark E. Peterson, reducing calories alone isn’t effective. You must increase the amount of protein that Misti gets and reduce the amount of carbohydrates. The way to do this is to replace part of her dry food with real meat (plain chicken, steamed and cooled, for example). A highquality canned food also may help increase protein, but read the labels very carefully.

To make the diet easier on both of you, prepare Misti’s food a few days ahead, separating each day’s fresh and dry food into separate containers. Dole out her meals twice a day. Save a little each time and when she cries for more food, place that small amount into her bowl.

That trick, plus the increased protein, will help satiate Misti as she adjusts to the new diet.

Send your questions, tips or comments to ask@ pawscorner.com. (c) 2018 King Features Synd., Inc.

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GUM IN WAR • Because gum is effective at relieving thirst, it was widely used in World War I, and a massive campaign to get gum to the troops was begun.

Wives and sweethearts were asked to send it to their men.

• During World War II, gum chewing among military personnel was six times greater than among civilians. It acted as a substitute for toothbrushes, increased morale, reduced tension, and promoted alertness.

• Gum was used as war propaganda during World War II. A shipment of gum wrapped in special wrappers, with one side bearing the crossed flags of the U.S. and Philippines, and the other side saying, “I Shall Return— MacArthur” was dropped from planes over the occupied Philippines.

STICKY SITUATIONS • The ancient Mayans chewed plain chicle which is the sap from the sapodilla tree. The word “chicle” springs from the Aztec phrase meaning “sticky stuff.” Chicle formed the base of Chiclets chewing gum. Today most gums are made from food-grade polymers and petroleumderived chemicals.

• The first bubble gums couldn’t be removed from the face unless scrubbed with turpentine.

“Dry” bubble gum wasn’t invented till 1928.

• One airline spent $7,000 to remove gum from the bottom of plane seats, then ruled that patrons could no longer chew gum to keep their ears from popping.

• Grand Central Station once employed a man to scrape used wads off the bottom of chairs every night. He averaged a nightly haul of 7 lbs. of used gum — 14 lbs. (6 kg) on holidays.

• In San Luis Obispo, California, there’s a wall where people stick their used gum. It’s called “gum alley” and people have made large designs and spelled out words with gum wads on the brick wall. (continued on next page)

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Lakeview supports itself through the generous contributions of the people in Niagara county and beyond!

Lakeview Animal Sanctuary provides Petting Zoo's and Pony Rides to help educate the public on animals that they may have never had the opportunity to see or interact with before.

To book an event, volunteer your time or make a donation call Sandi at 716-574-0359 email: lakeviewanimalsanctuary@aol.com

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at the Challenger Learning Center For those of you who have seen the logo around town The Challenger Learning Center of Orleans, Niagara and Erie Counties in Lockport (CLCL) is a living memorial to the lives and service of the crew of the Challenger Mission 51L that exploded after lift-off on January 28, 1986. The CLCL honors the past and looks forward to the future.

The CLCL is located in the historic Harrison Radiator Plant building in Lockport, NY. We brought back to use a building that had been unoccupied for over a quarter of a century. A building full of automotive history mere blocks fro the historic Erie Canal Locks.

The history of Lockport is tied to the canal and it is important to remember that the canal and locks made it easier to settle the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains and bring their goods and materials to the east coast and beyond the Atlantic Ocean.

IT’S A FACT • The British Royal Air Force Dirigible R-34 was over the middle of the Atlantic on the way to America in 1911. Suddenly the forward motor started hissing and began to overheat. The water jacket had sprung a leak. All the adhesives and putties on board failed to plug the leak. In desperation, ten crewmen were each given a pack of gum and told to chew as if their lives depended on it — which it did. The wad of gum plugged the leak when everything else had failed.

GUMBALL MACHINES • The Fleer gum company was the first to sell gumballs in a penny dispenser. An enterprising vending machine salesman convinced the company’s president to go with the machines by challenging him to an experiment. He suggested putting a penny vending machine at an extremely windy tourist spot in New York with a sign saying “Drop a penny in the slot and listen to the wind blow.” When the machine filled up with pennies, Fleer ordered a fleet of the machines.

• In Columbus, Ohio in 1939, a ladies club was trying to raise money for a children’s wing at the hospital. When they learned that merchants collected 20% of the take from gumball machines, they asked businessmen to donate the proceeds to the hospital. In just six months the children’s ward was finished. Today, some 3,500 service clubs collect about $2 million a year from gumball machines.

IT’S A FACT • In 1926 a woman told a convention of cosmeticians that chewing gum was responsible for making women’s faces “hard as the crockery of a railroad lunch counter.” She maintained that all the muscle movement of gum chewing made women’s faces ugly. Someone else defended gum by pointing out that hard-faced, largejawed women existed long before the invention of gum.

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Tug Lockport, Photo by Claire Talbot Part of this history is the canal its barges tenders and tugs. Many of these historic vessels are in danger of being lost.The historic tugboats Reliable and Tender 6 are already on the bottom, scuttled off Shinnecock, (continued on next page)

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Long Island on May 31.

Tender 6 at Spencerport, now scuttled off Shinnecock, Long Island

While some vessels in the historic fleet may be unsafe for use and too costly to repair, others may still be suitable for use or education. It cost as much to scuttle a tug as it does to maintain it for 6 years. Is this a wise use of our taxes? Preservation alternatives should be fully explored in partnership with canal communities, maritime and other historical/cultural groups.

The NYS Canal Corporation, under the direction of the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and in partnership with NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, plans to sink up to 30 canal vessels off Long Island to create artificial diving reefs for sport fishing and recreational diving.

Plans were announced in April without any public consultation.The New York State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) subsequently reviewed 13 vessels to be scuttled as part of the initial phases of reef development. Three of those are National Register-eligible.

NYPA/Canals have not initiated consultation regarding vessels proposed to be sunk for future reef phases We are calling on Canal Corp/NYPA to explore all reasonable means to eliminate any adverse impacts that disposition of vessels may have on the integrity of New York’s National Historic Landmark Canal System.

Please go to the Preserve NYS website and sign the petition to stop the loss of these valuable historic treasures. It will only take a minute of your time so our past has a future.

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• Sylvester Graham was a minister in the early 1800s. He became an advocate for healthy living, and encouraged his followers to adopt vegetarian diets, avoid alcohol, take cold baths, use hard mattresses, wear loose clothing, and drink only water.

• Most especially, he felt that refined flour was unhealthy. Not only were nutrients removed from the grain as it was processed, but contaminants were added that bleached the flour white, and he felt those bleaching agents were often poisonous.

• Thousands attended his lectures, while others rioted when he came. In 1837 he published a booklet called “Treatise on Bread and Bread Making” in which he instructed wives to bake their own bread using coarsely ground wholewheat kernels. Simultaneously, he began to market barrels of unprocessed and unsifted ground grains.

• He also invented a cracker made from whole grains, and this cracker was named for him.

Sylvester died in 1851 at the age of 57, but today we continue to consume the sweet cracker that still carries his name, though today it is made from the same processed and refined wheat flour he hated so much. Still, his cracker is a staple in the American diet, most often associated with pie crusts and S’mores: Graham crackers.

• Henry Perky designed rail cars. But one morning in 1892 he was eating breakfast in a restaurant in Nebraska when he noted that the man next to him was eating boiled wheat. When he asked the man why he was eating that, the man replied that he had stomach problems and this was the only thing he could digest for breakfast.

Perky himself suffered from tender digestion, so he began adding boiled wheat to his diet and found it eased his indigestion. (continued on next page)

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CRACKER FACTS (cont) • After experimenting, Henry Perky developed a wheat cereal. But he wasn’t interested in cereal; he was interested in the machines that make cereal. With the help of a mechanic, Perky developed a machine consisting of two rollers that squashed grain between them in such a way that it produced endless strings of compressed grain formed into little “wheat mattresses.” He wanted to sell these wheat-mashing machines to bakeries.

• He patented the invention and started up the Cereal Machine Company in 1895, but the cereal became so popular that he never had a chance to market the machines before he was up to his neck in orders for cereal. By 1898 it was being sold all over the world.

• The popularity of the cereal spurred him to invent wheat crackers as well. The company Perky formed was sold to the National Biscuit Company in 1928, now known as Nabisco.

The cereal and the crackers are still produced: Shredded Wheat and Triscuits.

• During the days of the Roman Empire, bakers invented a new product. First they made a loaf of dough without using oils or butter. Next they’d put a slab of dough into the oven. Once cooked, they sliced it into individual portions and baked the slices again. This removed all moisture, making it crisp and dry, and giving it an extraordinarily long shelf life. The long shelf life was handy during wars, journeys, and sea voyages.

• After the fall of the Roman Empire, these crackers popped up in Tuscany, Italy, thanks to a local baker who served them with wine. Their popularity spread, and even Columbus packed these sweet crispy crackers on his voyages. In Italy they are eaten with wine; in England with tea; and in America with coffee. The name for this item comes from the Latin words “bis” meaning twice, and “coctum” meaning baked: biscotti, from which we also get the word “biscuit.”

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• Squirrels are native to every continent except Australia and Antarctica. The most common squirrel in America is the gray squirrel.

• Squirrels range in size from the five-inch (13 cm) African pygmy squirrel to the Indian giant squirrel or China’s red-and-white giant flying squirrel, both of which can grow more than 3 feet long (.9 m) (including the tail) and weigh up to four pounds (1.8 kg).

• A squirrel’s upper and lower incisors grow continuously, at a rate of about six inches (15 cm) per year. This helps the teeth endure constant gnawing.

• They can leap ten times their body length.

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They have 4 toes on their front feet and 5 toes on their back feet with claws that have a marvelous ability to grip. Their eyes are positioned so they can see behind them. Squirrels can fall from heights of up to 100 feet (30 m) without injuring themselves.

• Flying squirrels can’t really fly; they just use flaps of skin between their limbs to glide from tree to tree. Their acrobatic leaps often span 150 feet (46 m) , with some species covering nearly 300 feet (91 m) in a single glide. (continued on next page)

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