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The very first candy bar was manufactured in Nashville, Tennessee in 1912 when a combination of caramel, marshmallow, peanuts, and milk chocolate was cooked in a copper kettle

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IN THE BEGINNING • The story goes that a little old lady in the French town of Montelimar used to make up a treat from honey, sugar, nuts, fruits, and eggs to give to all her friends. The friends would say, “Tu nous gates” which is French for “You spoil us!” From this we get our word (and our filling) called nougat.

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• Dum Dum lollipops got their name from a type of bullet called the dum dum that was used in World War I. They have the same shape.

• In 1896 Leo Hirschfield named his new candy product after his six-year-old daughter Clara, who was nicknamed Tootsie: the Tootsie Roll. The Tootsie Roll was the first penny candy that was individually wrapped.

• George Smith owned the first suckermanufacturing machine which opened for business in New Haven, Colorado in 1908. Lolly Pop was the name of a popular racehorse of the day, so he named his new confection the lollipop.

• Otto Schnering, inventor of the Baby Ruth candy bar, once promoted the product by hiring a chartered airplane to do a massive Baby Ruth candy bar drop over the city of Pittsburgh, PA in 1923. The ploy worked, and sales took off.

• M & M’s stand for Frank Mars, founder of Mars Candy, and Bob Murrie, the president of Mars Candy.

• In Alexandre Dumas’ best selling book “The Three Musketeers,” the three heroes Athos, Porthos, and Aramis pal around together having adventures. In 1932 Frank Mars, maker of the Snickers bar, invented a new candy bar in honor of the novel. The candy bar was actually three bars in one: vanilla nougat, chocolate nougat, and strawberry nougat. By the 1940s the 3 Musketeers bar was all chocolate nougat.

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• In the 1950s quiz shows were all the rage.

One show, an early forerunner of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” was called “The Big Surprise.”

Mike Wallace (of “60 Minutes” fame) was the emcee and contestants were asked ten questions to win prizes increasing in value from $100 to $100,000. The show aired for the first time in 1957 and was very popular, inspiring Nestlé to come out with the $100,000 Bar. • At the Williamson Candy Co. in Chicago, a young man named Henry came by every day to watch the young ladies make candy. They would talk and flirt and before long, Henry began helping them out with small tasks and errands whenever he came by. “Oh, Henry, would you please...” “Oh, Henry will you…” When a new nut roll was added to the product line, company owner Mr. Williamson asked his workers what they wanted to name it. “Every day all we hear is, ‘Oh Henry this’ and ‘Oh Henry that’ so why not call it the Oh Henry bar?” and so it was.

• James Welch, manufacturer of the Sugar Daddy caramel sucker, went to see the Broadway production of a play called “Junior Miss.” The play was very popular and later became a radio show starring Shirley Temple. James Welch liked the play a lot and couldn’t get the name “Junior Miss” out of his head. A few years later when he came up with a new type of candy, he decided to name it Junior Mints.

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FULL MOON PIE • The Mountain City Flour Mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee produced a lot of flour - so much so that they set up the Chattanooga Bakery whose purpose was to find new ways to use up excess flour. By 1910 the bakery had a product line of over 200 confections. In 1917 a bakery manager named Earl Mitchell was trying to think up new ideas for better products when he had a chat with some local miners. The miners said they wanted something to put in their lunch pails that was sweet, solid, filling, and big. “How big?” said Mitchell. About that time the moon was rising, so one of the miners held up his hands to frame the full moon and said, “About that big!” Thus, the MoonPie was born. The combination of cookie, marshmallow, and chocolate was so popular that by the 1950s the bakery stopped producing anything else but the MoonPie. 1. Ron Washington holds the mark for most career wins as manager of the Texas Rangers (664). What was his highest single-season total?

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4. When was the last time before 2014 that the University of Dayton’s men’s basketball team reached the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight?

5. In 2015, Philadelphia forward Jakub Voracek tied an NHL All-Star Game record with six points. Who else holds the mark?

6. Name the last NASCAR Cup driver before Kevin Harvick in 2014-15 to finish first or second in at least eight consecutive races.

7. Who holds the women’s record in the Open Era for most singles championships at tennis’ U.S. Open? (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

MYSTERY OF WINT-O-GREEN • If you go into a completely dark room, let your eyes adjust, then bite or smash a Wint-OGreen Life Saver, faint blue sparks can be seen.

Why? Did you ever watch a car drag a metal object along pavement? Ever see someone sharpening a knife on a grinding stone? Ever brush your hair or pet the cat on a dry night in the darkness? Sparks. There are always sparks.

If you energize an atom with heat or electricity or friction, that atom will give off light. A WintO-Green Life Saver is flavored with an oily chemical called methyl salicylate. When you bite on the Life Saver, you fracture sugar crystals and the energy is imparted to the methyl salicylate, which incandesces as a result. It doesn’t happen when you suck on the Life Saver because that does not impart any forceful kind of energy to the candy. It doesn’t happen with other flavors because methyl salicylate fluoresces easily and other flavoring agents don’t.

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• When Milton Hershey’s mother apprenticed him to a printer in 1871, it didn’t take him long to discover that he hated printing. Instead, he ended up apprenticed to a confectioner, where he spent four years learning the art of making candy.

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• When his apprenticeship ended, he set up his own candy shop in Philadelphia, but it failed.

He moved to Denver where he learned the art of making caramel from a Colorado dairyman.

• Next he moved to New York City and tried to open a successful caramel factory, only to fail once again. So he returned to his family home in Pennsylvania and tried one more time to open a successful candy store.

• This time, he won a large contract with a European firm, and the money generated by this single order was enough to get him started down the road to success. Soon, the Lancaster Caramel Company was employing over 1,400 people, shipping candy worldwide, and turning Milton Hershey into one of the town’s leading citizens.

• Visiting the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Milton was fascinated by the exhibit set up by a German chocolate company which demonstrated the latest technology in automated chocolate manufacturing. When the Expo ended, Milton bought the machinery and shipped it back to Pennsylvania, convinced he could add chocolate to his already successful caramel business. It soon became apparent to him that the demand for chocolate outstripped the demand for caramel.

• Surrounded by the dairylands of Pennsylvania, he started doing his own experiments with milk chocolate. The production of milk chocolate had long been a closely guarded trade secret held by the Swiss. But through sheer trial and error, Milton Hershey figured out the formula.

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by Samantha Weaver • It was 19th-century French journalist, preacher and political activist Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire who made the following sage observation: “Neither genius, fame nor love show the greatness of the soul.

Only kindness can do that.”

• Walt Disney wanted at first to use the name “Mickey Mouse Park” for what we now know as Disney World.

• The first successful human organ transplant occurred in 1950. It was a kidney.

• You might be surprised to learn that manatees have fingernails on their flippers.

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• Thanks to the schedule of the American school system, U.S. sales of peanut butter increase dramatically in September and suffer an equally dramatic drop in June.

• If you’ve ever gone to a shoe store and had your foot measured to determine length, width and arch length, you might be interested to learn that the gadget used to make such measurements is called a Brannock device.

Charles F. Brannock, the son of a shoe industry entrepreneur, patented his first prototype in 1926, and his invention is still the industry standard. Some early models are even featured in the Smithsonian Institution.

• In India of long ago, it was considered ideal for a man to be three times the age of his wife.

• Those who study such things say that the younger you are, the longer your baths tend to be.

• A friend of Sir Isaac Newton first came up with the symbol we use to represent the concept of infinity, but he originally meant it to mean a very small quantity.

• Until 1836, the river that formed the border between the United States and Mexico was not the Rio Grande; it was the Colorado. *** Thought for the Day: “Criticism is prejudice made plausible.” -- Henry Louis Mencken (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• On July 26, 1775, Congress establishes the United States Post Office and names Benjamin Franklin the first postmaster general.

While postmaster, Franklin streamlined postal delivery with properly surveyed and marked routes from Maine to Florida, the origins of Route 1.

• On July 23, 1878, gentleman bandit Black Bart robs a Wells Fargo stagecoach in California. At the next robbery he left behind a handkerchief. Through a laundry mark, Pinkerton detectives traced the handkerchief back to Charles Bolton, an elderly man in San Francisco. Bolton confessed to being Black Bart.

• On July 24, 1915, the steamer Eastland overturns in the Chicago River, drowning more than 800 of its passengers. The disaster was caused by serious problems with the boat’s design. The Eastland capsized next to the dock, trapping hundreds of people on or underneath the large ship.

• On July 21, 1959, Elijah Jerry “Pumpsie” Green makes his Boston Red Sox debut, becoming the first black ever to play for the Red Sox, the last team in the major leagues to integrate.

• On July 25, 1965, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan rocks the world of folk music when he performs at the Newport Folk Festival and abandons his acoustic guitar for an electric one.

By going electric, Dylan eventually moved rock and folk music closer together.

• On July 20, 1972, a U.S. government study disputes consumer advocate Ralph Nader’s charges against the Chevrolet Corvair.

Conducted by the National Highway Traffic Administration, the two-year study concluded that 1960-63 Covairs were at least as safe as other cars sold in the same period.

• On July 22, 1990, American cyclist Greg LeMond wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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MILTON HERSHEY (continued)

• By the turn of the century, the business was so successful that he built a new factory near the town of Derry Township, Pennsylvania, where he had been born. He then proceeded to build a town around the factory. The town was later renamed for him: Hershey, Pennsylvania.

• The town he built to house his workers was a model community, designed not to exploit people (as other company towns did) but to provide for their welfare. There were schools, lecture halls, an amusement park, gardens, churches, and a trolley system.

• In 1900, he sold his caramel company for the princely sum of $1 million (worth $27 million in today’s dollars) and began to focus exclusively on producing chocolate.

• Thanks to the Hershey bar (invented in 1900) and the Hershey Kiss (invented in 1907), chocolate went from being a treat reserved for the rich to a delight everyone could afford.

• In 1912, Milton Hershey and his wife had tickets to travel on the Titanic. They canceled their reservations at the last minute due to business matters which required Hershey’s attention. The check he wrote to reserve a firstclass stateroom on the Titanic is in the archives of The Hershey museum.

• Hershey supplied soldiers with chocolate bars during World War II. The chocolate was formulated to taste a little bad to prevent troops from getting cravings for them, and it had to withstand high temperatures without melting. In 1939, the Hershey plant was capable of producing 100,000 ration bars a day. By the end of the war, the entire Hershey plant was producing ration bars at a rate of 24 million a week.

• The company Milton Hershey set up continued to flourish even after his death in 1945 at the age of 88. Today Milton Hershey’s firm is the largest chocolate company in North America.

1. Name the Cuban song made famous by the Sandpipers.

2. Which Al Green song was covered by both Foghat (1976) and the Talking Heads (1978)?

3. Who released “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted”?

4. Paul Rodgers was lead singer for which hard rock ‘70s band?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Going where the weather suits my clothes, banking off of the northeast wind, Sailing on a summer breeze, and skipping over the ocean like a stone.” (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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CHOCOLATE: QUIZ • Henri was born in 1814 in Germany. His last name was a German word meaning ‘a small bird nest.’ As a young man he moved to Switzerland where he worked in a pharmacy doing chemical experiments.

• He became preoccupied with the high infant mortality rate. When new mothers were unable to nurse, their babies often died. What the world needed was an emergency substitute for mother’s milk.

• After much experimentation, Henri developed a mixture of cow’s milk, flour, sugar, and malt that could be sold in powdered form and reconstituted with the addition of water. By 1867 his baby formula was marketed worldwide.

• Next door to Henri’s baby formula factory, Daniel Peter owned a candle factory. The use of oil lamps was making candles obsolete, and Daniel knew he had to diversify, so he decided to go into the chocolate business. He needed a way to make his product stand out.

• Being next door to Henri’s factory caused him to wonder if there wasn’t a way to combine milk with chocolate. After eight years, he figured out the formula for milk chocolate, and formed it into the world’s first chocolate bars.

• The result was so successful that Henri’s baby formula company bought out Daniel’s milk chocolate company. In 1874 Henri sold his company for a million francs and retired, but the firm he founded went on to become the world’s largest food and beverage company, employing a quarter million people and buying ten percent of the world’s cocoa beans. The firm is named after Henri’s last name. What is it? (Answer on page 7.)

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PICKS OF THE WEEK Tangerines (R) -- After the fall of the Soviet Union, a benevolent old farmer finds himself caught in war between Georgia and Abkhazian separatists. When the conflict comes right to his front yard, Ivo (Lembit Ulfsak) buries a few soldiers, and finds that two of them are still alive -- one man from each side. As they recover in his small shack, Ivo asks each man to swear not to kill the other. The adversaries agree not to shed blood under his roof, but it’s a cramped, fragile peace between sworn enemies.

Before this film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars last year, most of us in the West had never heard of Estonian actor Lembit Ulfsak. After seeing this performance, it’s like finding out there there’s been another Ian Mckellen just hanging out, putting his awesome talent into stuff you’ve never seen.

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There have been a few similar documentaries in the past few years -- “Twenty Feet from Stardom,” “Muscle Shoals” -- because it’s a lot of fun hearing about the moment a legendary riff just popped into somebody’s head. This one stands out because of the director’s personal connection with story, which adds family lore to rock history.

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Set Fire to the Stars (R) -- Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was a man of gorgeous verse and terrifying appetite -- a renowned writer almost as well-known for his drinking and shenanigans as for stirring poetry. This style-conscious black-and-white feature depicts a week when Thomas (Celyn Jones) was brought to New York for a speaking tour, held under guidance of tweeish American poetry professor John M. Brinnin (Elijah Wood). The madness and style of the movie is great, but it goes heavy on the morose and anxious elements of the characters.

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Wild Horses (R) -- Written, directed and starring Robert Duvall, this meandering cowboy/family drama/crime story has a lot of heart-to-heart talks, each one seemingly sprinkled into the movie at random. Scott Briggs (Duvall) is a crusty ol’ cowboy who’s fixin’ to set up his last will. He reunites with his youngest son (James Franco), whom he kicked out of the house 15 The Wrecking Crew (PG) -- This is another one years ago after catching him in the barn with of those music documentaries that introduces another boy -- that boy soon went missing. Now (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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• Dark chocolate is healthier than white chocolate or milk chocolate because it’s less processed, meaning it has more antioxidant flavonoids in it, as well as less sugar and fat.

• Chocolate contains caffeine, but you’d have to eat 14 chocolate bars to equal the amount of caffeine in a single cup of coffee.

• White chocolate is white because it has cocoa butter but no cocoa solids.

• The average America eats about 12 lbs. (5.4 kg) of chocolate annually.

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8. Ransom Olds, who used it to build the first mass-produced automobile.

9. Bookkeeper 10. Little Rock Sports Quiz Answers 1. His Rangers won 96 games in 2011.

2. Bill Mazeroski, with 19 in 1958.

3. Cincinnati (0-2), Philadelphia (0-2), Buffalo (0-4) and Minnesota (0-4).

4. It was 1984.

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6. Richard Petty, in 1975.

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• Add a tablespoon of espresso powder to chocolate baked goods to spike up the chocolatey flavor.

• Baking chocolate is bitter because it has no sugar added.

• About 75% of people eat the ears off of a chocolate Easter bunny first.

• Chocolate contains cocoa and cocoa contains the compound theobromine. Theobromine is toxic to dogs and other pets at certain doses. The most dangerous kinds are dark chocolate, cocoa bean garden mulch, and unsweetened baking chocolate.

• American chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk annually, surpassed only by the cheese and ice cream industries.

• Chocolate syrup was used as fake blood in the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “Psycho.” The film was in black and white.

• German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany. In 1852, Sam German developed a sweet baking bar for Baker’s Chocolate Co. The product was named in honor of him: Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate.

• Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows cacao beans commercially to produce chocolate.

Chocolate: Quiz Answer: Nestlé.

Flash Back Trivia Answers 1. “Guantanamera,” in 1966. Widely covered, the song’s title translates into “She from Guantanamo.” In Cuba there was a lawsuit, finally settled in 1993, about who had originally written the song in 1929.

2. “Take Me to the River,” written by Green in 1974.

3. Jimmy Ruffin, in 1966. The song originally had a spoken intro, which was replaced with an extra-long instrumental.

4. Bad Company.

5. “Everybody’s Talkin’,” by Harry Nilsson in 1966, netting a Grammy for the song in the film “Midnight Cowboy.” Songwriter Fred Neil had recorded it in one take because he wanted to get home to Miami and the ocean. For a real treat, go to YouTube and compare both versions.

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