Tidbits of Bismarck, Volume 2, Issue 4

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Volume 2, Issue 4

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• Christian Nelson operated a candy store and ice cream shop in Iowa. One day a boy couldn’t decide whether to buy a candy bar or ice cream.

That made Christian wonder why you couldn’t combine both.

• Experimenting, he found that cocoa butter would glue chocolate covering to a disk of ice cream. He called it the ‘I-Scream Bar.’ • In 1922 he went to a man named Russell who managed the Graham Ice Cream Company, who paid half the cost of a patent for half the profits.

Russell’s wife suggested the name Eskimo Pie for the product. Each Eskimo Pie was wrapped in tin foil.

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• When the product hit the market, it caused a frenzy, selling a million a day. The company became the biggest consumer of tin foil in the nation. To meet demand, they licensed dairies to make the product in exchange for a royalty, but some dairies failed to pay royalties while others infringed on the patent.

• In 1929 a judge ruled that it was not something that could be patented anyway. A demoralized Russell sold his part of the company and used the money to start his own candy company.

Christian Nelson sold his part of the company to the tin foil firm that made the wrappers, but continued to work for them. He died a wealthy man in 1992 at the age of 99. Meanwhile…

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RUSSELL’S CHOCOLATE • After Christian Nelson’s partner Russell sold his share of the Eskimo Pie company for $25,000, Russell moved with his wife Clara to Denver, Colorado.

• On their first day of business in December of 1923, they sold 120 lbs (54 kg) of chocolate, netting $90 profit. A year later, they had five stores throughout Denver and employed 30 people in the basement of their home. Their candy company became particularly well-known for selling chocolates in heart-shaped boxes for Valentine’s Day. • When Russell died in 1954, Clara kept the company running. In 1960 she sold the business to her good friend Louis Ward, who supplied her with their heart-shaped boxes. He developed the business until it was the third largest American chocolate manufacturer, behind Hershey and Mars. Eventually over 60% of boxed chocolates came from this company, which still carries the name of the company founder. What’s it called?

(Find the answer on page seven.)

A NEW FOIL • Richard Samuel was the nephew of Richard Joshua. Uncle Richard Joshua was a tobacco baron, and nephew Richard Samuel worked for him. At the time, cigarettes were wrapped in foil made from a mixture of tin and lead. As the demand for cigarettes increased, so did demand for tin foil, and it was constantly in short supply.

• In 1919 nephew Richard Samuel borrowed $100,000 from his uncle, then left his uncle’s tobacco firm in order to start up a tin foil company. Other tin foil firms tried to run him out of business by lowering their prices, but then the price of aluminum dropped, and Richard Samuel discovered that making foil from aluminum was far less expensive – and far more sensible – than making it out of tin and lead.

• Aluminum foil was lighter and thinner than tin foil so more of it could be rolled from a single pound of metal; it was non-corrosive; and it was shinier. He invented a way to print on it, so he could make custom wrappers for specific foods. Demand for his foil skyrocketed with the invention of the Eskimo Pie because each one was wrapped in foil.

• In 1924 Richard Samuel’s firm bought out the Eskimo Pie company, which was its single biggest customer. The company expanded to produce aluminum siding, aluminum cans, aluminum bumpers, and more. Eventually the firm became the world’s third largest aluminum and packaging company. It’s best known for aluminum foil, which carries the last name shared

by Uncle Richard Joshua and nephew Richard Samuel. What was their last name? (Find the answer on page seven.)

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• In the basement of their home, they set up a candy-making shop, determined to produce the highest-quality chocolates they could. They hand-dipped their chocolates, resisting the move to automatic machine-dipping because handdipping resulted in a thicker layer of chocolate.

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1. GEOGRAPHY: What is the only Central American country that doesn’t have a coastline on the Pacific?

2. LANGUAGE: What does the Latin phrase “in media res” mean?

3. MOVIES: What movie featured the line, “The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed -- for lack of a better word -- is good”?

4. AD SLOGANS: What American manufacturing company once used the slogan “Quality is job one” to sell its products?

5. MUSIC: What does it mean to play notes in a “staccato” style?

6. U.S. PRESIDENTS: What was the Secret Service’s code name for Ronald Reagan?

7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: How many official languages does the United Nations have?

8. MYTHOLOGY: Who were the Norns in Norse mythology?

9. TELEVISION: What television sitcom featured parents who were named Al and Peggy?

10. MEDICAL TERMS: What is the common name for monochromatism? (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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ICE CREAM ON A STICK • Harry Burt owned a candy store and ice cream shop in Ohio. Christian Nelson had recently invented the Eskimo Pie, but Harry claimed to have invented the chocolate-covered ice cream bar before Nelson invented the Eskimo Pie.

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• Harry’s invention had one critical difference, however. After he’d given an experimental sample to his grown daughter to eat, he asked her opinion. She said she liked it, but it was too messy and left her fingers sticky. Because he manufactured lollipops, he inserted a stick to make it easier to eat.

• He designed machinery to mass-produce the product, and named his company after his belief that anyone eating it would be in a good mood.

Then he designed a unique way to sell his product.

Instead of selling it to stores, he outfitted the world’s first ice cream trucks and hired drivers to drive slowly up and down suburban streets, ringing the bell on the truck and selling his ice cream bars directly to children.

• In 1929 the company got a huge boost in Chicago when mobsters demanded $5,000 for “protection” – or else. The company refused the ultimatum, and doubled the insurance on the trucks. The next week eight trucks were blown up. The insurance payoff was handsome and the free national publicity put the company on the map.

• At its peak in the 1950s, the company had 2,000 ice cream trucks on the road. Now owned

by Breyers, the trucks have been retired but the company still produces a wide variety of ice cream novelties. What was the ice cream company called?

1. In 2013, Mark Trumbo became the sixth player in Angels history to have consecutive 30-homer seasons. Name three of the first five.

2. Who was the first baseball player to be in all 162 games in a major-league season as a designated hitter?

3. Name the first Colts player to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

4. Who was the last first-round NBA draft pick from the University of Miami, Fla., before Shane Larkin in 2013?

5. Which two players hold the NHL record for most Game Seven playoff goals?

6. How many years before 2014 was it that Colombia’s men’s soccer team last played in the World Cup? 7. In winning five middleweight titles, Sugar Ray Robinson defeated a different boxer each time. Name three of the five opponents. (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Tidbits® of Bismarck NOTEWORTHY INVENTIONS:

THE ICE CREAM SCOOP • Alfred Cralle was born in Virginia in 1866, just after the Civil War ended. He was black, so his options were limited but he never let that stop him.

• He learned carpentry from his father, attended local schools, and became interested in mechanics. Because he excelled at school, his father sent him to Washington, D.C. to attend Wayland Seminary. This was one of several schools founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to educate African-Americans after the Civil War. • Later he settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He got a job working as a porter in the Markell Brothers drug store and St. Charles Hotel. While working at the drug store, he noticed how popular ice cream had become, and he also noticed how difficult it was to serve. It consistently stuck to the spoon or ladle that was being used to scoop it, and required either two hands or two people to get it into the dish. He was determined to solve the problem.

• Being mechanically inclined, he set to work on the problem. The first prototype he showed to the Markell Brothers was a simple stick with a cone-shaped object mounted on the end. The Markell Brothers didn’t think it would work, until Cralle took a container of ice cream and demonstrated it for them, easily plopping a perfectly-shaped mound of ice cream into a dish.

• On February 2, 1897, Cralle was granted a patent for what he called an “ice cream mold and disher” now known as the ice cream scoop. It was designed to keep ice cream as well as other foods from sticking to the utensil, and it was easy to operate with one hand.

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by Samantha Weaver • It was feminist and social activist Gloria Steinem who made the following sage observation: “Logic is in the eye of the logician.”

• Some historians claim that Moses had a stutter.

• If you’re like the average American, your vocabulary consists of roughly 45,000 words.

• Despite the sound of the word, those who suffer from amusia do not have any impairment of their sense of humor; rather, they’re tone deaf -- medically unable to hear or accurately reproduce relative pitch.

• When the wildly successful 1965 film “The Sound of Music” was released in South Korea, one theater owner felt that the movie was too long. He took it upon himself to remedy the situation -- by cutting out all the musical numbers.

• If you’re planning a trip to the Canadian province of New Brunswick, you might want to include a stop to see the Reversing Falls of St. John. While the St. John River flows into the Bay of Fundy at low tide, high tide in the bay is so extreme that it causes the water to reverse itself and flow from the bay back into the river.

• It’s been reported that famed chef Julia Child loved to eat corn chips with peanut butter.

• You might be surprised to learn that out of the 362 episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” that were produced over the course of a decade, Hitchcock himself directed only 20.

• Those who study such things say that the fastest-growing sport among high-school students in Minnesota is trap shooting. *** Thought for the Day: “These are bagpipes.

I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm.

Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.” -- Alfred Hitchcock (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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THE ICE CREAM SCOOP (continued):

• On Jan. 23, 1775, London merchants petition Parliament for relief from the financial hardship put upon them by the curtailment of trade with the North American colonies. Most critical to the merchants’ concerns were the 2 million pounds sterling in outstanding debts owed to them.

• On Jan. 19, 1915, during World War I, Britain suffers its first casualties from an air attack when two German zeppelins drop bombs on Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn on the eastern coast of England.

• On Jan. 20, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the second time as president. The Constitution had originally set March 4 as the presidential inauguration date to allow the winner time to travel to the nation’s capital.

• On Jan. 25, 1949, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences holds its first annual awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The now-famous award statuette “Emmy” was a feminized version of “immy,” the shorthand term for the image orthicon tube that was used in TV cameras until the 1960s.

• On Jan. 24, 1956, Look magazine publishes the confessions of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, two white men from Mississippi who were acquitted in the 1955 kidnapping and murder of black teenager Emmett Till. In August 1955, on a visit to relatives, the 14-year-old Till had allegedly whistled at a white woman who ran a store.

• Cralle’s design was strong, durable, effective, and inexpensive. It could be constructed in a variety of shapes depending on whether a cone or a mound was desired. It could be constructed out of a variety of materials. There were no delicate parts that could malfunction. This simple device allowed ice cream to be served faster, with less effort and more hygienically.

• Cralle never received much in the way of financial success from his invention, nor did he receive any wide-spread acclaim. However, when the Afro-American Financial, Accumulating, Merchandise and Business Association was organized in Pittsburgh, he was named Assistant Manager.

• Cralle was 30 years old when he was granted his patent, married with two daughters and a son.

His wife and one daughter died in 1918, possibly due to the flu epidemic. His son died of disease in 1918, and Cralle himself was killed in an automobile accident in 1920. But his daughter Anna lived to the age of 98 and died in 2009. By then her father’s invention had become standard issue in households around the world.

• Next time you bend your spoon in half for lack of an ice cream scoop, think of Alfred Cralle, and say a word of thanks.

• When choosing an ice cream scoop, pick one with a good grip on the handle so it won’t slip if your hands are wet. Be sure it has sharp edges so it will cut easily into the ice cream. Get one with a big wide scoop to provide maximum ice cream retrieval. Dunk the scoop in hot water for a few minutes to facilitate scooping. Drag the scoop in an S-shape across the surface of the ice cream.

If you are scooping multiple dishes, keep the hot water handy and dip the scoop in between.

• On Jan. 21, 1977, President Jimmy Carter grants an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War. Some 100,000 young Americans went abroad, with 90 percent going to Canada. The Canadian government had instructed border guards not to ask too many questions.

• On Jan. 22, 1981, the final portrait of John Lennon and wife, Yoko, appears on the cover of Rolling Stone. The photo, taken 12 hours before Lennon was assassinated, shows a naked Lennon curled up in a fetal embrace with a fully clothed Yoko. Photographer Annie Liebowitz had been told by a Rolling Stone editor, “Please get me some pictures without [Yoko].” (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

1. Folk singer and songwriter Jesse Colin Young started what group in the ‘60s?

2. Which Bob Dylan song had the working title of “Black Dalli Rue”?

3. Who first released “Rivers of Babylon”?

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4. Who had a hit with “I Can’t Get Next to You”?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “We all make mistakes, we all lose our way, but we stood the test of time and I hope that’s the way it will stay. It’s all up to you to tell me to go.” (c) 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: DVDs reviewed in this column will be available in stores the week of January 19, 2015.

PICKS OF THE WEEK The Boxtrolls (PG) -- Here’s a stop-motion animated feature that is charming in both looks and story. The Boxtrolls are cardboard-clad little dudes who scurry around at night and collect nifty things to bring back to their lair under the little city of Cheesbridge. The townspeople are fooled by the ruling class into fearing the Boxtrolls -- who actually are the whimsical and harmless type of monster. The future lies in the hands of Eggs, a little human boy raised by the trolls, and Winnie, the evil mayor’s precocious daughter.

With its handmade look and unique feel, “The Boxtrolls” is a welcome break from the standard kid stuff. LAIKA studios was first introduced to audiences with “Coraline” (which was a bit creepier than it was fun), followed by “ParaNorman” (more fun and still rather creepy). “The Boxtrolls” might be a little unconventional, but they’re the monsters you want under your bed.

Lucy (R) -- In this sorta-sciencey action flick, Scarlett Johansen kicks butts after she is granted the ability to use her whole brain, not just the 10 percent that we regularly use. Well, first off, I gotta burst this Hollywood bubble: People use all of their brains, the “You only use a tiny part” thing is a silly myth. Anyway, Super Scarlett gets her powers when she’s forced to be a drug mule, and the crazy super-drug gets into her system. With her mega-brain powers, she goes on a quest to shut down the bad guys and keep

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The whole flick goes off the rails pretty fast, starting with that overused and unproven premise about brains. Things actually get less interesting as Johansen grows more powerful.

Director Luc Besson tried the worthless gimmick of splicing nature footage into his film -- like a random clip of a cheetah tackling prey cut into a bit of dialog -- but then seems to forget about it halfway through the movie.

The Drop (R) -- Some of the bars in Brooklyn are sketchy enough to be used for “drops” -- criminal enterprises leave money with the bartender, and some Mafia guys come to pick it up later. Bob (Tom Hardy) is a quiet guy working behind the bar. Bob works under his older cousin, Marv (James Gandolfini in his last film role), who’s still miffed that Chechen mobsters demoted him in the crime game. It’s slow-going for parts of the movie, but Hardy and Gandolfini show their true talents while the story pays off in unexpected ways.

The Green Prince (R) -- Terry Gilliam sure knows how to make a nightmarish future look really enchanting. The director of “Brazil” and “Twelve Monkeys” teams up with wunderactor Christoph Waltz for this wild flick about the painstaking task of calculating the meaning of life. Waltz plays a genius with a serious case of the existential-gloomies. His boss (Matt Damon) has given him the assignment to make a computer that can tell us what existence is for, if anything at all. It’s a movie that goes deep into cartoonishly cynical territory, so we can all come out the other side.

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FRANCHISE STORIES QUIZ (Answers on page seven.)

What’s the Name of the Company?

• Roy Allen had a habit of buying run-down restaurants, rehabilitating them, and selling them at a profit. In 1919 he met a pharmacist who had a great recipe for a home-brewed root beer. Roy bought the recipe from him and opened a root beer stand in Lodi, California.

• Sales were good, so he opened a second stand in Sacramento, and hired Frank Wright to help him manage it. Frank was a great employee, and in 1922 he and Roy became partners, naming the business for their initials. Roy bought a carnival wagon previously used to sell popcorn, and turned it into a drive-up root beer stand, which gave birth to the idea of a drive-up restaurant.

• The idea was a hit. Roy Allen bought out Frank Wright in 1924, but retained the company’s name. He weathered the Great Depression by adding hot dogs and hamburgers. By the end of the Depression, he had 200 franchises, and by the time he sold out due to failing health there were about 450. In the 1960s there were more than 2,000 stores operating nationwide.

• Today the company is the largest vendor of root beer in the nation, selling a soft drink that has changed little since it was first invented.

What’s the name of the company?

What’s the Franchise Called?

• John McCullough served ice cream from his store in Illinois in 1927. Making large amounts of ice cream involved mixing butterfat with sweeteners and stabilizers, then whipping in air and flavoring, then freezing it until it reached 23°F (-5C). At this temperature the ice cream was soft enough to flow through a spigot into tubs. The tubs were frozen to -10°F (-23C) which made them easy to ship and store.

• John knew ice cream that came out of the spigot at 23°F tasted better than the stuff sold to the customer at -10°. Ice cream numbs the taste buds at about 0°F (-17C), which interferes with the sense of taste.

• What the world really needed, he decided, was ice cream that could be served at 18°F (-8C).

He experimented, finding that less butterfat made a softer ice cream that could be handled easily at that temperature, while still retaining its shape.

By 1938 he had the recipe down pat.

• He sold his first franchise in 1940. Today there are about 5,700 outlets selling this softserve ice cream. What’s the franchise called?

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FRANCHISE STORIES QUIZ (continued): Name it.

• Reuben Mattus sold lemon-ice from a horsedrawn wagon in New York City in the 1920s.

He branched out into selling ice cream just when modern refrigeration methods made longterm storage of ice cream at home possible. In 1959 Reuben decided to found a new ice cream company that would be dedicated to providing the best possible ice cream made from the highest quality ingredients: more butterfat, less air. He needed a name for the product. He had always been fond of Denmark, so he decided a Danish name would be best. The name he chose means nothing in the Danish language, but Rueben wanted people to look at the name and think, ‘Is this imported?’ A map of Scandinavia appeared on the label for good measure. The Trivia Test business grew steadily and in 1983 he sold out to Answers Pillsbury for $70 million. Today this luxury ice 1.

Belize cream is sold all over the world. Name it.

2. In the midst of things 3. “Wall Street” (Michael Douglas) 4. Ford Motor Co. 5. Abruptly or in a disjointed manner 6. Rawhide 7. Six (English, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, French and Russian) 8. Female beings who rule the destiny of gods and men 9. “Married With Children” 10. Complete color blindness Sports Quiz Answers 1. Don Baylor (1978-79), Tim Salmon (199597), Mo Vaughn (1999-2000), Troy Glaus (200002), and Vladimir Guerrero (2005-06).

Eskimo Pie Answers 2. Rusty Staub, in 1978.

• Russell’s Chocolate: Russell Stover.

3. Defensive tackle Art Donovan, in 1968.

• A New Foil: Reynolds, as in Reynolds Wrap, 4. John Salmons, by San Antonio in 2002. and R.J. Reynolds tobacco.

5. Justin Williams and Glenn Anderson, with • Ice Cream on a Stick: Good Humor. seven each.

6. Sixteen years (1998).

7. Jake LaMotta, Randy Turpin, Bobo Olson, Franchise Stories Quiz Answers Gene Fullmer and Carmen Basilio.

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2. Dairy Queen 3. Häagen-Dazs

Flash Back Trivia Answers 1. Folk-rock band the Youngbloods. Their only Top 40 song was “Get Together.”

2. “Positively 4th Street,” in 1965. The song was thought to be a snipe at the folk scene in Greenwich Village in New York.

3. Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. But it was Boney M. who made it into a hit in 1978.

4. The Temptations, 1969. Al Green covered the song in 1970, but slowed the tempo considerably.

5. “Don’t Wanna Lose You,” by Gloria Estefan, on her 1989 album “Cuts Both Ways.” The song also was released in Spanish (“Si Voy a Perderte”) and Portuguese (“Se tenho que te perder”).

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