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I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Since July is National Ice Cream Month, it’s a good time for Tidbits to bring you the “scoop” about this confection and those who peddle it. • We’ve been celebrating National Ice Cream Month since 1984, when President Ronald Reagan proclaimed it as such in Senate Joint Resolution 298, calling upon “the people of the United States to observe these events with appropriate ceremonies and activities.” Reagan’s basis for the proclamation was that “ice cream is a nutritious and wholesome food, enjoyed by over 90% of the people,” and is “the perfect dessert and snack food.” • It’s estimated that 98% of American households buy ice cream, over 1.5 billion gallons a year, totaling upwards of $10 billion. About 9% of all the milk produced by dairy farmers in the U.S. goes to the making of ice cream. • The origins of ice cream appear to date back to the second century B.C.. Alexander the Great is documented as a being a fan of snow and ice flavored with honey and nectar. Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar dispatched runners into the mountains to obtain snow to be infused with fruits and juices. Turn the page for more!

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ICE CREAM (continued): • In the 13th century when explorer Marco Polo returned to his native Italy from his travels in the Far East, he brought home a recipe very similar to our sherbet of today. “Cream Ice” was on the table of England’s King Charles I during the early 1600s. A Parisian café first offered ice cream to the public around 1600. • Ice cream’s first official mention in North America was in a letter from a guest of the governor of Maryland. The New York Gazette featured a confectioner’s advertisement for ice cream in 1777 informing readers that the treat was available “almost every day.” President George Washington was a great lover of ice cream, with records indicating that the chief executive spent $200 on ice cream during the summer of 1790. His personal effects at the time of his death included two pewter ice cream pots. James Madison was another president who was fond of the treat, having it served at his Inaugural Ball in 1813. • America’s first patent for an ice cream cone was issued in 1903 to Italo Marchiony, an Italian immigrant who invented his cone in New York City. The following year the St. Louis World’s Fair featured a vendor selling crisp waffle pastries, who just happened to have his booth next to an ice cream merchant. When the ice cream booth ran out of dishes, the pasty vendor stepped in, rolling his waffles into cone shapes. The rest, as they say, is history. Today’s machines are capable of producing about 150,000 cones every day. • There are a lot of items that are called ice cream, so what’s the difference? Under federal law, ice cream must contain at least 10% milkfat and weigh a minimum of 4.5 lbs. per gallon. “French” ice cream contains that 10% as well as at least 1.4% egg yolk solids.

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Perhaps the first female celebrity athlete in America, sharpshooter Annie Oakley’s abilities were truly astonishing. Let’s take a look at the life of the woman known as “Little Sure Shot.” • The birthplace of Phoebe Ann Moses was a tiny cabin in western Ohio in 1860. With a family of seven children to feed, Phoebe Ann was already trapping birds and small animals at the tender age of five. By age seven, she was using an old muzzle-loading gun of her father’s to bag game. • When Phoebe was six years old, her father was caught in a severe blizzard while driving a team of horses into town. He died shortly afterward of injuries sustained in the brutal weather. • Due to financial poverty, at age 8 Phoebe was sent to board at the county infirmary, a home for the elderly, orphans, and mentally ill. The superintendent’s wife schooled her and taught her to sew, a skill she used later in life to sew her costumes. The infirmary found a position for her with a local family, tending their infant for 50 cents a week. However, it wasn’t long before it became apparent that there would be no money and the young girl was subjected to grueling labor, and mental and physical abuse. After virtually being held prisoner for nearly two years, she ran away, making her way to a train depot 20 miles away, where a generous man paid for a ticket home. • Back at home, Phoebe set to work providing for the large family. She began hunting wild game and selling it to restaurants and hotels. By the time she was 15, she had paid off the mortgage on her mother’s house.

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How can people reduce their chance of getting WNV? The most effective way to prevent WNV is to avoid mosquito bites: • Wear long sleeves and pants when outdoors from dusk through dawn. • Apply insect repellents when you go outdoors. Repellents containing DEET provide the best protection. • Reduce the number of mosquitoes around your home by eliminating standing water from containers such as flowerpots, gutters, buckets, pool covers, discarded tires, and birdbaths. Anything that holds water for more than a week could be producing mosquitoes.

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Who is at risk for serious illness if infected with WNV? Serious illness can occur in people of any age. However, people over 60 years of age are at the greatest risk for severe disease. People with certain medical conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, and people who have received organ transplants, are also at greater risk for serious illness.

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ANNIE OAKLEY (continued): • A Cincinnati hotel owner who had purchased meat from Phoebe changed her life forever. Jack Frost invited her to participate in a shooting contest where she was pitted against a well-known professional marksman, Frank Butler. In the match, Butler hit 24 out of 25 birds, but she hit them all. Ten months later the pair married when Phoebe Ann was just 16 years old. • The Butlers settled in Cincinnati and began performing, with Annie using her stage name for the first time. Stories differ as to where she derived the name Oakley. Some say it was the name of that kind man who had paid her train fare years before, but a more likely explanation is that she took the name from their neighborhood in Cincinnati. • The couple joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1885, and Annie would remain the show’s star attraction for 17 years. Here she met fellow performer, Lakota leader Sitting Bull. The two became friends and the chief nicknamed the 5-ft.-tall (1.5-m) Annie “Little Sure Shot.” She could shoot a dime in mid-air from 90 feet! • At age 41, Annie was seriously injured in a train wreck that left her temporarily partially paralyzed. Even after five spinal surgeries, she continued to set records. At 62, she sustained critical injuries in an auto accident, but after a 1 _-year recovery, she was setting records again! But the following year, she was in frail health, and in 1926, Annie died of pernicious anemia. Devastated by grief, her husband of 50 years Frank Butler is said to have stopped eating, and he passed away just 18 days later.

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• On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first baby to be conceived via in vitro fertilization, is born in Manchester, England. In December 2006, Louise gave • On July 23, 1918, Della Soren- birth to a boy, Cameron John Mullson kills the first of her seven vic- inder, who was conceived naturally. tims in Nebraska. Over the next • On July 27, 1996, in Atlanta, the seven years, friends, relatives and XXVI Summer Olympiad is disrupted acquaintances of Sorenson died by the explosion of a nail-laden pipe under mysterious circumstances. bomb in Centennial Olympic Park. The In 1925, Sorenson was arrested bombing killed one and injured more when she made an unsuccessful than 100 others. Police were warned of attempt at killing two children with the bombing in advance, but the bomb poisoned cookies. exploded before the anonymous caller said it would. © 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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is the Klondike bar, a square of vanilla ice cream coated with a layer of Swiss chocolate. It was the invention of the Isaly family, a Swiss family living in Ohio who created the confection in 1922. They named it after the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory.

• Swiss pharmacist Henri Nestlé is credited as the inventor of the first artificial infant food in 1867. At the request of a friend whose infant could not nurse naturally or digest fresh cow’s milk, Nestlé created a mixture of malted wheat and sweetened condensed milk. He was soon selling 500,000 boxes of Nestlé’s Milk Food annually. By the late 1880s, there were several brands for parents to choose from, mostly grain mixtures that were to be mixed with milk. • A small canning company opened in rural Michigan in 1901, packaging peas, beans, and fruits. The Fremont Canning Company was owned and operated by the Frank Gerber family. After years of effort, by 1917, the company finally reached annual sales exceeding $1 million. In 1927, Frank’s son Daniel was the assistant manager of the company and father to a new baby daughter. When the family pediatrician advised Daniel and his wife Dorothy to cook, mash, and strain solid foods for baby Sally, Dorothy suggested that the canning company look into producing foods for babies. In 1928, the company, the company introduced strained peas, prunes, carrots, and spinach. Close to 600,000 cans were sold the first year. • Gerber’s ad campaign for their new products featured a contest to find the perfect baby face to represent the company. Many elaborate oil paintings were submitted, but it was a simple charcoal sketch submitted by Dorothy Hope Smith that was chosen in 1931. The face of Smith’s tiny neighbor in Westport, Connecticut is one recognized by generations around the world.

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• On July 26, 1943, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is born in Dartford, Kent, England. Michael Philip Jagger attended the London School of Economics, but left without graduating in order to pursue a career in music.

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• On July 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln informs his chief advisers and cabinet that he will issue a proclamation to free slaves, but that he will wait until the Union Army has achieved a substantial military victory. The Emancipation Proclamation had less to do with ending slavery than saving the crumbling union.

• On July 28, 1929, President John F. Kennedy’s wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, is born into a prominent New York family. In 1951, she began her first job as the Washington Times-Herald’s “Inquiring Camera Girl,” roaming the streets of Washington, D.C., and asking “man on the street” questions.

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• On July 24, 1567, during her imprisonment at Lochleven Castle in Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate in favor of her 1-year-old son, later crowned King James VI of Scotland. In 1542, while just 6 days old, Mary had ascended to the Scottish throne upon the death of her father, King James V.

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