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Arthur Wynne was the editor of the puzzle page in the magazine section of the Sunday edition of the New York World. In 1913, he was looking for something new, having grown tired of word squares, hidden words, and anagrams. Fooling around with a word square, he decided to alter it a bit. He called the result a word-cross. It was instantly popular, and became a regular feature. When it was left out one week, the paper was deluged with angry letters. For the next ten years, the World was the only paper that published crosswords. A rival paper, the New York Times, thought crosswords were merely a passing fad and predicted their swift demise. Come along with Tidbits as we do a crossword! GREAT BEGINNINGS • In 1924, two young men formed a partnership and started a publishing company. Problem was, they had nothing to publish. Then one of the men went to dinner at his aunt’s house. His aunt was looking for a Christmas present for her daughter. She mentioned that the girl was addicted to the crossword puzzles published in the New York World. She asked her nephew if he knew of any place where she could buy a book of crosswords as a gift. He called around the next day, and discovered that no one in the world published books of crossword puzzles. He suggested to his business partner that they become the first publishing company to do so. (cont’d)

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GREAT BEGINNINGS (cont’d) • When the two publishers told their consultants they intended to publish crossword books, the consultants felt the idea would fail—it would be too monotonous, they said. They were counselled to publish the book under a pseudonym so that if the book failed, their real name would not be associated with the failure. So they published 3,600 copies of the book under the name of Plaza Publishing Co. • Advance sales were slow as booksellers felt the book would not sell. But on the day the book came out, the two publishers ran an ad next to the daily crossword in the paper. Book stores were swamped with requests—40,000 copies sold in the first few weeks. One distributor ordered 55,000 copies, then called back and ordered a quarter million more. Discarding their fake name of Plaza Publishing, the two men resumed using their original name: Simon and Schuster. CROSSWORD COMPETITIONS • In 1970 a London newspaper held a crossword competition. They printed four crosswords of increasing difficulty in the paper. Over 20,000 people correctly completed the first; 1,000 managed the second; 302 completed the third; and only 42 got everything right on the fourth. All 302 people who made it through the third puzzle were invited to the two-day finals. During the semi-finals, they were given half an hour to finish each of eight crosswords. The 36 finalists were asked to complete four more. The winner was Roy Dean, a 43-year-old Foreign Office diplomat who recently returned from 10 years in Sri Lanka— where he had never even seen a crossword. • One shady outfit who ran a crossword lottery claimed that no one won the grand prize because they all missed 23 Across. The clue was: “To have to wait in ______ in the dentist’s office is infuriating.” Everybody filled in “Pain.” But the correct answer, they said, was “Vain.”

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CROSSWORD COMPETITIONS • In 1926 two men composed a crossword puzzle and placed it in several newspapers. They announced that anyone who correctly completed the puzzle and mailed it in with a $1 entry fee would be eligible to win the grand prize. Within the week, entries were arriving by the van load and they were taking their money to the bank in suitcases. • Crossword competitions became so popular in India in the 1950s that parliament tried to make them illegal on the grounds that the fees to enter the crossword contests were leading people to financial ruin. STRANGE PUZZLES • In 1972 in the London Times, readers of the classifieds were amazed to find a strange page in the back of the section. All of the column headings were in place—cars for sale, houses for rent—but all the ads were missing. The only thing normal about the page was the usual crossword down at the bottom corner where it always was. Those who completed the crossword discovered amusing messages on the value of butter. The entire page was an attention-grabbing ad for butter. • A San Francisco paper once sold advertising space in the little black squares of the grid. • One innovative crossword publisher came out with a book that had a number of perforated pieces of tracing paper in it. Puzzlers were to tear out a piece of the tracing paper and put it over the top of the puzzle they wanted to solve, leaving the book clean and unmarked for the next person to use. • Robert Stilgenbauer of Los Angeles spent 11

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• One variety of crossword had two possible answers for every clue. (cont’d next page)

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Online at www.lovemytidbits.com -OOPS• One crossword composer wrote the clue “to make a go of.” The answer was “succeed.” But the paper made a typo when printing it, and it said, “to make a goof.” Calls and letters poured in. • The same composer was once called on by a cross crossworder who could not find the answer to the clue “manager of the Globe Theater.” He had called the Globe Theater and found it had two managers. Neither of their names fit. He was surprised to find the clue referred to William Shakespeare. • An 8-year-old boy caught another crossword error with the clue “had a wooden leg.” Captain Ahab was the only answer that fit, but Ahab had an ivory leg, not a wooden one. • Then there was the man with bad handwriting who wrote the clue “Catholic chief.” The answer was “Pope” but the typesetter thought it said “Dope.” They got plenty of letters on that one. • Another paper printed the clue “Confederate General.” The answer was U.S. Grant— and a lot of people were surprised to find that Grant was a Confederate! • One hard-up crossword writer printed the clue, “Six consonants and the letter ‘A’ five times.” “Panama Canal” was what he had in mind, but one indignant puzzler submitted a number of answers that also fit, including Bahama Macaw, Sahara Sarah, Havana Madam, and Abracadabra. • One magazine in 1958 accidentally printed the wrong diagram with the right set of clues. A few people actually managed to reconstruct the crossword from scratch. • One clever clue was “An important city in Czechoslovakia” to which the answer was Oslo. Yes, Oslo is in Norway, but look at the letters in the middle of the word “Czechoslovakia.”

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STORIES BEHIND PLANT NAMES • “Azalea” comes from the Latin “azaleos” meaning dry or parched. The plant was named in the belief that it grew only in dry soils. • “Rhodon” is Greek for rose, and “dendron” means tree: rhododendron. • Iris was the goddess of the rainbow who was in charge of receiving the souls of dying women. The god Juno was so impressed with her purity that he named a flower after her. • Lobelia was named in honor of botanist Matthias L’Obel. The wisteria vine was named after naturalist Dr. Casper Wistar. • Marigolds were named after the virgin Mary: Mary’s gold. • “Phlox” is the Greek word for fire, and phlox was named because it is fire red. Phlox is also the root of the word “phlegm,” because phlegm was thought to cause fiery fevers. • The Greeks thought that the leaves of the common garden flower alyssum could cure the madness caused by being bitten by a rabid animal. Since “lyssa” was the word for madness and “a-” is a negative prefix, the alyssum was born. • Columbine comes from the Latin word “columba” meaning dove because the flowers resemble a circle of doves. • Larkspur was so named because the flower resembles the spur on the back of the feet of birds in the lark family. • “Primus” is Latin for first, and primrose is one of the first flowers to appear in the spring. • The Sanskrit word “parna” meaning a wing or feather became the German word “farn” which became the Anglo-Saxon word “fearn” and is now our fern. • Lichens come from the Greek verb “leichein” meaning to lick up, because they seem to lick their way across the ground. (cont’d)

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Online at www.lovemytidbits.com STORIES BEHIND PLANT NAMES • “Mistel” is an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning dung, and “tan” meant twig. “Misteltan” or “the little dung twig” was so named because birds eat the berries off the twigs and the seeds are deposited in their dung. Today the word has turned into mistletoe. • “Wych” is the Anglo-Saxon word meaning “to bend” resulting in witch hazel: the bending hazel. • “Gar” is old English for spear, and “leac” is the original way of spelling leek. “Garleac” is now garlic, a leek shaped like a spear. • The Chinese word “jen-shen” meant man-plant, referring to the shape of the root. It resulted in the word ginseng. • Mentha was the mythical mistress of Pluto, who ruled Hades. Pluto’s wife was so jealous that she transformed Mentha into a lowly plant that would forever afterwards be trampled upon by humans. Pluto felt sorry for Mentha, and decreed that the more the plant was trampled, the sweeter it would smell. Today, Mentha is called mint. • Chamomile came from the Greek words “chamai” meaning “on the ground,” and “melon” meaning “apple.” • The Spanish word “zarza” means bramble, and “parilla” means a vine. “Zarzaparilla” came into English as sarsaparilla. • Strawberry comes from the word “streaw” which means strew, because the plant strews runners across the ground. • Cranberries were first called “cranebarries” because the stamens of the flowers look like the beak of a crane. Likewise, geraniums were named from the Greek word “geranos” meaning crane, because the seed pods are pointed like the bill of a crane. • Nettles were so named because they were originally used to weave nets.

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DEAR DR. ROACH: You advised an 81-year-old farmer who was drinking an energy drink several times a week to “stick with coffee” in order to avoid the added sugar in the energy drink. What is your opinion of getting an equivalent amount of caffeine through overthe-counter caffeine pills instead of coffee? I am a 55-year-old woman, and except for being overweight, I am in excellent health. I exercise daily, sleep well at night and have no complaints whatsoever. I get about six or seven hours of sleep a night, and am a naturally early riser. I do not drink either tea or coffee (don’t like the taste), but I have found that if I take one half of a 200-mg caffeine pill immediately on arising, it does wonders for my mood and productivity. On some days I take a second pill in the early afternoon, and rarely, a third in the evening, though never later than 6 p.m. Is there anything wrong with this? I’ve found that many people who drink several cups of coffee a day seem to look askance at me because I get my caffeine a pill. -- A.C. ANSWER: Some people drink coffee for the caffeine; some people drink decaf to avoid the caffeine; most people like both the taste and the caffeine effect. You are unusual in only wanting the caffeine effect. A 16-ounce cup of coffee at a large chain contains 330 mg of caffeine. I don’t see anything wrong with taking caffeine pills the way you are. However, some people won’t sleep well if taking as much as you are. *** DEAR DR. ROACH: I read your column regarding the high cost of the shingles vaccine. I am an insurance agent who is often asked about coverage for the shingles vaccine. The Affordable Care Act does include this under preventive care for individuals 60 and over. Preventive care is covered at 100 percent for health plans that are not grandfathered. (Grandfathered health plans are plans that have been continued virtually unchanged since 2010. They are not required to comply with all aspects of ACA, so these plans might not provide this service.) You also may be interested in knowing that, in our area, the Department of Health clinic does offer the shingles vaccine for a fee of $5 for individuals over the age of 50 who do not have it covered under a health plan. I am not aware if this is unique to our area, or if it is a widespread provision. ANSWER: Thank you for writing. Others wrote to me that their Department of Health paid for most or all of the cost. Some said they could get the vaccine covered at a pharmacy but not at physician’s offices. Readers: Shingles questions are among the most frequently asked. The booklet on the shingles virus answers many of them. Obtain a copy by writing: Dr. Donohue -- No. 1201W, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery. Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column whenever possible. Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell. edu. To view and order health pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to Good Health, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2016 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Tidbits® of Gallia, Jackson, Vinton, Meigs & Mason Counties 1. When was the only time before 2015 that the Houston Astros started a season with a franchise record of 31-19 after 50 games? 2. Two different Oakland Athletics players each led the A.L. in stolen bases twice during the 1970s. Name them. 3. Who has had the longest tenure as the football coach at the University of Iowa? 4. Golden State’s Stephen Curry, in 2015, became the fastest NBA player to 1,000 career 3-pointers made (369 games). Who had been the fastest? 5. In 2015, Chicago’s Patrick Kane set an NHL record for most consecutive games with a goal or assist by a U.S.-born player (26 games). Who had held the mark? 6. Toronto’s Sebastian Giovinco set a Major League Soccer record in 2015 for most combined goals and assists in a season (37). Who had held the mark? 7. Who did Floyd Mayweather Jr. face in the first and last fights of his undefeated 49-bout boxing career? (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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Apparently it is now necessary to talk about Curt Schilling. Schilling, as most sports fans remember, was a brilliant pitcher. Without a doubt he belongs in the Major League Hall of Fame. Let me reiterate that: Without a doubt, a Hall of Fame pitcher. Schilling was certainly a guy you wanted on your team, certainly a guy you wanted to take the ball every four or five days. He was a power pitcher and he was a control pitcher, but more than anything he was a gamer. The game I most remember -- and to me, the second greatest exhibition of sport and athleticism -- was the time he had Red Sox doctors staple his foot tendon to the bone so he could beat the Yankees while proceeding to bleed all over the mound that once held Jack Chesbro, Red Ruffing, Whitey Ford, Ron Guidry and Mariano Rivera aloft. Along the way, he served to singlehandedly abolish the ludicrous notion of a “curse” suffered by the team. If memory serves, he actually told reporters before the game that “aura” and “mystique” were stripper names, and he didn’t believe in that, or in a curse, because he was Christian. But times have changed, and maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that an athlete like Schilling seems mired in the past. He wouldn’t be the first athlete to do so ... that’s why they call old memories “glory days.” It is very difficult to leave your mark on the world. Nobody knows the name of the architect of the pyramids, for instance, and very few people can name an accomplishment of a politician born just a few decades ago. Many people would be hard pressed to name the presidents carved into Mt. Rushmore, and it’d be otherworldly to find someone who knows who Mr. Rushmore was. We keep score by putting names on streets (how many people in Chicago know that Cermak was an assassinated mayor?), airports (LaGuardia? Also a mayor.) and currency. Really the only other place we revisit and venerate anybody outside of a church is in our sports cathedrals and record books. Curt Schilling was my favorite baseball analyst. Oftentimes he would predict the next pitch, and other times really get you into the mindset of a pitcher. That, however, wasn’t enough for him. Somewhere along the way he decided to ridicule transgendered people, and he was fired for that. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to guess that transgendered people were not welcome in the bathrooms of his locker rooms growing up, and while I always espouse the concept of free speech, Schilling’s case proves once again that free speech does in fact come with a cost. Schilling had guts when he played, he bled on the mound, but being a baseball analyst simply was not enough for him. Clearly, he was never ready for the bloodthirsty crowd that simply didn’t want to hear what he was saying anymore. I hope he gets another shot, but I won’t be surprised if he again shoots himself in the foot. For some people, it’s never enough.

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740-446-7226 or 740-853-1024 Chalk up some outdoor playtime with your kids with one of the simplest of art supplies, a bucket of chalk. Step out on a sidewalk or driveway, and discover all the possibilities of the impermanent canvas -- not only for artwork in cheery colors, but for games of hopscotch that attract friends for healthy competition and exercise. Here are more creative things your family and friends can do with standard sidewalk chalk: SHADOW PORTRAITS On a sunny day, ask your child to stand still, and then outline his shadow with a piece of chalk. Ask him to do the same with your shadow. Fill in the outlines with comical expressions on your faces and dashing wardrobes, including silly shoes, a funny hat or a new hairdo. GIANT RAINBOW ABCs. Spell out a name or word with supersize bubble letters. Fill in the loops and spaces with contrasting colors, then make it grow into a rainbow word. For example, if you write your word in orange chalk, fill in the spaces with yellow. Now go around the outside of each letter with a new color, such as red. Continue with blue and purple, or choose any color combination that inspires you. SIDEWALK-CHALK FAIR Sidewalk-chalk murals bring communities of all ages together with the challenge of adorning an outdoor concrete canvas. Try the idea on your own block when you have a get-together. Give participants their own reserved space to create a self-portrait, scenic design, cartoon, poem, maze, etc. FIZZY SIDEWALK CHALK Stir up an easy recipe of a sidewalk chalk “paint” that fizzes when kids spray it with vinegar. In a bowl with a spout, stir together a box of baking soda, 1/2 cup cornstarch and about a cup of hot water. Pour into unbreakable containers or sections of a muffin container. Stir in different colors of food coloring in different bowls/sections. Paint on the sidewalk with paintbrushes. Spritz the art with vinegar and watch it fizz. After play, wash away with a hose or bucket of water. *** Donna Erickson’s award-winning series “Donna’s Day” is airing on public television nationwide. To ﬁnd more of her creative family recipes and activities, visit www.donnasday. com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erickson’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.” (c) 2016 Donna Erickson Distributed by King Features Synd.

1 1/2 pints strawberries 1 1/2 cups heavy or whipping cream 3 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 tablespoons strawberry preserves 35 chocolate wafer cookies (about one 9-ounce package) 1. Hull and thinly slice 1 pint strawberries; reserve rest for garnish. 2. In large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat cream, sugar and vanilla until stiff peaks form. Spoon 2 cups whipped cream into another bowl; cover and refrigerate. 3. With rubber spatula, gently fold sliced strawberries and preserves into remaining whipped cream. 4. On 1 side of each of 6 cookies, spread about 1 heaping tablespoon strawberry cream. Stack cookies on top of one another. Top stack with a plain cookie. 5. Repeat stacking cookies with strawberry cream until all cookies and cream are used, making 5 stacks of 7 cookies each. 6. Turn each stack on its side. Place stacks, one behind the other, with rounded edges touching, to form a log on platter. 7. Frost log with reserved whipped cream; cover and refrigerate cake at least 5 hours or overnight to allow cookies to soften. 8. To serve, hull reserved strawberries; cut each into quarters. Garnish platter with strawberries. Makes about 10 servings. * Each serving: About 270 calories, 17g total fat (9g saturated), 3g protein, 28g carb., 49mg cholesterol, 165mg sodium. For thousands of triple-tested recipes, visit our website at www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipes/. (c) 2016 Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved

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If you had been hoping to go to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website and take a look at its new hospital ratings, you’ll be disappointed. It doesn’t exist yet. The very day before the site was to launch, it was delayed. It seems that Congress, along with the hospital industry, pushed to stop the launch in its tracks. For the survey, hospitals are rated for more than 100 measures of care, but the information is often confusing. (Or perhaps they’re afraid the information will make them look bad.) For example, hospitals objected to a Medicare patient death rate being known to women trying to choose a hospital for having a baby. Another objection was that a hospital’s death rate might be because the patients are low income. Hospitals called 60 senators and more than 200 representatives and asked for the delay so the information can be reassembled. We have ratings on CMS for various patient surveys, and those are of value. The higher the number of stars, the lower the death and readmission rates. We have a star rating system for nursing homes -- covering health inspections, staffing, quality measures and more. There’s one for Home Health Compare that includes a patient survey rating. The new rating system for overall hospital quality was meant to make the information about hospitals easier to understand, with over 60 of the measurements being condensed into the star system, with ratings from one to five stars. Initially the CMS told Congress that the website would be running by July. Now they’ve backtracked and say it might be after July if they’re still working on the data. If you want to view the other ratings, go online to cms.gov and put ratings in the search box. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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VETERANS POST Every day, 22 veterans commit suicide. Let’s parse that statement: 22 veterans, suicide, each and every day. That number hasn’t changed since the Department of Veterans Affairs started keeping track, and it’s suspected it might be low. One man, however, has stepped forward to try to bring that number down. Former Marine reservist Zach Ziegel was equally stunned by the suicide rate, which is twice that of the civilian population. Buddy Check 22 was born. He designated the 22nd day of each month to call at least one veteran and check in. In one day, he had 180,000 hits on his Facebook page. Isolation is a big part of the reasons for suicide. Check-in phone calls will let a veteran know someone cares and is out there. Here are some things you can do: * Go online and read about Buddy Check 22. * Send an email to everyone in your contact list and ask for their help in contacting a veteran to check in. Send out a reminder email on the 21st of every month. * Call one or more of your veteran friends and ask how they are doing. If things don’t sound right, or if you think you’re being lied to, call in reinforcements in the family and let them know of your concern. * Don’t leave out your female friends in either enlisting them to participate or calling to check in. The suicide rate for women veterans is a whopping six times the civilian rate. * If you’re part of a veterans support group, considering adding Buddy Check 22 to the list of what you do for veterans. Keep these resources handy in your wallet: Veteranscrisisline.net. The 24/7 VA Crisis Line number: 1-800-2738255, then press 1. To Get Help NOW: Text to 838255. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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* On May 19, 1715, the colony of New York passes a law making it illegal to “gather, rake, take up, or bring to the market, any oysters whatsoever” between May and September. This regulation was one of many passed in the early days of America to help preserve certain species. * On May 22, 1856, Rep. Preston Brooks (D-S.C.) savagely beats Sen. Charles Sumner (R-Mass.) in the halls of Congress as tensions rise over the expansion of slavery. Wielding the goldtopped cane he used for injuries suffered in a duel over politics in 1840, Brooks entered the Senate chamber and attacked Sumner at his desk. * On May 20, 1873, San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss and Reno, Nevada, tailor Jacob Davis are given a patent to create work pants reinforced with metal rivets, marking the birth of one of the world’s most famous garments: blue jeans. They were originally called “waist overalls.” * On May 21, 1881, humanitarians Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons found the American National Red Cross to provide humanitarian aid to victims of wars and natural disasters. * On May 18, 1917, six weeks after the United States formally entered the First World War, the U.S Congress passes the Selective Service Act, giving the U.S. president the power to draft soldiers. Within months, some 10 million men had registered. * On May 16, 1929, the first-ever Academy Awards ceremony is held. Some 270 people attended, and tickets cost $5 each. After dinner, complete with numerous speeches, actor Douglas Fairbanks handed out 15 awards in a five-minute ceremony.

Answers 1. It was 1998. 2. Bert Campaneris (1970, ‘72) and Bill North (‘74, ‘76). 3. Hayden Fry coached the Hawkeyes for 20 seasons (197998). 4. Dennis Scott needed 457 games to do it. 5. Toronto’s Eddie Olczyk (198990) and Boston’s Phil Kessel (200809), with 18 games each. 6. Chris Wondolowski had 27 goals and seven assists for a combined 34 for San Jose in 2012. 7. Roberto Apodaca in his first

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Answers 1. John 2. Africa 3. Prince Rogers Nelson 4. The eye 5. Three 6. Binary digit 7. The King of Hearts 8. Dipsy 9. Eugene O’Neill 10. Taurine

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* On May 17, 1965, after a two-year investigation, the FBI declares the supposedly pornographic lyrics of “Louie Louie” to be officially unintelligible. Agents had purchased numerous versions of “Louie Louie” played and re-played the song at different speeds in their laboratory.