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• The French word ‘toile’ means cloth or net. When the French began covering their dressing tables with cloth, the tablecloth was also called a toile, and the dressing room was called a toilette. When the first flushing potties were invented, they were located in the dressing rooms and became known as toilets. • The Dutch word ‘krappen’ meaning ‘to pluck or cut off’ and the French word ‘crappe’ meaning ‘siftings’ and the Latin word ‘crappa’ meaning ‘chaff’ are all related to the current word ‘crap.’ They all refer to the part that is thrown away after the part that is useful has been gathered. • Thomas Crapper was a plumber in London in the mid-1800s. Contrary to myth, he did not invent the toilet, but he did improve it. He also improved the sewer systems of the city. The toilets he manufactured and installed, as well as the manhole covers he fabricated, were all stamped with his name: Crapper. • The Latin word ‘lavare’ meaning ‘to wash’ is where we get the word ‘lavatory.’ • On board ships, the original toilets were just a simple board with a hole cut out, which were hung over the front part of a ship where the waves would wash everything away. The front of the ship was called ‘the head.’ • In medieval times, chamber pots would be emptied out the window into the street below. The story goes that in France, they would call out, “Gardez l’eau!” meaning, “Watch out for the water!” in order to warn pedestrians before hurling the refuse into the street. In England, this was Anglicized to ‘gardy-loo’ before being shorted to simply ‘loo.’ • The Middle English word ‘poupen’ or ‘popen’ originally meant ‘fart’ because that’s what a fart sounds like. Eventually it gave us the word ‘poop.’ This is not to be confused with the Middle French word ‘poupe’ meaning the stern of a ship, giving us ‘poop deck.’
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• Thomas Crapper, born in Yorkshire, England, in 1836, became an apprentice to his brother at the age of 14. His brother was a Master Plumber in London. • By 1861 Thomas had completed his training and set up his own plumbing shop. In that day and age, proper people didn’t speak about bathrooms or the things that happened in bathrooms. So Thomas Crapper caused quite a stir when he advertised his business by displaying, right in his front window and in full view of everyone passing by, the complete collection of bathroom fixtures he offered for sale. According to legend, ladies became faint when viewing the porcelain bowls in his showroom. • In order to overcome the prevailing attitude of prudery, Crapper outfitted his salesmen with tiny dollhouse-sized replicas of the toilets, sinks, and tubs he was selling. The customer was tasked with the chore of imagining how the full size fixtures would look in their house. • This was also a day and age when it was thought that going to the bathroom indoors was unhygienic, a myth Thomas Crapper worked hard to dispel. • His business got quite a boost when Edward Prince of Wales hired Thomas to install 30 bathrooms in his newly purchased estate, Sandringham House. When Edward became king, more plumbing jobs were handed to Thomas Crapper, followed by more work commissioned by King George V. Eventually Crapper installed bathrooms and plumbing fixtures in Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey. The public thought that any plumber good enough for royalty was good enough for them, and Crapper’s business boomed.
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• Along the way, Crapper invented many plumbing improvements and was awarded nine patents. However, the flush toilet had been invented by others long before Thomas Crapper came along. • Crapper’s inventions included a method of fitting underground drain pipes together which helped reduce disease by reducing leakage from sewer pipes. He also invented improvements to the float valve that helps regulate the flushing and refilling action of the toilet tank. • At one point he invented a spring-loaded toilet seat, which would automatically rise up when the seated person stood up. The lifting motion of the toilet seat triggered rods that automatically flushed the toilet. This design suffered from the unfortunate flaw that when the rubber gaskets began to age, they became sticky and would fail to lift until the pressure from springs became too great to resist. At this point the toilet seat would fly upwards, often smacking the unfortunate user on the rear. It became known as “the bottom slapper” and died an ignominious death. • Because Crapper also owned his own foundry, he was able to manufacture his own pipes, fittings, and manhole covers. Today, the Crapper manhole covers in front of Westminster Abbey, which are inscribed: ‘T. Crapper & Co., Sanitary Engineers’ are a favorite stop for tourists who enjoy taking rubbings from them in the same way people take rubbings from tombstones. • When soldiers during World War II saw the word “Crapper” stamped all over toilets throughout Europe, they began calling bathrooms by that name. • Thomas Crapper died in 1910 and the business continued under the care of his nephew and his partner. In 1963 it was acquired by another firm.
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LOCATION: Ohio Valley Christian Church Camp, 39506 Rocksprings Road, Pomeroy, OH 45760 South of Athens, Ohio on State Route 33, turn on Rocksprings, less than 3 hour drive form Columbus, Cinncinnati & Charleston This auction has one main consignor who has collected for well over 30 years and has decided to sell and who wishes to remain anonymous for their own reasons and a few others . We have moved everything to this location to accommodate parking and moving everything!
Here you will find items like 30 Brass Sleigh Bells, nice Kitchen Cabinet with flour bin, Hump Back Trunk, 1800’s Trunk with key, 1800’s Ship Trunk with key, Well Bucket, Carbide Miner’s Lights, over 30 Wood Dove Tailed Boxes (Ammo, Beer, Pop, Fruit, Nitro, Winchester, Remington to name a few), Blue Pie Safe with 4 round screens, Irwin Drill Bits, Corn Shellers, Cheese Boxes, 7’ tall Book Shelf, 7’ Step Back Cupboard, 1800’s Dove Tailed Tool Box, Heat Lamp, dozen Wood Rolling Pins, 35 Wood Bowls of all sizes, Wood Spoons, Hammers, and Mashers, nice Walnut Jelly Cupboard, (2) old Rockers, old Hinges, old Door Knobs, old Door Latches, old Brass Locks, large Store Counter with red tint, Ice Tongs, Meat Grinders, White Medicine Cabinet, Sad Irons, Cherry Pitters, Apple Peelers, Green Step Back Cupboard, Well Pulleys, Dough Bowl, large Cedar Chest, Pottery by McCoy, Roseville, Weller, Hull and some just marked USA, Wall Pockets, Delco Batteries Thermometer, Century Drill Bit Display, Pepsi Display Rack on wheels, Scottish Rite Hat, 32 degree, Masonic Cuff Links, Masonic Books, Scottish Rite Book Murals, and Dogma, Tootsie Toys, Local Ice Picks, Buddy 1 Truck, Friction Toys, Matchbox Toys, Cast Iron Skillets, Cast Iron Dutch Oven and much more. Keep checking website for more items!
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• When brothers Irvin and Clarence moved to Philadelphia and started a paper business in the 1870s, they sold butcher paper, paper bags, and stationery from a push-cart. When they moved into a storefront, sales dropped. They needed a product that would be constantly in demand. • Just at that time, indoor plumbing was becoming popular. In private homes, people used catalogs in the bathroom. But hotels and restaurants, after going through the trouble of installing indoor plumbing, couldn’t bring themselves to put catalogs in bathrooms. • So Irvin and Clarence started experimenting with toilet tissue, an idea that had been around a while but had never caught on. First they manufactured stacks of individual sheets, but it was difficult to keep the pile neat. So they tried wrapping it around a cardboard tube. It worked. • They set up a factory, named the business after themselves, and started selling toilet paper directly to merchants since the issue was too delicate to bring up in polite society. • Gradually, they introduced their product to the public through advertisements aimed at snob appeal: “They have a pretty house, Mother, but their bathroom paper hurts.” • In 1907 an uncut roll of defective toilet paper material was delivered to their factory. It was heavy, wrinkled, and unsuitable for toilet paper. It was about to be returned when someone suggested marketing it as disposable ‘paper towels.’ Hotels, restaurants, and railroad stations bought them because they were more sanitary than cloth towels. • Irvin and Clarence’s business became the largest paper goods maker in the world, and was bought out by Kimberly-Clark in 1995. What’s the name of their company? (Answer at top of next page)
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Blood Donation’s Affect on Athlete DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a fit 54-year-old male who bicycles a lot. My friends and I are pretty competitive when we do our rides, pushing hard and challenging each other in positive ways. I donate blood as often as I’m allowed. After donating, my legs feel more fatigued when I ride, and I’m not as strong, particularly on the climbs. How long can I use my blood donation as an “excuse” for lacking strength? -- A.R. ANSWER: What ultimately determines how much work your legs can do is the amount of oxygen the muscles are able to get, once you have achieved a high level of muscular fitness. The amount of red blood cells in your blood and the amount of blood your heart can pump are the limiting factors for oxygen delivery in a healthy person. So, for a given degree of cardiovascular fitness, your ability to go fast and climb hills is directly influenced by how many red blood cells you have. That’s why elite cyclists sometimes used to get blood transfusions before a race. An extra unit of blood might make only a 3 percent difference, but the difference between the winner of the Tour de France and the last-place finisher is right around 3 percent. Unfortunately, too many red blood cells increases the risk for stroke and heart attack, and several amateur and professional cyclists have died as a complication of too much blood transfused or its more modern equivalent, the hormone erythropoietin, which causes the body to make more of its own blood. Losing blood, from bleeding or donation, consequently reduces performance. The plasma (fluid and proteins) is made up within 24 hours after donating blood, but it takes four to six weeks to regain the blood cells. Donating a unit of blood can save up to three lives. That should give you some consolation. Maybe persuade your friends to donate blood at the same time, so you all are on a level playing field, so to speak. DEAR DR. ROACH: I am looking to have surgery on my cervical vertebrae at a prestigious hospital in St. Louis. Before I had even made up my mind, the hospital sent a form regarding arbitration. If anything should go wrong, they want me to agree to arbitration instead of going through the court system. They say the choice is mine. Is this normal preoperative paperwork? -- T.B. ANSWER: This is increasingly common, and a brief survey of surgeons gave me a mixed response -- some felt it wasn’t a red flag at all, and others recommending double-checking the surgeon’s record, perhaps through the state medical board. Any disciplinary action must be publicly available, and in Missouri it is freely available on the website at pr.mo.gov/healingarts.asp. While I understand you might be taken aback by the question, many hospitals are moving toward arbitration as a means of reducing malpractice coverage costs. I personally don’t see it as a reason to be concerned about the surgeon. However, I spoke with an attorney, who advised not agreeing to arbitration, as it isn’t germane to your medical condition and may limit your options later. 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) 2015 North America Synd., Inc. All Rights Reserved
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* On Oct. 16, 1793, nine months after the execution of her husband, King Louis XVI of France, Marie-Antoinette follows him to the guillotine. At a time of economic turmoil in France, she lived extravagantly and allegedly responded to news that the French peasantry had no bread to eat by callously replying, “Let them eat cake.” * On Oct. 18, 1867, the U.S. formally takes possession of Alaska after buying the territory from Russia for $7.2 million, or less than 2 cents an acre. The American public ridiculed the purchase, believing the land to be barren and worthless. * On Oct. 17, 1931, gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison, signaling the downfall of one of the most notorious criminals of the 1920s and ‘30s. FBI agent Eliot Ness and his men routinely broke up Capone’s bootlegging businesses, but it was tax-evasion charges that finally stuck. * On Oct. 12, 1940, cowboy-movie star Tom Mix is killed when he loses control of his speeding Cord Phaeton convertible and rolls into a dry wash in Arizona. Mix was hit in the back of the head by a heavy aluminum suitcase, killing him almost instantly. * On Oct. 13, 1957, American movie audiences are treated to the science-fiction thriller “The Amazing Colossal Man.” Other films of the Cold War nuclear-weapon culture included “Them!” (1954) and “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” (1953). * On Oct. 14, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis begins, bringing the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear conflict. High-altitude photographs offered evidence of Soviet-made medium-range missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S. * On Oct. 15, 1989, Canadian ice hockey great Wayne Gretzky breaks Gordie Howe’s National Hockey League career scoring record of 1,850 points. Gretzky dominated professional hockey during the 1980s, setting numerous records. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Can I Get a Witness? I have never proclaimed to be a guru or Eastern philosopher. I’ll leave all of that genius stuff to Chip Kelly because, yeah, he certainly looks like he’s got it all figured out over there in Philadelphia. And now that the Pope is in Philadelphia and it’s impossible to go to Philadelphia even if you wanted to, and Philadelphia thinks it’s doing us a favor by keeping us out ... it gives me some time for thoughtful introspection. I kid Philadelphia. I love Philadelphia. Some of my best friends are Philadelphians. I think one of the greatest tests of a person’s intelligence is asking them “Pat’s or Geno’s?”* But you just have to admire their timing. They kick out Tim Tebow a few weeks before the Pope gets there, and they still can’t score two touchdowns against the Cowboys with DeMarco Murray in the backfield. My larger point here is about religion in sports, though. I’ve noticed over the years that some people get very upset when athletes make the sign of the cross or they point up to the sky after a touchdown. They usually say something snarky like “God doesn’t care if you scored a touchdown!” or “Don’t thank God for sinking a shot.” Stuff like that. There was a time I wasn’t religious at all, and no, this isn’t a story about how I was born again and I want to testify. But there was a time while working the sideline at a game that I almost got my head shattered by an Atlanta Falcons linebacker. The only thing that saved me was my ineptitude: I couldn’t figure out how to shut off the flash on my Minolta, and I was crouched over about to smash it with a rock. If you think the NFL comes off as violent on TV and that those hits look hard from your couch, believe me when I tell you that when Keith Brooking’s cleats clear your windpipe by a scant millimeter and a bunch of Indianapolis Colts come flying over your supine legs in wave after wave, you either have an epiphany or you’re not paying attention. (Or, as was my case, you have a Minolta and you didn’t get the shot.) I don’t think these guys believe that God or the Procession of Saints are up there with x’s and o’s, sending in plays. Or maybe some of them do. But why do some people get so offended by that? Why is it OK that we can celebrate the greatest trash talkers, but we can’t let a guy show a little humility and respect? These guys are straight-up gladiators of the modern day, and they’re playing for your enjoyment -- thumbs up, thumbs down. If the guy points up to heaven after a touchdown or a home run, that’s not showing anybody up, and it’s not endorsing whatever it is you think organized religion did or didn’t do throughout history. If it’s what that guy needs to get back to the huddle or, in the case of Joba Chamberlain, the Major Leagues, I am all for it because image isn’t everything -- no matter what Minolta said. *Pat’s is the King of Steaks, but if you are going to get that worked up about who makes a better tasty cheese steak, there’s something really the matter with you. Geno’s is great, too. But then, who am I to judge? Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in New Jersey. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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* Here’s a tip for you waist-watchers out there: Wait until Halloween Day to buy the candy. That way the in-house sweets won’t be haunting you throughout October. -- JoAnn * Update window treatments to compensate for dropping temperatures. Trade your sheers for sturdy, draft-blocking panels. * Now’s the time to install weatherstripping or caulk for fall and winter. To find drafts, try this trick: Light a taper candle and run it very slowly along the cracks of your windows. When you see the flame flicker, that’s where you have a draft leak. * Want to save money and be a good environmental servant? Get with the times -- the old times, that is. Buy second-hand items and have household items repaired instead of throwing them out. Good-quality clothes can be sold or donated to charity shops; furniture and household items also can be sold or donated, or repurposed into new rooms. * To keep sauces from splattering and dirtying the inside of your microwave, cover the food with a damp paper towel or a coffee filter. -- E.C. in Utah * Now you can have your tea and clean something too. Teabags can be used to clean woodwork. Rub the wood softly with a damp bag. Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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Flu Shot Vaccine Is Just the Start A flu shot might not be the only vaccine you need. So says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Health and Human Services. This year, the list is quite long. Flu shot: Ideally you should get the shot by October. Flu will peak in December, but the vaccine takes a few weeks to start working and provide protection. There are two types: trivalent (three-way) and quadrivalent (four-way), plus an extra-strength trivalent for people age 65 and older. Shingles: Shingles (herpes zoster) is a painful rash that we’re hearing more about, or maybe we even know someone who’s had it. Those of us over age 60 should get the vaccine, they say, whether or not we’ve had chickenpox. Protection lasts about five years. Diptheria, tetanus, pertussis: This is usually in a combination shot, with Tdap and Td given to older adults. That stands for tetanus-diphtheria, as well as pertussis. Your doctor would need to figure out whether you need a booster, especially for tetanus if you work outside in the soil, which is where tetanus bacteria comes from. Pneumonia: There are two types of vaccines for pneumococcal disease, but 90 types of pneumonia bacteria. Both vaccines protect against only a couple of dozen types, but either one is better than no vaccine. The CDC has a short quiz you can take online that will tell you the vaccines you need. You can print it out and take it to your doctor to see if he agrees. Go online to www.cdc.gov and put “immunization schedule” in the search box. To find locations that are giving flu shots in your area, go online to flu.gov and put your ZIP code in the search box. (c) 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs expected 100,000 volunteers to step up during the 2015 Summer of Service, and what it got was 300,000 -- triple the expected number. The goal of the Summer of Service was to bring community volunteers, veterans service organizations and local communities into partnership with VA centers to help 15,000 veterans and their families. The actual number reached topped 40,600. Here are some ways volunteers helped: * Transport veterans in for care * Information desk * Appointment reminder calls * Lifeguard * Work at National Cemeteries * Parking lot shuttle driver * Assist at Wheelchair Games and sports clinics * Inventory scanner * Staff welcome-home events * Pharmacy technician * Staff clothing rooms and gift shops * Work at Stand Downs * Assist at recreation programs * Prepare dinner for patients and their families * Outreach for homeless veterans. Quite a variety of volunteer possibilities, and all of them very much needed. If you’re interested in volunteering, it doesn’t have to be in the summer. Help is needed yearround. Here are a few things to know: Depending on your role and proximity to veterans, you might need a health screening. Drivers require a full physical. You also might need a background check, but perhaps only a minimal one. If you want to volunteer with hospital patients, go online to www.volunteer.va.gov or call the Voluntary Services Office at the closest VA medical center. (See www.volunteer.va.gov/ directory) Check the FAQ at www.volunteer. va.gov/faqs.asp If you’d like to help but would rather make a monetary donation, you can do that too. Your dollars will help to provide extras for the veterans.
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