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OH, THE THINGS PREDIABETES AND DIABETES WILL TAKE FROM YOU! THIS ARTICLE COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE

By Dr. Greg Fors, DC, Board-certified Neurologist

Right now, more than 1 out of 2 Americans either have early diabetes or full-blown type II diabetes; good chances are that you may be one of them. This devastating national epidemic can take from you, or a loved one, legs, kidneys, eyes, heart and/or brain. Surprisingly, new evidence is now showing that prediabetes can strip from you these vital organs as well.

You Do Not Have to Wait to Be Diabetic to Be Damaged: It turns out during the silent “prediabetic” phase spikes in glucose and insulin after eating are causing damage to your body. You don’t realize this because your yearly physical is only looking at your fasting blood glucose. When you are prediabetic most of the time your glucose will return to normal with a 12 hour fast before the blood draw. Furthermore, on this yearly physical your doctor is not measuring your insulin levels or your hemoglobin A1c which will show your prediabetes well before an abnormal fasting glucose will. Because of this you remain ignorant of the damage being done to your body.

What is Insulin Resistance and Prediabetes? The cause of type II diabetes is insulin resistance. This is where your cells are no longer hearing the signal of insulin to take in the blood glucose. Therefore, your blood glucose and insulin levels rise after eating causing damage to your cells.

Often, one of the first signs that this damage is happening is easy weight gain, high blood pressure and/or elevated blood fats such as triglycerides and LDL cholesterol. Both factors will lead to heart disease and stroke and; therefore, take away your heart and brain.

Also, numbness, tingling and pain in your legs are often a sign of prediabetes and the possible eventual loss of function in your legs. This happens in prediabetes, because post meal glucose spikes are damaging the nerves in your legs. Because prediabetes has already damaged the nerves in nearly half of newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetics, it is vital for anyone over the age of 35 to be properly tested for prediabetes and early signs of nerve damage. I can’t emphasize this enough! If you think you may have prediabetes, or have been diagnosed with Diabetes, you need to see a doctor who will look carefully for the early signs of peripheral neuropathy.

What Is Your Chance of Being Prediabetic? According to the U.S. CDC more than 1 in 3, numbering over 86 million Americans, have the early stages of Diabetes type II or prediabetes. Alarmingly 9 out of 10 of these people do not realize they have this condition. Worse yet those who are diagnosed do not take it serious enough because the doctor told him it’s “only” prediabetes. There is no such thing as prediabetes, really there is only early stages of Diabetes or full-blown Diabetes.

Furthermore, 30% of these 86 million Americans will develop type II Diabetes within five years if something doesn’t change. Therefore, you need to see a doctor who knows how to test for the earliest indications for prediabetes and then knows how to reverse it through a safe natural approach. That way you do not have to worry about losing your eyesight, kidney function, the feeling in your feet and hands, or even the loss of your toes or feet, having a heart attack, stroke or developing Alzheimer’s.

Type II Diabetes - What Won’t Fix This: The pharmaceutical industry would have you believe that type II Diabetes is not reversible, and that controlling your blood sugar with drugs or insulin will protect you from organ and nerve damage and early death. Don’t you believe it! A new study published by Mayo Researchers found that the use of drugs to control your blood glucose levels showed no significant benefit in reducing the risk of dialysis, kidney transplant, renal death, blindness, or neuropathy. What this Mayo study and the famous Accord study is telling us, the well-intentioned efforts of your conventional doctor’s intervention with prescription drugs to control your blood glucose levels, will not save you from the five things that Diabetes will take away from you!

Worse Yet, Alzheimer’s Is Now Being Called Type III Diabetes: Yes, new research is showing that one of the primary driving forces behind the new Alzheimer’s and dementia epidemic is insulin resistance of the brain. This is happening even in the stages of prediabetes and of course in full-blown Diabetes. What are the primary symptoms: elevated blood glucose levels after meals with, brain fog, decreased cognitive function, depression, anxiety, insomnia; all signs of brain inflammation driven by insulin resistance. Do you want to keep your brain, your eyesight, your legs, kidney function, heart health? Then you must act now, more than one out of two of you may already be on a journey to the loss of these vital gifts that God has given you.

Are you going to allow yourself to be a victim of this devastating epidemic! Find out if you have prediabetes and what you can do to reverse it. Or, possibly you already have type II Diabetes and you want to reverse this before it’s too late. Join me, Dr. Greg Fors, at one of my FREE “Reverse Your Prediabetes or Diabetes” Health Workshops - Wednesday, October 23rd at 7 PM or Monday October 28th at the Pain and Brain Healing Center 1400 131st Ave NE Blaine. Call 763-862-7100 to register for the seminar, seating is limited.

Dr. Greg Fors, D.C. is a Board-certified Neurologist (IBCN), certified in Applied Herbal Sciences (NWHSU) and acupuncture. As the clinic director of the Pain and Brain Healing Center in Blaine Minnesota he specializes in a functional medicine approach to fibromyalgia, fatigue, diabetes, heart health, thyroid disorders, depression, anxiety, and ADHD. If you have any questions or comments regarding this article you can contact Dr. Fors at 763-862-7100. Dr. Fors is the author of the highly acclaimed book, “Why We Hurt” available through booksellers everywhere.

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► On Oct. 1, 1890, an act of Congress creates Yosemite National Park, paving the way for generations of nature lovers. Yosemite’s natural beauty is immortalized in the stark black-andwhite landscape photographs of Ansel Adams (1902-1984). ► On Oct. 2, 1780, British Major John Andre is hanged as a spy by U.S. military forces in New York. Andre, an accomplice of Benedict Arnold, was captured with incriminating papers in his boot. The papers revealed Arnold’s offer to surrender West Point to the British for a bribe of 20,000 pounds. ► On Oct. 3, 1863, expressing gratitude for a Union Army victory at Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln announces that the nation will celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on Nov. 26, and on the fourth Thursday of every November thereafter.

► On Oct. 4, 1918, German Chancellor Max von Baden sends a telegraph message to President Woodrow Wilson requesting an armistice between Germany and the Allied powers in World War I. After a difficult month of negotiations, World War I came to an end on Nov. 11, 1918. ► On Sept. 30, 1954, the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy. In August 1958, the Nautilus accomplished the first voyage under the geographic North Pole.

build bomb shelters to protect themselves from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.

One year later, the world hovered on the brink of nuclear war after the USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Ghana’s finance minister, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, who was refused service at a restaurant in Dover, Delaware. It was one of the first of many such incidents in which African diplomats were confronted with racial segregation in the U.S.

► On Oct. 13, 1775, the Continental Congress authorizes construction and administration of the first American naval force, the precursor to the United States Navy, which was established April 1798.

► On Oct. 11, 1962, Pope John XXIII convenes an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, the first in 92 years. The pope hoped to bring spiritual rebirth to Catholicism and cultivate greater unity with the other branches of Christianity.

► On Oct. 7, 1943, Rear Adm. Shigematsu Sakaibara, commander of the Japanese garrison on Wake Island, orders the execution of 96 Americans POWs, claiming they were trying to make radio contact with U.S. forces. The cold-blooded executions remain one of the more brutal episodes of the war in the Pacific.

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conditions ripe for avalanche.

• In between snows, rising temperatures may partially melt exposed surface layers which often re-freeze and create a slicker, less stable surface for the next snowfall.

• When an avalanche encounters a building in its path, the structure often explodes like a bomb hit it. This is because snow entering through broken windows and doors acts like a piston, generating enough pressure inside the building to blow it apart at the seams.

• Snow that is water-logged will avalanche on even the slightest slope, as was the case at a Japanese ski resort where an avalanche killed seven skiers who were practicing on the beginner’s “bunny slope” that had an angle of only ten degrees. But 90% of avalanche activity occurs at slopes of 30 to 45 degrees. Mountainsides that are steeper than 45 degrees produce no avalanches because they are so steep that snow will not build up.

• Snowfalls of 6 inches (15 cm)

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or less seldom produce avalanches.

Snowfalls of six to 12 inches produce a few small slides. Snowfalls of one to two feet (30-60 cm) produce avalanches of considerable size. Snowfalls of two to four feet 60-120cm) are very dangerous, and snowfalls greater than four feet produce major avalanches.

• The rate at which the snow accumulates is critical, with a snowfall of three feet (90cm) that falls in a single day being more dangerous than if it falls over three days. A snowfall rate of one inch (2.5 cm) per hour or greater, which is sustained for ten hours or more, is a great hazard, especially when accompanied by wind.

• Avalanches are most common on slopes facing north, east and northeast.

That’s because slopes that are shaded throughout the day undergo less melting and bonding that can make the snow layers stronger.

• About one-third of avalanche deaths are due to trauma, usually to the head and neck, from being thrown against rocks, trees, and other debris during the fall. The other two-thirds of the deaths are due to suffocation, with a mere 1% dying of hypothermia.

• If rescued within the first 15 minutes, 86% of victims survive, but if the rescue time stretches to 30 minutes, survival rates drop to 50% and lower. Only one out of every three victims will survive if buried for an hour, and only one out

of ten after three hours. 75% of those who end up with a hand or foot sticking out of the snow survive.

• Twice as many people survive if buried face up rather than face down, probably due to the fact that the body and head will sink a little bit after coming to a stop, and this creates an air space allowing easier breathing. When face down, the mouth and nose easily become solidly packed with snow, while the warm breath creates water that turns to ice, further blocking passage of air.

• About 66% of those who have survived were rescued by members of their own party. Only 20% were rescued by an organized rescue team. A trained rescue dog can cover in a single 25minute period what takes a team of 20 men four hours to search.

• One of the deadliest avalanches was when Hannibal crossed the Alps in 218 B.C. while leading the Carthaginian army from Spain in order to conquer Rome. His troops were walking on fresh snow that had fallen on old snow, perfect conditions for avalanches. In the end, 18,000 out of 38,000 soldiers were buried under snow, along with 2,000 horses and several elephants.

• Movie photographer John Hermann worked for Disney and was sent to Berthoud Pass, Colorado, in 1957 to film avalanches. On April 8, he set up his cameras in an area where a weeklong storm had dropped 79 inches (201 cm) of snow. The skies had cleared; the sun came out; and the Colorado Dept. of Highways was going to use a howitzer to shoot explosives to release an avalanche so he could film it. Although this took place in an area that had not been hit by an avalanche in the previous 24 years, the slide was much bigger than anticipated, moving at 100 mph (160 km/ hr), snapping off 80-foot (24 m) trees, and covering the entire highway. Hermann ran for his life but was buried under 15 feet 4.5 m) of snow, killing him. Also killed was a highway worker whose job was to

stop traffic while during the avalanche.

Hermann’s cameras were recovered and contained spectacular footage of the avalanche that killed him.

• Red Mountain Pass near Ouray, Colorado, has seen its share of valanches, especially in the area known as East Riverside. In 1992, snowplow operators Dan Jaramillo and Eddy Imil were clearing snow from the highway from a previous avalanche when another avalanche hit. Their rig was buried under 15 feet (2.4 m) of snow, killing Imil.

Jaramillo found a snow shovel in the cab of his truck and was able to begin tunneling through the snow. Fifteen hours later, he broke through to the surface.

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LEWIS CARROLL By: Kathy Wolfe

There aren’t too many people who are unfamiliar with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but how much do you know about the author of the famous book? Tidbits hits the highlights of this creative genius this week.

• The name of Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, one of 11 children of a Church of England cleric. Carroll was tutored as a child by his father, but sent to boarding school at age 12. He was a sickly child, suffering a fever that left him deaf in one ear, followed by severe whooping cough. He grew to nearly six feet tall (1.83 m), but his body was considered asymmetric, that is, one shoulder was higher than the other, his eyes were not at the same level, and his smile was somewhat lop-sided.

• As a child, Carroll enjoyed entertaining his siblings with games and stories, even though he lived with a pronounced stammer his entire life. But it was the study of mathematics that he pursued at Christ Church, Oxford, earning a first-class degree in the subject, and being appointed a lecturer at the university one year after graduation.

• This distinguished scholar worked in geometry, linear and matrix algebra, and mathematical logic, writing 12 books under his birth name. With his mathematical and logical personality, he was a very organized, precise, and punctual man who made lists of everything in his life, including logging all of his menu plans in his diary. Thirteen volumes of his diaries have been preserved.

• Carroll was also a prolific letter-writer and kept a register of all the letters he composed from age 29 until his death at 65. The 24-volume index logged 98,721 letters.

• Growing up in a home of 11 children, Carroll loved the companionship of young people, and when on a train journey, he carried games and puzzles with

him to entertain children who might happen to be on a trip. He was an avid game player, including croquet, backgammon, billiards, and chess. He devised card tricks and math and word puzzles, including the forerunner of the game we know as Scrabble. He wrote poetry, attended the theater and opera, was a deacon in the Church of England, and somehow found the time to open a photography studio, creating some 3,000 photographs.

• In addition to his many pastimes, Carroll was an inventor, devising a writing tablet called the nyctograph that enabled him to write in the dark, for those times when he awoke with an idea he wanted to record without leaving his bed. He also invented a doublesided adhesive strip for mounting things in books. All the while, he continued teaching his classes at Oxford.

• While in his 20s, he met the Liddell family, and grew especially fond of their daughter Alice, and, although Carroll denied it for many years, he based his adventures of Alice upon his young friend.

• At age 33, Carroll published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which was met with overwhelming success. It was the story of the young girl who fell through a rabbit hole into a whimsical world filled with imaginary creatures, many based on a deck of cards. As his fame spread around the world, his life was disrupted with fan mail and a bit of unwanted attention. Although Alice was one of the most popular books in the world, none of Carroll’s subsequent works reached the same level of esteem.

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American Legion and Disabled American Veterans. They also have to hand-copy the obituaries of the 40 Montanans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Once they get out, they need to do 441 hours of community service, one hour for every Montanan killed in combat since the Korean War. Then there’s the signs.

Once they get out of prison, both men have to visit the Montana Veterans Memorial twice a year for the time their sentences were suspended, wearing a sign that says, “I am a liar. I am not a veteran. I stole valor. I have dishonored all veterans.”

Both men objected to wearing the sign. Of course they did. They can write names and letters of apology in private in their prison cells. The signs, worn out in public, will show everyone just what kind of men they really are. The judge, however, held firm, citing case law that shows he could impose that sentence.

What they apparently didn’t know was that the judge, this judge, had established the local Veterans Treatment Center five years ago, the very center they were trying to scam.

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MODEL T'S By: Kathy Wolfe Tidbits hits the road this week to celebrate Model T Day on October 1. Drive along and learn the facts about this early automobile.

• Many believe that Henry Ford was the inventor of the automobile, but that’s a misconception. The first modern cars were built in Germany in 1885 by Karl Benz. The first American gasolinepowered cars were introduced by the Duryea Motor Wagon Company in 1893, invented by brothers Charles and Frank Duryea.

• Henry Ford had the mind of an inventor and was just 15 in 1878, the year he built his first steam engine. He was 28 when he went to work for Thomas Edison at the Edison Illuminating Company, and was a chief engineer within two years. In his spare time, he experimented with a gasoline engine, and by the end of 1893, he had finished an engine that ran for 30 seconds.

• In 1896, Ford built his first gasoline-powered vehicle, the Quadricycle. After two failed automobile company ventures, he founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903.

• The Model A was the company’s first car, a bright red, 2-seater runabout that went into production in 1903. With a price tag of $800, 1,750 cars were made in 1903 and 1904 in the Detroit factory. It was replaced by the Model C in 1904.

• With a vision to make travel available affordable to the middle class, Ford sought to supply an affordable car for ordinary people. The result was the Model T, introduced on October 1, 1908, with a price tag of $850. Ford considered the price a little high, and made it his goal

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to lower the price.

• The first model was a touring car, but within just a few months, several other body styles were introduced, including a 2-passenger coupe, 3-passenger roadster, 2-passenger open runabout, and a 6-passenger town car. Eventually, the line expanded to nine designs.

• The designers of the original Model T were Childe Harold Wills, Joseph Galamb, and Eugene Farkas.

The automobile was manufactured from vanadium alloy steel, much stronger than any steel available, yet lightweight.

It contained an enclosed four-cylinder engine and transmission. A crank was used to start the engine. Mounted on the side of the driver’s seat were three foot pedals and a lever that controlled the rear-wheel drive vehicle. The throttle was controlled with a lever on the steering wheel, which was on the left side. The Model T was the first Ford with all of its parts built by the company itself.

• The top speed of the first Model T was 45 mph (72.4 km/hr), and it achieved gas mileage of 13 to 21 miles (21 to 34 km) per gallon (0.8 Brit gal). Its higher ground clearance made it especially desirable to rural drivers who drove on very poor roads.

• Although marketed as a threespeed auto, one of those was the reverse.

The Model T could run on gasoline, kerosene, or ethanol.

• The first Model T’s were offered in gray, green, blue, and red. In 1914, in an attempt to lower the price of the car, Henry Ford changed the color of all Model T’s to black. Black paint was the most durable and dried the fastest, speeding up production and reducing costs. This resulted in Ford’s most famous quote, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants – so long as it’s black!”

• Automobiles became more affordable when the assembly line was

introduced. Prior to that, vehicles were assembled one at a time, from beginning to end. In 1901, Ransom E. Olds created the first stationary assembly line, increasing production by four times, from 425 cars in 1901 to 2,500 in 1902. The assembly line broke the process down into smaller tasks, reducing production time, leading to cost reduction. However, it was Henry Ford’s invention of the first moving assembly line in 1913 that led to mass-production.

• Ford’s moving assembly line was inspired by Chicago meatpacking plants that utilized a conveyor belt system during production. In 1913, Ford built a new 60-acre factory in Highland Park, Michigan, the first to assemble autos on his new invention. The factory was divided into sectors, with each area assembling a single part of the Model T, with the number of sections eventually reaching 500. Within six months of the plant’s opening, the improved efficiency had cut the manufacturing time of a Model T engine from 9 hrs., 54 minutes to 5 hrs., 56 minutes. Production time of each automobile decreased from 728 minutes to 93. Ford met his goal of making cars available to the common man by reducing the price of the Model T from $850 in 1908 to $700 in 1910 to $350 in 1917.

• Production in 1913 was upwards of 200,000 Model T’s and the number of Ford employees more than doubled.

• Because Henry Ford believed that happy workers who were satisfied with their wages did a better job, in 1914, he raised the wages of his factory employees from $2.34/day ($59 in today’s dollars) to $5.00/day ($125 in today’s dollars). This was over double the wages paid at other manufacturing plants.

• Ford also reduced the work day from nine hours to eight, running his 13,000 workers in a three-shift system, operating 24 hours a day. These actions

reduced the turnover rate of 31.9% in 1913 to 1.4% by 1915.

• In 1914, close to 300,000 Model T’s were sold. Due to his production methods, Ford produced about the same number of cars as his competitors, but with only one-fourth as many employees.

By 1916, the price had dropped to $360 for the basic touring car. By 1918, half of all the cars in America were Model T’s.

• In the mid-1920s, Ford’s massproduction techniques enabled the plant to produce a Model T every 24 seconds.

By 1924, a new runabout could be had for $260. Yet sales of the Model T began to decline because of a sharp increase in competitors. After long deliberations, the decision was made that the vehicle would cease production, and the last Model T exited the assembly line on May 26, 1927. In December of that year, a redesigned Model A was brought back.

The change in the assembly line resulted in the scrapping of 40,000 tools used in the production of Model T’s.

• More than 15 million Model T’s were sold during the years of its production. That places it in eighth place on the Top Ten list of most sold cars of all time. It was chosen as the most influential car of the 20th century.

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THE WORST AVALANCHE By: Janet Spencer • On February 23, 1910, a train called the Spokane Express left the city of Spokane, Washington, on a routine trip to Seattle. While passing through the Cascade Mountains, a winter storm set in. The snowfall was prodigious, dropping up to a foot (30 cm) of snow per hour. The tracks were snowed shut. The train, consisting of an engine pulling five passenger cars, stopped in the town of Leavenworth overnight while crews dug out the 30-foot (9 m) drifts blocking the tracks.

• The next day, the train made it only as far as the town of Wellington west of Stevens Pass. Wellington was mainly a fuel depot for the railroad, but there was an inn and a few other buildings as well. Here the conductor was ordered to pull off into a siding to wait out the storm next to a mail train that was also sidetracked. Eleven feet (3.3 m) of snow fell that day, and sections of the railroad were buried under 25 feet (7.6 m) of snow. Only the tops of telegraph poles could be seen. The track ahead was impassable.

• Above the town, the steep slopes of the mountains had once been covered with a thick forest of trees. These trees would have held the snow in place. But in recent months, the trees had been felled by lumberjacks and hauled to mills, leaving the slopes bare.

• On the evening of February 24, a 50-foot (15 m) avalanche rumbled down the denuded landslide and destroyed a cook shack where train passengers had been fed hours earlier. Two crewmen who had remained in the shack were buried by snow and killed. Now the track was blocked both ahead and behind. The train was trapped. The snow continued to fall. Laborers with snow shovels were dispatched but balked at the huge load of work, deeming it not worth the 15 cents an hour they were paid. They walked off the job.

• A rotary plow with a 12-foot (3.6 m) bite was sent in to clear the tracks but was stopped by an avalanche 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and 35 feet (10 m) deep. The train was running desperately short of coal.

The telegraph lines went down, leaving them without a

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SUSANNA SALTER By: Janet Spencer

• Susanna Kinsey Salter was born in 1860 in Ohio. At the age of 12, she moved with her family to a farm in Kansas. After completing grade school, she attended Kansas State Agricultural College, dropping out just six weeks short of graduating due to illness.

Shortly afterwards, she married attorney Louis Salter. The newlyweds moved to Argonia, Kansas, where Susanna Salter was active in the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Prohibition Party. She gave birth to the first child ever born in Argonia, followed by eight more children who survived to adulthood.

She managed a hardware store until her parents moved to town and took over. Her father was elected the first mayor.

means of communication. Some able-bodied passengers gave up waiting and slogged through the deep snow to the town of Wellington to find better lodging. Those with young children or physical ailments could not manage the trek.

• On Sunday, the snow turned to sleet. On Monday, it began to rain. By now the passengers had been stranded for nine days. Over 30 feet (9 m) of snow had fallen.

• On Tuesday, March 1st, in the early morning hours as passengers and crew slept, an avalanche a quarter mile wide, half a mile long, and 20 feet deep sheared off the mountain and bore down upon the stranded train. The entire train was swept off the tracks and into Tye River Canyon 150 feet (46 m) below. Rescuers rushing in from Wellington found only scattered debris. The two trains, while supplies last seven locomotives, a rotary snowplow, several box cars, the Call in Your Order Today water tower, the engine house, Please Mention Tidbits when Calling in your Order and all of the passengers and crew had disappeared.

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Because the telegraph lines were down, there was no way to call for outside help. The citizens of nearby Wellington leapt into action.

7124 Jason Ave NE Monticello, MN • It took searchers six hours to rescue 14 people. An hour after that, faint tapping Hours Tues-Fri 7:30-4:00 - Sat 7:30-1:00 Closed Sun & Mon noises revealed one end of a mail car that harbored four wasn’t found until spring. It still stands as the deadliest railroad employees who were only slightly injured. All avalanche in modern history. in all, 22 people survived, and 96 died. The final victim

• All in all, Susanna Salter was an ordinary woman doing ordinary things, but that changed in 1887, much to her surprise. On April 4, 1887, Susanna Salter was elected mayor of Argonia. She was surprised by this because she didn’t know that she was running for mayor of Argonia.

• As it turned out, her name had been placed on a list of candidates as a prank by a group of men who were against women running for political office. They were hoping to secure such a loss that it would humiliate women and discourage them from running. Back in those days, candidates did not have to be made public before election day. Susanna Salter didn’t know she was on the ballot until voting opened on election day.

• In a fortuitous twist, the election was held just weeks after the women of Kansas had been granted the right to vote in city elections.

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• Susanna Salter agreed that if she won the election, she would accept the position as mayor. Republican ladies spread the word to vote for her. Then the Women’s Christian Temperance Union abandoned their preferred candidate and voted for Susanna instead en masse. As a result, she won with a two-thirds majority, becoming the first woman to ever serve as the mayor of a city in the U.S. • As it happens, the first woman recorded winning a mayoral election was Nancy Smith in 1862, who declined to be sworn in as mayor of Oskaloosa, Iowa. So when Susanna accepted the position, she became the first to actually serve. Her election generated national interest from the press, inciting much conversation on the topic of women running for office. This was long before women were allowed to vote in national elections, which didn’t occur until the 19th amendment was ratified in 1920.

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• Susanna’s term was uneventful, but she did her job well. The 27-year-old woman knew more about politics than her detractors realized, as the daughter of the town's first mayor. Her father-in-law, Melville J. Salter, was a former Kansas lieutenant governor. She was paid the sum of one dollar for her efforts. She served a single term of one year, even giving birth to a child while serving in office, but declined to seek re-election after her term was up. Later it was revealed that three of the five councilmen also elected alongside her had been among the men who put her name on the ballot as a joke.

• She remained living in Argonia until 1893 when her husband secured a plot of land in the Oklahoma Territory, where he practiced law and started a newspaper. He died in 1916 but Susanna lived to the age of 101, dying in 1961 in Norman, Oklahoma.

• She never again ran for office, though she had blazed the way for other women who did.

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