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• In 1621 at the first Thanksgiving where the Pilgrims and Indians ate together, they no doubt ate birds, but there is no proof that they ate turkey. They had no bread, since they had long depleted their store of flour. Although they probably ate stewed pumpkin, without flour they could not have had pumpkin pie. Instead, they ate venison, corn cakes, berries, plums, watercress, and cranberries. The next year brought more immigrants to shelter and feed, and a poor harvest made life hard. They never again celebrated Thanksgiving. • In 1777, all 13 colonies joined in a Thanksgiving celebration to commemorate the victory over the British at Saratoga. It too was a one-time event. In 1789, George Washington tried to establish a regular Thanksgiving Day, to no avail. But in 1827, magazine editor Sarah Hale started a one-woman crusade in Godey’s Lady’s Book urging readers to write their politicians in support of a national holiday. Over a period of four decades she kept up her campaign. • It took the victory at Gettysburg to put the public in a thanksgiving mood, and in 1863,

• For Thanksgiving in 1909, bakers in Jersey City and New York City got together and decided to send President Taft a gigantic mince pie. It was some four feet (1.2 m) wide and six inches (15 cm) deep. Somehow, the pie disappeared without a trace on the train trip to Washington. At Christmas time, they decided to try again. But this time they took no chances: they packed it in a heavy box, nailed it shut, and had four union members sit on top of it all the way to the White House.

• Since then, there has only been one controversial tampering with the tradition. In 1939, store merchants who wanted a greater number of shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas pressured President Franklin D. Roosevelt to move Thanksgiving ahead one week. This made the merchants happy but upset just about everyone else. Millions of Americans, in defiance of the new proclamation, continued to take the fourth Thursday off from work instead of the third Thursday. In 1941, Roosevelt admitted his error and returned the holiday to the traditional date.

• William Maxwell Evarts, Secretary of State in 1877, was asked to give a speech after an important Thanksgiving function. As he rose to his feet his opening comment was, “You have all been devoting your attention to a turkey stuffed with sage. Now you are about to listen to a sage stuffed with turkey!” □

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You still have a couple of more months to wait -- until Monday, Jan. 6, at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, to be exact. However, I do have some good news to share to help ease the pain of waiting: MTV announced that the hit series will return for a fourth season in 2014 with 12 new episodes. Additionally, the network will debut the new talk show, “Wolf Watch,” set to air weekly after each “Teen Wolf” episode.

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Tipping for Salon Services Should not be Guilt-Driven Dear Mary: Do you tip a hairdresser if that person also owns the salon? I go to a shop where the owners provide the services. I have always debated whether to give them a tip. ® What do you think is apropriate? -- Mary V.

Dear Roy: Sounds like it’s time to bring out the big artillery. Make a trip to the grocery store for Twenty Mule Team Borax (you’ll find it in the laundry aisle) and on the way home, stop at the home improvement store for FINE drywall sandpaper (it’s not really sandpaper, it looks more like window screening and is sometimes called a drywall sponge). Mix 1 cup borax and 3 cups baking soda into a scouring powder. Dampen the floor of the shower, sprinkle on the powder generously and then scrub the floor with the drywall sandpaper as you would a sponge. Rinse and repeat as necessary. Caution: This is for otherwise hopeless situations and textured fiberglass tub and shower floors, not smooth fiberglass surfaces. * * * Dear Mary: For many years, I’ve been darning socks and hose. I know it must sound old fashioned to you, but the hose I wear are expensive and I like to make them last a long time. I have a problem. The store where I have purchased darning thread for many years has stopped carrying it. Now I cannot find it anywhere.MAR. I sure TUES., 20hope you can help me. -- Bertha

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My boyfriend and I are now scared of Rowdy and don’t know what to do. We have a puppy and don’t want her to model his behavior. What should we do? I am truly afraid he will bite us. He only acts like this with the rawhide and timeouts -- no other times. The rest of the time he’s his sweet loving self.

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A Social Security Lesson for Teachers It’s once again time for me to turn the tables on my old teachers and ask them to take a seat and pay attention as I deliver my annual lecture on the Social Security offsets. This lesson isn’t directed at all teachers -just those in states where educators do not pay into Social Security. The two biggest such states are California and Texas, but there are a few others. And teachers really are not the only audience for this lecture. Anyone who works at a job that is not covered by Social Security (that’s a little less than 10 percent of the population) is impacted by the same rules. And because so many people don’t understand these laws, they mistakenly think they are being singled out for Social Security reductions that don’t impact anyone else. And they are simply wrong about that. Folks who spend the bulk of their careers in jobs not covered by Social Security are potentially subject to a couple of offsets that impact either their own Social Security benefit (based on Social Security-covered work they did outside of their regular job) or any benefits they potentially might be due from their spouse’s Social Security record. And by the way, as a retired federal employee getting a civil service pension, I, too, am impacted by both offsets. But because I understand the law, they make perfect sense to me, and I know they are fair. I will try to explain them to you. One offset is called the windfall elimination provision. This is the one that impacts your own Social Security benefit. The other is called the government pension offset, or GPO, and it reduces any spousal benefits you might be due.

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The key to understanding the windfall elimi- lose only $2 from Social Security spousal benefits. Due to the space constraints of my column, nation provision is to realize that the word “social” in this has been a VERY simplified explanation of a Social Security means something. Unlike private and very complicated set of laws. To learn more about other public sector pension plans, there are social the government pension offset and the windfall goals built into the Social Security program. One of email to me at thomthose goals is to raise the standard of living of lower- elimination provision, send an TUES., NOV. 5 income workers in retirement. This is accomplished as.margenau@comcast.net and ask for a free digital Pleaseto review Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Pr copy of my pension offset fact sheet. through a benefit formula that is designed give carefully. lower-paid workers a better deal than their more Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corr If you have a Social Security question, Tom Marhighly paid counterparts. Very low-paid workers has the answer. Contact himFax: at thomas.margenau@ Office: 760-320-0997 760-320-1630 could get a Social Security benefit that represents genau comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to up to 90 percent of their earnings. This percentage read past columns and see features from other Creators Syndiis known as a replacement rate. People with average cate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webincomes (the middle class) generally get a 40 per- site at www.creators.com. HELP U HEAR c/o JNS Media cent replacement rate. Higher income people get a 1/4 pg. 4C 2013 26xCREATORS.COM disc. COPYRIGHT rate around 30 percent. The problem is that people who spend theNov. 10, 2013 Vol. 9 - No. 46 bulk of their working lives not paying into Social Security are automatically treated as low-income people by the Social Security Administration’s computers. That’s because there are zeros on their Social Security earnings record for every year they spent in their non-Social Security job. SSA’s records won’t show they were actually working at the other job and Should I buy earning another pension. Instead, their Social Security earnings record simply shows gaps in their work the cheapest? Should I buy history. So when figuring their Social Security retirement benefit, SSA’s computers automatically use the the newest formula intended to compensate a lower-income pertechnology? Should I buy son. But teachers, police officers, firefighters the smallest? and other government employees generally can be classified as people with average incomes, so they should get the same Social Security replacement rate paid to all middle-class workers. That’s why a modified formula is used to refigure their benefits Property of and give them the proper -- and fair -- replacement AdVenture Media, Inc. rate. If you’re an employee impacted by this law, that modified formula takes you from the 90 percent (poor person’s) replacement rate to the 40 percent FREE of Coachella Valley (middle-class person’s) replacement rate, thus reThe Neatest Little Paper Ever Read 760.320.0997 Fax: 760.320.1630 ducing estimated benefits by about half. Like me, most career teachers and governAll Rights Reserved Discuss these important ment employees generally have just barely over the considerations right away, with qualifying 40 quarters (10 years) of Social Security covered work. But if you have 30 or more years of your Doctor of Audiology at substantial Social Security earnings, the windfall Help U Hear Hearing Centers. provision won’t apply and your benefit will not be reduced. If you have between 20 and 29 years of sub• Our objective is to help you determine stantial earnings, your Social Security benefit will be which hearing aid is appropriate for you, only partially reduced. A chart giving a year-by-year and to provide the best service for breakdown of what the government considers subYOUR individual needs. stantial earnings is available at www.socialsecu• Our Doctors of Audiology are trained rity.gov/pubs/10045.html The other rule that so many people misunin detecting & correcting your hearing loss, derstand is the government pension offset, or GPO. not just selling you a hearing aid device. 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This mark is on the bottom of a cup and saucer that I have. The words “Romantic -- Flow Blue -- England” are also included with the mark. The dishes are decorated with a blue scene of a boy and girl. I would appreciate anything you can tell me about my cup and saucer.

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Blakeney Pottery Ltd. made your cup and saucer. They made earthenware in Stoke, Staffordshire, England, from 1968 to 2000. Blakeney Pottery made flow-blue pieces around 1970 and should not be confused with the flow-blue ware made in the 1800s and early 1900s. Original flow-blue pieces were not marked with the words “Flow Blue.” Blakeney’s “Romantic” pattern was inspired by an early flowblue pattern by the name of “Watteau.” There was a renewed interest in flow-blue dishes from around the 1960s to the 1980s. As a result, there were a handful of factories that produced new pieces. Your cup and saucer are circa 1970, and the set would probably be worth $15 to $25.

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Some 40 minutes north of Kansas City lies the quaint town of Excelsior Springs, Mo. Since the Chiefs are on a roll this season, the town is attracting more traveling fans from Nebraska and Enclosed is a photo of an antique Iowa this year than in years past -- and if there’s piece of furniture that was purchased from my one thing the residents of Excelsior Springs know great aunt’s estate in 1978. She died at age 80, about, it is the past. and this was a wedding present given to her Native Americans would travel from many miles away to use the mineral springs that bubbled probably around 1920. The cur ved-glass door, through the clay and sands of the area, believing the beveled mirror, the finish, and all the hardthey had mystical healing powers. Sometime in the ware are original. The desktop drops down for 1800s, a man in Excelsior Springs told the newswriting and it has shelves and a drawer. The papers when his daughter, who had been on her overall measurements are 70 inches tall, 40 4:00 PM ADVERTISING PROOF deathbed from tuberculosis, had been healed. The inches wide and 15 inches deep. It is in exBlakeney Pottery Tues., 4/10/12 WED., APRIL 17 Final Changes DUE: 5:00 p.m.. news went...well, viral; hotels were built and the cellent condition. I have been told the wood is made reproducPlease review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours rolling into town. tionscheck: of flow- Phone Number(s)  Spelling visitors tiger oak. Please review carefully. Double Prices began  Hours blue ware. The most famous of them all -- and the Can you give me any information about Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. only one that still remains a resort attraction -- is its style, period and value? the magnificent Elms Hotel. 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The 1/16 pg. 26x disc. ers and BW cartoonists, visit the Creators website at Ghost Hunters TV show as well as amateur parain the golden oak www.creators.com. April 21, 2013 Vol. 9 - No. 17 COPYRIGHT 2013 CREATORS.COM normalists stop by regularly. The words “ghost” and period of furni“Mulder and Scully” are frequently dropped into ture that began in conversation. 1890 and lasted to An older gentleman, who claims to have around 1920. Tiworked in Excelsior Springs most of his life, says ger oak is quarterthat most of the occurrences happened during the sawn oak, and the recent renovation of the Hotel, which has burned distinctive grain down twice. “During reconstruction, I was making of the wood can the early-morning rounds when I heard the circular be recognized by Visit often. New Items Arrive Daily! % saw going. But it wasn’t even plugged in. 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Client will provide established this line, your next goal is to setup to the ball along establish their direct path time, credit card receipts were filled out by hand this same path, as seen in the photo with the two red lines that ad in time fo tointhe target. represent the path to the target the distance. in triplicate, with a small piece of carbon paper In the setup it is your goal to have your grip and club face I recommend finding Please call (760) 66 square to this target line along with your feet, knees, hips and inserted between each sheet. It didn’t take long your theto the way shoulders. When the body and club target are setupline square ance. target line, then you will be improving chances of moving many your tour players do. for thieves to realize they could retrieve the the club along the target line in the swing. Simply stand behind the It is our goal in the swing to move the golf club in reference to used carbons from the trash and steal valuable the target line as perfect as possible. Perfect? Yes, Like driving ball and point your club a car it is our goal to steer thethrough car in reference to the lines on the ball toward credit card information. Once that scam gained the road or in other words a “target line” that leads us to our your target in the distance. An easy step. destination. The same holds true in golf; we are attempting to popularity, waiters and cashiers regularly ofmove the golf club (steering wheel)In in your reference to our your path that setup, first goal is to have your feet, leads to our destination. The golf ball serves as an indicator as fered the carbons to customers, giving them hips back and to shoulders, along with your grip and to how well we did. 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