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arrow in the year 1521 on the southeastern coast of Florida. Although the arrow was quickly removed and he escaped alive, he died soon afterward from the poison in his bloodstream.

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• Although the tree is toxic to humans and most other animals as well, there is a species of iguana that is impervious to the poison, and able to eat the fruit and live in the tree without suffering any ill effects. ⁫

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• Within minutes of taking a bite, the tongue and throat start to sizzle with a peppery taste before swelling and bleeding. Abdominal pain, vomiting, and digestive tract damage follow. Fortunately, death is rare because people rarely get beyond the first bite of the fruit before regretting their decision.

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WAGERS (from page one) • Passengers on a ferry were alarmed to hear the cry of “Man overboard!” Treading the water below was practical joker Wilson Mizner, with a stopwatch in his hand. He had placed a bet on how long it would take for him to be rescued.

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at her door, each one insisting that she had written to them and requested them to come clean her chimney on this date. While she was trying to convince them that she had not ordered a single chimney sweep, much less a dozen of them, several different coal trucks appeared, each bearing a ton of coal “just as she had ordered.”

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• On July 4, 1880, in Charleston, Arizona, George Warren challenged George Atkins to a race, placing a bet on the outcome. The bet was that • According to legend, Ernest Hemingway was at with enough of a lead, he could outrun Atkins in • Then carriageloads of furniture began arriving, a pub with friends when someone bet him $10 along with beer merchants, an organ salesman, a 100-yard race, with Warren on foot and Atkins that he would be unable to write the synopsis of a candy maker, wig makers, hairdressers, on horseback. If he won, he’d take Atkins’ horse. a story in six words or less. He wrote six words butchers, plumbers, jewelers, grocers, a furrier, If he lost, Atkins would take his 1/9th share in the on a napkin, passed the napkin around the table, Copper Queen mine in Bisbee, Arizona. Warren WAGERS: To page 15 and collected his $10. The six words were: “For was figuring he could make a much tighter turn sale: baby shoes, never worn.” around the pole that marked the half way point • In 1867, Edward Payson Weston bet $10,000 that on the race course. But he had miscalculated his he could walk from Portland, Maine, to Chicago, ADVERTISING PROOF own speed and Atkins won. His relinquished TUES., MAY 23 5:0 Final Changes DUE: comIllinois in 26 days. The distance to be covered 1. HowPlease many different number share of the mine eventually turned out to be review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  wasADVERTISING 1,326 miles. He was accompanied PROOFby six binationsContact are your there on a worth some $20 million, and Atkins became a Tidbits representative immediately with changes or co judges in a horse-drawn carriage. He won5:00 the bet 10/31/16 pair of six-sided dice? email: valleybits@msn.com Final Changes DUE: Mon., p.m.. wealthy man. Warren lived the rest of his life in Office: 760-320-0997 Fax: 76 Please review carefully.  Phone Spelling  5,000 Prices  Hours with two Double hourscheck: to spare. InNumber(s) 1883 he walked poverty and borderline insanity. 2. How many possible miles in 100 days, and in 1909 walked from Contact your Tidbits representative immediately withhe changes or corrections. Triple A are Construction / JustCallZee five-card hands Office: New 760-320-0997 valleybits@msn.com York to email: California— a distanceFax:of760-320-1630 3,895 • Eccentric British politician George Selwyn once there in a game of poker Business Card • Black & White • 26x discou said that women found it impossible to write a miles — in 104 days. Then he turned around using a standard deck of cards? May 28, 2017 • Vol. 13: Issue #22 letter without adding a P.S. One lady present bet and walked back another 3,600 miles in 77 days. Answers page 16 him that she could write him a letter and not add Weston was over 70 years old at the time. ADVERTISING PROOF a postscript. Determined to prove him wrong, of the Mon., 9/26/16 5:00 p. BACKFIRED WAGERS she sent him a letter the next day. AtFinal the veryChanges DUE: Home 1.  Number(s)  Spelling  Prices • A prominent high-society woman was seated bottom below her signature shePlease added, “Whocarefully. is review Double check:  Phone Landy’s Window Cleaning next to President Calvin Coolidge at a dinner right now, you or I?” Cutting out the middleman’s high price mark-ups enables you to 1/16th pg • Full Color • 26x discount rate Contact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or correctio event. Coolidge was well known as being a $ Fax: 760-320Nov. 6, 2016 - April 2017 Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com man of very few words, which30,had earned him We’ll help you buy equipment directly from the wholesaler! In 1845, two men, Asa Lovejoy from MassVol. 12: IssueCal.” #46 - The Vol. lady 13: #18 with a full waranty, AND WE’LL INSTALL IT FOR LESS! achussetts, and Francis Pettygrove from Maine, the nickname “Silent said, “You

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a shield. Collectors mistakenly interpreted the shield mark as a beehive. It was first used in the mid-1700s by the Imperial and Royal Porcelain Manufactory of Vienna. The mark represented the Hapsburg family coat of arms. The shield mark has been copied and used for years by German, Austrian and even Japanese porcelain factories. Your vases were made around 1900 and would probably be worth $200 to $375.

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ard China Studio in Edgerton, Wisconsin, in 1894. He opened a home decorating studio in Chicago in 1895. Many of the blanks decorated were made in Limoges, France. The letter “C” superimposed on the letter “A” is the mark of New York importer Charles Ahrenfeldt.

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Enclosed you will find a photo of a pair of porcelain vases that belonged to my grandmother. They each stand about 9 inches tall and 5 inches wide, and they are in mint condition. The front of each is decorated with a different scene of young women in robes. The back has small roses against a white background. Both the handle and rim are trimmed in gold. Marked on the bottom is the word “Austria” and a beehive. I would never part with my grandmother’s vases, but I would like to know any information you can provide about their histor y.

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