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Bold Medias Publishing For Advertising Please Call (604) 454 - 1387 www.tidbitsvancouver.com The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read® Want to run your own business? Publish a paper in your area, and become a part of the family. www.tidbitscanada.com Make a difference in your community today. • Armstrong • Cherryville • Coldstream • Falkland • Fintry • Lavington • Lumby • Spallumcheen • Vernon • Westside Rd • 1.866.859.0609 Advertising for Tidbits Vernon (250) 832-3361 • Q: I’m looking for the grave in this cemetery for the guy who invented the crossword. A: Sure! He’s three down and four across! May 13 - 19, 2016 Issue 00271 TIDBITS® DOES A CROSSWORD by Janet Spencer 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. en 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. North End Pharmacy Remedy’sRx 4710 31st Street, Unit 102 (250) 542-2265 Full prescription services located in Railway Plaza with Valley Medical Laboratories Discover our growing offering of natural health products now including AOR (Advanced Orthomolecular Research) and Organika health lines! We take care of your health and wellness needs Village Green Mall 48th Ave 31st St Anderson Way 29st St 27st St O Merchant MARK-IT Vernon Teach & Learn 3015 30th Ave Civic Sounds Thursdays 7-9pm July & August Omar’s 3404 31st Ave El Gusto Latino Market 3414 Coldstream Ave Utmost Imagination 3204 32nd Ave BG’s Beads B4-3334 30th Ave Serendipity’s Closet 3105 28th Ave Teassential 3017-B 30th Ave Essence Teahouse & Spiritual Bookstore 2913 29th Ave HM Krause Jewellers 3001 31st St Centre Dry Cleaning 3304 32nd St Free Space Saturday Avenue Market Cenotaph Park Good Gracious & The Practical Kitchen 3211 30th Ave Gold’N Time Jewellery 3021 30th Ave Casa Bella Boutique 3212 30th Ave Bookland Vernon 3400 30th Ave Station BBQ Smokehouse 3131 29th St Orchard Valley Retirement Residence 2829 34th St Raven Traders 2904 30th Ave Jammin’ in Justice Wednesdays 12-1:30 pm July & August Poohs & Beans 2909 30th Ave Common Exchange 3111 30th Ave Vernon Flower Shop #104 3004 30th Ave Impressions Hair & Esthetics #104 3101 29th St Olive Us 3003 30th Ave Libra Love Boutique 3111 Coldstream Ave Scattered Goods 3320 30th Ave Okanagan Skate Co 3304b-30th Ave Esthetics on the Go 2906 31stAve Wiebe’s Pharmacy #5 - 3100 35th Str Fashions On 31st 2901 31 St Briteland Holdings 3208 28 St Eatology Restaurant 3100 30 St It’s Bath Time 3005 31st St Spinner’s Sound Centre 3107 30th Ave

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Q: I’m looking for the grave in this cemetery for the guy who invented the crossword.A: Sure! He’s three down and four across!

May 13 - 19, 2016 Issue 00271

TIDBITS® DOES A

CROSSWORDby Janet Spencer

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. � en 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.

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How large was the world’s largest crossword? It was published in Quebec and contained over 82,000 squares; had more than 12,000 clues across and 13,000 clues down; and took up over 38 square feet.

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He suggested to his business partner that they become the � rst publishing company to do so.

• 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. � ey 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 � rst 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. � ey printed four crosswords of increasing di� culty in the paper. Over 20,000 people correctly completed the � rst; 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 � nals. During the semi-� nals, they were given half an hour to � nish each of eight crosswords. � e 36 � nalists were asked to complete four more. � e winner was Roy Dean, a 43-year-old Foreign O� ce diplomat who recently returned from 10 years in Sri Lanka— where he had never even seen a crossword.

• One shady out� t who ran a crossword lottery claimed that no one won the grand prize because they all missed 23 Across. � e clue was: “To have to wait in the dentist’s o� ce is infuriating.” Everybody � lled in “Pain.” But the correct answer, they said, was “Vain.”

CROSSWORD COMPETITIONS

• In 1926 two men composed a crossword puzzle and placed it in several newspapers. � ey 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

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1990’s “Dick Tracy” made $117 million more than its budget, and 1991’s “Bugsy” managed only $19 million more than its budget.Beatty’s new $27 million � lm about Howard Hughes is untitled and set for a fall release, with Beatty once again producing/writing/directing and starring in it. His co-stars are Annette Bening, Matthew Broderick, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Candice Bergen, Ed Harris, Lily Collins, Ed Helms, Paul Reiser and Chace Crawford. He needs to win big with this one, or he can forget about the “Dick Tracy” sequel wants to do.***Chace Crawford, whose series “Blood and Oil,” with Don

Johnson, was yanked o� ABC after only 10 episodes, is coming back in a big way. Before Beatty’s � lm is released, Chace will have the horror/thriller “Eloise,” with “Scorpion” star Robert Patrick and Eliza Dushku (of “Bu� y, the Vampire Slayer” fame); and “Undrafted,” with Aaron Tveit (of “Grease/Live”), Tyler Hoechlin, James Belushi and Billy Gardell, hitting screens. He’ll also have “What’s the Point?” with Mary Steenburgen and Amber Heard, likely coming out after Beatty’s � lm.***We told you last week that plans for Barbra Streisand to star in the reboot of “Gypsy” are moving full speed ahead, and that the chairman of STX Entertainment said, “It’s Barbra Streisand doing one more, if not the last, movie musical of her career.” It really may be that Barbra has decided she’d rather direct than act. She has three projects lined up. She’ll turn Keira Knightley into “Catherine the Great,” helm a � lm about the relationship between Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell, and produce “Cold Side of � e Pillow,” written/directed and co-produced by Attila Kallai. No one’s putting Streisand out to pasture.***Expect Scott Eastwood to lose the “son of Clint Eastwood” handle as he breaks out in three giant � lms. First comes “Suicide Squad,” with Will Smith, Jarod Leto and Margot Robbie (out Aug. 5); next up is “Snowdon,” with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto and Nicolas Cage, out Sept 16; followed by “Fast & Furious 8,” due April 14, 2017. � ey will be followed by “Crown Vic” with Alec Baldwin, and “Overdrive” with Ana de Armas. Finally, Eastwood has the Prohibition-era � lm “Live by Night,” directed by Ben A� eck and starring Anthony Michael Hall and Elle Fanning, due October 2017.Looks like the son of a gun has become a hot pistol on his own!(c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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next person to use.• Robert Stilgenbauer of Los Angeles spent 11

years constructing a crossword with 3,185 down clues and 3,149 across. Over 125,000 copies were distributed, but none have been completed yet.

• One variety of crossword had two possible answers for every clue.

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• One crossword composer wrote the clue “to make a go of.” � e answer was “succeed.” But the paper made a typo when printing it, and it said, “to make a goof.” Calls and letters poured in.

• � e same composer was once called on by a cross crossworder who could not � nd the answer to the clue “manager of the Globe � eater.” He

had called the Globe � eater and found it had two managers. Neither of their names � t. He was surprised to � nd 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 � t, but Ahab had an ivory leg, not a wooden one.

• � en there was the man with bad handwriting who wrote the clue “Catholic chief.” � e answer was “Pope” but the typesetter thought it said “Dope.” � ey got plenty of letters on that one.

• Another paper printed the clue “Confederate General.” � e answer was U.S. Grant— and a lot of people were surprised to � nd that Grant was a Confederate!

• One hard-up crossword writer printed the clue, “Six consonants and the letter ‘A’ � ve times.” “Panama Canal” was what he had in mind, but one indignant puzzler submitted a number of answers that also � t, 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.”

Amazing Animals

HOMING PIGEONS• � e homing pigeon is an ordinary sort of domestic

pigeon derived from the common rock pigeon and trained to return home from long distances away. � ere is no real di� erence between a homing pigeon and a carrier pigeon aside from the amount of training it has received.

• Chinese o� cials began using homing pigeons to transmit messages as early as 500 B.C. In the 1200s, Kublai Khan set up a network of pigeons that linked the entire Chinese empire. � e system survived for over 600 years.

• Caliph Aziz of Cairo had a passion for cherrries.

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 � nancial ruin.

STRANGE PUZZLES

• In 1972 in the London Times, readers of the classi� eds were amazed to � nd 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. � e only thing normal about the page was the usual crossword down at the bottom corner where it always was. � ose who completed the crossword discovered amusing messages on the value of butter. � e 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

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• Iris was the goddess of the rainbow who was in charge of receiving the souls of dying women. � e god Juno was so impressed with her purity that he named a � ower after her.

• Lobelia was named in honor of botanist Matthias L’Obel. � e 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 � re, and phlox was named because it is � re red. Phlox is also the root of the word “phlegm,” because phlegm was thought to cause � ery fevers.

• � e Greeks thought that the leaves of the common garden � ower 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 pre� x, the alyssum was born.

• Columbine comes from the Latin word “columba” meaning dove because the � owers resemble a circle of doves.

• Larkspur was so named because the � ower resembles the spur on the back of the feet of birds in the lark family.

• “Primus” is Latin for � rst, and primrose is one of the � rst � owers to appear in the spring.

• � e 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.

• “Mistel” is an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning dung, and “tan” meant twig. “Misteltan” or “the little

on thin � lm. Each bird could carry up to 8,000 letters per day in this manner, and two birds were dispatched each day. At a cost of ten cents per word, postal revenues brought in about $112,000. By the time the seige was over, pigeons had carried nearly 100,000 messages from Paris to the outside world.

• In 1814, Nathan Rothschild learned of Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo by carrier pigeon a full day before the general public new. As a result, he made a killing on the stock market.

• During World War I, nearly 200 soldiers of New York’s 77th Infantry Division became isolated from other American forces. � ey were surrounded by enemy troops, and found themselves under � re from their own artillery. � ey had three homing pigeons and no other method of communication. On October 4, 1918, a message was attached to the leg of one pigeon and it was released, only to be shot down. � e second pigeon was also killed. � ey had only one pigeon left—a carrier pigeon called Cher Ami, which is French for “dear friend.” � e message tied to his leg read, “Our artillery is dropping a barrage on us. For heaven’s sake, stop it!” � e bird was released, only to be shot through the leg. Miraculously, he kept � ying— and was shot through the breast. But the bird kept going and arrived at his loft with the message barely attached to his mangled leg. Within hours help arrived and the 77th Infantry Division was saved. Cher Ami was awarded the French “Croix de Guerre.” He died in 1919 as a result of his wounds and his remains are on display at the Smithsonian.

• In the 1980s Lockheed’s plant in California employed 15 carrier pigeons to carry micro� lm capsules to the test base 30 miles (48 km) away. � e pigeons could make the trip in 40 minutes, faster than a courier in a car could. Also, they had an e� ectiveness rate of 100%. � ey never delivered to the wrong address, or showed up with damaged goods.

• Homing pigeons and migratory birds can be de� ected from their routes by radio transmitters. Homing pigeons cannot � nd their way if a magnet is tied to their necks.

• � e longest � ight by a homing pigeon was 5,400 miles (8,690 km) by a bird released from West Africa which travelled to its home in England in 1845. � e trip took two months, and the bird fell dead only one mile from its loft.

STORIES BEHIND PLANT NAMES• “Azalea” comes from the Latin “azaleos”

meaning dry or parched. � e plant was named in the belief that it grew only in dry soils.

• “Rhodon” is Greek for rose, and “dendron” means tree: rhododendron.

In 980 A.D. he sent huge shipments of homing pigeons to the cherry orchards in Egypt. Slaves tied small bags containing one cherry each to the feet of the pigeons and sent them home to the Nile.

• Homing pigeons made a fortune for the French Post O� ce during a siege of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. � e Prussian army encircled Paris, cutting telegraph wires, destroying communication cables, and strangling the postal service. From the surrounding countryside, about 1,000 privately owned homing pigeons were donated and the “Pigeon Post” was born. To get the mail through, messages were set in type, photographed in microscopic size and printed

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across the ground.• Cranberries were � rst called “cranebarries”

because the stamens of the � owers 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.

dung twig” was so named because birds eat the berries o� 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.

• � e 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.”

• � e 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

• Nettles were so named because they were

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Cheesy Hash Browns and Chicken

A dinner for two that has an uptown taste with

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1/3 cup Land O Lakes nonfat sour cream2 tablespoons Land O Lakes fat-free half and half1 teaspoon Wyler’s Chicken Granules instant bouillon1 tablespoon dried onion � akes1 teaspoon dried parsley � akes1/8 teaspoon black pepper2 1/2 cups frozen loose-packed shredded hash brown potatoes1 cup diced, cooked chicken breast1/2 cup shredded Kraft reduced-fat Cheddar cheese

1. Heat oven to 350 F. Spray 2 (12-ounce) ovenproof custard cups with butter-� avored cooking spray.2. In a medium bowl, combine sour cream, half and half, and dry chicken bouillon. Stir in onion � akes, parsley � akes and black pepper. Add potatoes and chicken. Mix well to combine.3. Evenly spoon mixture into prepared custard cups. Sprinkle 1/4 cup Cheddar cheese over top of each. Cover each custard cup with aluminum foil and place on a baking sheet.4. Bake for 30 minutes. Uncover and continue baking for 5 minutes. Place custard cups on a wire rack and let set for 5 minutes. Serves 2.

TIPS: 1) Raw shredded potatoes, rinsed and patted dry, may be used in place of frozen potatoes. 2) If you don’t have leftovers, purchase a chunk of cooked chicken breast from your local deli.

* Each serving equals: 317 calories, 9g fat, 34g protein, 25g carb., 352mg sodium, 309mg calcium, 1g � ber; Diabetic Exchanges: 3 1/2

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Reducing a Repeat of Bladder Stones

DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My 5-year-old shih-tzu cross, “Louie,” just had surgery to remove bladder stones. � ey were 90 percent calcium oxalate and 10 percent calcium phosphate. My vet

has prescribed a strict diet of (expensive) food purchased only through their o� ce.I am feeding Louie the special food from the vet, but I’m not certain this is the right choice. I found some online sites that recommend a homemade diet of chicken, rice and peas. What would you recommend to prevent a recurrence of these stones? -- Bev R., Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada

DEAR BEV: Ouch! I’m sorry that Louie is going through this. It’s great that you’re doing all you can to prevent a recurrence, including knowing the type of stones he has.Louie’s bladder stones were determined to be calcium oxalate, which can form when a dog’s urine is acidic. � ere are two other common types of bladder stones that dogs can su� er from: struvite, formed in alkaline urine; and urate, seen often in dogs with liver disease.� e issue with oxalate-type stones is that they generally must be surgically removed. � at’s di� erent from struvite stones, which might be dissolved through medication and diet. However, both types may be PREVENTED through a special diet. For more information, go to www.monicasegal.com/wordpress/ and search for “bladder stones.” Her blog can give greater details about types of stones and appropriate diets.Going into diet speci� cs would take up more room that I have in this column. I can say that you need to make sure Louie drinks plenty of water. From there, keep researching, and coordinate with your vet. Send your questions or pet care tips to [email protected].(c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.

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