November 2011


Other Stuff D was


id you know that Thomas E. Dewey beat Harry S. Tru-


man in the Presidential Elec- tion of 1948? If you believed the headline in the Novem- ber 3rd, 1948 edition of the Chicago Tri- bune which read, “Dewey Defeats Tru- man,” you sure thought so.


When it time


to


go to press for the Tribune, Dewey lead in many of the polls


and it


was said that victory for him over Truman was “inevitable.” There were also articles writ- ten as to what America could expect from the Dewey Presi- dency. We all know that Tru- man actually won the election, but that contest was so close that a few thousand votes the other way, in some key states, would have changed history as we know it. November is a great month to look back at Presidential history. November 24, 1784 gave us our twelfth President Zachary Taylor. Taylor served a little over a year before succumb- ing to what was probably gas- troenteritis. On July 4, 1850 Taylor was attending a ground


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breaking ceremony for the Washington Monument.


I say July 4th in Washington D.C? It was really, really hot. Taylor decided to refresh him- self with milk and cherries. He became violently ill and past away five days later. There were conspiracy the- ories involving poison - prob- ably not true - it was the milk and cherries that did him in. Born on


No v ember 2, 1795 was


James K. Polk. Polk was our eleventh President and served from 1845 to 1849. Polk was known to have no sense of hu- mor and neither did his wife Sarah.


They didn’t drink,


dance, or bother to have chil- dren. What Polk did very well


LOOKING FOR GOOD IN THE PAST by Jim Sheets Did


was work hard. He worked twelve to fourteen hours a day. During his stay in the White House, he annexed Texas and resolved the Oregon boundary dispute with England which laid the foundation of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Mon- tana becoming states.


This


also helped the territory we know as California become a state in 1850. Warren G. Harding our 29th President was born on November 2, 1865. I bet you didn’t know that the G. stood for Gamaliel. Don’t feel bad, I didn’t know that either. Fair or not, Harding will go down in history as one of our worst presidents and his tenure was filled with scandal. He was the first President to be voted on by women nationwide. He appointed many of his cronies to his cabinet and they partici- pated in bad behavior which led him to say, “I have no trouble with my enemies, it’s my friends that keep me walk-


ing the floor at night.” Tea-


pot Dome is a rock formation shaped like a teapot and lo- cated in Wyoming. It became the most famous scandal that happened during Harding’s watch. There was petroleum located under the teapot and people were willing to bribe members of Harding’s cabinet to get drilling rights and the cabinet members were willing to accept the bribes. Harding served as our President from 1921 to 1923.


REMEMBER:


Respect our past for it has shaped our future.


Jim has a his- tory


degree from Sac State University. He is a real estate agent and lives in Sonoma County.


History questions? jims1127@hotmail.com


Pg 7 Weird Facts & Trivia - 2


Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system with a surface temperature of over 450 degrees celcius.


Many scientists believe that an asteroid impact caused the extinction of the dino- saurs around 65 million years ago. More asteroid facts.


Twinkies snack cakes were invented in 1930 by James Dewar of the Continental Baking Company in


Chicago. Dewar supposedly ate 2 Twinkies a day until he died in 1985


Several Virginia Algonquian words have been borrowed by the English language, including hominy, tomahawk and pone (as in cornpone).


Trix cereal, introduced in 1954 by General Mills, was more than 46% sugar.


A LIFE IN THE VINEYARDS


Back in 1927, Vittorio Sangiacomo purchased a 52-acre fruit tree ranch and later came to American AgCredit for help converting that to vines.


From generation to generation, we’ve been committed to agriculture — and you — since 1916.


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