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October is National Toilet Tank Repair Month! Remember that tuning up your Your good neighbor has toilet can save water. Come Sharon Opdahl a roadmap just for you. Agent along with Tidbits as we appreciate toilets! Does planning for your 2534 17th Ave. S. • Suite F retirement leave you feeling a bit lost? I can get you headed Grand Forks, ND 58201 TWEAKING TOILETS in the right direction. 701-746-0495 Like a good neighbor, sharonopdahl.com • In 1995, the National Energy Policy Act reState Farm is there. CALL ME TODAY. quired that all new toilets must be able to flush using a maximum of 1.6 gallons of water. Older models used up to six gallons per flush. • Japanese National Railways wanted to save water by cutting down on the amount of water used per flush in the restrooms. But the tiny amount of water used in the flush led users to think the toilets weren't working properly, Carpet Cleaning and they would flush over and over. Officials Services, Inc. subsequently installed an electronic device Carpet Cleaning • Carpet that broadcast the sound of huge amounts of Cleaning SPECIAL! water flushing so the toilet sounded normal, Upholstery $149 •Cleaning and the extra flushing ceased. 5 Rooms, Hallway • It's been estimated that one out of every four & 1 Stairway • Water Not valid with any other offer. toilets leaks. One method of telling if your Extraction Expires 11-15-15 toilet leaks is to put a drop of food coloring in the tank and see if it shows up in the bowl over the course of about 20 minutes without 701-775-8500 flushing. If your toilet is leaking, replace the Residential & Commercial flappers and adjust the fill valves. If the toilet Did You Know Vacuums runs long after flushing, adjust the length of Require Regular Maintenance? the chain attached to the float. Sharon Opdahl, Agent 2534 17th Avenue South Grand Forks, ND 58201 Bus: 701-746-0495 sharonopdahl.com

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• The French word 'toile' means cloth or net. When the French began covering their dressing tables with cloth, the tablecloth was also called a toile, and the dressing room was called a toilette. When the first flushing potties were invented, they were located in the dressing rooms and became known as toilets. • The Dutch word 'krappen' meaning 'to pluck or cut off' and the French word 'crappe' meaning 'siftings' and the Latin word 'crappa' meaning 'chaff' are all related to the current word 'crap.' They all refer to the part that is thrown away after the part that is useful has been gathered. • Thomas Crapper was a plumber in London in the mid-1800s. Contrary to myth, he did not invent the toilet, but he did improve it. He also improved the sewer systems of the city. The toilets he manufactured and installed, as well as the manhole covers he fabricated, were all stamped with his name: Crapper. • The Latin word 'lavare' meaning 'to wash' is where we get the word 'lavatory.' • On board ships, the original toilets were just a simple board with a hole cut out, which were hung over the front part of a ship where the waves would wash everything away. The front of the ship was called 'the head.' • In medieval times, chamber pots would be emptied out the window into the street below. The story goes that in France, they would call out, "Gardez l'eau!" meaning, "Watch out for the water!" in order to warn pedestrians before hurling the refuse into the street. In England, this was Anglicized to 'gardy-loo' before being shorted to simply 'loo.' • The Middle English word 'poupen' or 'popen' originally meant 'fart' because that's what a fart sounds like. Eventually it gave us the word 'poop.' This is not to be confused with the Middle French word 'poupe' meaning the stern of a ship, giving us 'poop deck.' ...continued

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• Thomas Crapper, born in Yorkshire, England, in 1836, became an apprentice to his brother at the age of 14. His brother was a Master Plumber in London.

• Because Crapper also owned his own foundry, he was able to manufacture his own pipes, fittings, and manhole covers. Today, the Crapper manhole covers in front of Westminster Abbey, which are inscribed: 'T. Crapper & Co., Sanitary Engineers' are a favorite stop for tourists who enjoy taking rubbings from them in the same way people take rubbings from tombstones. • When soldiers during World War II saw the word “Crapper” stamped all over toilets throughout Europe, they began calling bathrooms by that name. • Thomas Crapper died in 1910 and the business continued under the care of his nephew and his partner. In 1963 it was acquired by another firm.

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• His business got quite a boost when Edward Prince of Wales hired Thomas to install 30 bathrooms in his newly purchased estate, Sandringham House. When Edward became king, more plumbing jobs were handed to Thomas Crapper, followed by more work commissioned by King George V. Eventually Crapper installed bathrooms and plumbing fixtures in Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey. The public thought that any plumber good enough for royalty was good enough for them, and Crapper’s business boomed.

• At one point he invented a spring-loaded toilet seat, which would automatically rise up when the seated person stood up. The lifting motion of the toilet seat triggered rods that automatically flushed the toilet. This design suffered from the unfortunate flaw that when the rubber gaskets began to age, they became sticky and would fail to lift until the pressure from springs became too great to resist. At this point the toilet seat would fly upwards, often smacking the unfortunate user on the rear. It became known as “the bottom slapper” and died an ignominious death.

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• This was also a day and age when it was thought that going to the bathroom indoors was unhygienic, a myth Thomas Crapper worked hard to dispel.

• Crapper’s inventions included a method of fitting underground drain pipes together which helped reduce disease by reducing leakage from sewer pipes. He also invented improvements to the float valve that helps regulate the flushing and refilling action of the toilet tank.

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• In order to overcome the prevailing attitude of prudery, Crapper outfitted his salesmen with tiny dollhouse-sized replicas of the toilets, sinks, and tubs he was selling. The customer was tasked with the chore of imagining how the full size fixtures would look in their house.

• Along the way, Crapper invented many plumbing improvements and was awarded nine patents. However, the flush toilet had been invented by others long before Thomas Crapper came along.

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• By 1861 Thomas had completed his training and set up his own plumbing shop. In that day and age, proper people didn’t speak about bathrooms or the things that happened in bathrooms. So Thomas Crapper caused quite a stir when he advertised his business by displaying, right in his front window and in full view of everyone passing by, the complete collection of bathroom fixtures he offered for sale. According to legend, ladies became faint when viewing the porcelain bowls in his showroom.

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• On Oct. 25, 1853, Paiute Indians attack U.S. Army Capt. John W. Gunnison and his party of 37 soldiers and railroad surveyors in Utah. Gunnison and seven other men were killed, but the survey party continued its work to find a route for a proposed transcontinental railroad. • On Oct. 24, 1901, seeking fame, 63-year-old schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. After a brief flurry of photo-ops and speaking engagements, Taylor's fame cooled, and she was unable to make the fortune she had sought. • On Oct. 23, 1921, in France, an American officer selects the casket of an unidentified soldier to be honored among the 77,000 U.S. servicemen killed in World War I. The "Unknown Soldier was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. • On Oct. 22, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signs the Highway Beautification Act, which attempts to limit billboards and other forms of outdoor advertising along America's interstates. • On Oct. 20, 1973, Solicitor General Robert Bork dismisses Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, whose investigation of the Watergate break-in revealed that the burglary was one of many possible abuses of power by the Nixon White House. Two days later, the House Judiciary Committee began to consider the possible impeachment of President Richard Nixon. • On Oct. 21, 1988, "Mystic Pizza," a romantic comedy starring unknown actress Julia Roberts, opens in theaters. Roberts would skyrocket to international fame when she appeared in the 1990 blockbuster "Pretty Woman." • On Oct. 19, 1991, a fire starts in the hills of Oakland, California, and within an hour, 800 buildings are ablaze. The firestorm would kill 25 people and destroy thousands of homes. Even though fires had ravaged the same area in 1970 and 1980, people continued to build homes there. © 2015 King Features Synd., Inc.

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QUICK QUIZ: MORE TISSUE • During World War I, cotton was used for surgical dressings Answer: Dell. and as filters in gas masks. As the war progressed, A VERYdemand LARGEoutstripped NUMBERsupply and it became urgent to find a substitute material. • Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 • The Kimberly-Clark company, he was asked to come up with aa paper name manufor a facturing basedtheinnumeral Wisconsin, came up very largefirm number: one, followed by a ahundred zeros. He asked his twothat young with substitute called Cellucotton was nephews what name they It would made from wood fibers. madesuggest. an excellent substituteMilton not only for gas masks but • cotton Nine-year-old suggested a name out for of the funnies. A cartoon strip character also bandages. namedthe Barney was very popular. Milton • When war ended, Kimberly-Clark hadchose huge Barney’s last name for the number. surpluses of Cellucotton on hand. Searching • for Kasner announced for the big a peace-time usethe fornew theirname product, in 1924 number in up hiswith next abook, the to spelling. they came tissuealtering designed remove • cold Sixtycream yearsmake-up later, Larry and Sergey usedPage by actors. It wasBrin a far developed a new internet search engine. Other better alternative than using towels and handsearch engines searched each webpage and kerchiefs to remove makeup. They called them ranked them according to how many times a Celluwipes at first, before settling on a new specific term appeared on them, but Page and name. Brin designed their search engine to search for the specific term stars and then find out howthat many • Ads using movie convinced ladies the links there thatway ledtoback to that page,at tissues were were the best remove makeup which resulted in aHollywood better search engine. the same time that movie stars were • convincing They decided they needed name that the American publica that wearing reflected how many websites the search makeup was acceptable. engine was searching. They took the name • Inof 1928 theKasner’s pop-up very tissuelarge dispenser was inEdward number, only vented and the tissues began be used as a they misspelled it slightly, so it to ended up being disposable handkerchief, an idea proposed by spelled exactly the same way the cartoon acharacter researcher who suffered from hay fever. The Barney spelled his last name. What’s company slogan, ‘Don’t carry a it called? introduced (Answer at the bottom of page) cold in yourCOMPUTER pocket’ whileFACTS pushing the sanitary benefits of using the product. Today the product • In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory isought usedtoworldwide name has become a be enoughand for the anybody.” nearly generic term for tissue. What’s it called? • Moore’s Law states that computer performance (Answer below) doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since 1971, this has beenFACT true. •• To stifle a sneeze, press between the HP, Google, Microsoft, the and area Apple were all upper the nose. startedlipinand garages.

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