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Insight & Opinion GC Republicans host Fincher The Gibson County Republican Party hosted a U.S. Congressman for its annual Reagan Dinner. Representative Stephen Fincher provided the keynote address at the event held last Thursday in Humboldt. Congressman Fincher began by telling those in attendance how good it always is to be back in West Tennessee. He had quite a busy day visiting with constituents, starting his day in Memphis at the opening of the new air tower,
FINCHER SPEAKER AT REAGAN DINNER - U.S. Congressman Stephen Fincher, a Republican from Frog Jump, gave the keynote address at the Reagan Dinner hosted annually by the Gibson County Republican Party. Rep. Fincher capped off a busy day with his Humboldt visit where he spoke with constituents.
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Weekly news, here for you, historically The staffs at the Chronicle and Tri-City Reporter hope our readers enjoy the Business Journal and Historical Review inside this week’s editions. No one publication could ever adequately reflect Gibson County’s vast and rich history. The numerous communities, countless personalities, business ventures, civic events and celebrations that have shaped Gibson County since her inception would be impossible to chronicle completely. We tried to keep the journal and review accurate and more of a glance back into history than a formal history. Adding the photos up, it was difficult,
to say the least, to choose which ones to present in this first ever Business Journal and Historical Review. We can only imagine the work that went into the local histories from which we drew much of our information. The history of a county such as Gibson, should one try to document it in its entirety, would take a full staff working full time for years. Our hats are off to local historians! Coming up next will be Holiday Recipes so please send us yours and encourage others to also. Every cook has at least two or three special recipes they should share. The book may be called Holiday
then on to Germantown, Covington and Union City before wrapping up the day in Humboldt. Congressman Fincher gave an update on the move to try to stabilize the country’s financial crisis. He said progress is being made in the right direction to get the country back on track but that it will take the joint efforts of both parties to accomplish this. He stressed how important the 2012 elections are and encouraged all in attendance to vote.
Recipes, but everyday is a holiday when there is a good cook with a proven recipe in your kitchen! The more, the merrier! Recipes are a dime a dozen online these days but local recipes, by people you know, using local ingredients, are in themselves a history of sorts. A big thank you goes out to all who helped and are a part of the Gibson County Business Journal and Historical Review. Your local newspapers are here weekly to document the lives and legacies of our citizens. And we thank you for the privilege. A. Jackson
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husband with cupcakes. Yes, cupcakes. Although I knew they were a trendy food item right now, I had no idea they could be used as weapons. But apparently a box of them was sitting on the counter in the kitchen where the couple were arguing. The argument seems to have escalated to the point that the wife was hitting her husband on the hand, but that being insufficient to make her point, she unleashed a barrage of cupcakes at him, striking him, according to the police report, on the head, arms and upper body. Women do the darndest things when they’re angry, don’t they, especially when they are angry at their significant others. They can’t just stab or shoot them to express their anger and frustration. No, some go to great lengths to be creative in their cruelty. Like the woman from Washington state, for example, who began cutting her husband’s shoulder with his reciprocating saw while he was sleeping. After he awakened just in time to save his neck, she told him she had gotten the saw out to try to keep an intruder from escaping through her daughter’s bedroom window. Both her husband and the police failed to see how cutting her husband’s head off would have accomplished that purpose. Some women seem to be fond of tying men up before battering them. A Wisconsin woman talked her husband into allowing her to blindfold him and tie his hands to their
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bedpost. She then put a plastic bag over his head and began pummeling him over the head with a dumbbell. She wasn’t trying to kill him, however, she said. She was only trying to get him to stop yelling at her. It worked. A Utah woman promised her husband “a surprise” if he would allow her to tie him up. He enthusiastically submitted, whereupon she struck him hard over the head with a hammer. Surprise! And then there is the unfortunate Wisconsin married man who had at least three girlfriends on the side. His wife found out about them and called each one of them, telling all. The four then hatched a plot that involved one of them taking him to a motel, blindfolding him and tying him to the bed. That’s when the others showed up, and shortly thereafter one of them got out the Krazy Glue. They all left after he started screaming. In New York, a Muslim woman slashed her husband’s neck with a kitchen knife because, she claimed, he had made her eat pork, wear short skirts and drink alcohol in violation of her religious beliefs. In Texas, a woman became so angry with her husband about what she considered a sub par romantic encounter that she attacked him with a pair of scissors. Of course, true love being what it is, he refused to press charges despite cuts to his chest, leg and hand. Love hurts, sometimes pretty badly. A New York woman poured boiling water on her sleeping husband in order, she told police, to stop him from cheating on her. A Maine woman beat her husband with a baseball bat while he was sleeping, then slightly wounded herself with a gun in order to make the incident look like a home invasion. The reason? She
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was afraid he was going to leave her. Of course most domestic violence directed at men is not so colorfully carried out, or at least, we don’t think it is, but we don’t really know, because most male domestic abuse victims are too embarrassed to report it. It drives feminists crazy to hear this, but a number of recent studies show women to be equally aggressive when it comes to domestic abuse. Most people joke about it, but such attacks are a reality for the 250,000 men who are kicked, beaten, punched, stabbed, bludgeoned and shot by their significant others every year. We all know horror stories about abused women who don’t fight back or report violence against them, but the same thing happens to male abuse victims. Some men fear that if they started hitting back, they would never stop. Others think, for good reason, that no one would believe their side of the story if they told it and that they would end up being accused of abuse themselves. Still others remain silent out of embarrassment. Police officers are symbols of manhood in America. How do you walk up to one and report that your wife just beat you up? Very few men do. And so it goes; the vicious cycle spins on and on and on. On both sides of the bed, as husbands and wives break each other’s bones as well as their hearts, hurting each other so badly the pain rolls down the generations, and their children learn the worst lesson possible, that family violence is a part of normal life. So they, the children of such unions, grow up to abuse their own spouses and children, who in turn, grow up to abuse theirs, who in turn . . . It never stops. A line from one of W. H. Auden’s long ago poems comes to mind, “. . . hearts that we broke long ago, have long been breaking others.”
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