Root beer is traditionally made from the sassafras root which American Indians used as a medicine. It started being sold in confectionary stores in the 1840s and was marketed as a medicine.
Sassafras ended as an ingredient in 1960 when the FDA banned safrole, the oil it contained. Laboratory animals developed liver damage and cancer after getting large doses.
Prodigy And Sears’ Ironic Bankruptcy — Sears, once the world’s largest retailer with the world’s tallest building, filed for bankruptcy today, Oct. 15, and is about to disappear.
Some are crediting Amazon and it’s use of mail order and the internet. The irony is that Sears became the Goliath of its day through mail order and catalogs, and that Sears through it’s involvement with the the online service Prodigy was an pioneer in the internet and e-commerce.
Fauxcahontas Warren No Cher Song — Sen. Elizabeth Warren seems strangely concerned about the Nov. 6 election in which she faces Republican Geoffrey G. Diehl and independent V. A. Shiva “The Real Indian” Ayyadurai.
The blue-eyed, once-blond Massachusetts Democrat has felt compelled to take a DNA test to lay to rest allegations that she is not part Native American as she claimed in order to advance in academia. She ended up with a $430,000 salary at Harvard and a net worth of $8.75 million as of three years ago.
Anyway, the DNA test showed she was between 0.1 percent to 1.56 percent Injun, which even at the highest percentage would not grant her any tribal status or put her in a racially protected group.
Fair garland William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit 10-15-18
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Answer to yesterday’s William Lawrence Sr Cryptowit quote puzzle: Hear, my child, your father’s instruction, and do not reject your mother’s teaching; for they are a fair garland for your head, and pendants for your neck.
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