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Show Page June HILL TOP TIMES 10 15, 1973 O Q O her fallen husband when he sold to American Bell was injured while firing a Telephone Company, Musketeers cannon in the Revolutionary and General VVestinghouse Napoleon had a black War. But, have you heard of Electric. general who was the son of a Deborah Gannett? Debra He didn't even go to college. French nobleman and a black Gannett was a Black woman He just worked with various woman from Santo Domingo. who wanted to fight for kinds of machineryof all of his Known as the Mulatto American ways to life, and thought Independence. So, General, he was strong as a in 1781 she dressed better. work make things up like a n for his man bull and in the and enlisted Surgeon ability as a soldier. But he was Massachusetts Militia. Using The first successful open-heaalso known for his political the name Robert Shurliff, surgery was performed views which got him out of Deborah Gannett served as a Daniel by a black man Napoleon's army. soldier for 17 months. This famous black General After the Deborah was was Alexandre Dumas, the in need of war, so she apmoney, father of one of the greatest plied for the that pension French writers of all time, Robert Shurliff was entitled WASHINGTON (AFPS) Alexandre Dumas, the Elder. to. When the Massachusetts He wrote more than a bride investigated and the hated thousand books, including legislature probably learned the truth, they were "The Count of Monte Cristo,;' astonished but grateful; wedding cake. and custom it was smashed By and "The Three Musketeers." Deborah was over Gannett her head. This black man, in turn, was awarded a very generous This romantic tradition was the father of Alexandre pension for service to her with the best of observed Dumas, the Younger, who was country. intentions, though perhaps Inventor considered by many, of the A Black man from dazing a bride's appreciation critics of his timetobeagreater Columbus, Ohio invented a for ritual. writer than his father. Eventually smashing gave Alexandre Dumas... name new kind of telegraph that shared by three great black allowed messages to be sent to way to merely eating the and from a moving train. wedding cake as it grew into men of France. arHe died quite a few years today's ago. and most people never chitectural triumphs, heard of him because he inreportedly sometimes too vented unglamorous things, heavy for anything but small bites, let alone lifting. like: Steam boiler furnances, The automatic air sugary brakes, frosting so mechanical plastering the modern wedbrakes, and on. ding cake covers a lively past Granville T. W'oc's was his that goes back to the days of name, and in his lifetime he ancient Rome, the National Soldier Geographic Society says. You know about Molly got patents on about 150 of his At first wedding cake was Picher. the lady who replaced inventions, many of which he part of the nuptials only of upper class Romans. It was served in a ceremony known as oonfarreatio, or eating i together. The cake was plain sconelike unleavened bread made of flour, salt, and water. The bride and groom shared eating it. supposedly assuring them a life of plenty in both happiness and children. What was left of the cake and Everyday Today was then broked over the At bride's head - history is silent DON RICHARDS on whether this was the new 1883 old-fashion- old-fashion- tier-upon-ti- er ureat selection ut me best Lars PRICED TO SELL! These Are Just A Few Examples 1 '2,587 I 1973W0NTEC0 nurses. 1893 a man dying in the chest wound stab Provident into rushed was Dr. Williams, with Hospital. six assistants, opened up the man's chest and sewed up a One Hale Williams. Not surprisingly, he had to work his way through school, and in '3,486 mr ve 19S3 CUTLASS m r ..rv...v. '3,896 1 972 COUGAR 'ai XR-- 1 7 970 there is Among some American Indians, the bride was supposed to bake her unleavened wedding bread herself and then present it to her brave. At early Anglo-Saxo- n were guest of basket provided for hard biscuits small, eating and as ammunition for the bride's head. leftovers then were distributed among the weddings. a huge poor. Later, guests took to own cakes to their bringing weddings, usually spiced buns, which were stacked into an enormous pile. If the bride and groom could kiss over the top of this heap of buns, it was an omen for lifelong happiness. There is no record indicating taller newlyweds lived the happiest ever after. in coffee. Gumbo is another familiar word on the American menu, as in chicken gumbo soup. The word means "mixture" in an African dialect their parents' marriage had been solemnized in this way before at least ten witnesses, the children could never grow up to become high Roman officials. Baking marriage bread, or just throwing grains of wheat-ri- ce in the Orient - at the newlyweds, had long symbolized fertility as a part of weddings around the world. make they medicine out of it, too, because there is twice as cidentally, much caffeine in kola nuts as home with them. For any future children of the newly married couple, the breaking of bread could be critically important. Unless Explorer President April Eisenhower honored a nearly forgotten Black man, in the White House. The occasion was the 45th anniversary of the discovery of the North Pole, and the man that Ike honored was Matthew Henson. Back in the 1890s, Admiral On 6, 1954, Jazz developed in New at black funeral Orleans processions. On the way back, they hurried it up, and "jazz" in an African dialect means "hurry up." Robert Peary was looking for the right kind of people to help him locate the North Pole. He couldn't have picked a better man than Matt Henson. a Black man who had traveled the world looking for adventure. In 1908. after four failures, they decided to try one more time, and in April of Henson and Peary-reachethe pole by dogsled. Henson had the honor of placing the American Flag at the exact spot of the North 1909 Pole. Words Without realizing it, you may be using words that come from Africa. For instance, goober is an African word meaning peanut. Africans saw the sweet potato in America and it reminded them of a root that they ate in Africa. They called it "nyam," and it is believed that the candied yam got its name that way. - OVERDOING IT If you've to negtectrd keep In thape this past uinUr you run the risk of severe injury or exhaustion unlest you enter into summer fun gradually. Carol O'Neal displays the shape most men strive for. Garage Geiting Too Full? i 972 CUTLASS '2,995 19G9 MUSTANG 1 (., tr, were prized by the Roman guests not only as a snack, but as a souvenir of luck to take The popular cola drink comes from the seed of the kola tree which grew wild in Western Africa. And in- 1,497 3,196 1 DODGE from , receptions, these morsels a main artery leading the exposed beating heart. It created a sensation and this great black man, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, made history. hole in -- the cake. Just as at today's wedding day in of a husband's right - and wedding guests scrambled for pieces of During the reception, the bride was also crowned with biscuits. Just as important was an old Bulgarian custom: Bride and groom had a tug of war with the loaf of wedding bread, and whoever broke off the bigger niece was destined to be boss f the household 1,788 1971 LINCOLN '3,936 1073 tmwf 4 70 FORD LTD 1971 TORINO ed By Ed Beasley training school for black rides forsake rite he from Chicago Medical College. 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