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I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Since July is National Ice Cream Month, it’s a good time for Tidbits to bring you the “scoop” about this confection and those who peddle it. • We’ve been celebrating National Ice Cream

Month since 1984, when President Ronald Reagan proclaimed it as such in Senate Joint Resolution 298, calling upon “the people of the United States to observe these events with appropriate ceremonies and activities.” Reagan’s basis for the proclamation was that “ice cream is a nutritious and wholesome food, enjoyed by over 90% of the people,” and is “the perfect dessert and snack food.”

• It’s estimated that 98% of American house-holds buy ice cream, over 1.5 billion gallons a year, totaling upwards of $10 billion. About 9% of all the milk produced by dairy farmers in the U.S. goes to the making of ice cream.

• The origins of ice cream appear to date back to the second century B.C.. Alexander the Great is documented as a being a fan of snow and ice flavored with honey and nectar. Em-peror Nero Claudius Caesar dispatched run-ners into the mountains to obtain snow to be infused with fruits and juices.

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• In the 13th century when explorer Marco Polo returned to his native Italy from his travels in the Far East, he brought home a recipe very similar to our sherbet of today. “Cream Ice” was on the table of England’s King Charles I during the early 1600s. A Parisian café first of-fered ice cream to the public around 1600.

• Ice cream’s first official mention in North America was in a letter from a guest of the governor of Maryland. The New York Gazette featured a confectioner’s advertisement for ice cream in 1777 informing readers that the treat was available “almost every day.” Presi-dent George Washington was a great lover of ice cream, with records indicating that the chief executive spent $200 on ice cream dur-ing the summer of 1790. His personal effects at the time of his death included two pewter ice cream pots. James Madison was another president who was fond of the treat, having it served at his Inaugural Ball in 1813.

• America’s first patent for an ice cream cone was issued in 1903 to Italo Marchiony, an Ital-ian immigrant who invented his cone in New York City. The following year the St. Louis World’s Fair featured a vendor selling crisp waffle pastries, who just happened to have his booth next to an ice cream merchant. When the ice cream booth ran out of dishes, the pasty vendor stepped in, rolling his waffles into cone shapes. The rest, as they say, is history. To-day’s machines are capable of producing about 150,000 cones every day.

• There are a lot of items that are called ice cream, so what’s the difference? Under federal law, ice cream must contain at least 10% milk-fat and weigh a minimum of 4.5 lbs. per gal-lon. “French” ice cream contains that 10% as well as at least 1.4% egg yolk solids.

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• The world’s first Dairy Queen opened in Joliet, Il-linois in 1940, and within 15 years there were 2,600 locations. Estevan, Saskatchewan became home to the first Canadian store in 1953. Canada is also the site of the world’s business Dairy Queen, in Monc-ton, New Brunswick. Dairy Queen’s success is the result of developing the first formula for soft-serve ice cream, accomplished by John Fremont Mc-Cullough in 1938.

• Friends since junior high school on Long Island, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield have an enduring friend-ship. It was Jerry’s ambition to enter med school, but he couldn’t seem to get accepted into any. Ben was admitted to several colleges, but dropped out of all of them. The pair plunked down $5 to pur-chase a correspondence course on ice cream mak-ing from Penn State University. Between the two of them, they had $8,000 in savings, and with the ad-dition of a $4,000 bank loan, they set out on a new business venture. They leased a vacant gas station in Burlington, Vermont, and opened their ice cream parlor in 1978. An old spool and bobbin mill was their next location, where they first began packing their ice cream in pints. Franchises began in 1981,

and can now be found in 26 countries around the world. They achieved recognition in 1983 when Ben and Jerry’s ice cream was used to put to-gether the world’s largest ice cream sundae, one weighing 27,102 lbs. (12,293 kg).

• The first Coldstone Creamery opened its doors in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona. Just fifteen years later, the company marked the opening of its 500th store, and four years later there were more than 2,700 lo-cations worldwide. They now operate in 20 coun-tries, including Egypt, Brazil, Dubai, and Cyprus. In Japan, it’s ranked as the #1 place to work.

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• Reuben Mattus was a Polish-born New York businessman who created the Haagen Dazs ice cream formula in 1959. He devised the Dan-ish-sounding name of the product at his kitch-en table, reciting nonsensical words aloud until he found a unique and original name he liked. He wanted it to sound Danish as a trib-ute to Denmark’s admirable treatment of Jews during World War II.

• Brothers-in-law Burt Baskin and Irv Rob-bins each owned ice cream parlors in Glen-dale, California, and following their service in World War II, made the decision to merge their two businesses. Baskin and Robbins was born in 1945 and has grown to more than 6,700 locations around the world. It was their idea that there should be a different flavor for every day of the month and devised their “31 flavors” slogan from this concept. Since 1945, the company has introduced more than 1,000 assorted flavors. The career of Sean “Diddy” Combs got its start in a Baskin-Robbins com-mercial when he was just two years old.

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meat from Phoebe changed her life forever. Jack Frost invited her to participate in a shoot-ing contest where she was pitted against a well-known professional marksman, Frank Butler. In the match, Butler hit 24 out of 25 birds, but she hit them all. Ten months later the pair married when Phoebe Ann was just 16 years old.

• The Butlers settled in Cincinnati and began performing, with Annie using her stage name for the first time. Stories differ as to where she derived the name Oakley. Some say it was the name of that kind man who had paid her train fare years before, but a more likely explana-tion is that she took the name from their neigh-borhood in Cincinnati.

• The couple joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in 1885, and Annie would remain the show’s star attraction for 17 years. Here she met fellow performer, Lakota leader Sitting Bull. The two became friends and the chief nicknamed the 5-ft.-tall (1.5-m) Annie “Little Sure Shot.” She could shoot a dime in mid-air from 90 feet!

• At age 41, Annie was seriously injured in a train wreck that left her temporarily partially paralyzed. Even after five spinal surgeries, she continued to set records. At 62, she sustained critical injuries in an auto accident, but after a 1 _-year recovery, she was setting records again! But the following year, she was in frail health, and in 1926, Annie died of pernicious anemia. Devastated by grief, her husband of 50 years Frank Butler is said to have stopped eating, and he passed away just 18 days later.

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the inventor of the first artificial infant food in 1867. At the request of a friend whose in-fant could not nurse naturally or digest fresh cow’s milk, Nestlé created a mixture of malt-ed wheat and sweetened condensed milk. He was soon selling 500,000 boxes of Nestlé’s Milk Food annually. By the late 1880s, there were several brands for parents to choose from, mostly grain mixtures that were to be mixed with milk.

• A small canning company opened in rural Michigan in 1901, packaging peas, beans, and fruits. The Fremont Canning Company was owned and operated by the Frank Ger-ber family. After years of effort, by 1917, the company finally reached annual sales exceed-ing $1 million. In 1927, Frank’s son Daniel was the assistant manager of the company and father to a new baby daughter. When the family pediatrician advised Daniel and his wife Dorothy to cook, mash, and strain solid foods for baby Sally, Dorothy suggested that the canning company look into producing foods for babies. In 1928, the company, the company introduced strained peas, prunes, carrots, and spinach. Close to 600,000 cans were sold the first year.

• Gerber’s ad campaign for their new products featured a contest to find the perfect baby face to represent the company. Many elaborate oil paintings were submitted, but it was a simple charcoal sketch submitted by Dorothy Hope Smith that was chosen in 1931. The face of Smith’s tiny neighbor in Westport, Connecti-cut is one recognized by generations around the world.

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• On July 28, 1929, President John F. Kennedy’s wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, is born into a prominent New York family. In 1951, she began her first job as the Washington Times-Her-ald’s “Inquiring Camera Girl,” roaming the streets of Washington, D.C., and asking “man on the street” questions.

• On July 26, 1943, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is born in Dart-ford, Kent, England. Michael Philip Jagger attended the London School of Economics, but left without graduating in order to pursue a career in music.

• On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first baby to be conceived via in vitro fertilization, is born in Manchester, England. In December 2006, Louise gave birth to a boy, Cameron John Mull-inder, who was conceived naturally.

• On July 27, 1996, in Atlanta, the XXVI Summer Olympiad is disrupted by the explosion of a nail-laden pipe bomb in Centennial Olympic Park. The bombing killed one and injured more than 100 others. Police were warned of the bombing in advance, but the bomb exploded before the anonymous caller said it would.

• On July 24, 1567, during her im-prisonment at Lochleven Castle in Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate in favor of her 1-year-old son, later crowned King James VI of Scotland. In 1542, while just 6 days old, Mary had ascend-ed to the Scottish throne upon the death of her father, King James V.

• On July 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln informs his chief advisers and cabinet that he will issue a proclamation to free slaves, but that he will wait until the Union Army has achieved a substantial military victory. The Emancipation Proclamation had less to do with ending slavery than saving the crumbling union.

• On July 23, 1918, Della Soren-son kills the first of her seven vic-tims in Nebraska. Over the next seven years, friends, relatives and acquaintances of Sorenson died under mysterious circumstances. In 1925, Sorenson was arrested when she made an unsuccessful attempt at killing two children with poisoned cookies.

:The best-selling frozen ice cream novelty is the Klondike bar, a square of vanilla ice cream coated with a layer of Swiss choco-late. It was the invention of the Isaly family, a Swiss family living in Ohio who created the confection in 1922. They named it after the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory.

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ticed the problems that farmers faced when attempting to till soil. Because the area had formerly been woodland, the soil was rich with hummus, which clumped and clung to the blades of the plows farmers were accus-tomed to using. While repairing a broken cir-cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He employed his smith skills to fashion the steel blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed two wooden spokes, then hitched the device to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil like a charm. In fact, a farmer who happened to be observing the test run immediately put in an order for his own John Deere plow.

• In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith shop and focused on making plows. The company grew steadily and added many em-ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed of his own lack of education, John sent his children to the state’s finest schools. One of his proudest days occurred when son Charles earned the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s Commercial College in Chicago.

• With his son Charles managing the company, John found time to pursue philanthropic in-terests. He co-founded both the First Nation-al Bank and the First Congregational Church. He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, where one of his first actions – the replace-ment of the city’s open drains with a sewer pipe system – saved countless lives by reduc-ing the spread of disease.

• The original John Deere logo, registered in 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afri-ca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was re-placed with the image of a North American white-tailed deer. In the decades that fol-lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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• When a nationwide poll queried participants as to the identity of the Gerber baby, guesses included movie icons Humphrey Bogart and Elizabeth Taylor and politicians Richard Nix-on and Bob Dole. Many believed it was Sally Gerber. The baby’s identity was kept secret until 1978, when it was revealed that the Ger-ber trademark was actually Ann Turner Cook, daughter of a cartoonist. Today, 86-year-old Ann is a retired schoolteacher who resides in Florida and is a published author of myster-ies.

• In 1938, the Gerber company established a customer relations department to address consumers’ questions. Little 10-year-old Sally Gerber was the first customer represen-tative, answering each letter individually, a duty she continued even after she became a senior vice-president of the company.

• In 1941, the Gerber Company was producing one million cans of baby food every week. They abandoned the production of all adult products and began manufacturing only baby food, leading to their famous advertising slo-gan “Babies are our business…our only busi-ness.” Gerber now controls over 80% of the nation’s baby food market.

• Every July the community of Fremont, Mich-igan, population 4,500, booms to more than 125,000 as they host the National Baby Food Festival. Famous as the home of Gerber Prod-ucts, the town celebrates for five days with a beautiful baby photo contest, parades, bubble gum blowing contests, and adult baby food eating contests. The county chaplain presides over a Blessing of the Babies ceremony as part of the festivities.

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