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The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read ®July 23, 2013
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fools who have gone over the falls.• Annie Edson Taylor was the first person ever to
go over Niagara in a barrel. A widowed and un-employed s c h o o l -t e a c h e r, she was 63 years old in 1901 when she pulled off the stunt on her birthday. She was strapped into a harness inside an oak wine barrel padded with cushions. A bicycle pump was used to increase the air pres-sure inside the barrel after she climbed in. Then she was towed into the river above the falls. After the plunge, she spent 17 minutes bobbing around before assistants were able to snag the barrel and pull her to shore. Emerging dazed but unhurt, she said, “No one ought ever do that again.” She was incoherent for several days afterwards. Alas, the fame and fortune she was hoping for eluded her – perhaps because she was neither young nor beau-
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tiful – and she spent the next 20 years working as a Niagara street vendor, selling photos of herself with her barrel for a penny. She died, destitute and unknown, 20 years later.
• Circus stuntman Bobby Leach went over the falls in a steel barrel in 1911, surviving with minor in-juries. While on tour with his famous barrel in New Zealand in 1925, he slipped on an orange peel on a street and fell. He broke his leg, which later had to be amputated, leading to gangrene, which killed him.
• On the 4th of July in 1928, Mr. Jean Lussier sur-vived the trip not in a barrel but in a 6-foot rubber ball lined with rubber tubes and filled with oxy-gen. The tubes had valves that could be released, providing oxygen should he become trapped be-hind the falls. He was the first person to take the trip in an inflatable device instead of the more traditional wooden barrels or steel drums. After bobbing about at the bottom of the falls for an hour, he was pulled to shore and emerged un-harmed in front of an audience of over 100,000. Afterwards he sold small souvenir pieces of the inner tubes for fifty cents each. When he ran out of authentic pieces, he peddled rubber purchased from a nearby tire store.
• 46-year-old Greek chef George Strathakis went over in 1930 to generate publicity for his book en-titled The Mysterious Veil of Humanity Through the Ages, which was a rambling incoherent treatise. His barrel was trapped behind the falls for over 14 hours before it finally broke loose. Strathakis, with only enough oxygen for several hours, suffocated. However, his pet turtle named Sonny Boy, reputed to be 105 years old and taken along for good luck, survived.
• Nathan Boya made the trip in 1961 in a steel sphere covered by six layers of rubber, which he called the “Plunge-o-Sphere.” He included 13 canisters of oxygen on the advice of Jean Lussier. He emerged unhurt to find the police waiting for him. He was fined $100 – the minimum sentence for violating the Niagara Parks Act – and he had to pay court costs of $13.
• Karel Soucek became the first Canadian to survive the plunge. In 1984 he went over in a cylindrical barrel with fiberglass moldings, liquid foam insu-lation, a two-way radio, and a snorkel for breath-ing. The fall took 3.2 seconds and the force of the fall snapped off his radio antennae, leaving him without communication. He was trapped in dan-gerous waters for 45 minutes before being pulled free. He suffered only minor injuries. He was fined $500. Six months later he was re-creating the spectacle at the Houston Astrodome in front of 45,000 spectators. His barrel was lifted to the top of the astrodome by a crane and released above a water tank only ten feet wide and ten feet deep. It hit the edge of the tank and he was killed. He was buried at the Niagara Falls cemetery. Of all the people who have gone over the falls seeking fame and fortune, he came the closest to achieving it.
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He would have earned a quarter million dollars through public appearance contracts in the year following the feat if he hadn’t died in Houston.
• Dave Munday, a mechanic and skydiving instruc-tor from Ontario, has dared the falls on several occasions. In 1985 a police officer witnessed him enter the water and immediately radioed the Hydro Control Dam upstream. They cut the wa-ter flow of the Niagara River and the water level dropped five feet in three minutes. The barrel got stuck in shallow water a mile above the rim of the falls. But Dave Munday was persistent. Later that year he tried again, this time launching himself scant yards above the falls, and made the trip suc-cessfully in an aluminum barrel equipped with video and radio equipment. In another attempt in 1990, his barrel got stuck on rocks at the very brink of the falls and he had to be rescued by a cable on a crane. In September of 1993 he tried again, this time in a converted diving bell. At age 56, became the first person to go over the falls twice.
• A Rhode Island bartender named Steven Trotter wrapped two plastic pickle barrels in inner tubes and a tarp and went over the falls in 1985. At the age of 22, he became the youngest person ever to make the trip. He was fined over $5,000 for the stunt, but he more than made up for that with his talk show fees. On the tenth anniversary of the stunt, he returned with a woman named Lori Martin and they became the first co-ed couple to go over together. This time instead of pickle bar-rels, Trotter used hot water tanks welded together, covered with Kevlar, and equipped with oxygen tanks – a contraption that weighed 900 lbs. and is reputed to have cost some $19,000. The barrel be-came trapped in a rock crevice at the base of the waterfall. Members of the fire department and the police department were able to reach the barrel and pop the hatch, releasing the two unharmed occupants. The barrel remained lodged in place for 9 days before being removed by a crane. Trot-ter later returned to reclaim the barrel, but he had to pay the costs of the rescue before they handed it over.
• In 1989, Peter DeBernardi and Geoffrey Petko-vich, Canadian residents of Niagara Falls, were the first people to go over the falls as a team, face to face in the same ten-foot steel barrel. They had known each other only a couple of months. De-Bernardi’s original partner had chickened out and Petkovich took his place. The steel-plated barrel was equipped with oxygen, two-way radio equipment, and two plexiglass windows. It was painted with the slogan, “Don’t put yourself on the edge – Drugs Kill.” The team suffered only minor injuries and refused treatment. Petkovich, who had been drinking, emerged wearing only a necktie and cowboy boots. They were promptly arrested by the Niagara Parks Police and charged with infractions.READ TIDBITS ONLINE - TrustTidbits.com
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matches are made out of white pine or as-pen wood. It takes an hour for a splint of wood to travel through the factory. • The matchbook became the “best read book in America” and the warning, “Close Cover Before Striking” became the most printed phrase in the history of the printed word. For 40 years, matchbooks were the most popular advertising medium in the nation. • Matchbooks are one of the most popu-lar collectibles in the world. In the U.S. it’s the second most popular collecting hobby after stamps. People who collect them are called phillumen-
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It was a blistering hot August Sunday afternoon in Longmont, Colorado when I walked down the aisle of the un-air-conditioned sanctuary of First Christian Church and promised to “love, honor and cherish” a lovely teen-age girl I had met in college less than a year earlier.
She was 18 and I was 19 and NO we did NOT have to get married. We thought we knew some-thing about love and were anx-ious to find out more about it, if you get my drift. And best of all, we did it with the blessing of both our families.
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At the conclusion of our hymn-sing, as the pipe organ plays the traditional wedding march, my bride and I will once again walk down the aisle to renew our vows. This time we won’t be alone. We will invite everyone in attendance who also wants to renew their vows to walk down the aisle as well. The hymn-sing, concert and vow renewal ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Celebration Center of the
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