2018 - Volume XVI, Issue 10 October 2018 - Volume XVI, Issue 10

Earl, Lane, Levi & Jodi Earl, Lane Levi Broker - Family Owned “Secrets For Living A Healthy, Wealthy & Happy Life…” & Jodi Broker Family Owned SIMPLY Columbus Day: October 12 PCCS “SUPERIOR Columbus Day commemorates Columbus’ famed 1492 expedition across the Atlantic 338-9017 Ocean, in which he hoped to find a naval route to India. Instead, he found an entire continent Cool Blogs, SERVICE… that was mostly unknown to Europeans at the time. Sites & Online [email protected] Resources to www.pccssf.com While other Europeans had sporadically visited the Americas earlier, and there are varied Check Out! theories of even earlier contact by East Asians, Phoenicians, and others, Columbus’ expedition triggered the great wave of European interest in the New World. Unlike the earlier visitors, ” Columbus aggressively popularized his discoveries and arranged for return voyages. Who Wants To Win Inside This Issue You The first Columbus Day celebration was held in 1792, when City celebrated the Movie Tickets? 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World. In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison An Amazing Website to Will Discover… called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus Day on the 400th Visit This Month: Take my Trivia Challenge and anniversary of the event. you could win too! • Columbus Day Trivia “IMGUR” This is one of my favorite parts of the newsletter! Each • Magic Week! “Dick Tracy” Comic Strip premiers, Oct. 4, 1931 month, I’ll give you a new trivia question. The first 2 Dick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in Imgur collects the most viral people who call my office with the correct answer will win two FREE movie tickets. • Healthy Eating: The wonders images of the week and collects of Tomato Juice & Tea! American pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent Enjoy a night out on me with someone special in your life! Take your best guess, police detective who has matched wits with a variety of colorful villains, many based on real- them all in one place for your and then call me at 338-9017! Remember, your chances of winning are better • Stories, and quotes life gangsters. (“Dick” is also American slang for detective.) Created by cartoonist Chester mindless scrolling and enjoyment. than you think! to get you inspired Gould, the strip made its debut appearance on October 4, 1931, in the Mirror. It was What we like about Imgur is it’s distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977. usually more timely than Twitter or This month’s Mega Trivia Question: • PLUS MORE … Stuff Drinking which of the following is good for the heart? from October Instagram -- more popular sharing And (of course) – October 31 networks where funny pictures and A) Marshmallow Root Tea B) Buttermilk • Thank You’s, a Cool Website, Halloween is a celebration on the night of October 31. It is most practiced in the United States memes might appear a week or C) Root Beer D) Tomato Juice Famous Quotes…AND… and Canada. Children wear costumes and go to people’s homes saying “Trick or treat!” to ask two later. HINT: You’ll find the answer in the newsletter. for candy (sweets in the UK) and people give it to them. The suggestion is: “Give me a treat or • Discounts, Specials And Use Imgur to spend some fun time Much, Much MORE! I will play a trick on you.” People mainly dress up as , witches, or other scary things for Halloween. and introduce your friends to the Keep Reading Inside… funniest For Christians, it’s the eve of All Hallows’ Day, which begins the three-day observance of . All Hallows’ Eve is a Christianized feast influenced by Celtic harvest festivals, www.Imgr.com Thank You! and pagan roots. Thanks to YOU the word is spreading! Thanks to all of Thanks for All the Kind Words! my wonderful clients who graciously refer me to their friends, family, and neighbors! My business runs on the “Very Good Job A Lot Of positive comments and referrals from people just like you. I couldn’t do this without you! A special thanks to Stains Come Out! Very all these fine folks who referred me last month… Happy With The Job!” ANITA O. - Anita O. Get Exclusive Specials When You “Like” us at www.facebook.com/pccssiouxfalls Get Inspired Healthy Talk Magic Week - October 25th to 31st: Wacky Days in Recent research indicates that “National Magic Week” proclaimed by Society of American Magicians October drinking Tomato Juice protects the To celebrate National Magic Week, we present for you two of Harry heart Houdini’s most memorable stage escape tricks. New finding: People with type 2 diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance (a precursor to diabetes) The Milk Can who drank 8.5 ounces of tomato juice a day for In 1908, Houdini introduced his own original invention, the Milk Can three weeks experienced a 30% to 40% reduction escape. In this effect, Houdini would be handcuffed and sealed inside in platelet aggregation, a key to the clot formation an over-sized milk can filled with water and make his escape behind that can trigger a heart attack. This benefit is believed to apply to a curtain. As part of the effect, Houdini would invite members of the Due to popular healthy people as well. audience to hold their breath along with him while he was inside the demand (you’ve loved Bonus: Tomato juice also reduces the risk for deep vein thrombosis can. Advertised with dramatic posters that proclaimed “Failure Means (DVT), dangerous blood clots that can occur after sitting long hours. A Drowning Death”, the escape proved to be a sensation. Houdini the previous lists), here’s soon modified the escape to include the Milk Can being locked inside the October list of fun Helpful: Drink 8 ounces of low-sodium tomato juice each day. -- a wooden chest, being chained or padlocked, and even inside another Manohar L Garg, PhD Milk can. Houdini only performed the Milk Can escape as a regular & wacky days! The Best Tea for a Sore Throat part of his act for four years, but it remains one of the effects most • 1 World Vegetarian Day associated with the escape artist. The Milk Can and the Overboard Box A sore throat occurs when the mucous membranes of your throat are presently housed at the American Museum of Magic? • 5 World Smile Day See Insert This Issue become inflamed and irritated. One natural anti-inflammatory, • 6 International Frugal Fun Get A Night Out On The Town marshmallow root, is particularly effective in soothing sore throat pain. Day With A Friend… (See the insert) Use one heaping teaspoon of marshmallow root pieces in one cup of boiling water. Let steep for 20 minutes and strain. You can safely drink • 10 Take Your Teddy Bear up to six cups daily. to Work Day For sore throats accompanied by cold and flu symptoms, try • 12 World Egg Day peppermint or ginger tea. Peppermint reduces fever by helping you • 13 International Skeptics to sweat, and ginger alleviates chills and aching muscles, and relieves Day nausea. Use one teaspoon of dried ginger root or dried peppermint • 14 Be Bald & Free Day leaves per cup of water. For greater convenience, tea bags also can be CONGRATS • 17 Wear Something Gaudy used. Drink 3 to 6 cups daily. – Brigitte Mars TO Day JULIE The Chinese Water Torture Cell • 25 World Pasta Day • 30 Mischief Night Due to the vast number of imitators of his Milk Can escape, in 1912 BOERHAVE Quotes for October… Houdini replaced the Milk Can with his most famous escape: the • 31 Increase Your Psychic Powers Day FOR “October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of Chinese Water Torture Cell. In this escape, Houdini’s feet would be ripeness. It is the picture-month.” - Henry Ward Beecher locked in stocks, and he would be lowered upside down into a tank Source: www.TimeandDate.com WINNING filled with water. The mahogany and metal cell featured a glass front, SEPTEMBER “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” through which audiences could clearly see Houdini. The stocks would - L.M. Montgomery be locked to the top of the cell, and a curtain would conceal his escape. MOVIE In the earliest version of the Torture Cell, a metal cage was lowered into the cell, and Houdini was enclosed inside that. While making the escape TRIVIA :-) Get Exclusive Specials When You “Like” us more difficult (the cage prevented Houdini from turning), the cage bars at www.facebook.com/pccssiouxfalls also offered protection should the front glass break. Page 2 Page 3 October 2018

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