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"Also, my Great Grandfather was present during this gunfight, please check out the blog I just posted about it...   Boss Neff and the Panhandle part V.    "

" Besides bathing, Charley's tent was the most kept. His friends knew and newcomers often went just to look and see. "

"Dick Tracy.  B. O. married Gravel Gertie. Tracy once made a 'guest appearance' in the Smilin' Jack strip.  He was also parodied by Al Capp as 'Fearless Fosdick' in the Li'l Abner strip."

"By the 1600s most of the groundwater was so polluted all over Europe that it was risky even to bathe in the stuff, much less drink it.  Folks drank beer or wine rather than water.  When the Pilgrims landed they nearly died of thirst…"

"  The  still made grand daddy of perfumes was Kolnisch Wasser 4711  or Cologne Water .It is the same formula as the original compounded in the 1790's.Peynaud's Lilac Vegetal   is also a very old one that is still…"

"The term 'body odor' or 'BO' wasn't coined until the 1930s.  That's also when the 1st deodorants came into use.  Folks used 'scents' to avoid stinking before that.  One of the most popular for…"

"  It depended upon what class you were among the Romans.They had rather sophisticated indoor plumbing and their public baths were marvels.When Christianity really took hold during the decline of both the governmental and real infrastructure of…"

"I grew up in Ash Fork, Arizona on old Route 66. We lived there from 1947-1955 and at the time all the water was hauled in daily by rail from Chino Valley. We lived in a 2-room trailer house with no plumbing and we hauled water in buckets up to…"