Today, we thought we would throw in a few newspaper articles-one of which is sixty years old, and find research that show King Henry VIII may have died from something else besides that which Al Capone died from. How about the two year kid that swallowed his pet turtle. The kid lived to tell about it, but the report doesn't answer the question of "Did the turtle live too?" I then read an article in an older "Odd News" in the Salt Lake Tribune about a Thief stuffng a live 2 foot snake in his pants in a Portland, Oregon store. I kept wondering why, and wouldn't you ask the same? Although if you are younger than 50 and not from Utah, you may not understand why The Evening Post would even write about a Mormon from Utah, but others of us would. The flour produced at Juab County Mills in the 1930's may only be interesting if your Dad worked there or you and your grandma made clothes from the sacks. Oh well, history is history, but to me it is fun to see how it sometimes changes depending on the writer. Oh, by the way, we call it a Pig Bank, as cookware made in Europe before we arrived here, reported that it was made out of dense orange clay called Pygg. Those folks put coins in it and brought "Pygg Pots" to the US of A.
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