How to Detox Your Body For 2007

Hey Coshocton, are you still feeling kind of woozy after this past weekend's holiday blowout? Did you wallow in a little too much salt, sugar, caffeine, sauerkraut, or booze?

As a result, are you a little puffy around your eyes and waistline?

If so, it's time to detox. Here's how.

Men Addicted To Shopping

The stereotypical worldview of compulsive shopping has always been confined to women. I've never figured out why. If you spend a morning at Home Depot, Best Buy, or a liquor store, you'll see men doing the shop until you drop shuffle.

Live Science says many men are afflicted with compulsive shopping disorder; just like our female counterparts. Sweaty palmed and looking-for-a-shopping-buzz men tend to be less emotional and more practical. I guess the researchers have never been to a music store where "practical" men will browse through hundreds of choices.

Of course, compulsive shopping leads to whole host of financial difficulties and stress. Especially, when you're low on cash or can't find your favorite bottle of tequila.

Which leads to another interesting story about men driving the growth of internet shopping. According to the Financial Times, men are opting for internet shopping because it's quick, uncrowded, and easy-to-do. This trend has retailers and malls crapping in their cash registers.

I speak from personal experience. I do 90% of my Christmas shopping online in one fifth the time it takes to slog through the maddening mall experience. Also, I've found gift giving more thoughtful because there's no hurry avoid lines and crowds.

Lads Become Drunk On Bootleg Whiskey

November 1910--With Coshocton still reeling from the Halloween riots, another surprise waited for frazzled parents.

Two ten year olds, Clifford Wolfe and Moses Fisher, were found passed out drunk in a downtown alley. The resourceful boys watched a man hide a bottle of whiskey beneath a board. Later, they helped themselves to the bootleg whiskey. After choking down the potent brew, the boys found themselves unable to walk and fell asleep. A neighbor lady found the boys and helped them home. Source: Coshocton Times

For those interested, here are teen tips on how to purchase alcohol.

Beer: Nectar of the Gods

Some news days are better than others. Particularly, when articles appear trumpeting the healthful benefits of beer.

Over at physorg.com, a study says that moderate consumption of beer can help reduce the risk of several serious diseases. Of course, this works in coordination with four other factors: no smoking, exercising, eating a healthy diet, and not being fat. Hmmm, I guess that leaves out most of America.

Yet another article points out booze's healthful benefits, but reminds us too much can flip out your liver. The article, sponsored by a liver health supplement, tells you many of the things you need to know and, of course, you should take their supplement. Save the bucks, buy the beer.

As if this weren't enough good news, read this one about how microbrew can save the world.

Whew! I'm late for my Fuller's London Porter therapy.

Alcohol Bracelets Clamp Down On Booze Hounds

In South Dakota, according to the Associated Press, the state's attorney general will be testing alcohol detecting bracelets to monitor repeat drunken drivers.

I found a couple of interesting tidbits in the story. First, the story says this product is being used in 37 states. Has anybody out there experienced this technology?

Second, this seems to be a scarlet letter of sorts. While I don't advocate that repeat offenders should be allowed to drink and drive, I'm wondering what type of fall out occurs when a person shows up at work with one of these things on. Yes, it's fitted around your ankle, but wouldn't this be noticed? A judge is quoted in the article saying he feels the bracelets are "an excellent tool to keep them (offenders) sober, keep them employed."

How well does this technology work and what do attorney's think? What happens if the technology doesn't work properly?

Also, since the bracelet monitors vapors from your skin, does this mean you'll get a visit from the police if you're at home drinking a few beers and watching a football game?

One more thing. How does an unemployed person pay for the daily monitoring fee? Does the state run up a tab and put the person into perpetual debt?

Labor Day Fireworks Show A Blast

Last night's WEBN/Toyota Labor Day fireworks show in Cincinnati packed a massive crowd. Attendance estimates range upward of one half million people who watched the 30th anniversary of the annual show.

Often, I rave about this show to the uninitiated. I've attended several shows and last night's was the best and most intense ever. If you've never attended a major fireworks show, you don't know what you're missing. Often, the Cincinnati show rates as one the largest in the nation.

The fireworks capped a wonderful Cincinnati visit.

For those of you who visit Cincinnati, we recommend a dinner outing to Nicholson's Tavern and Pub, located in downtown Cincinnati. Nicholson's features authentic Scottish pub fare and boasts of one the region's largest selections of single malt Scotch whiskey. While at Nicholson's, we sampled 25 year old single malt and dined on shepherd's pie before heading to the fireworks.

Our overnight stay at the Downtown Hilton Netherland Plaza gave us a fine primer in art deco architecture and design.

Also, not to forget the northern Kentucky side, we stopped at The Party Source, a liquor superstore which stock over 2,500 kinds of beer.

The Have's and Have Not's Enter the Tequila Kingdom

Producer Tequila Ley .925 announced Saturday that it has sold a bottle of Mexico's best-known beverage in a gold and platinum casing for a whopping $225,000.

They've chosen to not announce the well-to-do scoundrel who has copped this bottle of poor man's alcohol. Is nothing sacred?

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Beer Dumped Down City Sewers

July 1911--7,800 bottles of beer were destroyed by the city police department at the city jail; enough for every man, woman, and child in Coshocton to enjoy a bottle of beer.

The hooch had collected at the mayor's office for several months, following several police raids throughout the community.

A group of beer thirsty standers-by watched as the beer was poured down the city sewers.

I'd bet it was a time when several grown men openly weeped in unison.

Whiskey Warehouse Hijacked By Miscreants

July 1911--According to the Daily Age, the government lock on the door of the Coshocton Distilling Company was found to have been broken by some unknown "miscreants".

Whether or not and how much whiskey disappeared would not be determined until the government gauger arrived from Newark.

The liquor, formerly owned by Samuel Siegrist, was sold to J.J. Murray of Canton and locked down by the gauger pending removal. Authorities were unable to determine how long the lock had been broken, but were confident that product had been stolen.

I wonder if numerous, staggering, whiskey breathed men may have tipped them off?

Police Raid Two Businesses In Hunt For Liquor

July 1911--Two more local businesses, M & A Restaurant and the Mission Billiard Room, were raided by police in search of illegal liquor. A thorough search turned up no illegal demon brew. Authorities surmised that word of the raids had been leaked enabling the removal of illegal beverages.

A leak? Did Karl Rove have ancestors in the area?

Coshocton Police Raid Star Hotel Cafe

7-12-1911--Seventeen barrels of booze were taken from the Star Hotel Cafe during a police raid. A large crowd of lookey loo's gathered to watch the big haul. Cafe owner Ed. Rose would later be called to stand before Mayor Cassingham and face charges of violating the Rose law.

According to the Morning Tribune, "Rose is said to have been running the place wide open for the past several weeks, centennial week having been quite a harvest for him."

Beer Party At Church

Back Jan. 30, 1917, a handful of boisterous church youth held a beer party in the Methodist Church at Conesville.

Imagine the shame and guilt these youth must of felt when their cereal malt beverage indiscretion was splashed across the newspaper's front page. Also, you can imagine how the Prohibitionists must have used this as a "Witness how that Beezlebub known as beer has corrupted our innocent youth!" moment.

Who can blame them? World War I raged and I'm sure draft was on their minds.

County Dry Forces Working Toward Prohibition

In retrospect, Prohibition turned out to be a national disaster.

After perusing old newspapers, it's easy to see how active alcohol opponents were here in Coshocton. On Jan. 18, County Dry Forces held a meeting, one of many, at the Presbyterian Church.

Speaking of Prohibition, every one's favorite anti-Prohibitionist, Al Capone was born January 17, 1899.