An author claimed that the first American example of this item was a lead-and-mahoganycontraption set up by Adam Thompson in Cincinnati in 1842 and shown off at a Christmas party.
An author claimed that the first American example of this item was a lead-and-mahoganycontraption set up by Adam Thompson in Cincinnati in 1842 and shown off at a Christmas party.These items were claimed to be generally accepted as healthy only after Millard Fillmore installedone in the White House in 1850, and subject to a thirty dollar annual tax in Virginia and aprohibition for nonmedical uses in Boston. These items were the subject of the 1917 Boston EveningMail article "A Neglected Anniversary," which debuted all of the aforementioned completely untruenonfacts and has been widely cited by the credulous since despite being a hoax about the history ofthese things by (*) H.L. Mencken. Longtime usher Ike Hoover's book 42 Years in the White House is theorigin of another myth about these objects, which claims that butter was used to extract William HowardTaft from one in which he had become stuck. For 10 points, identify these common focal points ofhistorical embellishments, another one of which was housing Jean-Paul Marat when he was assassinated.
An author claimed that the first American example of this item was a lead-and-mahoganycontraption set up by Adam Thompson in Cincinnati in 1842 and shown off at a Christmas party.
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