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a Santa souvenir that would be plastered with the department store name. Robert May was the advertising executive who got this job. He decided to create an illustrated booklet that kids would keep; something that parents would read to them every single Christmas. • With the aid of artist Denver Gillen, May invented a new Christmas character named Rollo. The store officials liked the idea and the poem, but nixed the name Rollo. So it became Reginald. They didn’t like that name either. Then May’s daughter suggested a new name, Dr. Nicolas Campos which was unanimously approved. The name 1/3 page, 13xRudolph. they finally agreedBW, on was • In 1821, a children’s poem written by an 11-26-2023 Vol. 19 - No. 48 DEAR DR. CAMPOS: How did you unknown author was published in booklet form • That year, 2.4 million copies of the booklet were decide to get into chiropractic? – J.B. handed out across the country. In 1947 a friend in New York City just in time for Christmas. The of May’s named Johnny Marks put the poem to poem was called “Old Santeclaus with Much Answer: Hello J.B. – I came from a music and tried to get famous singers to perform Delight” and the illustrations depicted Santa on a chiropractic family. That does not mean my it. No one was interested in the song. Finally, sleigh being pulled by a single reindeer, leaving family members were chiropractors (not Gene Autry agreed to do the song in 1949. It toys for good girls and boys and whips for the even one), but instead that my family utilized went straight to the top of the Hit Parade. Since bad ones. chiropractic as a primary form of health care. then, over 300 different recordings have been Since I was a young child, I had thought ev• This was history’s first mention of reindeer being made, with 80 million copies sold. The song is erybody used chiropractic – not just for pain, connected to Santa. No one knows who wrote second only to “White Christmas” as the bestbut for health – because we went regularly; the poem or what the inspiration was for Santa’s selling Christmas record of all time. Burl Ives for us, it was like going to the dentist. single reindeer. Though Washington Irving had even made a movie about it in 1964. It’s one of previously written about Santa flying through the the first holiday songs children learn. Years later as a young man in my late air, he never mentioned reindeer as the means of teens, I had a fall which landed me on my • The word “reindeer” comes from the Norse propulsion. head. 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This lasted referring to the way they paw through snow to in New York, was widely republished and for eighteen months. reach edible moss and lichen on the ground. quickly became a holiday favorite. the only members of the deer Despite my family history and owing to Plastering • Moore was the first to mention eight reindeer, • Reindeer areLarry’s family where both male and female have antlers. the fact that I was young and dumb, I failed • 1/16th page, Full Color, 6x discount rate naming them Dasher, Dancer, and Prancer, to take myself Butcheck: male reindeer their antlers the fall, Prices Hours to the chiropractor. I saw an • October 29 -drop December 3, 2017 Please review Phone Number(s) in Spelling which are self-explanatory; Vixen, carefully. meaning aDouble orthopedist who took x-rays and told me while females retain13: them • Volume #44until - 49 the following female fox, known to be fleet of foot; Comet, there was nothing he could do for me. 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ers. Now, of course, not every chiropractic adjustment leads to that type of outcome – but I believe I was meant to experience it in that way. It is not uncommon for people to report miracle-like pain relief from chiropractic care. This is especially true if they have been in a bad condition for some time.
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Please accept some free advice, J.B. If you are having pain in your musculoskeletal system (joints, muscle, nerves), I urge you to give chiropractic a try. You might just find a miracle yourself.
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