Custer Battle Anniversary Plans Draw Wide Attention
By Elmo Scott Watson fifty years after the Little Big Horn clash, the National Custer Memorial Association plans a semi centennial celebration. The event will feature the Seventh Cavalry from Fort Bliss, Sioux and Cheyenne descendants, and a hatchet burying ceremony plus a parade from the Rosebud river to the battlefield. Congress authorized land for a monument and 30,000 for troop transportation, with leaders like General Godfrey cited among organizers. The piece covers debates over disobedience, survivors, and myths, noting Comanche as the sole true survivor and debunking numerous impostor survivors and “Custer scouts.” It highlights leaders Gall and Crazy Horse, Rain in the Face’s contested ties, and errors in arms used, while praising real acts of courage by Reno’s men and others awarded medals of honor. A 1886 survivor reunion is recalled as well as hopes for lasting peace symbolized by the ceremony.
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Little Big Horn River
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George Armstrong Custer
Custer
National Custer Memorial Association
E. 8. Godfrey
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Fort Bliss
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Little Big Horn
United States
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
Major Reno
Captain Benteen
Colonel Lee
Rosebud River
America
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A. H. Terry
Godfrey
Curley
Comanche
Myles Keogh
I Troop
Packer
Sitting Bull
Rain-in-the-Face
Gall
Crazy Horse
Two Moons
Rain-in-the- Face
Tom Custer
Brain-In-The-Face
Charles A. Eastman
Eastman
B. A. Brininstool
O. G. Libby
Department of History
University of North Dakota
Custer Batte
Rees Fied
Libby
The
North Dakota Historical Society
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Thomas O'Neill
Billy Jackson
Fred Girard
Reno
Neil Bancroft
Abram J. Brant
Thomas J. Callan
Frederick Deetline
Theodore W. Goldin
David W. Harris
William M. Harris
Rufus D. Hutchinson
James Pym
Stanislaus Roy
George Scott
Thomas W. Stevens
Frank Tolan
Peter Thompson
Charles H. Welch
George H. Geiger
Henry W. B. Mechling
Charles Windolph
Otto Volt
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Benjamin C. Criswell
Thomas Murray
Charles Cunningham
Henry Holden
Explorer mistaken for cannibal by Bororo tribe in Brazil
Francis Gow Smith, an American explorer, recounts in World's Work how Bororo Indians in northern Mato Grosso mistook him for a cannibal after he shot a deer. A Catholic missionary intervened, explaining the deer was regarded as an ancestor, and killing it for food branded the shooter a cannibal.
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Matto Grosso
Brazil
Francis Gow Smith
Mr. Smith
Restored Lawyer Question on Banknote Found
A dialogue unfolds with a lawyer asking if a banknote was restored to its owner. The prisoner responds that the note was not returned to its rightful owner but placed back into circulation.
Absolutely Lacking Self-Control Paradox of a Paragrapher
A witty note on a speaker lacking self-control invites a counterpoint about his craft. The remark teases whether the subject can manage repetition or refrain while producing paragraphs. The piece playfully tests the limits of prose and performance in a literary setting.
Save-the Sucker Fountain Pen Invented by Denison Flamingo
A new fountain pen called Save-the-Sucker is described as automatically stopping ink flow the moment the pen tip touches a dotted surface. The claim appears in Denison Flamingo reports.
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Denison Flamingo
Odd Jobs for Girls at Buckingham Palace
Mrs. Laura Bill served as housekeeper to King George and Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace. Before her elevation she was known as Lalle by the prince of Wales and had nursed the royal children for more than thirty years.
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Laura Bill
King George
Queen Mary of
England
Buckingham Palace
Lalle
Prince of Wales
Flame of Youth Ends Quietly Harold’s New Suit
A brief scene shows Harold refusing his old rental source and purchasing anew, with a nod to Goethe about action beyond mere will. The dialogue hints at changing tastes and independence in a modern setting.
Then and Now Women Problems Cited by Papers
The Detroit Free Press notes two old female woes, cigarette stains on fingers and chapped knees, while the Louisville Times contrasts modern women’s issues with snuff stains on teeth and whalebone corsets in a witty exchange about changing fashions.
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Detroit Free Press
Louisville Times
Vanity and Pride in a Travelers View
A satirical note compares Vanity to a donkeys headstrong folly while Pride is described as a capable horse that helps a traveler traverse ground and outpace companions as cited by Marryat.
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