Echoes of the Custer Tragedy Recall and Relic Tales
The piece surveys surviving claims and legends around Custer's last battle of 1876, noting false survivors and famed figures. It highlights Comanche as sole authentic survivor and profiles Gen Godfrey and Grace Harrington at West Point, linking family memory to the Little Big Horn saga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmorcott Watson
George Armstrong Custer
Little Big Horn
Seventh Cavalry
Marcus A. Reno
Frederick W. Benteen
Thomas McDougal
Custer
Reno
Benteen
McDougal
Custed
Comanche
Myles W. Keogh
Troop II
H. L Nowlan
Terry
Keogh
Far West
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Fort Riley
Kan
Dyche
University of Kansas
Nome
Edward S. Godfrey
Cookstown
N. J
Godfrey
Alfred H. Terry
Ohio
Twenty First, Ohio Infantry
United States Military Academy
West Point
Leutenant
Joseph
Bear Paw Mountain
Grace Aileen Harrington
Miss Harrington
Henry Moore Harrington
Tom Custer
New York
Harrington
North Carolina
North Dakota
James E. Porter
I Troop
James R. Sturgis
E Troop
E. A. Brininstool
Blanche Berard
Polk
Europe
United States
Niles
George Washington
Academy
Dakota
Debate on an American Academy of Humor
In a Globe-Democrat letter F H Collier questions creating an American Academy of Humor and warns it may echo past humorists while now the era favors mechanics over wit. The piece recalls eras of poetry and humor from Twain to Ward and Nye before arguing for a focused humor academy.
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Mark Twain
Bob Burdette
Bill Nye
America
Shakespeare
Dante
Charles XII
Napoleon
Shelley
Keats
Tennyson
Bryant
Longfellow
Artemus Ward
Twain
Nye
Burdette
George Ade
George Fitch
American Academy of Humor
F. H. Collier
St. Louis
Harmonica Production Dominated by Germany Worldwide
More than two thirds of the world’s harmonicas are produced in Germany, a fact highlighting the country’s dominance in the instrument’s manufacture and export.
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Germany
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Hoover
Western Newspaper Union
Cadet Henry Moore Harrington
Lieut
Henr Moore Arrington
FE. S Godfrey
Goodyear
Pathfinder
Ford
Chevrolet
Chrysler Dodge
Nash
Essex
Chrysler
Buick
Academy of Humor
Samuel
Gert
Myrtle—Bow
Washington, D.C
Helen
Rinso
Ringo