Memorial honors Crazy Horse at Fort Robinson Nebraska
Elm o Scott Watson notes American Indian Day honors with a new monument at Fort Robinson Nebraska cut from Black Hills granite. It bears a pipe and broken weapons and a tablet recording Crazy Horse's death on September 5 1877. The piece chronicles Crazy Horse's life, battles, surrender at Fort Robinson, and the role of Dr W T McGillycuddy in his final years.
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Fort Robinson
Neb
Black Hills
South Dakota
Crazy Horse
Taushunka Witko
Red Cloud
Fetterman
Fort Phil Kearney
Wyo
Sitting Bull
Custer
Little Big Horn
Montana
George Crook
Rosebud
Nelson A. Miles
Bear Coat
Battlebutte
Wolf Mountains
Spotted Tails
W. T. McGillycuddy
Third Cavalry
Washu Wakan
Tasunka Witko
Kola
Crazy’ Horse
McGillycuddy
California
White Bull at Rosebud Battle Photographs and Crazy Horse Saga
A long narrative recounts photographs of White Bull and two Cheyenne survivors from the Rosebud battle. It details Crazy Horse’s arrest attempt, the hospitality of Spotted Tail, his injury and death guarded by American Horse, and the secret resting place of Crazy Horse with a proposed Fort Robinson memorial.
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Crazy Horse
E. A. Brininstool
Limpy
Yellow Dog
Weasel Bear
Battle of the Rosebud
T. J. Gatchell
Buffalo
Wyo
White Bull
Stanley Vestal
The Boonville Confession That Cracked a Murder Case
A Missouri reform school inmate named Frank White confessed to killing Officer Boyce after police traced a revolver from pawn tickets and confronted him with his mother present. The officer’s death near Cardinal Street had sparked a wide city manhunt and rumors of colored suspects.
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Omu
Lemuel R. Toyce
St. Louis
Potlce Smith
Cardinalstreet
Missouri Reformatory
Boyce
Boonville
Reformatory
White
Smith
Chief Smith
Officer Boyce
WNU Service
Deaf Mutes Use Sign Language Across Nations
J F Regan of Lawrence Massachusetts writes in Collier's Weekly that deaf mutes rarely use the deaf and dumb alphabet except for names and dates. They employ an indicative sign language that is faster than speech and understood in many countries aiding cross national communication.
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J. F. Regan
Lawrence
Mass
Collier's Weekly
Parachute History Reevaluated From 1783 Demo
Fragmentary text notes a 1783 demonstration by Sebastian Lenor Ally related to parachute development. The sentence hints at early experiments and historical context for parachutes but lacks full details.
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Sebastian ‘Lenorth
Bible Translation Rivalries Across Languages
An old discussion cites a Lutheran Witness piece on translation quality. A Malay native praises their Bible rendering as eloquent, while a Zulu speaker claims superiority of their own version and a Chinese Christian laments Europeans lacking Chinese scripture access.
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Theodore Graebner
Lutheran Witness
Red Cross Membership Surges in 1904 U S and Possessions
American National Red Cross enrolment for year ending June 80 1904 reached 3 802 384 in the United States and possessions an increase of 100 578 from the prior year. Over five years of the depression membership fell only small percent with a 2 72 percent rise last year. Chairman John Barton Payne called the trend reassuring as Europe faced ongoing crisis.
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American National Red Cross
United States
Red Cross
John Barton Payne
Europe
Literary Digest
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Elmo Scott Watson
Weasel
VT. McGillycuddy
Rose Bud
Louls Bordeaux
Crook
Fort Laramie
Bradley
Major Burke
Spotted Tail
Burke
Kennington
Lemley
Mahpia Yutan
Spotted Tail Agency
Missouri River
Pine Ridge Agency
Cnte
Vance An
Stor
Prophets of Gloom
Springfield Union
Raymond
Knight and the Cuckoos
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