Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston, Buffalo, Detroit, Columbus, Nashville, Birmingham, Jackson (Miss.), Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Fresno (Calif.), Sacramento, Oakland, Amarillo, Tulsa, Lincoln (Neb.), Minneapolis...
Shields' face whitened, a spurt of scarlet doused his shirtfront, he tumbled to the ground. The onlookers were men of stone. Suddenly they all laughed loudly. Chagrined and crestfallen. Shields got to his feet. The laughter was hectic and cruel. Abraham Lincoln had loaded his musket with squashy, scarlet-juiced pokeberries...
...this fashion, last fortnight, did Nicholas B. Jones. 87, Civil War veteran of Enid, Okla.. describe a Lincoln-Shields duel near Springfield, Ill. He said it took place in 1861, when Shields, later Civil War general and Senator from Illinois and Missouri, was state auditor. Letters deriding him appeared in the Springfield Journal. He accused Lincoln, who refused to retract. According to the accepted ver sion of the Lincoln-Shields affair, broadswords were chosen and a site on the Missouri shore some 50 miles away. But friends interceded, prevented the duel...
Since the actual date of the Lincoln-Shields affair was 1842, when Veteran Jones was not more than one year old, historians felt convinced that Veteran Jones was more of a Munchausen than an eyewitness...
Married. Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr., brother of Mrs. Millicent Rogers Ramos (onetime Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten) and son of Col. Henry H. Rogers, onetime Standard Oil partner of John D. Rockefeller; to Virginia Lincoln, daughter of Dr. William R. Lincoln of Cleveland; in Cleveland...