Word: marches
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Haven't seen a western yet that was as much fun as your March 30 article. I move we all get back to reading...
...debunking of Western badmen in your March 30 issue included too many errors to be ignored. If Wild Bill Hickok was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe in the year 1890, he was there in spirit only. Wild Bill was killed on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1876 in the Number Ten Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Nonentity Jack McCall. The carets Bill was holding fell to the floor face up-aces and eights, known ever after as the "dead man's hand...
Your accurate reporting of the civil and religious persecution of Protestants in Franco's Roman Catholic Spain fails to note that this policy had the full approval of the Vatican [March 30]. You have given the U.S. a glimpse of what could happen here under the domination of a politically minded, autocratic church and subservient politicians...
...jingoism got a big lift when I read about that increasingly famous institution, the Hingham town dump, an out-of-door cracker barrel where you meet your friends and neighbors of a Sunday [March 30]. Our youngest son, at the age of four, used to ask every out-of-town guest in true booster fashion, "Have you seen the dump...
Your interesting article on Hawaii in the March 23 issue is incomplete in omitting the happenings between 1893 and 1898. My recollection is that Hawaii was annexed, then dis-annexed, due to differences of opinion and understanding between Liliuokalani and President Grover Cleveland and U.S. Commissioner "Paramount" Blount. The latter acted too hastily. The Republicans made much of this to the tune of Little Annie Rooney...