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...press dispatch from Sioux Falls, S. Dak. relates the treatment accorded Hans, an innocent little American dachshund dog by some children,* because of the dog being of German descent, or rather because the breed was developed in Germany...
Died. Chief White Wolf, 72, one of the survivors of South Dakota's Wounded Knee Massacre; in an automobile crash, while en route to Washington to ask Congress to pay damages for the 1890 slaughter of Sioux by U. S. troops; in Bedford...
Birthdays. Brigadier General William Henry Bisbee, U. S. A., retired, 100, veteran of the Civil War, Sioux Indian campaigns, keen student of World War II, who received from the War Department the Order of the Purple Heart and from President Roosevelt a letter of felicitation; William Libbey Sexton, oldest living alumnus of Princeton University, 95; Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, onetime Kaiser of Germany. 81; James Clark McReynolds, senior Supreme Court Justice, 78; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President...
...Smith out of his seat, had customers in profusion and the house in an uproar. On the opening night of the Vanities, when Carroll's prettiest girls went down into the aisles to play Patticake, they glad-eyed everybody from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt to an old man from Sioux City, but not a soul would play...
Died. Major General Omar Bundy, U. S. A., 78, much-decorated veteran of 40 years of campaigning (Sioux Indians, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, World War I-in which, to a French order to retire at Chteau-Thierry, he replied: "We are going to counter-attack." and did); after a two-year illness; in Washington...