Over at the sideboard at the right, there is a section of the "top ten trending posts." My parody/satire of how The New York Times and The Washington Post has remained at the top for quite some time now.
A reader did a bit of fact-checking. Don't you just love it.? Fact-checking has become such a "thing" that folks are now fact-checking satire. I love it.
A key "component" in my post was the reference to the telegraph from Minneapolis to Bismarck. Turns out I was wrong. Close, but wrong.
A reader found this, bless her heart, regarding General George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn:
Mark Kellogg, a reporter for the Bismarck Trib, was the only reporter allowed to accompany Custer.
Clement Lounsberry, Kellogg’s employer and editor of the Bismarck Tribune, was one of the first to be roused from bed with the news.
Piecing together information from an Army report and accounts of surviving soldiers from companies Custer had split from his command, Lounsberry went to work in the telegraph office.
To keep the telegraph line between Bismarck and St. Paul open, Lounsberry had the telegraph operator transmit Bible verses.
The telegraph bill was more than $3,000 — more than $68,800 today.
By early morning, a full list of killed and wounded soldiers was available. Lounsberry wrote a 15,000-word dispatch for the New York Herald, a newspaper for which he corresponded, and for an extra edition of the Bismarck Tribune, which claimed to publish the first account of the massacre in an extra edition published July 6, 1876 — 143 years ago Saturday.
Is this not a great country or what. The telegraph line from Bismarck to St Paul. And keeping the line open by transmitting Bible verses. [I remember once when I was in the USAF, we did something similar.]
Wow, I love this blog. LOL. Readers find "stuff" I would never have time to find on my own.
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