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A Sandburg Stumper
04-11-2021, 09:54 PM,
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Sorry Steve, but that's not it.

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04-12-2021, 04:50 AM,
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Theme in Yellow?
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04-12-2021, 08:59 AM,
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Sorry Roger, but that's not correct.

First clue. Sandburg was generally praised for this.

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04-12-2021, 05:18 PM,
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Second clue:

Newspapers 50 years later were still talking about it.

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04-12-2021, 05:59 PM,
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Based on that second clue, I'd have to guess Sandburg's 1919 book on the Chicago race riot of that year based on his newspaper articles.
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04-12-2021, 06:07 PM, (This post was last modified: 04-12-2021, 06:08 PM by Anita.)
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Sandburg's "Lincoln Tribute"
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04-12-2021, 09:18 PM, (This post was last modified: 04-12-2021, 09:18 PM by Rob Wick.)
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Sorry Anita, but Steve got it. Sandburg covered the 1919 race riot in Chicago for the Chicago Daily News, and while some of his writing might seem somewhat obtuse to our 21st century ears, it was one of the few times that African-Americas in Chicago were treated as human beings in the white Chicago press.

Great job Steve.

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--Carl Sandburg
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04-12-2021, 09:23 PM,
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Who was the reviewer quoted?
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04-13-2021, 11:13 AM,
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Steve,

It was written by Edith Franklin Wyatt in the March 17, 19230 edition of The New Republic.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
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12-28-2021, 10:43 PM,
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
It's been a while since I featured a Sandburg Stumper, so in honor of the new year upcoming, what is the significance of the number 1,102 to Sandburg?

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12-29-2021, 03:57 AM,
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RE: A Sandburg Stumper
Carl Sandburg has 1,103 published poems. So I think the question is referring to that.
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12-29-2021, 10:12 AM,
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For some reason my initial post didn't take. Steve is correct that this is the.number of poems Sandburg published. The figure I saw doesn't include a poem found in Sandburg's papers at the University of Illinois in 2013.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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12-29-2021, 01:32 PM,
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It’s good to see the Sandburg stumper back in rotation again!
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02-18-2022, 06:38 PM,
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No googling, please.

Carl Sandburg and Ida Tarbell obviously had Abraham Lincoln in common. But they also had something else in common completely unrelated to Lincoln. What was it?

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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02-18-2022, 07:04 PM,
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They were both muckrakers?
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