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General Category => The Good Old Days => Topic started by: W. Gray on April 27, 2011, 04:45:22 PM

Title: Dr. Livingston, I Presume
Post by: W. Gray on April 27, 2011, 04:45:22 PM
From the Longton Weekly Ledger, February 4, 1874:

Dr. Livingston, the African explorer who has been believed to be dead for many months past, is now believed to be alive somewhere in the interior of the Dark Continent.



Title: Re: Dr. Livingston, I Presume
Post by: W. Gray on July 19, 2011, 07:13:26 PM
Henry M. Stanley, a reporter for the New York Herald found Dr. Livingston(e) in darkest Africa supposedly asking the famous question "Dr. Livingston I presume."

The town of Stanley, Kansas, in the metropolitan area of Kansas City around Overland Park was named after the famed journalist.