Item - Who Discovered America?

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	The Banner Weekly — v. 9 no. 466 — page 4
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	The Banner Weekly, v. IX, no. 466, October 17, 1891 (Issue)
Author:	Gidley, Will S.
Date:	October 17, 1891
First Sentence:	It seems now that our old friend, C. Columbus, Esq., was not the first discoverer of America after all, and even Leif Erickson has got to take a back seat among the rediscoverers of a continent that had already been found and then unaccountably lost again.
Last Sentence:	Therefore, if the gentlemen in charge of the matter will kindly hurry up and decide who was the actual, bona fide discoverer of this section of the universe, and when he discovered it, and why, and who was present at the time, and the rest of the particulars, and then hustle around and sculp a monument to his memory, it will lift a big load off my mind and be an act of long-postponed justice justice besides.