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With Burns Night on January 25,
Michael Alexander hears about the remarkable night in 1834 when a surgeon robbed Robert Burns’ grave and stole his skull in the name of science.
While the poetry of Robert Burns is mainly moving, melancholic and thoughtful, studies of his works suggest that the spectre of death was never far from his thoughts with references to epitaphs, reflections and musings on the dead.
Now here’s Sheridan Media’s look back in time, to 100 years ago, by reporter Pat Blair as published in the Sheridan Enterprise newspaper on Jan. 16, 1921.
Fire of undetermined origin, originating in the rear of the frame building occupied by the United States Army Goods store adjoining the Masonic Temple, this afternoon threatened to consume the entire block of business houses on Main street between Loucks and Brundage.
Fifteen hundred persons yesterday visited the large plant of the J. W. Denio Milling Company on the Big Horn Road southwest of Sheridan.
Mrs. Claude Peterson, accompanied by her daughter, Helen, and mother, Mrs. John Syme, left today for Omaha. Mrs. Peterson will remain with her parents there until she has fully recovered after having recently undergone an operation for appendicitis.