Podcast appearances and mentions of james gordon bennett

In this week's episode in our Heiress Tour, we explore the life and legend of James Gordon Bennett, Jr., known internationally for his sporting, sailing, and spending. His is a story you won't soon forget – like the expletive that is named for him. Bennett is the man to blame for a great deal of the coming age in Newport R.I. when he establishes The Casino in 1880. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today's episode features: James Gordon Bennett, Founder of the New York Herald Sponsored by: 2 Complicated 4 History podcast Check out the show here: 2c4hpod.com Produced by: Primary Source Media

On the western side of Paris, France, not far from the Eiffel Tower, is Cimetière de Passy, a small cemetery where a simple mausoleum whose doors are topped by an owl sits among its fellow graves in a most unassuming manner. Yet the story of the man who rests inside this mausoleum is one straight from the Gilded Age and had fate delt him a different hand, his remains may have been laid to rest in America in a very different mausoleum; one that would have gained world-wide fame had it been built. This week Jennie and Dianne are joined by retired librarian Elizabeth Broman as she tells the story of James Gordon Bennett Jr., an American newspaper publisher and editor, who at one time planned to spend eternity inside a giant owl-shaped mausoleum, the likes of which had never been seen or imagined. Discover the twists of fate that led to his burial in Paris, rather than on a hill overlooking the New York City skyline. Prepare to be transported to the Gilded Age, where ambition and eccentricity intertwined, in a story that sheds light on the Extraordinary amidst the Ordinary.

In het boek ‘Kalle - De memoires van Abel Sikkink' neemt schrijver Bert Wagendorp je mee in het levensverhaal van een journalist in de negentiende eeuw. Oude bekenden als dichter Walt Whitman en krantentycoon James Gordon Bennett keren terug in een verscheurd Amerika en de glamour van de New Yorkse theaterwereld. Wagendorp is journalist voor De Volkskrant en hoofdredacteur van het literaire wielertijdschrift De Muur. Presentatie: Elisabeth van Nimwegen

William Thompson certainly was not the first person involved in the con game. We can assume people have been tricking and cheating each other likely since there were people to trick and cheat. We really don't know a whole lot about William's life. He just sort of pops up in the historical record when he starts getting noticed around the streets of New York City -- which, as you might imagine, is not good for the con business. He may have been small time, but he was the guy responsible for helping coin the term, confidence man -- or con man.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Seguro que, a la mayoría, sino a todos los seguidores de este canal, nos encantan las carreras. Pero ¿sabes cuándo se inventaron? ¿Sabes cómo fueron en su principio? ¿Sabes cómo evolucionaron hasta las carreras tal y como las conocemos hoy día? Todo eso y mucho más te lo vamos a contar hoy. El principio de todo. Se considera como el primer automóvil al Benz-Patent Motorwagen de 1885 y se considera la primera carrera de “carruajes sin caballos” que era su denominación oficial, a la carrera de París a Rouen de 1894, con una distancia, considerable para la época, de 127 km. En esta primera carrera había coches con motores térmicos, pero también eléctricos y de vapor. Primera curiosidad de las muchas que habrá en este vídeo: el más rápido fue el modelo presentado por el Marqués de Dion y su mecánico George Bouton, que era de vapor, segunda curiosidad, que la media fue del más rápido fue de 18,67 km/h. Y una tercera curiosidad, que no hubo un ganador sino dos, porque la prueba acabó con un empate entre el modelo presentado por los hermanos Peugeot y un Panhard-Levassor. Periodismo y competición. Esta primera prueba nace porque un periodista Pierre Giffard de Le Petit Journale, la convocó para mostrar al mundo, hasta dónde se había desarrollado la industria del automóvil, que era visto por mucha gente como algo caro, complejo y peligroso. Pero fue otro periodista, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., millonario estadounidense y propietario del periódico New York Herald el que dio un impulso a las carreras, convocando la “Copa Gordon Bennett”. “Tonto el último”. El esquema de las carreras era simple, simplicísimo: Se juntaban todos en una ciudad para ir a otra y, como dicen los niños, “tonto el último”. Y ¡hala! ¡A correr! Ni se cerraban las carreteras, ni había circuitos cerrados ni casi autoridades que avisasen a los otros usuarios de las vías de lo que se les venían encima… La primera Copa Gordon Bennett se celebró el 14 de junio de 1900 uniendo Paris y Lyon. La segunda de 1901 unía París y Burdeos, nada menos que 520,7 km que el ganador Leonce Giradort con su Panhard recorrió a 63,63 km/h… “La carrera de la muerte”. Me refiero a la carrera que comenzó el 24 de mayo de 1903 y que debía unir la capital francesa con la capital de España, la París -Madrid. Hubo ¡más de 300 inscritos! Eran tres etapas que hacían un total de 1.307 km, una barbaridad en esa época. Las etapas eran Versalles-Burdeos: de 552 km, Burdeos-Vitoria: de 335 km y Vitoria-Madrid: de 420 km. A los 60 km de comenzar llega el primer accidente y la primera víctima: Una mujer muere atropellada. Pero los accidentes se suceden y en uno de ellos fallece Marcel Renault, fundador de la marca que lleva su apellido. En total, en solo una etapa, habían fallecido 7 personas. Cerrar las carreteras: Paso previo. Se abandonan las carreras “en línea” de una ciudad a otra y se van sustituyendo por circuitos a los que hay que dar varias vueltas. Estos circuitos solían ser carreteras que se cerraban al tráfico para la ocasión… Nacen los rallyes. Se puede decir que las primeras carreras de las que hemos hablado se parecen más a los Rallyes que a las pruebas en circuito. Justo antes de la Gran Guerra nace una especialidad muy particular denominada rallie o rallye, que en ingles quiere decir algo así como encuentro o reunión y con cierta vocación turística. Y así nace en 1911 el Rallye de Montecarlo.La ventaja de los rallyes es que podías correr con un coche de calle, no como en los circuitos, lo que abarataba mucho la participación. ¡Vive la France! Antes de seguir quiero hacer un homenaje a los franceses, que se puede decir que fueron sino los inventores, desde luego los que más hicieron por la popularización de las carreras de coches en sus inicios. De los Grand Prix a la F1. Para las carreras de coches de la máxima categoría, con los coches más sofisticados y veloces, se comienza a usar la denominación Gran Premio nacida en 1906. Hubo muchas carreras de G.P. bajo muchos reglamentos diferentes, pero al final, el reglamento llamado Fórmula 1 es el que si impone… Disciplinas muy distintas. No, no me voy a olvidar de las carreras norteamericanas, como las 500 millas de Indianápolis y los circuitos ovales. Ni mucho menos de los Turismos de Carretera, una especialidad que, probablemente, sea la más pura de todas y cuna de grandes campeones. Pero a día de hoy, simplificando, se puede decir que hay tres disciplinas: La velocidad, la resistencia y los rallyes. Coche del día. ¡Una verdadera joya! Vamos a elegir el Renault 35 CV con el que Ferenc Szisz ganó el primer G.P., que se llamaba así por cierto por que el ganado se embolsaba 45.000 francos franceses. Un coche precioso y espectacular.

Motivatore: James Gordon BennettMotivazione: Tu hai forza di volontà

Mike Dugan is a 27-year veteran of the FDNY and served as the captain of Ladder Company 123 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. As a lieutenant, he served in Ladder Company 42 in the South Bronx. While assigned as a firefighter in Ladder Company 43 in Spanish Harlem, Dugan received the James Gordon Bennett medal in 1992 and the Harry M. Archer Medal in 1993---the FDNY's highest award for bravery. Captain Dugan is also a longtime instructor at FDIC. He is a contributing editor to Fire Engineering magazine and also on the FDIC and Fire Engineering Executive advisory boards. Mike is a nationally featured lecturer on topics such as: truck company operations, building construction, size up and today's fire service. Lastly, Mike was also the recipient of the "Tom Brennan Lifetime Achievement Award at FDIC 2021. 

On deadline day Paul and Andy are joined by European football expert Kevin Hatchard and a H&J deadline day regular Crackers outside the Tottenham training ground for absolutely no reason whatsoever! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The original broadcast date for this episode of the Leadership Under Fire Optimizing Human Performance Podcast was January 10, 2019. In 2018, Lieutenant Conboy was recognized with the FDNY's highest annual award (James Gordon Bennett) for valor he displayed in the rescue of occupants at a fire in the South Bronx. He recently received the FDNY's most prestigious award for valor – the Dr. Harry Archer Medal. Lieutenant Conboy has more than 35 years with the FDNY. He is presently assigned to Rescue Co. 3 in the Bronx and previously served as a Lieutenant in Squad Co. 41 and a firefighter in Engine Co. 79, Ladder Co. 37 and Rescue Co. 3. Lieutenant Conboy is an Adjunct Instructor at the FDNY Fire Academy and the FDNY's Technical Rescue School. He was instrumental in the development of the course curriculum for Advanced Firefighter Victim Removal training for FDNY Special Operations Command firefighters and officers. External recognition aside, he's also experienced quiet moments of accomplishment and fulfillment in the fire service and in his personal life as a father and grandfather.

Episode 15: Newspapers, Nudity and Newport – The Gilded Life of James Gordon Bennett, Jr.

COMING SOON New York, 1835: A city at its tipping point. It’s ten years since the completion of the Erie Canal. New York City’s population is now over 270,000. Most of these people live below Fourteenth Street in wooden or brick buildings no taller than five stories. The gap between rich and poor is rapidly expanding as each week thousands of new men and women pour onto New York’s dangerously overcrowded streets. Many come to earn an honest living. Others for more nefarious reasons. ___________ As New York grows, widening old streets and creating new ones is paramount. It raises property value, but property taxes can only increase if the land is improved upon. Buyers are purchasing land on credit and selling to someone new before needing to pay back the original balance. This artificial inflation is creating a very unstable economy. ___________ The city has no reliable source of drinking water. Although New Yorkers vote in favor of the Croton Aqueduct in April, construction is yet to begin. The aqueduct needs to be paid for. That same month, officials place a twenty-four hour guard in the cupola of City Hall to ring a large bell and hang a light in the direction of any fire. The potential for a cholera epidemic or a crippling blaze is a constant source of fear. ___________ These fears are stirred by the City’s penny papers, chiefly The Sun and The New York Herald, whose publishers Benjamin Day and James Gordon Bennett are battling for readership. In August, this battle leads to the greatest literary hoax of the nineteenth century—fooling both layman and scholar—portending the existence of intelligent life on the Moon. ___________ Even as he calls the hoax remarkable, Phineas T. Barnum is orchestrating one of his own. With the help of William Niblo, Barnum is set to display a woman named Joice Heth: Ms. Heth claims to be the one-hundred-sixty-one year-old nursemaid of George Washington. Remarkable indeed. ___________ New York is a powder keg. On the frigid, blustery night of December 16th, 1835, it finally explodes as the worst fire in city history sweeps through Manhattan. The East River is frozen solid. The undermanned and exhausted team of volunteer firefighters are no match. Everything south of Maiden Lane and east of Broad Street—the chief merchant district and the one with the highest property value—turns to ash. The fire causes the modern equivalent of $500 million in damages. The official investigation finds it to have been caused by a leaky gas valve near a lit coal stove. No public blame is assigned. But what if New York’s greatest fire was no accident? ___________ Coming soon to your favorite podcast app: Burning Gotham, the new audio drama about the fastest growing city in the world, and the opportunists who shaped it.

It’s the Spring of 1835. We’re at the offices of The New York Sun, published by Benjamin Day and edited by George Wisner. When the Sun launched in 1833, it became New York’s first successful one-cent newspaper. Prior to the Sun’s launch, the most widely-read city papers were the Courier and Enquirer, Evening Post, Evening Star, and Commercial Advertiser. The City’s eleven merchant papers had a combined circulation of only 26,500. All were produced within a few blocks of each other near Wall Street, William and Nassau. The papers covered foreign affairs, Washington dealings, and little of local culture. But, by 1833 as New York City’s population soared passed two-hundred thousand, you’d have heard English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and any number of other foreign languages on the streets of New York. These six-cent merchant papers were missing an opportunity, and Benjamin Day stepped in. The New York Sun was dramatically different. It was smaller in size, and just below the nameplate was the price: ONE PENNY. Many of the reports on tariffs and trade politics were replaced by stories littered with sex, romance, intrigue, violence, and death. The Sun’s daily circulation soon reached over ten thousand. Then an old rival, James Gordon Bennett, launched a new penny paper—The New York Morning Herald—and his readership was catching up.Benjamin Day needed help. He wanted an editor capable of captivating the entire city, and changing the literary landscape in New York forever. With a well-timed hire, and a well-timed fire, Benjamin Day will get his wish. ___________Coming soon to your favorite podcast app, Burning Gotham, the new scripted audio fiction set in 1835 New York City. Subscribe everywhere you get your podcasts by searching for Burning Gotham, or go to BurningGotham.com.

It’s the Spring of 1835. We’re at the offices of The New York Sun, published by Benjamin Day and edited by George Wisner. When the Sun launched in 1833, it became New York’s first successful one-cent newspaper. Prior to the Sun’s launch, the most widely-read city papers were the Courier and Enquirer, Evening Post, Evening Star, and Commercial Advertiser. The City’s eleven merchant papers had a combined circulation of only 26,500. All were produced within a few blocks of each other near Wall Street, William and Nassau. The papers covered foreign affairs, Washington dealings, and little of local culture. But, by 1833 as New York City’s population soared passed two-hundred thousand, you’d have heard English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and any number of other foreign languages on the streets of New York. These six-cent merchant papers were missing an opportunity, and Benjamin Day stepped in. The New York Sun was dramatically different. It was smaller in size, and just below the nameplate was the price: ONE PENNY. Many of the reports on tariffs and trade politics were replaced by stories littered with sex, romance, intrigue, violence, and death. The Sun’s daily circulation soon reached over ten thousand. Then an old rival, James Gordon Bennett, launched a new penny paper—The New York Morning Herald—and his readership was catching up. Benjamin Day needed help. He wanted an editor capable of captivating the entire city, and changing the literary landscape in New York forever. With a well-timed hire, and a well-timed fire, Benjamin Day will get his wish. ___________ Coming soon to your favorite podcast app, Burning Gotham, the new scripted audio fiction set in 1835 New York City. Subscribe everywhere you get your podcasts by searching for Burning Gotham, or go to BurningGotham.com.

COMING SOON New York, 1835: A city at its tipping point.It’s ten years since the completion of the Erie Canal. New York City’s population is now over 270,000. Most of these people live below Fourteenth Street in wooden or brick buildings no taller than five stories. The gap between rich and poor is rapidly expanding as each week thousands of new men and women pour onto New York’s dangerously overcrowded streets. Many come to earn an honest living.Others for more nefarious reasons.___________As New York grows, widening old streets and creating new ones is paramount. It raises property value, but property taxes can only increase if the land is improved upon. Buyers are purchasing land on credit and selling to someone new before needing to pay back the original balance. This artificial inflation is creating a very unstable economy. ___________The city has no reliable source of drinking water. Although New Yorkers vote in favor of the Croton Aqueduct in April, construction is yet to begin. The aqueduct needs to be paid for. That same month, officials place a twenty-four hour guard in the cupola of City Hall to ring a large bell and hang a light in the direction of any fire. The potential for a cholera epidemic or a crippling blaze is a constant source of fear.___________These fears are stirred by the City’s penny papers, chiefly The Sun and The New York Herald, whose publishers Benjamin Day and James Gordon Bennett are battling for readership. In August, this battle leads to the greatest literary hoax of the nineteenth century—fooling both layman and scholar—portending the existence of intelligent life on the Moon.___________Even as he calls the hoax remarkable, Phineas T. Barnum is orchestrating one of his own. With the help of William Niblo, Barnum is set to display a woman named Joice Heth: Ms. Heth claims to be the one-hundred-sixty-one year-old nursemaid of George Washington. Remarkable indeed. ___________New York is a powder keg. On the frigid, blustery night of December 16th, 1835, it finally explodes as the worst fire in city history sweeps through Manhattan. The East River is frozen solid. The undermanned and exhausted team of volunteer firefighters are no match. Everything south of Maiden Lane and east of Broad Street—the chief merchant district and the one with the highest property value—turns to ash.The fire causes the modern equivalent of $500 million in damages. The official investigation finds it to have been caused by a leaky gas valve near a lit coal stove. No public blame is assigned. But what if New York’s greatest fire was no accident?___________Coming soon to your favorite podcast app: Burning Gotham, the new audio drama about the fastest growing city in the world, and the opportunists who shaped it.

COMING SOON New York, 1835: A city at its tipping point. It’s ten years since the completion of the Erie Canal. New York City’s population is now over 270,000. Most of these people live below Fourteenth Street in wooden or brick buildings no taller than five stories. The gap between rich and poor is rapidly expanding as each week thousands of new men and women pour onto New York’s dangerously overcrowded streets. Many come to earn an honest living. Others for more nefarious reasons. ___________ As New York grows, widening old streets and creating new ones is paramount. It raises property value, but property taxes can only increase if the land is improved upon. Buyers are purchasing land on credit and selling to someone new before needing to pay back the original balance. This artificial inflation is creating a very unstable economy. ___________ The city has no reliable source of drinking water. Although New Yorkers vote in favor of the Croton Aqueduct in April, construction is yet to begin. The aqueduct needs to be paid for. That same month, officials place a twenty-four hour guard in the cupola of City Hall to ring a large bell and hang a light in the direction of any fire. The potential for a cholera epidemic or a crippling blaze is a constant source of fear. ___________ These fears are stirred by the City’s penny papers, chiefly The Sun and The New York Herald, whose publishers Benjamin Day and James Gordon Bennett are battling for readership. In August, this battle leads to the greatest literary hoax of the nineteenth century—fooling both layman and scholar—portending the existence of intelligent life on the Moon. ___________ Even as he calls the hoax remarkable, Phineas T. Barnum is orchestrating one of his own. With the help of William Niblo, Barnum is set to display a woman named Joice Heth: Ms. Heth claims to be the one-hundred-sixty-one year-old nursemaid of George Washington. Remarkable indeed. ___________ New York is a powder keg. On the frigid, blustery night of December 16th, 1835, it finally explodes as the worst fire in city history sweeps through Manhattan. The East River is frozen solid. The undermanned and exhausted team of volunteer firefighters are no match. Everything south of Maiden Lane and east of Broad Street—the chief merchant district and the one with the highest property value—turns to ash. The fire causes the modern equivalent of $500 million in damages. The official investigation finds it to have been caused by a leaky gas valve near a lit coal stove. No public blame is assigned. But what if New York’s greatest fire was no accident? ___________ Coming soon to your favorite podcast app: Burning Gotham, the new audio drama about the fastest growing city in the world, and the opportunists who shaped it.

On this episode, John C. Wreck-it Bennett’s leaving the church, Nauvoo Legion, and city government left a massive vacuum in his absence. James Gordon Bennett and James Arlington Bennet are appointed to offices to fill his place. We discuss who these guys were, how they found out about Mormonism, and what their places were within the movement after Wreck-it Bennett left. Links: PLEASE HELP BROTHER JAKE https://www.gofundme.com/GoJakeGo Watch his videos and subscribe here! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0u7ZMWqkr7cKD_rvEXZUuQ James Arlington Bennet biography https://josephsmithpapers.org/person/james-arlington-bennet Letter from Arlington Bennet https://josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-james-arlington-bennet-1-september-1842/1#full-transcript James Gordon Bennett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gordon_Bennett_Sr. Susan Easton Black Nauvoo University 1841-45 https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/volume-10-number-3-2009/university-nauvoo-1841-45 Historical Study of the Nauvoo, Illinois, Public School System by Paul Thomas Smith https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=6115&context=etd Nauvoo Legion leadership ranks https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/bc-jsp/content/jsp/images/content/library/pdf/chart12.pdf History of the Saints by John C. Bennett https://archive.org/details/historysaints00benngoog/page/n165 James Gordon Bennett’s 1831 Report on “The Mormonites” by Leonard Arrington https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1437&context=byusq Show Links: Website http://nakedmormonismpodcast.com Twitter @NakedMormonism Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Naked-Mormonism/370003839816311 Patreon http://patreon.com/nakedmormonism Music by Jason Comeau http://aloststateofmind.com/ Show Artwork http://weirdmormonshit.com/ Legal Counsel http://patorrez.com/

You know who’s loaded? (Besides Stacy, of course.) James Gordon Bennett Jr. We’re going historic and talking about yacht racing in war-time, a giant owl statue, and a cow on a luxury yacht. Mr. Gordon Bennett. We learn a lot in this episode, including how many episodes there are of General Hospital, what to do […] The post 023 – James Gordon Bennett Jr – $250,000 on an Owl Statue appeared first on How It's Paid.

Acclaimed biographer John Loughery tells the story of John Hughes, son of Ireland, friend of William Seward and James Buchanan, founder of St. John's College (now Fordham University), builder of Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, pioneer of parochial-school education, and American diplomat. As archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York in the 1840 and 1850s and the most famous Roman Catholic in America, Hughes defended Catholic institutions in a time of nativist bigotry and church burnings and worked tirelessly to help Irish Catholic immigrants find acceptance in their new homeland. His galvanizing and protecting work and pugnacious style earned him the epithet Dagger John. When the interests of his church and ethnic community were at stake, Hughes acted with purpose and clarity.In Dagger John, Loughery reveals Hughes's life as it unfolded amid turbulent times for the religious and ethnic minority he represented. Hughes the public figure comes to the fore, illuminated by Loughery's retelling of his interactions with, and responses to, every major figure of his era, including his critics (Walt Whitman, James Gordon Bennett, and Horace Greeley) and his admirers (Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln). Loughery peels back the layers of the public life of this complicated man, showing how he reveled in the controversies he provoked and believed he had lived to see many of his goals achieved until his dreams came crashing down during the Draft Riots of 1863 when violence set Manhattan ablaze.To know "Dagger" John Hughes is to understand the United States during a painful period of growth as the nation headed toward civil war. Dagger John's successes and failures, his public relationships and private trials, and his legacy in the Irish Catholic community and beyond provide context and layers of detail for the larger history of a modern culture unfolding in his wake.John Loughery is the author of, Alias S. S. Van Dine, John Sloan: Painter and Rebel, The Other Side of Silence: Men's Lives and Gay Identities, a Twentieth Century History, the last two of which were New York Times Notable Books. His biography of John Sloan was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. His most recent book is Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America.

In 1935 a shark in an Australian aquarium vomited up a human forearm, a bizarre turn of events that sparked a confused murder investigation. This week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast presents two cases in which a shark supplied key evidence of a human crime. We'll also learn about the Paris Herald's obsession with centigrade temperature, revisit the scary travel writings of Victorian children's author Favell Lee Mortimer, and puzzle over an unavenged killing at a sporting event. Sources for our feature on the shark arm affair: Andrew Tink, Australia 1901-2001: A Narrative History, 2014. Dictionary of Sydney, "Shark Arm murder 1935," accessed March 5, 2015. "Arm-Eating Shark Bares Weird Killing," Pittsburgh Press, July 9, 1935. "Shark Gives Up Clue to Murder," Milwaukee Journal, July 9, 1935. "'Shark Arm' Murder Mystery Still Baffles Australian Police," Toledo Blade, Dec. 14, 1952. The 1799 episode of the Nancy's forged papers appears in (of all places!) Allan McLane Hamilton's 1910 biography The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton appeared for the United Insurance Company in the case). It's confirmed in Xavier Maniguet's 2007 book The Jaws of Death: Sharks as Predator, Man as Prey. Apparently both the "shark papers" and the shark's jaws were put on public display afterward and are now in the keeping of the Institute of Jamaica; I gather the case made a sensation at the time but has largely been forgotten. Sources for our feature on James Gordon Bennett and the "Old Philadelphia Lady": The International New York Times, "Oct. 5, 1947: Old Philadelphia Lady Said It 6,718 Times," Oct. 14, 2013. James B. Townsend, "J.Gordon Bennett, Editor by Cable," New York Times, May 19, 1918. Mark Tungate, Media Monoliths, 2005. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was submitted by listener Lily Geller, who sent this corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). This episode is sponsored by our patrons and by Loot Crate -- go to http://www.lootcrate.com/CLOSET and enter code CLOSET to save $3 on any new subscription. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and all contributions are greatly appreciated. You can change or cancel your pledge at any time, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation via the Donate button in the sidebar of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. And you can finally follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks for listening!

-In this episode: James Gordon Bennett convinces Custer to testify at the hearing on Belknap's corruption, by promising to support Custer for President if Tilden's nomination is stalled. Belknap orders Custer to report to General Terry in St. Paul, Minnesota, to get h