Word: calixto
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Died. Lieut. Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, 85, the Spanish-American War Lieutenant who delivered the famed "message to Garcia"; in the Army's Letterman Hospital in San Francisco. He was sent by President McKinley at war's outbreak to learn from Cuban insurgent General Calixto Garcia the strength of Garcia's forces. He carried his instructions in his head, but uplifter Elbert Hubbard's editorial, A Message to Garcia, put a letter in his hand, later put money in Hubbard's pocket, ultimately sold more than 40,000,000 copies. Rowan's reward...