Dandy's Discovery - Facts

 

Dandy is a Boston terrier. The Boston Terrier is a breed of dog originating in the United States of America. Boston Terriers are small and compact with a short tail and erect ears.

The boys mention the news in the newspapers they sell in 1881.

President Garfield had taken a turn for the worse. On July 2, 1881, Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed and delusional office seeker, shot Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington. The wound was not immediately fatal, but an infection caused by his doctors' unsanitary methods in treating the wound killed Garfield on September 19.