The internet does not abound with information about Howard L. Rann. There's the usual geneology info, locked up behind paywalls, waiting for a curious descendent to pony up and follow a trail of blood back to something or someplace. I hope he has people looking for him.

His grave is online. Could be someone else, but the page includes a newspaper clip that sounds like something he’d write. The fellow below the stone was born in 1870 and died in 1960, which sounds about right.

For a while he wrote a popular daily feature that ran in lots of papers - and if that sounds like I can't quantify it, I can't. Thanks to the digitizaton of newspapers, his work can be accessed by more today than ever - but no one will, because no one knows to search for his name.

Perhaps this will change that.

I'm not saying these articles have been lost for a hundred years, but let's just say no one went out of their way to find them. w