Indian land deals and graft undermine Five Nations
A critical look at U S policy toward the Five Nations in Oklahoma traces origins to Dawes and later acts. It describes land sales, trustee schemes, and graft by firms like Mansfield and McMurray, with cases of elderly and blind Indians cheated, and quotes officials on the harmful end result.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Gore
Oklahoma
Sherman
Helen Hunt
McMurray
Sermatur Gore
Five Nations
Dawes
Henry L. Dawes
Massachusetts
Washington
Indian Office
Tere
Mansfield & McMurray of
McAlester
Ethan Allan Hitchcock
Interior
Mansfield & McMurray
Bunko
Abdullah Hamid’s 746 Wives in Turkey’s Pension Plan
The Turkish government faces a dispute over pensions for the late sultan Abdul Hamid II’s widows. A proposed ten year plan would grant pensions from $4.25 to $21.25 monthly, with deputies split over generosity and local responsibility. A narrow majority backed the arrangement, extending pensions at least until 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abdul Hamid
Ministry of Finance
Turkey
Asia Minor
Albania
Yildiz
Reporters Rewrite Bible Meets Pulpit Idea at Jerseyville
Rev W H Jordan of Jerseyville Illinois suggests ministers adopt newspaper reporting methods to Make sermons more vivid and engaging He argues that Bible events covered by modern reporters would attract more readers and churchgoers if such accounts existed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Jordan
Presbyterian Church
Jerseyville
Ill
Mr. Jordan
Ancient dog days fear and rites at Argos
Ancient lore says the dog days began with Sirius rising and heat entailed fever and madness. At Argos a cynophontes festival marked by killing dogs accompanied the belief that the dog star caused boiling seas and sour wine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sirius
Argos
Canadian Fire Insurance Returns 1909 Premiums and Losses
In 1909 Canadian fire insurance companies collected 17058843 in premiums and paid losses of 8555554, yielding a gross profit of about 50 percent. The amount at risk rose to 1863459522, an increase of 162751259 from 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Boss Cox and the Sapphire Eyes of Cincinnati Power
The article profiles George B. Cox as Cincinnati’s dominant Republican leader, a once butcher now head of a trust company active in traction interests with Taft. It highlights his calm, unflustered demeanor and sapphire eyes, notes a costly bet on Governor Brown’s nomination, and mentions Harding potentially covering the resulting shortfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Cox
Hamilton County
Cincinnati
Aiong
Charles P. Taft
Cox
Hobo Beats Rug After Pie Temptation in Brooklyn Life
A hobo fixates on a homemade pumpkin pie and then greedily beats a rug to claim the treat, in a short Brooklyn Life item. The tale unfolds with a comic twist as the man acts on impulse and leaves readers with a simple moral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
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Gore
High Commissions
Helen Uunt
Vancouver Province
Clergyman
Canadian Fire Insurance Pays
Princess Dresser
Princess
Berkey & Gay Fine Furniture
J. J. Kaufman CO
Round Oak Chief
Boss Cox
Richard Croker
Tammany Hall
Oren Britt Brown
Ohio
Brown
Harding
Brain and
Aberdeen
F. Fredrickson
Summit St
Harper
Kentucky
Fred Hewett
Humboldt
South F Street
Oswald Bell
Baseball Goods
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