Sitting Bull's Own Story of His Life Document Examined
Smithsonian researchers study a Sitting Bull manuscript claimed as an authentic autobiography drawn with hieroglyphs and signatures. European interest grows as inquiries from France England and Germany arrive. Evidence suggests the document may be genuine though forgery possibilities are debated.
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Sitting Bull
Washington, D. C
Bureau of American Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
Europe
France
England
Germany
Bureau
Beauty Contest Candidate Jane Glory Showcased at Hollywood
A 1934 beauty showing highlights Jane Glory as a favored contestant. Experts at the Hollywood convention praised her fit physique with measurements listed such as 5 feet 5 inches height 116 pounds neck 12 inches shoulders 29 inches waist 21 inches bust 35 inches hips 26 inches and other figures.
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Jane Glory
Hollywood
Calif
Sitting Bull Autobiography In Pictures Examined
Matthew W. Stirling leads inquiry into a manuscript claimed as Sitting Bull’s Autobiography in Pictures. The five drawings depict fights with Crow, Gros Ventre, and soldiers, with coups valued as highly as scalps. The piece notes hieroglyph and later written signatures, and questions authenticity and the presence of interpolations by Jumping Bull.
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Sitting Bull
Matthew W. Stirling
Bureau
Jumping Bull
Stirling
Four Horns
Bureau of American Ethnology
San Francisco
The
Smithsonian
Thirty-first Infantry Regiment
Sitting Bulls
Band of Strong Hearts
J. C. Williamson
Compari
Police Arrest Elderly Couple for Reckless Driving
In Pueblo Colorado officers charged H R Newhouse sixty nine and Mrs Ellen Orden seventy one with drunkenness and reckless driving after a car driven by the elderly woman nearly hit a police car and finally struck a parked vehicle.
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Pueblo
Colo
C. V. Marmaduke
H. R. Newhouse
Ellen Orden
Wife Investigates Assault in Stockton Home
Charles H Huston found his wife unconscious with a swollen jaw in their Stockton home after she woke to investigate a noise. She said a burglar struck her, and she was unconscious for about fifteen minutes before regaining consciousness.
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Stockton
Califf
Charles H. Huston
Cat adopts stray rats as barnyard brood at Oklahoma mill
An ordinary black and yellow speckled house cat at Miracle Sweet Feed mill in Henryetta Oklahoma has adopted two baby rats to raise with her litter of four kittens. E A Croom part owner found a nest of young rats and placed them with the cat, but the cat chose to mother the young rodents rather than eat them.
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Henryetta
Okla
Miracle Sweet
E. A. Croom
Croom
New Spanish Justice Is Slow in a Republic Era
Madrid reports justice moves slowly with prisoners under arrest since the republic’s proclamation on April 14, 1981. Gen. Damaso Berenguer y Fuste, ex premier, remains jailed or under house arrest amid the “responsibility” probe into the Jaca executions of December 1930. The Miralles brothers, monarchists linked to the ABC building incident of May 10, 1931, are still in Madrid jail with unclear charges as authorities pursue cases against others in the turmoil.
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Madrid
Spain
Tri
Damaso Berenguer Y Fuste
Fermin Galan
Garcia Hernandez
Jaca
Berenguer
Segovia
Miralles Brothers
ABC
44 Legislatures Cut Costs in Depression Year
Washington report shows 44 states cost taxpayers 5.9 million in salaries with 200 million plus in savings. 6,637 legislators paid. total expenses over 11 million. Four states held sessions. 24 paid on a per day basis 6 to 14 dollars. Savings stem from consolidations, wage cuts, and slowdowns in construction and road work. Several states project further cuts as sessions conclude. New York Oklahoma Iowa anticipate large additional savings. Revenue gains sought via sales and inheritance taxes amid Depression era pressures.
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Washington
D. C
Kentucky
Louisiana
Alississippi
Virzinia
Arizona
Kansas
Michigan
Oregon
New Hampshire
New York
Oklahoma
Towa
Nuisance May Become Source of New Industry
Minneapolis Minn The aspen growth once seen as a nuisance by farmers could become Minnesota’s new income source Experiments at the University of Minnesota under associate professor Ralph Montonhna show high grade alpha cellulose can be made from aspen Alpha cellulose is used in making cellophane and rayon fabric The research is part of a rehabilitation program started last summer by Lotus D Coffman University president
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Minneapolis. Minn
Northwest
Minnesota
University of Minnesota
Ralph E. Montonhna
Lotus D. Coffman
Idle Filipinos Go Home Seeking Work on Farms
In San Francisco Gabriel Q Arellano head of the Filipino national convention in America says many Filipinos are leaving the U S to take farm work on Mindanao Mindanao island as Japanese workers depart for Manchuria. He notes about 20 000 unemployed of 45 200 in the continental U S eager to return home and mentions the Mindanao Development corporation aiding land purchases and development of rubber copra and sugar.
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San Francisco
United States
Mindanao Island
Philippines
Gabriel Q. Arellano
America
Mindanaosland
Manchuria
Arellano
Filpinos
Mindanao Development Corporation
Sacramento
Calif
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