Professor Starr Returns From Africa Pygmy Study
Frederick Starr, Chicago based anthropologist at the University of Chicago, spent 15 months among Congo pygmies covering about 45 000 miles. He traveled with Manuel Gonzales and visited 18 peoples, taking 700 photographs and collecting relics now stored at the Walker Museum. Starr notes pygmies stand three to four and a half feet tall and caution white travelers to mind local customs.
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Frederick Starr
Chicago
University of Chicago
Africa
A& University
Congo Valley
Manuel Gonzales
Congo Free State
Congo
Walker Museum
University
Starr
Prof. Starr
Sankuri
Ratul
Kassal
Armuri
Oiku
Farm Gospel Wagon Brings Modern Ag Methods to Negro Farmers
A Tuskegee Institute project funded by Morris K. Jesup uses a mobile agricultural wagon to teach southern black farmers better plows, cultivators, and dairy equipment. Demonstrations compare new and old tools, ending in open air meetings where successful farmers share practices and results.
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Morris K. Jesup
Black Belt
South
Tuskegee Institute
Jesup Agricultural
Model statue to honor Bob Ingersoll at Peoria
Peoria builds a heroic bronze statue of Colonel Ingersoll. The clay model by Frederick G. Triebe has been completed in New York and will be cast for unveiling at Glen Oak Park on his death anniversary July 21, 1907. Triebe, born in Peoria, studied in Florence and Rome and teaches at the San Luca Academy.
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Ingersoll
Colonel Ingersoll
Frederick G. Triebe
New York
Peoria
Royal Academy
Florence
Italy
San Luca Royal Academy
Rome
Mill powered by artesian well water in Atlanta area
An Atlanta area planing mill near St. Augustine Florida runs on water from an artesian well. A 400 foot drilled hole tapped a subterranean stream, delivering an 18 foot head to drive a 16 foot wheel and 15 horsepower, with water shut off at night and freely available each morning. The piece notes a YMCA winter course for shoemakers to broaden industry knowledge.
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Atlanta
St. Augustine
Fla
Auto House in Chicago: Self-propelled residence on wheels
The sole auto house in the world sits in Chicago a moving home with parlor bedroom and kitchen all the comforts of a hotel except running water Invented and owned by George Washington a 65 year old Chicago tradesman He built it over eight years while continuing his carpentry work and now plans a 1000 mile trip to Maine with his wife aboard their motor home.
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Chicago
Ihs
George Washington
Washington
Maine
New York
New Seamen's Home Planned Near Battery in New York
Ground will be broken next spring for a 600000 building for the Seamen's Church Institute near the Battery New York City. The institute formed in 1903 under Rev Archibald R Mansfield has transformed the old Robert Fulton house into a home for sailors decrying poverty and vice. The new ten story 90 by 90 foot structure at South Street and Coenties Slip will expand the already successful services including baggage storage mail and a coffee bar while boosting sailors savings from 4500 to 11977264 and placing 2117 men on 33 ships under major shipping lines.
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Battery
New York City
Seamen's Church Institute
Archibald R. Mansfield
Robert Fulton
No. 2
State Street
New York
Shipping Bureau
Union Castle
Hogan, Tyser, Clan
Bristol City
Booth
Hindustanee
Saint Lines
Church Institute
South Street
Coenties Slip
Ex Ballplayer Now a Judge Earned Money to Study
Harry L. Taylor, once a Cornell baseball star and Eastern Baseball League president, is now a judge in Erie county court, Buffalo. Born in Halsey Valley, he pursued law at Cornell, earned money teaching and playing, and joined the Baltimore and Louisville circuits before starting practice in 1893. He later became a Cornell trustee and bears a Lincolnlike appearance.
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New York
Harry L. Taylor
Erie County Court At
Buffalo
Cornell University
Taylor
Eastern Baseball League
Gov. Higgins
Judge Taylor
Halsey Valley
Tioga County
N. Y
Ithaca
Cornell
Elmira
Louisville
Heroin Old Association
Jack Chap
Cornell Law School
Hugh Jennings
Detroit
Baltimore
Ned Hanlon
Hanlon
Abraham Lincoln
Cactus as Big as a House in Death Valley Desert
A picture of a huge barrel cactus rising thirty to forty feet tall in Death Valley and deserts, with a small inner plant and juice that quenches thirst. Prospects have used it to survive by sipping the syrup after piercing the plant, while Indians and prospectors rely on it for days. Easter blooms intensify the Mojave Desert with yellow white and red varieties. The barrel cactus withstands harsh sandstorms better than slimmer kinds.
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Death Val
Mojave
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Peoria, Ill
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Harry Taylor
National Game
H. L. Taylor
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