South American Head Hunters Explore Amazon Tribes
Dr. William Curtis Farabee, returning from three years in the Amazon, details Mundurucu and Jivero head hunting practices, belts of human teeth, and ceremonies. He recounts perilous travel with John Ogilvie and H. P. Melville, and notes villagers’ hospitality, early marriage, women’s restraint on alcohol, and the tribes’ subsistence through hunting, fishing, and cassava.
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William Curtis Furnbee
Amazon River
South America
University of Pennsylvania
Farabee
New York Sun
Mundurucu
Jivero
Forest
Amazon
Amazon Valley
Para
British Guiana
H. P. ©. Melville
Melville
Dr. Furnbee
Ogilvie
Farnbee
Sunny
Waiwaal Country
Oglivie
Dutch Guiana
Philadelphia
Senate Naval Appropriation Debate Expands Harbor Plans
In the senate a naval appropriation, linked to harbor improvements, expanded to include many Atlantic Gulf and Pacific coast locations. Senators added cities from New Jersey Delaware Mississippi and others before settling on plans for harbor and channel improvements to provide adequate fleet facilities.
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Ashington
Senate
Chinse
Secretary of the Navy
Congress
Gulf
Pacific
Penrose
Phiadelphia
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Rio Grande
Rockefeller backed institute plans broad government inquiry sparked backlash
A report that the Institute for Government Research backed by John D. Rockefeller planned a sweeping, independent study of all government departments triggered indignation among congress and officials who argued the aim was scientific and not an audit. William F Willoughby of Princeton oversees the institute with trustees including Frank J Goodnow Johns Hopkins Edwin A Alderman Virginia Frederick Strauss Robert S Brockling Charles W Eliot and Staymond B Fosdick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Institute For Government Research
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
William Franklin Willoughby
Princeton University
Institute
Frank J. Goodnow
Johns Hopkins University
Edwin A. Alderman
University of Virginia
Frederick Strauss
New York
Robert S. Brocklings
St. Louis
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Staymond B. Fosdick
Rockefeller Foundation
Ice Cream Appetite in Washington Reaches 600 Tons Monthly
The article imagines Washington importing German ice cream by submarine if needed, noting DC consumes about 200000 gallons monthly equal to 600 tons. It humorously calculates eating pace, days, dishes, and a cone column stretching far into the sky and around the world.
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Washington
Germany
District of Columbia
Garrett Tales in the Speaker's Chair Fascinate House
When Finis Garrett assumes the speaker’s role, he signals for members and whispers ideas, but observers find he only seeks to tell funny stories. Garrett scans the chamber for a listener who would enjoy the tale and then cautions the chosen member not to laugh as the joke unfolds.
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Clark
Wints Garrett
Tennessee
Garrett
Sper
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William Curtis Farabee
Farrabee
EYHE
The
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Finis Garrett
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