Farabee in Amazon: head hunters and hidden tribes told
Dr William Farabee's Amazon voyage recounts Mundurucu and Jivero rites of head taking, village feasts, and a perilous trek into British Guiana. He describes intertribal feuds, ceremonial smoking of enemy heads, and preservation methods, alongside ethnological finds of pottery, burial vases, and new tribal names.
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William ‘Curtis
Farabee
Amazon River
Amazon
South America
Univérsity of Pennsylvania
New York Sun
Mundurucu
Tivero
Forest of the Amazon
Amazon Valley
Pera
British Guiana
H. P. C. Melville
Burma
John Ogilvie
Mr. Melville
Dadanowa
Policeman Saves Children From Runaway Horse Team
Denis J. Rodgers of West 125th Street Station saved a runaway laundry wagon team near Concept avenue and 156th streets. He leaped to the wagon tongue, steadied the horses, and redirected the team away from a group of children, despite suffering multiple injuries.
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New York
Scorea
Gongéent Avenue
J. A
Denis J. Rodgers
Rodgers
144Th Street
Worth Knowing From a Fragmented Telegraph Clippings
A scattered note surveys odd facts: a 216 foot log from British Columbia to England to become a ragpole in Kew gardens. baboons used to locate water in South Africa. African elephant tusks weighing up to 10 pounds and nine feet long. Serbia aiming to lead centennians with Ireland close behind. about 1,800 gas plants in the country. It also notes that serious troubles, if not too serious, can teach restraint. a neighbor’s wife prompts a man to haul packages while the mother objects to routine chores. China codes discourage photographing women. Amsterdam uses 13,000 pilings under its town hall. grape vine paper experiments succeed. Mexico coast line measures 4,574 miles. Argentina plans a single Rutherford system costing $100,000,000.
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British Columbia
England
Kew Gardens
South Africa
Serbia
Anid
Ireland
Mother
China
Amsterdam
Mexican
Pacific
Gulf of California
Argentini
Naval bill debate spawns harbor upgrade city bids
In a Senate naval appropriation session a report clause sparked clash over harbor improvements. Senators Penrose Swanson Sheppard Overman Vardaman pressed for Philadelphia Camden Wilmington six Mississippi cities Wilmington NC and even towns on the Rio Grande to be named. The final amendment called for harbor plans to provide adequate facilities as deemed by the commission.
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Washington
Senate
Secretary of the Navy
Atlantic
Gulf and Pacific
Penrose
Philadelphia
Swanson
Camden
Wilmington
Sheppard
Vardaman
Mississippi
Overman
N. C
William
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Rio Grande
Bellefontaine Couple Swap Teeth In Frightful Fiasco
In Bellefontaine Ohio a man and wife both wear store teeth. The wife misplaced her lower plate and accused her husband of borrowing it. He removed his own teeth and revealed none of his were missing while hers turned up, leaving his own set still missing as the tale ends.
Institute for Government Research aims at scientific study
Congress and government officials balked at a rumored Rockefeller backed probe of all federal departments. The Institute, organized by economists and scientists before the war, sought to improve efficiency and expose defects without targeting any administration. Willoughby leads, trustees listed include Goodnow Alderman Eliot Fosdick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Institute For Government Research
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Willam Franklin Willoughby
Princeton University
Frank J. Gooddow
Johns Hopking University
Edwin A. Alderman
University of Virginia
Froderick Strauss
New York
Robert §. Brocklings
St Louis
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Raymond B. Fosdick
Rockefeller Foundation
Garrett's Speaker Pranks Revealed as Comic Ritual
When Finis Garrett chairs the House he selects a Democrat to carry the gavel and stories unfold. He calls up members to tell humorous tales, warning them not to laugh lest the joke slip out. Observers learn the so called conferences are simply entertainment in the speaker's chair.
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Clark
Finks Garrett
Tennessee
Garrett Geta
Garrett
Ice Cream Consumption in Washington Reaches Marvelous Amounts
A quirky study calculates Washington monthly ice cream use at 1,200,000 pounds from 200,000 gallons. It notes imports from Germany would require two Deutschland submarines monthly, and that retail, wholesale, and hotel orders collectively push production toward 600 tons monthly.
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Washington
Germany
District of Columbia
Prigate
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British Gulaga
Melville
Parabee
Ogilvie
Inter Melville
Warabee
Watwai
Parrabee
Ste
The
Finis Garrett
Capital
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