Eskimo Tribe Is Dying Out Result White Man's Vice
Seattle reports from the Coast Guard cutter Bear describe Aleuts facing near extinction due to white man’s influence while Eskimos in continental Alaska prosper with new trapping and pelts markets. King Island residents hunt walrus and seal, trading in Nome, but Aleut villages shrink from 25,000 pre 1867 numbers to a few dozen at Attu and Atku, with Unalaska as a last prospering spot.
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Seattle
Alaska
Uncle Sam
Aleutian
Russia
Cutter Bear
Coast Guard
Arctic Ocean
St. Lawrence Island
The
Bear
King Island
Bering Sea
Bering Strait
Pacific
Nome
Alaskan
Kamchatka Peninsula
Asia
Pacific Ocean
Aleutian Islands
Attu
Wishaar
Atku
Hambones Meditations and Old Dance Melodies Shown
The piece discusses Hambones Meditations by J. P. Alley and notes performances of rustic dances and songs. It mentions music reminiscent of the nineties and Foster tunes like Nellie Gray. The audience and dancers engage with old waltzes and the Varsovienne of Warsaw.
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Nellie Gray
Stephen Foster
Henry Ford Leads Class in Dances
In Detroit Henry Ford and Bishop Herman Page support revival classes at St Pauls Cathedral hall for old fashioned dances. Mrs Ford and the Lovetts oversee sessions with an orchestra built from Hungarian cymbalon dulcime a tuba like horn violin and guitar aiming to restore waltz gavotte schottische and quad rille to prominence.
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Detroit
St. Paul's Cathedral Hall
Methodist Episcopal Church
Henry Ford
Herman Page
Ford
Dances Featured In Local Social Scene
Here and there come melodies recognizable to those whose mem triple step has become popular. Other dances include the older round dances the square dances the redona waltz the valeta waltz the heel and toe polka the seaside polka and several types of schot tische and gavotte.
Malaria Claims 152 Year-Old Man in Manila Death
In Manila on October 25, Malaria Perlas died after malaria illness at age 152. Born July 16, 1778, he married four times and fathered 12 children. Notably, he was the only man on the island to have seen the grandsons of his grandsons.
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Manila
Perlas
Painleve Plans French Treasury Restoration
Premier Painleve presented his latest plan to restore France's treasury to the finance committee of the chamber of deputies in Paris on November 12. The proposal aims to stabilize finances and outline measures for debt management and revenue increases.
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Painleve
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Levy Call for Fifteen Percent Real Estate Tax
A call for a levy of fifteen percent on real estate, both improved and unimproved, to be payable over a fourteen year period. The proposal outlines long term funding and spreads the burden across property owners.
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Tunis
P. S
Moffitt’s
Hambones Meditations
J.P. Alley
Old Tyme” Fiddlers Convention
Benefit Oak Hill Fire Department
Cloverdale School
Virginia Dare
South Main Street
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