Doctor Finds New Race in Alaska
Dr. George B. Gordon of the University of Pennsylvania reports a new Eskimolike group along Alaska’s Koskokwim river called Kuskwagamutes. He says they live in Adamic simplicity, practice natural pantheism, are monogamous, and still wear bird skins as robes using loon breasts. Only about 400 remain, and Gordon fears whites may hasten their decline.
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Philadelphia
George B. Gordon
University of Pennsylvania
Far Northwest
Koskokwim River
Dr. Gordon
Gordon
California
Alaska
Asia
Koskokwim
Bering Sea
Nome
Service for Mutes Church Visit at St Albans Mission
Rev. Austin W. Mann in charge of deaf mute missions of the Episcopalian church will visit St. Alban's Mission Christchurch Sunday. Holy communion will be celebrated at 10:30 am in the chapel. At 3 pm an account will be given of the Richmond Virginia convention where Mr Mann reported on missionary work among the deaf of the United States.
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Austin W. Mann
St. Alban’s
Christchurch
Richmond
Turkey at czar's mercy in secret Balkan pact
Paris dispatch reports Russia gains leverage over Turkey through a Bulgaria treaty. Russia vows aid with 18 cavalry and artillery regiments if Turko Bulgarian trouble erupts, while Bulgaria lends its torpedo flotilla to Moscow. The accord follows Anglo Russian diplomacy and strengthens western Persian influence. Prince Ferdinand and Grand Duke Vladimir negotiated the agreement in Sofia.
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Paris
Russia
Turkey
Bulgaria
Czar
Persia
Constantinople
Ferdinand of
Vladimir
Sofia
Roosevelt seeks commission to draft new anti trust law
Chicago Oct 31 President Roosevelt asks Judge Peter S Grosscup to select a committee to propose a constructive federal measure to regulate corporations and interstate combinations. The plan envisions a nonpartisan national commission to craft bills for Congress, amend the Sherman act, and render court based judgments on reasonableness of combinations.
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The
Sun
Chicago
Roosevelt
Peter S. Grosscup
Grosscup
United States Circuit Court
National Commission
Congress
Civic Federation Conference
Federation
Mrs Ishmael Dies After Burglary Collapse
Mrs Emma Ishmael aged 33 of 627 South Pennsylvania Street went to the police station to report a burglary. She collapsed on her way home and died 42 hours later. She suffered from tuberculosis and leaves a husband and a son Edward. Burial will be held in Kokomo.
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Emma Ishmael
S. Pennsylvania Sr
Edward
Kokomo
Kicked to Death by Horse in Burnell
In Burnell Indiana on October 31 a 15 year old colored boy named Frank Norton was kicked over the heart by a horse and instantly killed.
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Burnell
Ind
Frank Norton
Balloon hits 46680 feet in high altitude tests
Prof A Lawrence Rotch of Blue Hill observatory described balloon experiments at an aeronautical congress in New York. He reported reaching 46680 feet with instruments recording a temperature of 111 degrees below zero. Parachute records show ascent and descent. warm strata were noted eight miles up. Weather Bureau will continue high altitude studies nationwide.
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New York
A. Lawrence Rotch
Blue Hill Observatory
Boston
The
Aeronautical Con
Rotch
Europe
United States Weather Bureau
Six bears chase campers from Yellowstone force trek to tree
Five men and one woman from Hulett Wyoming spent a night in a tree as six bears from Yellowstone National Park looted their camp. In daylight the bears left, and the camping party fled the area with supplies gone and the camp wrecked.
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National Park
Hulett
Wyo
Cuticura Cured Five Boys With Skin Disease
A family from Norcross Minnesota reports five boys aged five to eleven suffered winter skin eruptions with itching and sleepless nights. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, washing and treating every other day, all five recovered. Ad excerpt dated November 26 and December 23, 1906.
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Edward A. Nar
Albany, N.Y
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Sterling Remedy Co
N.Y
Goa
United Press
United States
Executive Department
Judicial Department
National Civic Federation
Blackburns
Francke Hardware Co
S. Meridian St
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Indianapolis Gas CO
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Indiana
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Beville Avenue
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Nowland Avenue
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Eph T. Elliott
Preston C. Trusler
Fred J. Mack
Department OF Public Works
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Arsenal Aven
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Sixteenth
Seventeenth Streets
Seid City
Joseph T. Elliott
Teddy
Yellowstone
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Jones Ave
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