Names of rivers and tribes shape Kansas history
The article traces the origins of names for the Missouri and Kansas rivers and their peoples. It explains the Canoe People label for Missouri and the Smoky Hill and Kansan terms for Kansas, noting Wyandotte place names for Kansas City sites and the impact of Native languages on modern geography.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Mississippi
Missouris
Yellow River
Riviere Langue
Missouri River
Mississippi River
Kansas
Ohio
George F. Morehouse
Juan de Ouate
Morehouse
Kansas City
Congress
George P. Morehouse
W. E. Connelley
Kansas River
Smoky
Smoky Hill
Smoky Hill River
Republican
Solomon
Satino
Longfellow
Kansas Cities
Kan
Fifth Street
Turkey Creek
Kansas City Times
A LIFE OF MOSES LESSONS AND A PARIS WATCH SALE
A memory from Robert Collyer’s work in Chicago recounts a Sunday school class teaching English and religious lessons to foreign residents. A pupil describes Moses infancy through adulthood with guided questions and simple answers. A Parisian antiquarian has paid 760000 francs for the famed Martels watch collection.
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Robert Collyer
Chicago
Moses
Odd Facts From An Early Themed Chronicle
A compilation of curious notes on elevators racing at five hundred feet per minute, mountains hiding in oceans, ocean depths and Everest heights, Neptune’s orbit, Abyssinia’s prince with hair locks, Chinese knotting, Koh-I-Noor diamond cuts, soot from London chimneys, a penny weekly paper, a Athol rooster, German cavalry modernization, Turks and geraniums, vanilla orchids and other miscellaneous trivia.
Trials of Atchison Youths
The Atchison Globe notes a satire on young men with a typical 60 dollar monthly expectation. It jokes that dancers and agreeable looks bring social pressure, parties and gifts, while generosity is mocked as stinginess.
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Atchison
Atchison Globe
Notable figures mix in distant world events
Senator Aldrich is said to ignore newspapers while Don Jaime the Spanish Pretender may wed into the Imperial German line. Ex Senator Platt marks his 76th birthday in Freeport. Taft plans a western and southern tour with a Beverly Mass rest stop. French leadership shifts crown General Tromeau as commander in chief succeeding La Croix, Clemenceau remains influential.
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Aldrich
Don Jaime
Thomas C. Platt
Freeport
Taft
Bevery
Mass
General Tromeau
General la Croix
Clemenceau
Ife
Whitelaw Reid
Great Britain
D. O. Mill
New York City
MacVeagh
Hitchcock
Washington, D.C
Champ Clark
House
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Aero Club of America
Pittafield
Roland Hinton Perry
Ludlow Street
Grant
President Grant
State
War and Navy
Washington
D.C
Former Representative Cummings Report On Saloons
A fragmented reminiscence notes Amos J. Cummings once edited the Cleveland Leader. It recalls a Saturday night request to check if saloons were selling liquor, with a follow up Thursday report confirming the sale. The text then abruptly mentions New York streetcars with casualty figures 444 Germans 508 and 36,060 injuries to women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos J. Cummings
New York
Saga
Cleveland Leader
Tom
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Mpression
Biblica Boy
Ocean
Whiich
Pacific
Mt. Everest
Neptune
Menetik II
Abyssinia
Koh-I-noor
London
David Coolridge
Athol
Mahomet
Tropics
Vox Popul
Jimmy
Monarch
Monarch Typewriter CO
Broadway
Nemain Street
Invington
Wistrand's New Hall
Westchester County
Main Street
Irvington
Hermann Petri
van Deusen
D Street
Greenburgh
Tarrytown
N. Y
Robert Dashwood
Chas. F. Dorsey
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