Nigeria’s Niger Delta Peoples and Hidden Societies
A sweeping tour of the Niger delta tribes in a colonial view describes the Ibibio and Ibo peoples, their villages, dress, rituals, secret societies like Egbo and Idion, and the role of chiefs under British rule. It notes warlike youths, cannibal past, and the influence of secret orders on local governance. It ends with a note that diamond trade prospects in 1909 show recovery as US demand drives Amsterdam shops.
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Africa
Nigeria
British Isles
Niger
Nile
Niger Delta
Mangrove Swamps
Tower
Coun
Crass River
Cross River
Lokoja
Freemasonry
England
Egbo
Egbe
Idion
Idion Society
United States
Amsterdam
Manhattan Bridge Links Manhattan and Brooklyn
The new Manhattan bridge spans 6,856 feet joining Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project total cost reaches 15,833,600 dollars including real estate. Welding and cable weight details note 6,300 tons of cable. A shore blade shovel patent from New Jersey aims to cut and lift from the front.
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Manhattan
New Bridge
Manhattan Bridge
New Jersey
President Schurman Praises Rockefeller Philanthropy Plan
President Jacob G Schurman commends the Rockefeller Foundation bill now before Congress. He urges broad scope for philanthropy from morals and religion to science and society and favors eventual presidential appointment of trustees to ensure public welfare.
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Ithaca
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller Foundation
Congress
Jacob G Schurman
Cornell Congress
Schurman
Rockefeller
United States
Senate
Record Heat Wave Strikes Newfoundland West Coast
Extreme temperatures sweep St Johns and western Newfoundland with readings reaching as high as 85 degrees in shaded areas. Records topple as the hot spell continues, uncommon for this season in the colony.
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St Johns
N. F
Newfoundland
Ships collide off Fortune Bay sink Edna Carter
Night collision off Fortune Bay Newfoundland between two schooners the Edna Carter and the Victoria left the Edna Carter sunk after their rigging fouled and the vessels hung together for hours. Crew from the Edna Carter escaped to the Victoria.
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Fortune Bay
N. F
North Sydney
Edna Carter
Big Dam Slowly Burning Threatens Minnesota River Region
In Duluth Minnesota on April 25 the upper Mississippi floodplain fifty miles below Brainerd is under threat as the Weyerhaeuser dam burns with its center piers aflame. The city water plant is destroyed and water service is paralyzed causing panic. Lower quarter residents flee as men battle the fire with buckets and a pulp plant nearby also ignites prompting urgent warnings to settlers to flee to hills.
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Duluth
Minn
Mississippi River
Brainerd
Weyerhauser
Northwest Paper Company
Dancers Save Sixty From Fire at East Forty-Fifth Street
A house party nearby formed a dress-clad brigade of men and women who rescued sixty occupants from the Cledan apartment building at 74046 East Forty-fifth street as fire spread. One woman, Mrs. E. Z. Ballard, was burned probably fatally, with others narrowly escaping death.
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Chicago
Cledan
East Forty-fifth Street
E. Z. Ballard
Miss Asquith’s Tea Time Quip Outsmarts Statesman
The ten year old Margaret Asquith tried to entertain a conservative statesman at tea. When asked if he liked Mr Lloyd George she replied that neither did her father. The prime minister’s daughter’s remark drew smiles as her mother Mrs. Asquith chatted nearby.
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Lenden
Daddy
Up to Papa
A father counsels his son John to whip Edger for neglecting study and chores. Edger offers no meaningful reason, replying he would rather be like his father, despite the plea for effort to become a successful man.
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Papa
John
Edger
Pennsylvanian's Lapse of Memory at Hotel Hidlay
A. Hidlay, proprietor of the Hotel Hidlay in Bloomsburg, Pa., forgot he started drawing whiskey from a barrel in the cellar. He left the spigot on, returned two hours later, and found the liquid had run to the sewer. Loss estimated around $100. Based on Philadelphia Record.
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A. ©. Hidlay
Hidlay
Bloomsburg
Philadelphia Record
Practical jokes and cures in a quirky ad note
A fragmented advert text argues that no man should play jokes unless a good loser. It touts Dr Pieres pleasant pellets as a cure for constipation, links constipation to disease, warns of imitations, and urges asking for Lewis' Single Binder cigar.
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Pieres
Lewis
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Thompeen
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Pacific Oo Abt Trust BT Company
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