Santa Claus Land and Eskimo Life in the North
A vivid tour of Santa Claus Land describing Eskimo homes and attire, reindeer transport, and daily life. The piece notes Eskimo clothing, infant care, and winter hardship, and touches on Alaska reindeer introduction by Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jackson under U S government authority. It also includes a poem about Abe Peters in Lonesome Lane and a brief cultural vignette.
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Yuen
Great White North
Alaska
Uncle Sam
Santa Claus Land
Sheldon Jackson
United States
Siberia
Ing
Hiskimos
Santa Claus
Lonesome Lane
Abe Peters
Peters
The Doll Hospital and Its Tiny Sufferers
A whimsical piece on a doll hospital where dolls receive surgical care. Doll doctors, titled M D, mend arms and legs, replace eyes, and repaint complexions with tiny tools, paints, and wigs. The narrative highlights dolls’ ailments and the joy of mothers bringing ailing dolls for care.
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Conyright
J. A. Badgerton
M. D
Mender
Dolly
Changes in Cabinet Rapid Rise of Cortelyou in Roosevelt Era
Washington dispatch notes rapid cabinet turnover under President Roosevelt with George Cortelyou set to become treasury secretary and Oscar Straus the lone outsider among new appointees. California congressmen head to Panama to study labor conditions, while cartoonish political humor peppered Washington chatter about a barber named McDermott.
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Charles W. Arthur
Washington
Roosevelt
McKinley
Agriculture Wilson
Root
War Department
Interior
Hitchcock
Interior Department
James R. Garfield
Gortalyou
George Bruce Cortelyou
the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
Cortelyou
President Mcinney
Buffalo
Theodore Roosevelt
Congress
Department of Commerce and Labor
Republican National Committee
Straus
Oscar
New York
Victor 5. Metcalf
Charles J. Bonaparte
William H. Moody
Supreme Court of the United States
House of Representatives
California
Garfield
Secretary of the Interior
Bureau of Corporations
San Francisco
Golden Gate State
Panama
Tampa
Isthmus
Pacific Coast
Canal
Bigelow
Panama Canal
Colon Reservoir
Mount Hope
Colon
Cristobal
Poultney Bigelow
Mr. Sherman
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Joe Cone
BE Peters
Ola Abe Peters
Abe—Peters
San LA
Ian TY
Beindeer
A. Ace Te
Ola
MR. Corteliou
Passia
Mr. Roosevelt
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