Mescal Threatens Winnebago Indians Reports Detail Ravages
A Sioux City Tribune summary from Winnebago Agency Nebraska describes mescal tea used by the Mescal society among Winnebago Indians. It claims hundreds affected, including children, with mental decline, fainting, and deaths, driven by traders and officials failing to curb the practice.
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Sioux City
Nebraska
Winnebago Reservation
Washington
Congress
McFattridge
Minnebago
Fescal Society
Wisconsin
John Rave
Francis M. Leupp
Indian Department
New Mexico
Mexico
Mesca Society
Strange Society
Jesus
India
China
Thibet
Winnebago
Earth
Mescal Society
Mary Rainbow
Agency
Locating Men in Snowslide Rescue Hero of Sheep Camp
Eli Smith credited with saving twenty five men during the 1898 Dyea trail snow slide. He approached miles below the wreck, found survivors by placing a sharpened stick into the snow to detect breathing and hollered for dig here. Twenty five lives saved, others recovered as dawn broke.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Eli Smith
Dyea Trail
Smith
Idaho
Wood River
Wilds
Uncle Joe's trousers yield sixty dollar joke
Speaker Cannon gains sixty dollars from a misplaced cash find after his son in law I X Le Seuer wrongly claims the money. Le Seuer, a Danville banker, discovers the trio of twenty dollar notes in the pocket of Uncle Joe’s trousers and denies involvement. Cannon keeps the windfall.
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Speaker Cannon
I. X. le Seuer
Uncle Joe
Mr. le Seuer
Danville
Ill
Cannon
Joe
le Seuer
Fashion Notes For Women And Girls This Season
Three cornered bonnet shapes for elderly women and small hats for girls are popular. Sunshades in embroidery or silk, gold bracelet latticework, and abundant tulle trim hats dominate shop displays. Graduation gowns favor mull and chiffon with dotted Swiss organdie and Persian lawn for simpler styles. Lingerie hats, card folding meanings, and hair styling by color dominate current trends.
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New York
Painter, Starved Artist, and a Desperate Love
In a dim restaurant Alice Worthington faces hunger and a vanished penny. Lawrence Goodwin helps her by introducing her to Arthur Morton for a modeling job. Morton assaults her, but Goodwin reveals his love and vows marriage, threatening to expose Morton as a cad.
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Alice Worthington
America
Aall
Alice
Morton
Laurie
Goodwin
Mortor
Variety
Mahistick Club
Lawrence Goodwin
Arthur Morton
Miss Worthington
Sailor Turned Sub-editor Seeks Tattoo Change
A former sailor and later sub-editor recalls a tattoo reading True till Death to Amy with a laurel wreath. He asks a tattooist to alter the inscription, hoping to replace Amy with Gwendoline, though the tattooer says it cannot be changed.
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Amy
Praid
Caié
Gwendoline
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Waie
Liberty
Missouri River
Royal Stuart
Genelli
Leonore Johnson
Vivian Claire Howell
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