White Indian helps trapped woman among Humas and Choctaws
Brampton leads the party toward the Huma village and negotiates peace as Damoan presses for his red scalp. A peace calumet ritual shields them inside the stockade while Dahisgaarde is brought to safety and introduced to the Englishman as a danger to all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monsieur
Labrador
Tuntea
Six Fingers
Huma
Mademoiselle
Monsieur Brampton
Damian
Humas
Little Turkey
Strong Bow
Turkey
Damoan the Fox
Damoan
Damean
Manita
Mademoiselle Dahlagaarde
Insect Migration Mysteries and Long Range Journeys
Sir W Beach Thomas notes in Outlook that insect migration remains largely mysterious. He cites painted lady butterflies arriving in Iceland and large groups of white butterflies settling on ships in the Mediterranean as evidence of Africa exchanging insects with Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Africa
Mediterranean
Europe
W. Beach Thomas
A Mighty Queer Fight Over Two Dollars
Farmer Fum blegate reports a large town quarrel as a fat young man and a thin old man fought all around the public square. They tumbled and whacked each other. Each claimed the other cheated him out of two dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fumblegate
Kansas City Star
Death to Death Huma Escape Plan in Natchez War Tale
In a tense river voyage, Six Fingers and Labrador hide a female passenger as they plot escape from Bilox Choctaw danger. The narrator and party debate routes to the Natchez village while a feast unfolds and a river journey to safety is outlined with a secret signal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labrador
Six Fingers
Mademoiselle
Natchez
Nat
Fort Rosalle
Monsieur
Birth trends in Madrid reflect shifting family sizes
A Madrid census notes a drop in the birth rate over the last year amid high living costs and uncertain future. The piece contrasts Spanish parenting norms, discipline practices, and child care with foreign expectations, calling attention to the nation’s festive Epiphany and crowded stores late at night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Spain
Shows Aboriginal Life Exhibit Planned for Bronx Project
The American Indian Museum foundation, based in Manhattan, will erect an Aboriginal Life unit in the Bronx. Archer M Huntington funds the project with ground broken for storage rooms, later expanding to a central open patio botanical garden and full-size models of native habitats for educational display to visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronx
New York
Masts for Constitution to come from Pacific Northwest Douglas fir
The Constitution frigate at Boston Navy Yard will receive masts and spars carved from Douglas fir grown in the Pacific Northwest. West Coast Lumbermen's Association donated the trees from a new forest seeded about 50 years after the 1812 battles. Fir from Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound honors Commodore Bainbridge, who commanded the Constitution in key actions except the Guerriere engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constitution
Navy Yard
Boston
Pacific Northwest
United States Navy
West Coast Lumbermen's Association
Bainbridge Island
Puget Sound
William S Bainbridge
Chinese Morale Boost Amid Expectant Front Line Struggles
The North China Star reports morale measures for Chinese troops during the holiday season. The Kuominchun gave ten cents to each soldier and five cents to each cook, with front line troops receiving double. Wounded officers get five to ten dollars by rank, seriously wounded soldiers one dollar, others fifty cents. Non front line troops enjoyed a Friday and Saturday holiday, unlike those at the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North China Star
Kuominchun
Russell Painting Found Believed to Be by Charles M Russell
W P Connelly of Winifred Montana found a cardboard mounted painting on a cabin wall in the Snowy mountains. The signed piece is attributed to cowboy artist Charles M Russell whose work now brings high prices. Russell is said to have worked in the area as a puncher and may have sketched it for amusement or given it to a friend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. P. Connelly
Winifred, Mont
Snowy Mountains
Charles M. Russell
Russell
Los Angeles Times
Powerful Saratoga Drives City-scale Electricity
The United States steam ship Saratoga, an electrically propelled aircraft carrier, generates electricity for a city the size of Boston. It reaches about forty miles per hour using 180,000 horsepower electric motors driving four large propellers, powered by four 82 500 kilowatt steam turbine generators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
United States Steamship
Saratoga
Lydia Pinkham Remedy Receives Woman’s Testimony from Brooklyn
Mrs. G Hegmann of 35 Central Ave Brooklyn reports relief after using Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Pills for constipation and sleeplessness. She praises the medicines and offers to provide letters from other women with similar experiences, with the Pinkham Company in Lynn Massachusetts offering to share names on request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
New York
G. Hegg Mann
Central Ave
Lydia BP. Pinkham
Pinkham Medicine Company
Lynn
Mass
Tablet Reveals Noah and the Ark Tale from Nineveh
The 1872 Nineveh tablet, decoded anew by Paul Haupt, recounts Noah shaping an ark with six decks and seven compartments two thirds under water. It notes offerings of oxen and sheep daily, beer oil and wine stored in jars, with water from a river.
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George Smith
British Museum
Nineveh
Paul Haupt
Johns Hopkins University
Haupt
American Oriental Society
Philadelphia
Brody
Pathfinder Mags
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Hugh Tey ER
The
Missouri
Virginia
Hugh Rendexter
Mademoiselles
Mademoiselle Dahisgaarde
Pearl St
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Grove’s
Mitchell
Hall & Rockel
Waverly Place
Harold Somers
F. W. Heitmann Co
Houston
Texas
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