Indian Trophy Show at Coliseum Showcases Mrs. Carberry’s Seventeen Tribes Collection
Mrs. Margaret Carberry of Blackfoot Montana displays an 2,344 piece Indian wearing apparel collection from eighteen tribes in New Mexico Arizona Nebraska Wyoming and Montana at the Chicago Coliseum. The exhibit includes a full dress suit of Little Plume worn in Roosevelt’s inaugural parade and is insured for 15 000 with guards provided before shipment.
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Margaret Carberry
Blackfoot
Mont
Carberry
United States Indian Service
New Mexico
Aritona
Nebraska
Wyoming
Montana
Little Plume
Roosevelt
Mrs. Carberry
Smithsonian Institution
Louis W. Hill
Great Northern Railway
Chicago
Tragedy of Minot's Ledge Lighthouse Collapse
The first Minot's Ledge lighthouse built in 1848 with eight iron piles faced a brutal April 1851 storm. By April 16 the hurricane toppled the structure. at 1 AM a bell tolled as the light went out and two keepers perished. Only eight jagged stumps remained.
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Minot’s Ledge
aDea
Iery
Minot
Are you civilized question sparks retort from Indian lad
An Indian office worker recalls a pompous visitor asking a seventeen year old pupil in a government school if he was civilized. The boy, calmly looking up from a carpentry task, asks in return if the visitor is civilized. The tale, sourced to Lippincott's, highlights patronizing attitudes toward Native students.
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Washington
Lippincott’s
Origin of Canada Name A Spanish Phrase Or Passage Theory
Father Hennepin notes the name Canada may derive from Capo da Nada Cape of Nothing used by early voyagers who deemed the land useless. Alternatively Canada might come from a Spanish word meaning a passage, as Spaniards sought a route to India through Canada. Ave Maria.
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Father Hennepin
Canada
Capo da Nada
Cape
India
Ave Maria
New York Subway Run Prompts Curious Exchange
An English visitor rides the subway with a New York friend changing from local to express and back, racing through the system. The guest asks why so much running, and the reply is that the New Yorker saves two minutes, prompting a pun about the two minutes saved.
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New York
Oregon Lawmakers Work As Review Of First Session Week
Oregon's 27th legislative assembly opens with rapid lawmaking as 225 bills are introduced in a week across houses. Senate backs vetoed measures. appropriation bills top the agenda with over 1 million dollars. Interstate bridge, good roads, and state board reforms figure in early actions.
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Senate
House
San Francisco
Salem
27Th Legislative Assembly
N. McArthur
Dan Malarkey
Oregon
Legislative Assembly
West
Spring Creek
Fifth Judicial District
Accident Industrial Commission
Oregon Agricultural College
Bureau of Mines and Geology
Bureau of Mines
State Board of Control
Multnomah
Washington
Columbia River
Hili
Samuel Hill
Maryhill
Wash
Blanchard
Josephine
Board of Control For
McArthur
State Institution For Feeble Minded
Oregon State Training School
Oregon State Penitentiary
Oregon State School For the Blind
Oregon State School For the Deaf
Oregon Tuberculosis Hospital
Oregon State Soldiers’ Home
Capitol
Supreme Court
Board of Control
Eastern
Oregon State Hospital
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Coliseum
California
Land
Portland
Oregon City
Woodburn
Albany Corvallis
Mcminnville
Eugene
Roseburg
Grants Pass
Medford
Ashland
Los Angeles
Colton
Pasadena
Riverside
San Barnadino
Pullman Standard
San Francisco Express
Ogden
John M. Scott
Portland, Or
State Purchasing Board
DR. C. A. Eldriedge
First National Bank
DR. A. M. Davis
Ferguson's
John 8. Rankin
U. S. National Bank
Littlefield & Romig
Physicians & Surgeons
First Nat’l Bank
Black
Thos. W. Hester
Dixon Building
Newberg
C. R. Chapin
Clarence Butt
de. E. P. Dixon
G. E. Stuart
Main St
Res
A. E. Wilson
First St
J. C. Price
U. S. Natl Bank
J. J. Murray
American Veterinary College
New York City
W. W. Hollingsworth & Son
William M. Ramsey
McMinnvill
Elsia Wright Building
Third Street
G. O. Keeney
Hudson Bros
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