Social Life in the Hawaiian Islands
Explorers Burton Holmes and Louis Francis Brown share impressions from Honolulu and Waikiki. They describe hospitality, native feasts or luau, lanai life, poi eating customs, and canoe outings with Hawaiian hosts and guests, noting the island climate and social life.
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Honolulu
Burton Holmes
Louis Francis Brown
Holmes
Mr. Holmes
Mr. Brown
Hawaiian Islands
Brown
Times
Waikiki
Tanai
Lanai
The Verger and His World in Humble Tone
A reflective piece defends vergers from ridicule, citing kindness and knowledge found in Ely and other churches. It contrasts vergers with stereotypes, notes their curiosity, and recalls a Hawaii shark expedition and a Grinnell view of Indians, while highlighting verger bigotry over architectural admiration and a British Museum signing incident.
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Paris
British Museum
London
Quick Work by Pittsburg Press Quote
An exchange in the Pittsburg Press notes the perception of women and men being easily taken in by others. The remark contrasts men and women, suggesting both sides can be duped at a glance.
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Pittsburg Press
Speaking of Money in The Cheerful Idiot
A brief dialogue excerpt from the Indianapolis Journal features a cheerful idiot and a sarcastic boarder debating money and fairness. The exchange hints at financial disputes or costs and how round sums affect settling matters.
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Indianapolis Journal
Spain Faces Pork Famine Amid War News Fades
Madrid reels from a pork shortage after sausage makers and pig dealers quarrel over hog supply. The famine sparked public outrage, threats to the mayor, and government intervention. by Christmas Eve the crisis eased as markets reopened and citizens resumed their customary levity despite broader troubles.
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Madrid
St. Louis
Spain
Manila
Santiago
Europe
Love and Betrothal Customs in Lapland
A description of Lapland marriage customs where a couple race to win consent from the girl's parents. The suitor must give presents, a sign of purchase, and a ceremonial drink at the door. Bans are public, the ceremony brief, and the bride receives a gold band and reindeer dowry.
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Lapland
A Proposition in a Settlement Talk
A courtroom dialogue shows the plaintiff and defendant lawyers debating a settlement. The defendant offers to take the property and grant a mortgage worth half its value, suggesting a path to avoid further litigation.
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Puck
Prominence Through The Public Eye
A reflective note argues that the public largely serves as a vehicle for elevating a selected few to prominence, critiquing publicity dynamics and social hierarchies.
Fair Sioux Martyr and the Ghost Dance Faith
Jennie Swan endures a perilous night amid the ghost dance near Pine Ridge as Sioux chief Big Foot leads a doomed stand against troops. She loses husband Gray Elk and her baby, survives by hiding in a wildcat den, and drags her surviving child across hundreds of miles to safety on the Cheyenne river reservation awaiting the Messiah’s promises.
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Big Bellies
Gros Ventres
Fort Belknap
Mont
Yellow Bird
Big Foot
Jennie Swan
Gray Elk
Spirit Land
Jennie
Pine Ridge
Seventh Cavalry
Pacity
Cherry Creek
Wounded Knee Creek
Cheyenne River
Cheyenne River Reservation
Red Messiah
Gold Brick Found by Mission Diggers in Lower California
A San Diego report to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says workmen laying out a race track at Dalmalk unearthed a heavy irregular gold bar stamped with old Spanish marks. Valued around $1000, the find suggests historical Misalon Fathers mined the area and a priest may have hidden the bar whose location was later lost.
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Kelle
Mission Fathers
Dalmalk
California
Saya
San Diego Dispatch
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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Diamond Head
Coral Reef
Hawaii
Church Gazette
Thackeray
Dickens
Ely
Tondon
Ely Catheal
George Bird Grinnell
Stom
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