Four Indian Tribes Seek Restitution Through Courts
A new chapter in American history opens as the Poncas, Iroquois, Cherokees, and Sioux prepare court cases against the United States for lands removed or taken. The Poncas seek about 11 million dollars for Nebraska and South Dakota lands. the Sioux claim 219 million plus interest. the Iroquois anticipate a sweeping claim in New York lands. the Cherokees seek 100 million in eastern Tennessee lands including Chattanooga. The shift from war to litigation marks a landmark change in federal-indigenous relations.
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United States
Congress
United States Court of Claims
Paneas
Voneas
Nebraska
Indian Territory
Standing Bear
Indian Department
Omaha Indian Reservation
Omaha
T. H. Tibbles
Onaha
Dundy
Tibbies
Susette la Flesche
Senate
South Dakota
Benjamin Harrison
Black Hills
Uncle Sam
Homestake
New York
Empire State
Commonwealth of New York
Sir William Johnson
Mohawk Valley
North America
England
Johnson
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
League of the Six Nations
Oneida
Seneca
Molly Brant
Joseph Brant
Great Britain
Fort Stanwix
Rome
N. Y
Sir William
Daries
Clinton
Philadelphia
Washington
Tennessee
Chattanooga
North Carolina
State of
Great Smoky Mountains
Moccasin Bend
Andrew Jackson
Fragmented OCR Glossary Entry with Mixed Clues and Terms
A dense OCR style snippet listing numerous clues and word fragments across categories such as anatomy, tools, plants, measures, and verbs. The text interleaves numbers, partial terms, and unusual pairings, suggesting a cryptic or cross reference page with multiple definitions and crosswords.
Motor Fire Truck At Constantinople Museum Draws Crowds
In the Constantinople municipal museum a bright red motor fire truck attracts visitors while native fire brigades still use a small hand pump daily. Presented before World War I by the German Kaiser, the vehicle puzzled locals until placed behind a brass rail. Turkish firemen reportedly demand payment from burning building owners before they operate. The city suffers heavy fire losses, prompting near‑annual rebuilding.
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Constantinople
Buenos Aires Debates Pajama Coats For Street Wear
Buenos Aires newspapers debate whether men should adopt pajama coats for street wear in hot weather. Writers note pampas winds make the city stifling in summer while traditionalists insist on heavy dark attire through the torrid weeks.
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Buenos Aires
Pampas
Pajama Trend Hits Tradesmen and Taxi Drivers
Report notes taxi drivers and other tradesmen adopt bright colored pajamas as daily wear, seen as foreign and a threat to propriety. The practice spreads among workers, signaling a shift in dress norms across the city workforce.
Trade Despite Handicap Foochow Charts Large Foreign Trade
Foochow China, a city without railroad tracks or wheeled vehicles, manages a sizable foreign trade operation. Local merchants and ships handle goods despite infrastructural limits, showcasing resilience and economic activity amidst constraints.
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Foochow
China
How to Solve a Crossword Puzzle
Instructions explain filling a crossword with numbered clues for horizontal and vertical words. Letters fill white spaces until a black square, with no letters in black spaces. Definitions indicate abbreviations and obsolete forms. only dictionary words or proper names should be used.
Aunt Judge Xenophon Hicks Dinner Remark Prompt
The passage records a Knoxville dinner remark by Hicks urging precise English to avoid confusion. He recounts a joke where a man replies that his aunt has passed away with no complaint, only a small bequest, illustrating language and humor from the speaker.
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Xenophon ‘Hicks
Knoxville
Jim
Tree Seed Ranchers Seek Profitable Seed Gathering in New Mexico
Collect Tree Seed Ranchers and mountain farmers in parts of New Mexico have found a profitable sideline in gathering evergreen tree seeds. Pine spruce and fir seedlings are in demand worldwide for ornament and windbreak use, making seed from native woods a quicker supply than waiting for seed trees to mature.
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New Mexico
Contagious Roup in Poultry Warns on Sanitation and Care
A Poultry Bulletin outlines contagious roup spread by unsanitary hen houses and damp weather. It describes symptoms from a cold to nasal discharge and eye swelling, and prescribes removal of causes, isolation, and heavy management, including disinfection with bichloride of mercury and humane culling of bad cases.
Feeding pullets in winter houses for best judgment
Guidance on feeding pullets after maturity in winter houses. Recommends eight quarts of hard grain per hundred birds daily, split between morning and night, with adjustments up to ten to twelve quarts as laying improves. Notes some days eight quarts may be too much and mush should be kept in hoppers or feeders.
Poultry Notes on Raising Chicks and Geese
Guidance covers culling nonproducing hens and sunlight to prevent rickets in chickens. It recommends dust baths, early market timing for broilers, various feeding methods, incubator hatching for turkeys, and using natural water for geese with water access. It also suggests turning waste land into profitable land by geese flocks.
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Pennsylvania
Joseph Brart
Fulzale
Nevada
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