Farewell Dance of the Pottawatomies on Lake Street 1885
The article recalls the August 1885 farewell dance of 800 Potawatomi warriors in Chicago on Lake Street near Fort Dearborn. It notes the treaty of 1853 ceding lands, the dubious funds and traders' greed, and the eventual removal to Kansas and Oklahoma. It highlights chiefs like Shabbona, Metea, and Winamac, and marks the end of Potawatomi power in the Old Northwest.
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Elmo Scott Watson Verhead
Lake Street
Chicago
Chicago River
Council House
Fort Dearborn
Milo M. Quaife
Old Northwest
Lake and
Market Streets
Mark Beau- Dieu
Sauganash
Supreme Court of Finois
John D. Caton
Hell
George B. Porter
Michigan
Thomas J. W. Owen
William Weatherford
Pottawatomies
Irving
Judge Caton
Quaife
Kansas
Oklahoma
Lake Huron
Pontiac
North America
Great Britain
United States
Makahta-penashe
Black Bird
Dearborn
Winamac
Spembalawba
Winnemeg
Wells
Winamec
Hull
Heald
Ind
Makatapake
Black Partridge
Metea
Big Foot
Lake Geneva
Wis
Shabbona
Shabonee
Lights and Incidents in New York City
A New York reader recounts an assault on Jack Price near Lexington Avenue with a later bite from a stranger and a coat slash on Fifth Avenue. The piece notes New York’s white wings uniform change to forest green and humor about Manhattan traffic directions. It ends with jokes on New York taxes and a Broadway fire incident on Thirty-seventh Street.
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Jack Price
New Yorker
World
Lexington Avenue
Thirty-ninth Street
Price
Fifth Avenue
New York
Sanitation Department
Broadway
Thirty-seventh Street
P. S
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Breathless Onion Set for Cosmic Debut in New York
Lloyd Shanklin of the United Brotherhood of Vegetables announced an upcoming debut of the breathless onion. He described it as radically different from tearful onions, being odorless and tasteless and even stain free, marking a unlikely new vegetable on the scene.
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New York
Lloyd Shanklin
G. Gcg. F. P
United Brotherhood of Vegetables
Shanklin
Forty Seventh Birthday Brings Rain to Springfield
Aime H. Cote marks his forty seventh birthday in Alpena Michigan and Massachusetts amid ongoing rain sympathy. The birthday boy has endured year after year of gloomy weather since his birth. He moved from Michigan to Massachusetts years ago and this year the rain continued to shadow his celebration.
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Springfield
Mass
Aime H. Cote
Alpena
Mich
Michigan
Massachusetts
Traffic Toll Soars In Six Months Hartford Report Shows
Hartford figures from Travelers Insurance analyze state data on the first half of the year. About 15 200 people died and over 300 000 were injured in street and highway crashes nationwide with pedestrians and car car train collisions driving most fatalities.
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Hartford
Conn
Travelers Insurance Company
Boy Declared First to Discover Gold in West
Danville California rancher George Van Gordon recalls a ten year old John Wimmer finding gold near Coloma and says the nugget passed through his family to Mrs Wimmer before boiling in a soap kettle He mentions 1846 migration to the gold fields Lola Montez Joaquin Murrieta and the Vigilantes recalled from that era.
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Danville
Calif
George van Gordon
John Marshall
California
John Wimmer
van Gordon
John A. Sutter
Coloma
John
Wimmers
Lola Montez
Joaquin Murietta
Babies and 95 Year Old Fly United Planes
United Air Lines reports a four day old baby boy flew Seattle to San Francisco with his mother and a ninety five year old woman rode Chicago to Cleveland the next day. The airline notes no age limit for air travel.
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Chicago
United Air Lines
Karren Snow
Seattle
San Francisco
Mary Oliver
Arizona Homestead Land Reverts to Government
More than 16 200 acres in the Verde river irrigation and power district are withdrawn from county and state tax rolls by orders of the United States Interior Department. No final homestead certificate was granted, so the land was treated as federal land not subject to taxation under a 1921 government district contract granting temporary taxation rights.
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New York State
Phoenix
Ariz
Verde River
United States Interior Department
Housewife's Idea Box For Your Playing Cards
A quick tip from The Housewife shows how to reliven sticky playing cards. Lay cards flat on paper then lightly dust with talcum powder or cornstarch and rub in to restore feel and usability.
Free Kindergartens and State Responsibility Highlighted
H E O Shea urges expert guidance for young children to prevent later behavioral issues. President Charles J Turck supports state funded free kindergartens of the best educational type as a capital investment in character and citizenship. The National Kindergarten Association in New York offers literature to groups pursuing public kindergarten programs with trained teachers.
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H. E. O’shea
Charles J. Turck
National Kindergarten Association
West
Fortieth Street
New York City
Two Pens In Exchange For One Free Fountain Pen
A vintage ad promises a free fountain pen after mailing two worn pens with a 3c stamp to Fountain Pen Exchange Box 27 Benton Harbor Michigan. Pens are rebuilt with new points and guaranteed for one year. Thousands of satisfied users report the offer.
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Fountain Pen Exchange
Benton Harbor
Mich
Foundations of happiness quote integrity and faith
A reflective quote by Landor on foundations of happiness asserting faith in women virtue and confidence in men integrity, and a trust in God's goodness for all happiness, temporal and eternal.
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Landor
Milnesia Wafers Offer Quick Pleasant Elimination
A health notice promotes Milnesia Wafers as pure milk of magnesia tablets that ease acidity gas headaches and bloating. It claims quick pleasant elimination and notes bottles cost 35c and 60c while tins are 20c and that thousands of physicians recommend them.
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Lake Michigan
Mississippi River
Andreas
Western Newspaper Union
Mrs. Helm Underwood
Lights of
L. L. Stevenson
Manhattan
Boy
Arizona
Housewife's Idea
Public Ledger, Inc
Orlando
South Shore Drive
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