Hollow Horn Bear Seen In War Tags Picture
The Sioux counselor Hollow Horn Bear appears in the war tags of his tribe as a respected figure. He is portrayed as a ready talker who argues passionately on important issues. His influence is linked to the election of Indians to offices in Tripp centuary and his face graces a series of five dollar currency bills.
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Dallas
S. D
Hollow Forn Bear
Hollow Horn Bear
Mary Copley Thaw
White Plains
N .Y
Harry Thaw
Thaw
Long-Felt Want and a Trickster’s Plea in Chicago News
A verse from the Chicago News contrasts romantic river imagery with a stark sting of economic demand. A speaker laments endless life while finitude returns as a cold reminder to remit money. The piece mocks the notion of bliss bought by payment and ends with a pointed line about paying for joy.
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Chicago News
The Three Wise Men and the Lore of Far Horizons
The essay reflects on the Three Wise Men myth as a powerful medieval fascination with distant lands and unseen wonders. It traces how travelers and plays shaped beliefs, linking gifts to mortality and salvation, and notes Ecuador exports about 26,000 tons of vegetable ivory annually, with Germany and the United States as major buyers.
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London Spectator
Jesus
Bethlehem
Judea
Herod
Jerusalem
John ‘Goldenmouth
David
Arabia
Saha
St. Leo
Tarshish
St. Thomas
India
Cologne
Balthazar
Fuscus
Italy
Job
Isaiah
Hell
Shadowa
Iecuador
Germany
United States
Reflections of a Bachelor in New York Press
A witty column notes a woman can be interesting to a man without marriage and jokes on complexion, a baby waiting to talk, and the urge to invent improvements. It laments how a man’s life mission often becomes convincing others of its importance.
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New York Press
Orient and asbestos deposits spark regional venture
The term orient reflects true alignment to east and cardinal points. A native company forms to mine large asbestos deposits reported in Rajputana and Afghanistan and to manufacture the product.
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Rajputana
Afghanistan
Malarias Source Believed Traced to Mosquito Study
From the Outing Magazine an American, King of Washington, 1882, linked mosquitoes to malaria and explained why night air and marshy zones breed malaria. It notes Anopheles mosquitoes fly low, that dry wells and drainage influence spread, and describes control methods using surface oil, fish stocking, and habitat management.
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King of
Washington
Aso
Jersey
Flight of Geese From South Now Rare in Kansas Skies
The article notes that wild geese migrating from southern wintering grounds to northern nesting sites have thinned due to hunting by sportsmen. It describes high altitude flights, V formations led by a gander, and how fields in the Great Wheat Belt provide feed. It recalls past plentiful flocks and ongoing dangers from man and weather.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
North Dakota
Canada
Gulf of Mexico
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Dakotas
Marcel
Red River
Dvers
Gander
Ant
Great West
Trail Elephant in Bald Hills Near Victorville
A prospector party from Los Angeles reported trailing an escaped elephant for about 20 miles through the Bald Hills north of Victorville. The beast crossed ravines and cliffs, suggesting high speed, before the group lost the trail in desert sands. They hypothesize the circus escapee wandered from a rearranged menagerie months earlier and was not recaptured.
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Bald Hills
San Bernardino
Riverside County
Victorville
San Bernardino Range
To His Wife From Lippingnott’s Poem Remains
A brief, obstructed verse from a husband notes the wife’s passing and bids her farewell. The fragment references a last sleep and tears, ending with the sign off Thou hast gone before me. The odd phrasing suggests a dated or oblique inscription context and may reflect local memory of a tomb tribute.
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Lippingnott
A Family Affair from Cordelta Success Magazine
A vignette shows a teacher ordering a pupil to discard gum, the girl hesitating to comply saying it’s her mother’s gum and risk of punishment at home. The piece shifts to note that in China even in the modern era the motor remains a low paid coolie laborer earning 8 to 10 cents a day.
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Rom Success Magazine
China
Old Navy Class Triumph Over Foreign War Fears
The piece recalls the class of 1881 naval academy graduates who stayed in business yet followed Uriu the Japanese admiral. They hosted Uriu in Washington with a grand dinner and a Taft speech praising Japan. The alumni vow to prevent any Japan United States war, celebrating Uriu’s reception and awaiting his meeting with the Mikado.
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Saturday Evening Post
Anong
Rae
Sutokichi Uriu
Ttte
Mike
Urino
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Japan
Congress
Academy
Uru
Urlu
Uriu
Baroness
Urla
New York
Washington
Urtu
Uncle Joe
Taft
L'Rfu
Milkado
Uria
United States
Naval Academy
Mikado
Ursu
Ike
District of Columbia
Maryland
Marquis Ito
Baron Komura
Misako
Boy’s grammar revolt ends with have gones note
A Kansas City boy stubbornly says have went. After extra drills he writes have gones on sheets and leaves a note saying I am through and have went home. Also noted is that all machinery in Calcutta’s mint runs on electricity.
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Kansas City Journal
A. Smith County
Calcutta
Pointed Paragraphs from the Chicago News
A collection of witty, terse lines reflects on human folly and ambition. The speaker mocks stinginess, fragile beginnings, and hurried ascent while noting gossip’s power, the value of storytelling, and the need to rouse a person to recognize opportunity.
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Chicago News
Hia “Uele
All Were Sorry When He Died
A jokey note from Omaha recounts a man who asked a band to play at his cousin’s funeral so “everybody in Omaha to be sorry that he died.” The band leader, nicknamed the worst in seven states, learns the request and is amused by the request’s sentiment.
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Omaha
Diversions of Energy From the New York Sun
Mrs Partington sweeps at the Atlantic with a broom and is urged not to discourage her by her husband as the impossible shows its uses. The item notes German Tast Atrio has raised sisal hemp since 1893 from planta. An imported Florida line quips a girl never knows how to do anything a nice young man teaches.
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New York Sun
Atrio
Planta
Florida
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Earth
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Detroit
Jerome
Wiisaar
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