Indian portraits headlining new Troy weekly feature
A new Indian portrait series, contrasting romanticized depictions with modern reality, shows diverse Indigenous figures from Kiowa farmers to Pine Ridge laborers. Scenes include children walking to school, Sioux at a church convocation in White Swan, South Dakota, and tribal figures with work roles across Montana Arizona and South Dakota.
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Fenimore Cooper
Catlin
Arare
Tepre
Pine Ridge
Episcopal Church
White Swan
S. D
The Personality of Labor and the Human Worker
The essay argues workers are people first, not mere economic units. Labor purchase involves ongoing trust and personal responsibility, not a one time exchange. Citing Dr Abbot and Hayes Robbins, it insists personal qualities are essential in labor relations to prevent exploitation.
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Abbot
Hayes Robbins
Atlantic
Wiley urges long life through learning to live well
Chief Chemist Wiley of the Department of Agriculture at Washington addresses a Cleveland scientific school graduating class. He jokes about a hundred-year club but warns a member who dies before a century would be expelled. He then argues longer life will come from diet hygiene and surgery knowledge and that extended schooling aids a career.
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Wiley
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Cleveland
Young James Garfield Faces Civil War of Memory
James Rudolph Garfield, then 17, stood by his father at the Pennsylvania station in Washington when President James A. Garfield was shot in July 1881. Close friends say the horror never left him, shaping a lingering, half-sad expression that persists despite smiles.
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James Rudolph Garfield
Pennsylvania
Washington
United States
Garfield
Presentiment of a Poisoned Morning in a Jealous Marriage
Jordan Weyless, driven to madness by obsessive jealousy, suspects his wife Julia of a lover and murder. He secretly tests her with a poisoned coffee, only to find she plans a staged drama. The revelation comes as he examines a vial labeled as an at home cure for alcoholism secretly mixed into tea or coffee.
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Jordan Weyless
Dante
Julia
Weyless
Alven Tawan
Jordan
Oskaloosa
Richard Harding
Richard
Mr. Roosevelt
Long
Reunion of Descendants of PA Signers Planned for Jamestown Fourth
Maj E M Wickland state secretary for Pennsylvania of the Thomas Jefferson association tours the state collecting a roster of Pennsylvanians who descend from Declaration signers. A reunion is planned at the Jamestown exposition on July 4 with a lineal Jefferson descendant reading the declaration and a chorus offering patriotic music.
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Maj. E. M. Wickland
Pennsylvania
Thomas Jefferson Association
Jamestown Exposition
Thomas Jefferson
Kindness Outweighs A Large Pie In Russian Saying
A Russian proverb notes that a word of kindness is more valuable than a fat pie. It emphasizes gentleness over indulgence and suggests that humane speech holds greater sustenance than feast or wealth.
Rustic Longevity in a French hamlet near Saint Omer
The London Globe reports Der micbreeneq, a tiny French hamlet of 435 residents near Saint Omer, boasts remarkable longevity. Of the population, 20 are 78 or older, with a patriarch nearing 100 after three years, and the others clustering in their eighties and nineties.
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Saint Omer
Dermicbreeneq
London Globe
Gambling Clergyman Denounces Bridges and Races
In a London address Bishop Percival of Hereford condemned clergy social diversions. He warned younger priests chase entertainment and sport, oppose temperance talks, and fail to meet their duty. He urged personal reform to curb craving for excitement and indulgence.
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London
Percival
Hereford
Severe Test and a Russian anecdote in Yonkers Statesman
A terse test appears framed as a humorous exchange about Russia and liquor influence. The Yonkers Statesman quips that a man returning home drunk must spell his own name, reflecting a sharp, ironic local flavor.
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Russia
Crimsgonbeak
Yonkers Statesman
Confession Clears Innocent Man Convicted on Circumstantial Evidence
Al Harpster, an Oklahoma man, was released after dying confession by outlaw Byron Cole absolved him of murdering Martin Julian near Ponca City. Harpster had served months of a life sentence. new trial led to acquittal as Cole admitted killing Julian and implicated others.
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Guthrie
Okla
Kansas
Lansing
al Harpster
Martin Julian
Ponca City
Harpster
Byron Cole
Oklahoma
Julian
Bayard T. Hainer
Newkirk
Woods
Garfield
Cole
Dell Lewis
Nellie Edwards
Campbell
Garfield County
Burwell
Woods County
Winchesters
Della Lewis
Colorado
Denver
Dives Into Oil Tank With Clothes Ablaze
Rawson Hamliffe a tinner from Gryton saved after igniting gasoline drenched him while fitting a tank behind a hardware store. He dived into seven foot deep oil to smother flames, then used a gas pipe to blow out burning oil and survive until help arrived. George Bracker burned his hands rescuing him.
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Tipton, Mich
Rawson Hawliffe
Gryton
Hanliffe
Compton & Blake’s Hard
James Claische
Bert
Hamliffe
George Bracker
Hawkfe
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