The Wild Tribes of the Philippines Described in Old Text
A 1619 snapshot divides inhabitants into civilized Ip iliana Molammedans wild Indians and Negritos The uncivilized Madina tribes populate Mindoro Palawan and interior Mindanao numbering about four hundred thousand across fifty tribes These savages wear taparabo breechcloths and beads while leaders boast dangerous crooked iron daggers with carved wooden cases Chief possession marks status and power.
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Philippines
Atlas
Cebu
Bohol
Luzon
Formosa
Borneo
Mindanao
Philippine Islands
Chieta
Philippine Natives Portrait as Savage Tribes and Weapons
The article describes Filipino tribes as savages with light physiques and close kinship to Formosan groups, detailing their slash-and-burn upland farming, scattered bamboo homes, and lack of land for cultivation. It highlights the kreese as a key weapon, tribal head decapitation methods, and a Manila correspondent’s account of poison arrows made from bark, noting how the poison is prepared and used on arrowheads.
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Tribun
Formos
The
Medical News
Manila
Practical road improvement through individual effort
A call to farmers and landowners to maintain and improve roads by small, practical actions. Drainage, rock removal, and clearing obstructions are urged as cost effective, ongoing duties. The Georgetown cyclists example shows dividing streets into sections for local maintenance, highlighting direct, doable steps toward better roads.
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Georgetown
Mass
Atreeta
L. A. W. Bulletin
Macadam roads and road building standards
The passage cites Macadam's maxim on stone size for roads and reports concerns from a New York Sun excerpt about stones used in city roads allegedly exceeding regulation dimensions or being rejectable material. It discusses road construction flaws, drainage, supervision, and the push for state road funding, noting five rollings and thorough compaction for durable macadam roads.
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New York Sun
New York State
Empress of Austria Heroine of Irish Fox Hunt
J Crennan of Chicago recalls the Empress of Austria as a leading horsewoman who hunted through Ireland each season. At Preshford she rode a black Trish hunter, leaping a high ditch to finish first at the death beside Miss Langrishe. She popularized hunting, attending three meets weekly and buying top horses each season.
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Empress of
Austria
Europe
Ireland
J. Crennan
Vincennes Avenue
Chicago
Elizabeth
Duke of Leicester
County Kildare
Kilkenny
Lord Ormonte
Lagigrishe
Treland
Preshford
Empress
Miss Langrishe
Empresa
The Soldier’s Plaque and a Woman’s Souvenir
A young veteran, just home from war, considers a tiny keepsake to honor his service. He offers a hard tack armor plate kept near his heart, proposing to paint a landscape on it as a durable parlor heirloom to commemorate the campaign in Ontarisa.
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Sonvenira
Onbsa
Uncle Sam
Washington Star
Deceptive Sensations From Split Senses
A Detroit Free Press excerpt explains how senses mislead when only one sense is used. It cites phantom pains after limb loss and a finger illusion where a marble between fingertips imitates two marbles, due to brain inference from simultaneous touch.
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Detroit Free Press
Street Car Ruts Across Utrecht Cathedral Ground
A street car passes through the Cathedral of Utrecht built on ground dating to St. Willebrodus. After a 1674 storm the nave fell, a new nave arose, and a street now runs between nave and tower. The 350 foot tower and adjacent modern street disturb consecrated space.
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Utrecht
Holland
Empress Tuen of China A Slave to Regal Power
The article recounts Empress Dowager Tuen rising from indentured slave to sovereign ruler of China. It highlights her education defying norms, ascent via marriage to the emperor, regency during her son's minority, and Li Hong Chang her ally whom she once promised a ring. It notes her birth era, age contrast with the
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Li Hung Chang
Catharine
Russia
Tuen
China
Twen
Pekin
Li Hong Chang
Taven
Bishop Galloway
Religion in Japan Demands Daily Soil Worship
The text notes a belief that Japanese religion requires men to worship on soil each day. It claims princes and wealthy individuals avoid this by sprinkling dirt in a room corner on a cement square built for the purpose.
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Japan
True Caballero A Spanish Officer Honors Admiral Dewey Debt
In Cavite Harbor General Anderson's headquarters a thin Spanish captain repays two hundred dollars borrowed from Admiral Dewey to pay his men. The aide offers a receipt but the officer declines, saying never from an officer, a scene Harper's Weekly calls a true Spanish caballero.
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Caballero
General Anderson
Cavite
Senor
Admiral Dewey
Anderson
Harper's Weekly
Open Letters From Mrs Henry Hanpy On Lydia Pinkham's Remedy
Letters from Janie E Greens and Mrs Henry Hanpy of Riverside Iowa praise Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for gynecological issues. Greens notes relief from long monthly pains backache and dizziness after using the remedy. Hanpy recounts two years of ovarian inflammation and heart trouble and says after two bottles she can walk a mile and manage her own work again.
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Janie E. Greens
Denmark
Lowa
Henry Hanpy
Riverside
Iowa
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Adra
Elizabeth of
Empress Tuen OF
Dowager Empress OF China
Divera
Berlin
Madame Theosophin
Mrs. Sinclair
Kankakee River
Cura
Baltimore
Hood
Shannte
Jennie E. Green
Harry Hardy
St. Cine
Candy
Trace Marn
Sterling Remedy Company
Montreal
New York
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