Indians Making Notable Advance in Education and Industry
Analysis of the 1916 report by Commissioner Cato Sells shows Indians making gains across education religion and business. Read and write English increased to about 75 000 or 30 percent. Churchgoing rose to 97 060, production and income rose beyond 28 million dollars, farming expanded with 35 823 now in cultivation, and death rates dropped notably aided by health campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Cato Sells
Matek Ca le Dame
Elevator Boy and Mrs Beerchamp at Skyscraper Office
A chaotic tale unfolds in a New York skyscraper as Sammis the elevator boy befriends a tenant, Mr Beerchamp, and faces a jealous wife, discipline, and financial tensions. The adulterated affair, a spurned lover, and a looming mortgage strain the adopted father and boy bond amid elevator chaos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bos
Sammis
United States
Samos
Mre
Speerchemp
Speeb
Mr. Beerchamp
Beerchamp
Remarkable Toad and Other Oddities From a Page
A Surinam toad that carries eggs on its back is described with details of its unique reproductive cells and hatching process. The piece also includes a humorous exchange about a truthful boy, notes on Porto Rico’s wind carried telephones plant, and a quip about a man wooing a woman with a rival. The snippets showcase curiosities, jokes, and short observations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surinam
Dutch Guiana
Porto Rice
Western Electric News
Apair
Maritime Mines and Historic Warfare Notes
The excerpt notes naval warfare use of floating mines dating to the Russo Japanese War. It adds curiosities on nettle juice dye for green wool, ancient paper making from rags, and a proverb about love and fortune. It ends with a prompt to make a resolution and a memory and a line about want ads in the paper.
A Case of Human Justice
A wartime correspondent recalls a Siberia bound Russian girl seen as an underage political prisoner. Six years later in London he spots Adela Alexandrovna, daughter of a czarist officer, now a nurse revered for tending wounded in battle. He witnesses her enduring sacrifice as war rages, including a czarist decoration for valor and the grief of those she aids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Utecarr
Fiordeast
Bett
London
Siberia
Adela Alexandrovna
Fler
England
Europe
Red Cross
Shheria End
Bay World
Warsaw
Americas
Deeard
Romers
Fire in Basement Threatens Church
Firemen battled blazes from basements and chimneys Sunday across several locations. A church basement blaze at the Church of the Brotherhood threatened structure after shingles and kindling caught. Other alarms included overheated furnaces and chimney fires on nearby streets, with no major injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jose
Seventh Aard Bouth
Streais
Chefre
Fidgh Street
Jeter Street
Joe Raytoned
T Mobile
Mortuary notices and local notices shuffled in town
Obituary notes report Milton Au erhaman died at home after long illness. The service details and burial planned for Warren, with widow Mae Snyder as previously noted. Also mentions of visitors to Gilbertville and health news, plus a Cuba tobacco planting note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton M. Au
Fourth Street
Dieu
Auber
Che Hamity
Pherty
Lanrobe
Vas
Psor
Ant
Warren Loa
Cudong
Couny Iy
Itchy
SheyDays
Jaltis & Coxter
Ar Ackernan Wis
Mae Snyder
Fopeks
Kan
Dew
Gladys A
Cowentholyn
Aulor
Jane
Intermont
Aukermann
Wuights
Maceshees
Railways Time Tables for Dubuque Chicago and Express Routes
Local and through trains listed for Dubuque to Chicago and intermediate points. Services include Dubuque Limited, Chicago Limited, Expressa, Fort Dodge via Omana, and connections to Minneapolis, Albert Lea, Twin Cities, Des Moines, Kansas City, Sioux City, and St. Paul. Departure times range around 1:00 to 6:30 pm with numerous East side and Union Depot references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Dodge
Omans
Omana
Sioux Cheyne
Leesl
Dubuque Worth Mound
Eaver
Fort
Union Depol
C. & Tain
C. & Dein City
Union Depot
Tain
East Side
Inten Depot
Kansas City
Des Moines
Siontenpol
Wary Bivinton
Waverly
Waterloo
Cedar Mapias
Waterloo i
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ga'ro Sells
Tennie
Detroit Free Press
Bonton Travecript
Hamlet
Ophelia
Hergeit
Argonaut
Detroit
Free Presa
Mathematica
New York
Kloder
Everybody's Magazine
Sir I
Thomson
Thi
Philadelphia
Row
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Florida Times- Onlon
Arabia
Vanbroch
Sorey
Mitter-McCartney Ins
Agiy
T Syndicate
Tadvertivemant
Muchanan Gouleat la
Ats
Cleveland
Milton AT. Auerhaman
Kistner
Gilbertville CaMertville
Merny
Marie McGlada
Eagle Center
Bellig
Mea
Dilesburg
Dighter
Morenes
Tina
Wiinin Krnelding
Bettie
Keonnie Miller
Mere
Baward Epler
Winnipeg
Unit
Cuba
Safaly Raz
Adee
George
Hy Fe Bridge
Osataire
Nuwaher
Wilerloa
Eagle Center Road
Sant
Luke
Edison Phonograph
Bible
Minnesota
Wartey
Gaylig
Steve Ates
Herrick
Grant Ave
Viata
Arant’s
Tllingis Cantrat
Mast Bonna
Dubuque
Chicago
Sebgue and
Caisasoa
Dubuque - Limited
O.g
Bk Morth Monsa
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Alinnainoltts
Joert Lea
Trin
Manh
Fretehr
Shell Roox South
s-Burlington
Cedar Rapids
St Louis & Kansas
Citvenport
Chienga
Leanora
Sete Carly
Sonora
Mary Garden
ANSCO
Columbia Records
CAL
J. Miller
West Fourth Street
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