Sun Dance Probe Tangles Smithsonian and Museum Curators
Government investigations seek charges against Prof James Mooney of the Smithsonian and Dr George Dorsey of Field Museum over alleged payments to an Indian for undergoing the sun dance near Eagle City Oklahoma last July. The ritual, sacred to Cheyenne and Arapaho, faces possible prohibition amid debate on its religious meaning and alleged exploitation by tribal grafters.
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Eagle City
Oklo
James Mooney
Smithsonian Institution
George Dorsey
Field's Columbian Museum
Oklahoma
Calumet
Okio
Indiana
Lexington era elms shade Kennebunk street wonders
Kennebunk Maine showcases broad shaded streets centered on Mausam village with stately elms along Summer and Main streets. The Lexington elms planted during the battle of Lexington survived an 1885 ice storm and a Lafayette elm on the Storer estate draws visitors. A barn addition around an elm preserves the tree with lead sheets and lattice work allowing trunk air and sun exposure while the Storer mansion reflects historic family summers.
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Kennebunk, Me
Mausam Village
Summer
Boston and Mainé
Town House Corner
Main Street
Ocean Bank
Lexington
Storer Place
Lafayette
Massachuetta
Maine
Kennebunk
Squire Storer
Cutts
Virginia
Storer
William Parsons
Parsons
Miss Gladys Deacon and European Royal Rumors
Miss Gladys Deacon, repeatedly linked to European nobles and the crown prince of Germany, is described as engaged rumors by Paris papers in 1902. Her father Edward Parker Deacon shot a Frenchman in Cannes in 1892, later dying in an Massachusetts asylum after a French prison stint. The piece notes ongoing Tartar emigration reports from St. Petersburg to Constantinople.
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Gladys Deacon
Duke of Norfolk
Ear Marshal
England
Germany
Paris
Miss Deacon
Edward Parker Deacon
Cannes
France
Edward Abeille
St. Petersburg
Constantinople
Laurier Presses Independent Treaty Power in Canada
Premier Laurier pushes for Canada to have treaty making power independent of Britain backed by his Liberal cabinet and party. Editorials across Ottawa and Atlantic provinces back Canada’s autonomy, while opposition and foreign press criticize imperial constraints and warn of political peril. A second note reports a whisky barrel unearthed in Rosedale, Kan, broken open by locals who drank from it until only the bunghole remained.
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Laurier
Dermand
Tmg
England
Goold
Atlantic
Pacific
London Globe
Ottawa
Canada
United States
Yukon
Wilfrid
Great Britain
Rosedale
Kan
Quiet Hansom Cabs in Berlin Prompts Bell Rule
Rubber tires on Berlin hansom cabs render movement unusually noiseless, leading to increased pedestrian injuries. A new ordinance requires cabs to carry bells to alert foot travelers and reduce accidents.
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Berlin
Move to create a colonial department with Edwards as head
A group seeks a new colonial department led by a secretary in the president’s cabinet. Col Clarence E Edwards would be the first secretary, heading the Insular Affairs Department. Foraker plans to introduce the bill, arguing the insular bureau’s 100 clerks justify a cabinet role.
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Congress
Department of Insular Affairs
Col
Clarence E. Edwards
Insular Bureau
War Department
Senator Foraker
Col. Edwards
Insular Department
Foraker
Alaska
Papal Secretary Mercy Del Val Named
The pope appoints Meri Merry del Val, former apostolic delegate to Canada, as papal secretary of state with a cardinalate expected at the next consistory. Del Val, 37, educated in England and Rome, has long enjoyed the pope’s confidence and earlier served Leo XIII. In Canada, he dealt with the school question and has been secretary of state since Rampolla’s vacancy. In a separate note, a tree-felling incident near Hickory Grove revealed a bear skeleton with honeybees in the skull.
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Mer
Mer Try del Val
Canada
Mer. Merry del Val
Mgr
Merry del Val
Pius X
Leo XI
Mgr. del Val
Spain
England
Stonyhurst College
Academy of Nobles
Rome
Ha Waa
Vatican
Pope Leo
Cardinal Rampolia
Thomas Oumucs
Paul
Hickory Grove
Honored church leader Greer defies clerical dress code in New York
The Eastern Metropolis elevates David Hummell Greer, yet he rejected multiple bishoprics before accepting coadjutor elect to Bishop Potter. Described as unclerical in appearance, Greer defies traditional clerical dress and lives among New York's prosperous society, with ties to Grace Church Providence and St Bartholomew's. His career spans Clarksburg, Covington, and Wheeling, born 1844, educated at Washington College and Gamble, with degrees from Brown and Kenyon. A tarpon attack in Timbalier Bay leaves Albert Lefert senseless and hospitalized.
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David Hummell Greer
Potter
New York
Phillips Brooks
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
New York Sun
Episcopal Church
Doane
Albany
Elect Greer
St. Bartholomew's Church
Easthampton
Greer
Trinity
Cornelings Vanderbilt
Greer Wau
New York City
Providence
Grace Church
Clarksburg
W. Va
Christchurch
Covington
Trinity Church
Wheeling
Washington College
Washington, Pa
Episcopal Seminary
Gambler, O
Brown University
Kenyon College
St. Bartholomew's
Senseleas
Fink
Timbalier Bay
Albert Lefert
Columbus leader Sweeney elected president of American Missionary Society
Hon. Z. T. Sweeney of Columbus Ind has been chosen president of the American Christian Missionary society at the Detroit Disciples of Christ convention. A former preacher and lecturer, he served as United States consul at Constantinople and became imperial Ottoman commissioner to the Chicago World's Fair. He criticizes the sultan's stance toward Christians, notes his family's long clerical lineage, and now splits time between preaching, lectures, and Indiana game and fish commissionership.
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Z. T. Sweeney
Columbus
Ind
American Christian Missionary Society
Detroit
Harrison
Sweeney
United States
Constantinople
Gen
Sultan
Near East
Europe
Disciples of Christ
Christian Church
Indiana
Roberts to resign as commander in chief of British army
Report from London military clubs states Lord Roberts has tendered his resignation as commander in chief. After a week of discussions with the king, he seeks retirement citing age and burden of reform at the war office. It is feared reforms will stall until Lord Kitchener takes charge.
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London
Lord Roberts
War Office
Lord Roberta
United States
Lord Kitchener
Duke of Connaught
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Maj. Stouch
Washington
Kansas City Star
Little Raven
Mooney
Smithsonian
Downing Street
The
Chicago Tribune
Uncle Sam
Dyea
Skagway
Lord Alverstone
Aylesworth and
Jette
Hamilton Spectator
Toronto Globe
London Financial Times
Gayly
Uncle Samuel
Bir
Wilfrid Lauhier
Colonial Affairs
Com
E. Edwards
Porwer
Emene
Pope Pius X
David H. Greer
Patter
Americas Christian Missionary Society
T. Sweeney
American Christian Misclonary Society
Edward
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