Natives of Alaska Compare Size and Style of Arctic Peoples
A June to August 1890 voyage covers 5009 miles from Aleutians to Point Barrow and back, detailing Innuit Eskimo life. The piece notes average heights and weights, clothing such as parkas and kamleikas, skin footwear, jewelry including labrets, and daily life from hunting to trade. It contrasts traits, skills, temperaments, and endurance, and mentions art, dress, and temperate adaptation.
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Asia
America
Aleutian Islands
Point Barrow
Unalaska
Innuit
Esquiman
Arctic
Behring Sea
North Pacific
Mount St. Elias
Nushagak River
Cape Prince of Wales
Icy Cape
Arctic Ocean
Cantwell
Kowak River
Alaska
Bones of An Ancient Race Found Near Channing Texas
Three miles from Channing Texas near Rita Blanco Creek a lime stone bluff yields ancient human bones and teeth in a buried ground. The scattered remains suggest pre historic interment not likely left by Indians, puzzling frontiersmen and scholars according to the St Louis Republic.
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Channing
Texas
St. Louis Republic
Venezuela’s wartime militia and population portrait
The article notes Venezuela has a small regular army of a few thousand, but a militia of about 60 000 has fought in civil conflict and over a quarter million citizens are liable for service. A census shows under 3.6 million people with around 10 percent European stock and a U S styled constitution with a two-house Congress and a president.
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Dr. Palacio
Venezuela
United States
Humboldt
Caracas
Republic
Valencia
Maracaibo
Barquisimeto
New York Sun
Congress
Fashion Fads Through a Victorian Lady’s Eye The Queen
A nostalgic excerpt traces 19th century fashion obsessions from ostrich plumes to high headdresses. It contrasts a housewife reading gossip with satirical notices about clothing trends, bonnets, ribbons, and footwear.
Aguas Calientes The Mexican Hot Springs Town
Sam in the Courier Journal paints Aguas Calientes a town of about 40,000 with one story houses and rainbow stucco facades. He describes markets full of stalls, peppers and fruit sold by piles, pulque drinks, and a mix of Mexican traders and foreign goods in shops, noting stark contrasts between rich and poor housing and attire.
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Sam
Aguas Calientes
Mexico
Frank Carpenter
Courier-Journal
India
Endor
United States
New York
Ohio
Thorn in Brain Sheds Light on Rev. Pitts Death
The Chicago Times reports a medical anomaly in the death of Rev. Thomas Pitts of Pittsburg. An autopsy by Dr. Samuel Ayers found a two by three quarter inch bone plate lodged in the brain’s membranous partition causing convulsions and erratic behavior in the last years of his life. The case is described as extraordinary with no clear explanation for the bone growth.
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Thomas Pitts
East End
Pittsburg
Samuel Ayers
Pitts
Ayers
Chicago Times
Alligator Products and Their Surprising Uses
The hides, teeth, oil and musk glands of alligators form a diverse commercial trade centered in Florida. Teeth fetch high prices among Chinese merchants, up to a dollar each, and are carved or mounted for jewelry and toys. Oil from a twelve foot tail yields up to seventy pints used in lighting and medicine, while musk glands are valued by Arab women for beads in necklaces.
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Arctic
Oriental
Republic
Mexico
United States
Florida
Journal of the Society of Arts
London
Brazil
Samuel Wakter
Huston
Vator
Twins All Round By E F Wilcox Hatch Twins
Bridgeport resident E F Wilcox hatched twin Cochin chicks from a brood of eggs after a single egg shell split. He reports a rare event with two twins from eleven eggs and notes his prior experience with twins. The observer attributes the surprise to the hen’s good hatching and the twins’ jet black and similar appearance.
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E. F. Wilcox
Bridgeport
Wilcox
Chicago Post
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