Word: iloilo
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...Iloilo, P. I., a dying steel-spurred righting cock, wildly fluttering, fatally gaffed Juan Martinez, spectator, in the jugular vein...
...observers were: Swarthmore's Dr. John Anthony Miller (famed among astronomers for luck-this was his seventh eclipse and all have been clear), in Sumatra; Harvard's Prof. Harlan True Stetson, in the Malay Peninsula; Commander Chester H. J. Keppler of the U. S. Naval Observatory, at Iloilo in the Philippines. Each had a train of assistants...
Allen Cook, special '93, died in Iloilo, March 23, from an attack of acute dysentery. He was born in Fall River, Mass., in 1874. In 1891 he entered Harvard as a special student and under the direction of Professor Putnam of the Peabody Museum he engaged in extensive archaeological researches on Cape Cod and in the mound district of Ohio. At the close of his work he presented to the Museum his entire collection of Indian relics...
During the war with Spain he served as assistant electrician on the U. S. Cruiser Prairie, and last fall he enlisted in Company G, 26th Regiment. The regiment was sent to Iloilo, island of Panay, and Cook was assigned to special duty at regimental headquarters. While serving in the Philippines he kept up his interest in archaeology and he was engaged in making collections for the Peabody Museum...
Professor Channing has in his possession some interesting Filipino revolutionary documents which he has received from Captain John Boardman '94, now stationed at Iloilo. He intends to present them to the Gore Hall Library...