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Expressed in more conventional terms, kitchen-parlor history is the story of some local historical event, put into book form by some local "historian", and abounding in local-color legends. It is peculiarly indigenous to New England, and "The Great Powwow", by Clara Endicott Sears, is an excellent example...
...Lone Wolf Tribe (Wrigley's Chewing Gum). An Indian powwow, opening with lugubrious war-whoops which listening children mimic. Gifts to be obtained for chewing gum wrappers: a pin, a book of tribal secrets, Indian regalia...
...Indiana. Government agents drove them from Lake Michigan, forced them to sell part of the land in small lots, simply evicted them from the rest. Eviction did not destroy thei" title, so they are still rightful owners. Declared Andrew Johnson, an educated Pottawatomie, at last week's powwow: "From 1836 to 1840 a great injustice was done...
...Cutting; Democrats Wheeler and Costigan?rate themselves party men who revolt on occasion against party rule. As such they are Insurgents. Outside the Senate they drop party labels to unite on certain economic principles. As such they are Progressives. Republicans and Democrats were welcomed impartially to last week's powwow at the Carlton...
York County medical men were planning last week for some action to check "hexers" and "powwow doctors." Inspection of the Pennsylvania statutes revealed a law passed against witchcraft in 1861. The new legislature is to be asked to make it more stringent. According to Coroner L.U. Zech last week, three-fourths of the 150,000 people of York County believe to some extent in witchcraft...