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...Seneca the Elder, Valerius Maximus and Velerius Paterculus", Professor Rand, Sever...
Henry Ford, who has long possessed an Indian squaw made of wood, sought to buy a male wooden Indian to be her companion. He purchased for $100 from one Albinus Elchert, farmer, an old cigar store savage called variously "Seneca John," or "The Tiffin Tecumseh." This wooden Indian is a noted member of his vanishing race; he was made by Arnold Ruef, Tiffin, Ohio, woodcarver, a half century ago. In Cleveland, recently, when the onetime custodians of cigar stores were gathered together for comparison, he was observed to be the largest of them all and was awarded a prize...
...Women's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls...
...there, too, that Mr. Moggs gave Higbie Chaffinch a copy of Treasure Island, whose author, one Stevenson, Higbie could not recall among the illustrious company-Cicero, Seneca, Theocritus, Tibullus, sweet Petronius-in whose service his years had been passed. Disrobing that night, with Treasure Island open on the dresser, Higbie had difficulty disentangling his feet from his pant-legs without taking his eye from the page. He ceased trying and the snarl lay about his bony ankles, his shirttails waving free, until the book was finished. Kendrick Glasby, star reporter of the local daily, upon whose stalwart young person...
...northern New York State linger some 3,000 Seneca Indians, remains of the terrifying Six Nations. Are they citizens of New York, or of the U. S., or are they forever free and independent ? War usually decides such an issue. But, of course, the present question will not be submitted to the arbitrament of the sword. The question went to the U. S. Supreme Court under the following circumstances : Two years ago, a white woman claimed the estate of a Seneca. She met opposition in the Indians' own "Peace-Makers' Court," went to the New York Supreme Court...