Word: senecas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cavalryman in the War. (He would not serve against the French because France had been his adopted home.) The dashing Baron came to the U. S. in 1910 as a pilot of the French entry in the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. He met Frances Scoville, daughter of a Seneca, Kan. banker, married her three years later in London. She died in 1920 leaving a daughter, Mary, who is now 17, in school at Aiken, S. C. By returning to Germany at the outbreak of the War Baron von Mumm sacrificed his prosperous wine business. Afterward he could salvage little...
...Seneca Finished. In 1924 Seneca Copper Corp. went into receivership. The next year Seneca Copper Mining Co. succeeded it. Seneca has had a poor history. In June 1927, it closed up, reopened in October 1928, when copper prices began to rise; last December it again closed. Since at the end of last year Seneca showed cash of only $5,115 and since it is one of the high-cost producers, coppermen were not surprised last week to hear that once again Seneca is in receivership. The company owns 2,465 acres of copper property in Keweenaw County, Mich., produced...
Director Arthur Caswell Parker of the Rochester (N. Y.) Municipal Museum (he is part Seneca Indian) was invited last week to solve what promised to be an interesting problem. At Auriesville, N. Y., site of the shrine to North America's eight Roman Catholic saints (TIME, April 7; July 7, 1930), excavators had discovered two complete skeletons and the skull of a third. Archeologist Parker was asked to determine their identity. They might be the remains of three of the eight saints?Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil and John Lalande, Jesuit missionaries?who were slain near Auriesville by Iroquois Indians...
...Seneca the Philosopher." Professor Moore, Sever...
Charged with instigating the crime was Lila ("Red Lilac") Jimerson, 39, a Seneca Indian, sallow, flat-chested, scraggle-haired, toothless, a consumptive whom doctors have given two years to live. She had been Marchand's model for Indian pictures for the museum. He had seduced her, continued his relations with her. She loved him. She had told Nancy Bowen on the reservation that Mrs. Marchand was a witch, that she was responsible for the death of Charley ("Sassafras") Bowen, Nancy's husband. Nancy Bowen went to the Marchand house, committed the crime which Lila Jimerson thought would give...