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...experiment was founded on the Alaskan one at the advice of its originator, the Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jockson. He began work in the early eighty's. I had no idea that what he was introducing could be anything more than a philanthropy. Altogether 1280 reindeer were imported into Alaska in twenty years. There are now considerably over 200,000 animals in a hundred herds. The meat is now selling at a higher price than beef, having worked its own way up as a desirable article of diet. The valuation of the skins cannot help increasing. The Chief of the United...
...making Labrador a meat-feeeding country for the world has a very strong claim on the attention of philanthropists who are spending enormous sums in hospitals and efforts to combat the results of poverty and want in less fortunate parts of the world. I am convinced that Dr. Sheldon Jackson of Alaska will be remembered through the ages not only for the theology that he taught in Alaska, but unquestionably for his establishment of the reindeer industry of Alaska. The efforts of the Rockefeller Foundations to repair the diseases through hospitals and to prevent diseases like hookworm have...
Died: Mrs. I. V. Taylor (Ida Vernon), actress, 80, in Sheldon, Vt. Her first part was in A Midsummer Night's Dream, played at the Boston Theatre in 1856. She was a friend of Edwin Booth, who left her a legacy at his death. Later she played with Mrs. Fiske and William Hodge. Her best remembered plays were East Lynne, which she played for 120 nights in Richmond, and The Two Orphans...
Applications for the Frederick Sheldon Travelling Fellowships are due today. These fellowships are open to men in all departments of the University, including those men who expect to receive a degree this June...
...total sum of $1200 is distributed annually to the men to whom the awards are made. The number of awards varies from 12 to 13, 16 men receiving Sheldon Fellowships last year...