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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...
...White Eagle is a musical play with dignified and ponderous gait like an upholstered elephant. The plot (from Edwin Milton Royle's The Squaw Man) details the adventures of the Earl of Kerhill's younger brother. He comes to the U. S. bad lands to save his family's honor. He marries a squaw to save her life. When he is about to return to the vacated earldom, the squaw commits suicide. Numerous songs, concocted by Charles Rudolf Friml whose efforts crowned The Vagabond King, are thoroughly inspiriting. These, together with gay and gaudy costumes, clever settings...
Should Senator Curtis ever enter the White House, it would round off a unique legend. In Kansas, they used to call "Charlie" Curtis names like "The Injun," "the Noble Red Man of the Forest" and "Lo!" His maternal grandmother, Julie Pappan, was an Indian squaw, a Kaw princess, daughter of Chief White Plume of the Kaws and granddaughter of potent Chief Pawhuskie of the Osages...
...Democrat, he made his first stage success in Cobra in 1924, and last winter appeared with Miss Hoyt in The Dark. She in 1914, aged 17, married Lydig Hoyt, clubman, divorced him in Paris in 1924. She made her stage debut with William Faversham, in a revival of The Squaw Man in 1921. The two years following she spent with Stuart Walker's Stock Co. in Indianapolis & Cincinnati...
...Bull, Indian chief whose warriors defeated and killed General Custer at Little Big Horn. From his many Western descendants, Sitting Bull would appear to have been as prolific as the Mayflower was capacious. (I Fishermen everywhere were shocked to learn that President Coolidge, on his first fishing expedition in Squaw Creek, had used worm-bait in catching five trout. Flies, they said, were the only proper trout-bait, but the President specifically stated that he had used worms and showed a coffee-can full of wrigglers to prove it. He said, however, that next time he would use flies...