Word: tarhata
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When Tarhata Kiram, flapper Philippine princess, married a Moro chieftain, newspapers printed columns, made sure that the U. S. knew. Last week, other things far more troublous to Governor General Leonard Wood, claimed his attention...
...Princess Tarhata Karam, the niece of the Sultan of Sulu who attended the University of Illinois, has returned to the Philippines and is now by the side of her husband in the up rising of which he is the head. He is Datu Tahil, a high dignitary of the Moros, a people who have always been rebellious against the American rule; and her presence in the zone of fighting is said to be a serious problem to the Government troops who realize that if they should happen to injure the Princess there would be a general revolution among her people...
There was revolt in the village of Jolo on the island of Sulu in the territory of the Philippines. Two hundred Moros, led by Datu Tahil and his wife, Princess Tarhata Kiram, who is daughter of the Sultan of Sulu and a onetime University of Illinois coed, vexed the constabulary. Not wishing to shed the blood of her people, Princess Tarhata set forth last week to talk peace with Governor General Leonard Wood at Manila, to. ask him for a Moro governor for the island of Sulu...
Thunder last week shook the abode of the Sultan of Sulu at Jolo, Philippine Islands. The great Moro chieftain has no children begotten of his loins, but for years he has reared three adopted daughters, the children of his brothers, and the three little princesses? Tarhata, Emme and Dayang-Dayang?have dwelt in the security of his harem. In the excess of his affection the Sultan actually had Tarhata spend five years at the University of Illinois, and she returned home with bobbed hair...
...Sultan's anger last week shook his abode. The ungrateful Tarhata desired to marry a provincial officer, one Datu Tahil, who was unable to offer a royal dowry. The Sultan explained to Tarhata that the match was beneath his dignity. She incontinently left his harem. Following this incident the Princess Emme declared her intention of marrying a Filipino. The proud Moro eyes of the Sultan shot lightnings. He did not deign to explain that his daughter could not marry a dog of a Christian. She too left the Sultanic residence...