Highland Park Public Library Local Newspapers Site

Highland Park Press, 10 Sep 1931, p. 21

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

, Beptember 10, | 3 & £ § \ 5 § 4 H 2§} Po oo rsday, September 10, 1931 “m‘ o4 T H E P R E8 8 ‘~â€"â€"The general assembly at the speâ€" .cial session will have theâ€"power,â€"acâ€" ‘cording to Senator Ray Paddock, of Waukegan, to amend the act sufficâ€" [‘wntly to care for the poor until the towns can legally raise money for Supervisors Hope to _ to disburse food, clothing or money to the needy. He has taken the responâ€" sibility . forâ€"purchasingâ€"somé ~medical supplies in case of iliness. | The change brought= about in the Cherokee tribe by the introduction of this means of expressing thought on paper. was â€" equally â€"remarkable. â€"â€"A .â€"_The â€"namingâ€"of the big trees of California "sequoia" is a tribute to that native American, a Cherokee Inâ€" dian, who spelled his name Seâ€"quoâ€" yah, says the United States Departâ€" ment of the Interior. ; ‘~â€"An uneducated nonâ€"Englishâ€"speakâ€" ing Indian, he perfected a phonetic alphgbet of 86 symbols with a charâ€" acter representing every sound in the tongue of his tribe. ‘a paupers=of="the=@tite is to be taken this week by the county board of supervisorsâ€" through a resolution diâ€" rected to the coming special session of the general assembly to amend the Finn Pauper act, it was learned. ance of the alphabet by the tri every one of its members was able read and write.â€" °=â€" * o % ple, who made rapid advance in genâ€" [ COMMUNITY MOTORS, Inc. ::;" ::‘""w" "': in civilization, |§ .. ,, & Michigen Ave. â€"** niramet 410 shifted on.._the _ townships.â€"â€"Inâ€"view of the fact that the legal barriers prevent the raising of money until spring for these payments the poor will have to zo without money. It was said that with this alphabet a Cherokee child might learn toâ€"read and write the Cherokee language in a day, and that within a remarkably short time after the official accent made of the various symbols and the news of the day printed in two newsâ€" papers. 3 A * Their laws were printed in Sequoâ€" yah‘s alphabet, and also the Gospels and many other books both useful _ _ Under the aci the county does not have the responsibility® for meeting assembly will listen with favor to an present acute situation. While it has California Big Trees Named for Wise Ir summer . becauseâ€"he had beéén unable been bad enough during the summer months, the winter will bring more dire problems, he admits,. ________â€" â€"Several_plansâ€"haveâ€"beer evolved in the last few weeks in an effort to make poor payments but â€"none of these have met with general favor. The one that appéaled the most was a proposal to have the merchants carry the load untilâ€"tax anticipation warrants could beâ€"issued. â€"â€"â€"~ ~~, Direct action to bring reli In Waukegan Township Snpervjso;H uré Amendment of Bonehead Pauper Act by the tribe, Alphabet Among the ancient Mayas of Cenâ€" tral America, people went to the denâ€" ‘tist not because they had a toothache, but to be beautified. A painful molar might be ignored, but the adornment ‘ofâ€"oné‘sâ€"teeth with inlays_of_jade and+â€"otherâ€"cofored ~stones was conâ€" [sidered of sufficient importance to justify the tortures of drilling . with a sharpened stone turned by a string l.bow at a time when no anaesthetics were known. â€"==s Among the coliections of rare and __: iousâ€"objectsâ€"brought to "the muâ€" _ seum by Mr. Thompson are a numâ€" \ ber_of sets of humanâ€"teeth with the~â€" }inlays of jade which were considered_ . a mark of> the wellâ€"groomed â€"manâ€"â€" â€"_ Among other objects brought to the museum ‘are skulls showing the reâ€" sults of the common practice of deâ€" formation by binding planks to the forehead during childhood; bowls conâ€" taining other skulls of persons who had been the victims of sacrificial ‘death rites; large car plugs of jade weighing more than three ounces gach which were worn as decorations: ‘‘Ade amulets; pearls, which are an extremely rare find among Maya buâ€" rials; artistically carved bowls; the various toys such as clay dolls with whistles: and , peculiar flint impleâ€" ments . shaped like scorpions, dags, human beings, etc. +/ ~~‘This information was brought to Chicago today by J. Eric Thompson, leader of the Third Marshall: Field Archaeological Expedition to British . Hondurasâ€"and Guatemala, who has returned to Field Museum of Natural tant curator 4inâ€"echargeâ€"of Central and â€" South American archaeology. were kept almost constantly busy drilling and flling teeth. Old recâ€" ords indicate that the operations were very painful to the patients, but were endured largely as a disâ€" play of Spartanâ€"like fortitude. _ .â€" of clearing the site of a heavy overâ€" growth of forest in which Were trees attaining heights up to 100 feet. The site was one. hithertoâ€"untouched by ~â€"Mr. Thompson and his assistants during the past several months exâ€" cavated some ffteen bural â€"mounds an a site near San Jose in British Honduras. Before work could progress and woman in the smarter set of ancient Maya society. The dentists in those days, Mr. Thompson states, were chiefly old women who develâ€" Pakiand ~1980 Sport â€" Phacton La Salle T88 Cabriclet â€"â€" 2 spares ... 8505 Studebaker=1980 â€"Sedan .â€" $ wire o WMs 22 e TL .nn s m ie e Pontine 1 INVESTIGATE THESE EXCEPTION AL _â€" ncient Maya Community, â€"Explorers Find _ FHOR THE _ . PARTICULAR BUYER TO BE BEAUTIFIED Third Expedition custom built 19

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy