Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt acknowledges receipt of communication from Joseph M. Herman Shoe Co. regarding the Carlisle Indian School Supervisor in Charge refusing to pay a $97.20 bill for delivering shoes to the school. Meritt asks Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps for a full report on the matter. Lipps encloses all…
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November 4, 1914 - May 1, 1915
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November 5-11, 1914
Cherokee Indian from Eastern North Carolina W. H. Oxendine requests to know if a recommendation from the State Superintendent of Education would be enough for admission to the Carlisle Indian School, where he wants to go to receive industrial training. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Oxendine that that the school…
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November 10, 1914 - December 11, 1916
Correspondence regarding a request by the Amoskeag Textile Club for an additional $500 refund from the Carlisle Indian School Athletic Fund from a game played between the school and Holy Cross College in 1914.
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November 10, 1914 - January 1, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the return of Beulah Logan from her outing home to Carlisle.
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November 14, 1914 - December 10, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the return of Manuel Romero to the Pine Ridge Agency and who should be responsible for paying the transportation costs.
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November 25, 1914 - December 17, 1914
Empire Coal Mining Company President William H. Weble asks Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps why the Cumberland Valley Railroad charged him $0.04 per net ton switching charges. Lipps forwards Weble's letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Lipps that…
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November 25, 1914 - December 31, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by George M. Tucker to enroll George Clarke at Carlisle.
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December 1, 1914 - January 2, 1915
These materials include a complaint from local Carlisle businessman John H. Lau against Charles H. Carns, the painter at the Carlisle Indian School. Lau, of the local carriage-maker E. A. Lau and Sons, claimed that Carns was inappropriately undercutting his carriage-painting costs. After investigation, Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian…
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December 3, 1914 - July 13, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment at Carlisle of Brown Eagle, a member of the Navajo Nation, and the loss of his trunk after being shipped from Morrisville, Pennsylvania to Carlisle.
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December 4, 1914 - January 23, 1915
Carlisle Indian School Physician Dr. Walter Rendtorff informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he thinks he may have developed a cure for tuberculosis, which he has used on David Belin and two others. He requests to give it a trial at the Fort Lapwai and Toledo sanitariums.
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt tells Rendtorff…
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December 8-9, 1914
Cato Sells requests the Carlisle Indian School print 1000 copies of the Advance Statement of Annual Report for 1914 as quickly as possible. Sells additionally notes corrections to be made to the Report.
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December 9-15, 1914
This material includes a letter as well as a flyer concerning the performance of the Carlisle Indian School band at the Belgian Relief Fund Benefit.
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December 12, 1914 - August 4, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding requests from Andrew F. Solomon to stay at Carlisle or to enter Haskell to obtain an education.
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December 14-22, 1914
Louis Scott requests permission to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. The Chilocco Indian School was recommended as an alternative.
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December 17, 1914 - March 11, 1915
Superintendent O. H. Lipps requests to spend $100 to pay for incidental expenses incurred from the administration of the Carlisle Indian School from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1915" fund, and Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke approves his request.
Lipps later requests to add five expenditures totaling $60.15 to his…
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December 24, 1914 - January 9, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return home of Frank Young Eagle, Charles Wilson, George Roberts, and Eustace Edwards in January 1915.
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December 29, 1914 - January 12, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Angeles Rivera to enroll a young Puerto Rican boy at the Carlisle Indian School.
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December 31, 1914- January 15, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning a request made by Stephen Foote to access his student funds.
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January 4-13, 1915
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company would like to purchase 7/1000 of an acre of Farm No. 1 to provide a bit more room to construct an overhead bridge over their tracks. Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke informs Lipps…
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January 5-18, 1915
Reginald Oshkosh appeals to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to prevent the discharge for cause of his son, Roland Oshkosh, from Carlisle.
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January 9 - 13, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the formation of a Boy Scout troop at Carlisle. This is considered the first Native American scouting troop.
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January 11, 1915 - March 10, 1915
Supervisor in Charge of Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 for incidental expenses in association with the administration of the school. Lipps later requests approval for spending $8.40 for eggs.
Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs informs Lipps that his requests have been approved.
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January 12, 1915 - February 23, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment status of Alexander P. Powell.
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January 12, 1915
These materials include a correspondence regarding the whereabouts of Susie Wallan and Margaret Buffalo.
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January 15, 1915
Emily Peake Robitaille, Secretary of the Alumni Association of the Carlisle Indian School, writes to former students regarding the desire of the Alumni Association to start an Alumni Publication following a conference of Alumni Secretaries. Robitaille notes that the publication will only come about if the Association can meet its membership…
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