June 4-22, 1914
Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that The Report of the Joint Congressional Investigating Committee found that a "large percentage" of the student body have trachoma. Lipps requests that the Commissioner sends one of his special trachoma physicians to the school.
Second Assistant…
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June 4, 1914 - June 25, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 for Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor. Lipps also forwards how he spent that $100 and requests another $100 under authority 56002.
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June 15 - August 31, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Elvira Anderson to have her daughter, Melissa Anderson, returned home.
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June 22-27, 1914
These materials include a request by W. F. Graham for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.
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June 23-29, 1914
These materials include correspondence and a resolution regarding the YMCA Middle Atlantic Student Conference of 1914. A delegation of four Carlisle Indian School students attended the conference, and adopted resolutions "for the betterment, elevating and promoting Christian fellowship of the Indian Race."
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June 24, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests $500 for School Transportation. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke informs Lipps that $500 has been transferred to his account.
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June 24-29, 1914
Supervisor Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he sold dried bones and old iron to Jacob Shields and asks the Commissioner which account to report the sale under. Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke informs Lipps to report the sale under "misc. Receipts, Class IV."
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June 26, 1914 - July 7, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps encloses a letter from former Superintendent Moses Friedman. Lipps explains that he has been sending Friedman claims and vouchers to sign from when Friedman was still in charge of the school, but both Lipps and Friedman state that this is impractical because Freidman hasn't been…
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July 6-15, 1914
Former Carlisle Indian School student Harry West asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells to appoint him as the Mechanical Drawing Teacher at the school. Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke informs West that the position has been abolished, so they cannot consider his application
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July 20, 1914 - September 28, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning the account of Herbert Sickles, which was closed and the funds forfeited to the Carlisle Indian School's Emergency Fund upon Sickles' departure.
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July 21, 1914 - September 28, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to pay irregular student labor for harvesting grain planted at the Carlisle Indian School which exceeded the previous fiscal authorization.
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July 21, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $250.00 for emergency supplies until contract supplies arrive.
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July 21, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $100.00 "for incidental expenses" relating to "the administration of the Carlisle Indian School."
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July 21, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests authority from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to spend $250.00 "for engraving, mounting, and making plates and plats of Indian art designs for catalogue and magazine work."
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July 28, 1914 - May 3, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps to change admission rules for students from the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. Prior to Lipps request, students from these Nations were required to pay both tuition and transportation. The revision allowed students with financial need to attend…
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July 30, 1914 - September 9, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to have Mary Shomin returned to her home at Government expense following the expiration of her term.
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August 15 - September 16, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by S. S. Kempton to have an exemption granted so his three children could enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. The request is denied.
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August 26, 1914
This document contains corresponence concerning the appendicitis case of Sarah Parkhurst. This includes a medical bill.
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September 4, 1914 - March 6, 1915
Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps requests to spend $100.00 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1915" fund for the payment of incidental expenses incurred in the administration of the school. A few weeks later, he calls attention to his request. A few months after that, Lipps requests authority for a $2.80 expenditure paid for from the…
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September 18-28, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Hampton Thomas, a member of the Choctaw Nation, who sought an exemption to enroll due to being over the age of 21.
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September 24 - November 2, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the education of members of the Cherokee Nation from Robeson County, North Carolina.
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September 24 - October 5, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to re-enroll Charles Pratt, whose term of enrollment had expired, through the remainder of the school year or until a position of baker in the Indian Service became open.
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September 28 - October 10, 1914
Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke informs Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps that they have just sent two color maps of the parts of Europe that are in conflict and suggests hanging them up in frames and using pins to mark different points of interest.
Commissioner Cato Sells tells…
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October 1-8, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to waive the requirement that Bud Walker pay for his own transportation to and tuition at the Carlisle Indian School.
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October 2 - 8, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request for the authority to pay a fee for recovering James Running Hawk.
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