July 28, 1914 - August 5, 1914
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer recommends Carnegie Technical School Professor J. H. Nolen to be teacher of an upcoming practical building course at the Carlisle Indian School.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells informs Palmer that the creation of the position is not official yet, and if it does become official,…
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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 7-25, 1914
These materials include correspondence and a government document regarding a new policy for student vacation requests. Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps notes that, because the circular outlining the policy was received late, some students did not fill out the necessary vacation request form. Lipps requests clarification on how to handle the case…
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August 11-20, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Louisa Jordan to enroll her daughter Winona Isabell Jordan at the Carlisle Indian School to learn the dressmaking trade. The request is denied, and Jordan is recommended to enroll her daughter in public schools until she is the appropriate age to attend Carlisle.
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August 12, 1914 - May 4, 1926
This material includes a request the Louis Lange Publishing Company, publishers of the German magazine Abendschule, for information about the history of the Carlisle Indian School. This information, along with a list of further readings and some photographs, were supplied by the Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Also…
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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 17, 1914 - September 17, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding a $5,000 donation from sisters Mary P. and Eliza O. Ropes in 1908. He states that the money was given to former Superintendent Moses Friedman, who gave the money to a board of volunteer trustees. Mr. Weitzel and Mr. Ray, two…
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October 22, 1908-November 13, 1917
These materials primarily consist of correspondence between the Office of Indian Affairs and the U. S. Department of Justice, in particular an Assistant Attorney General Charles Warren. In this correspondence, officials discuss whether or not former Superintendent Moses Friedman and former Chief Clerk Siceni Nori should be tried in a federal…
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August 19, 1914
Two memos between government officials which discuss what laws or court cases are relevant to the investigation into the mishandling of money of the students of Carlisle. These were compiled in the wake of the 1914 Congressional Investigation at Carlisle where it was discovered that certain funds deposited for students for transportation were…
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August 20, 1914
A list of documents related to the charges against Moses Friedman and Siceni J. Nori in the aftermath of the 1914 Congressional Investigation at Carlisle as prepared by the Department of Justice.
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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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August 31, 1914 - October 10, 1914
These materials include correspondence on the topic of industry, which arose from the 1914 Lake Mohonk Conference.
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August 31, 1914
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Chief Special Officer Henry A. Larson that Carlisle Indian School Supervisor Lipps would like to commissioner one of his school employees, Edward Corbett, as a deputy. Lipps would like Corbett to be tasked with suppressing the sale of liquor to Indian students in the East. Merritt notes that at…
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September 3-5, 1914
These materials include a request from Superintendent Kelsey of the Union Agency to have a police officer escort three boys from Carlisle to Oklahoma.
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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 19-24, 1914
These materials include a request by H. M. Lippincott, Secretary of the General Alumni Association of the University of Pennsylvania, for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.
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September 19-29, 1914
These materials include correspondence and a circular internal to the Carlisle Indian School regarding economy and waste in the school's industrial departments.
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September 21 - October 12, 1914
These materials include a request by D. H. McMillan to be granted an exception in order to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School as a student over the age of 21. The request was denied as McMillan was from Robeson County, North Carolina in addition to his age.
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September 21, 1914 - October 5, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Dora B. McCauley that her brother Eugene McCauley be granted a release from Carlisle in order to take up stenographic work at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. Eugene McCauley reportedly ran away from Carlisle after disagreements with Disciplinarian Wallace Denny.
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September 22-25, 1914
These materials include a request by Representative J. Washington Logue for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation of the Carlisle Indian School.
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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 25 - October 3, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Physician Dr. Walter Rendtorff informs Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps that he has found no evidence of communicable diseases among school employees. Lipps forwards Rendtorff's report the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt acknowledges the report's findings.
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September 25, 1914
A contractual agreement is made between Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School and Robert Thompson for Thompson to supply the school with coal.
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