Clippings
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Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press October 5, 1906 “Honeymoon to be Spent with Band of Filipino Savages”: “Mr. Schneidewind has become much attached to the head-hunters.”
The Tennessean
The Tennessean May 4, 1919 “Romance of Gen. Harrison’s Child Bride-to-be”: “…why I have made him my hero since I was thirteen years old.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch April 12, 1927 “F.B. Harrison Takes Fourth Wife, Sister of Third Mate”: “His third wife, Elizabeth Wrentmore Harrison, obtained a divorce in Paris in January.”
Oakland Tribune
Oakland Tribune July 31, 1934 “Harrison in New Love Row”: “…this time his third and most recent ex-wife, who also happens to be his sister-in-law, is attempting to act as peacemaker.”
The Washington Post
The Washington Post 1921 “Mountaineers of the Philippines, Anxious that America Keep Isles”: “If America goes we shall be exploited…”
The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun August 1, 1923 “Filipinos Call Gen. Wood Despot”: “Scathing attacks upon Maj.-Gen Leonard Wood’s administration as Governor-General of the Philippines…”
The San Francisco Examiner
The San Francisco Examiner March 21, 1929 “Stimson in S.F. En Route to New Post”: “…Colonel Stimson favored Early as his successor and that Hoover would leave it to Stimson to name the man.”
New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial
New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial April 6, 1929 “One of our Pro-Consuls”: “John C. Early, Governor of Mountain Province, P.I….”
The Spokesman Review
The Spokesman Review June 16, 1929 “W.S.C. Grid Star Runs Luzon”: “…[my] policy is to change as little as possible the native institutions of the people…”
Omaha World Herald
Omaha World Herald May 1, 1932 “Jack Early `Fades Away’”: “It was his always playing fair with them [Igorots]that won their trust and welded it into personal loyalty.”
Great Falls Tribune
Great Falls Tribune August 15, 1929 “Former Butte Man Visitor from Islands”: “…their ways of living are just as correct for them [Igorots] as the costumes of Americans are for the Americans.”
The Philippine Free Press
The Philippine Free Press January 9, 1932 “A Man of the Mountains”: “As the good news spread through the province [that Early was the Mountain Province governor] Igorots from the back hills gathered their few belongings and darted for Bontoc to help celebrate.”
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