"N*ked Savage Writes Fairly Good English on the Machine"
This is a clipping from the Bisbee Daily Review, a now out-of-circulation newspaper that used to publish from Bisbee, Arizona in the U.S. This clipping is from the September 3, 1904 issue of the newspaper.
It contained a news story about Antero Cabrera, the Igorot teenager who along with several other Igorots and a few Moros visited President Theodore Roosevelt Jr. at the White House in August of 1904.
After the visit with the American president, Antero wrote a letter in English using a typewriter. The young man once again became a media sensation. It boggled them that a "n*ked savage" was capable of writing in English, let alone alone use the "machine" (typewriter).
The recipient of Antero's letter was Reverend Walter Clayton Clapp, a missionary who was at the time stationed in Mountain Province in the Philippines.
The letter was published alongside the news article in the Bisbee Daily Review.
This was at the time of the infamous 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. Antero's letter contained a short account of their visit at the White House. He also provided some updates on their conditions at the World's Fair. He mentioned in the letter that two of them died. One from "soyne" and one from "tatepan". He probably misspelled these words. He was probably referring to Suyoc and Tetep-an. He added that the Bontocs are "laveing". He probably meant "living" meaning no one had died.
Image source: Theodore Roosevelt Center website
