Bananas promising big profits for Hilo growers
Peter Lee, returning from San Francisco, promotes a cash on wharf banana trade in Hilo with Porter Bros. backing and Captain Matson aiding the effort. He forecasts rapid growth, asks for well packed 60 pound bunches at 75 cents, and plans to expand to pineapples and alligator pears while stressing quality and direct market access.
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Hilo
Peter Lee
San Francisco
Lee
Porter Bros
WE Matson
Wm. Matson
Pacific Coast
Tribune Paris
Holo Tribune
J_D
Paris
Senate
Honry Paris
Col Tom Fitch Stirs Republicans With Patriotic Appeal
A Honolulu audience at the Orpheum theater cheered Prince Kuhio and Col Thomas Fitch as they urged Hawaii to vote Republican for delegate to Congress and for the territorial legislature. Fitch spoke on party principles, danger of Home Rule, and urged unity under a Republican banner amid a history of politics in Hawaii.
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Territorial
Orpheum Theater
Prince Euhio
Gol
Thomas Fitch
Republican Party
Hawaii
Col. Fitch
Col
J. H. Fisher
L. L. McCandless
Prince Cupid
W. C. Achi
McCandless
Senate
Prince Kuhio
Washington
Achi
Home Rule Party
Home Pilikia Party
Gandsone
Polyresia
Thore
Hawaik
Europe
Ita
Dole Puts Senators Straight on Lepers and Budget
Attorney General Dole testified on Hawaii government costs and leper settlement policy. He cited centralized administration, 228 Hawaiians among 30,000 incidental funds, and a salary cut to 9,000. He defended segregation as last resort, detailing cottage and helper systems and noting 867 lepers with 14 whites.
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Sloggett
Burton
Father Wendelin
Atkinson
E. Tappan Tannatt
Hawaiian Hotel
Dole
Mitchell
United States
San Francisco
Senator Burton
Ufe
Barton
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New York Tribune
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Caesar
THE
Garrison
Phillips
Beecher
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Democratic Party
Henry Clay
Stephen A Douglas
Maols
James Buchanan
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Douglas
Buchanan
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Fremont
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Abraham Lincoln
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