U S Territorial Expansion Recap From Alaska To Panama
A Washington dispatch reviews fifty years of American expansion from Alaska’s 1867 purchase to the Panama Canal Zone and distant Pacific islands. It notes the strategic value of possessions like Wake, Tutuila, and the Danish West Indies, tallying areas and rights added through purchases and treaties.
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Oliver
Danish West Indies
Globe
America
Alaska
Russia
Seward
Captain Cook
Hawaiian Archipelago
Sandwich Islands
United States
San Francisco
Vancouver
China
Japan
Germany
Hawaii
Congress
Spain
Philippines
Porto Rico
Pacific
Guam
Tutuila
Great Britain
Pago-Pago
South Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Wake Island
Hong Kong
Pacific Islands
Christmas
Starbue
Penrhyn
Gallego
Howland
Baker, Gardner
Johnston
Midway
Palmyra
Morell
Marcus Islands
Insular
Panama Canal Zone
Republic of Panama
St. Croix
St. Thomas
St. John
Florida
Texas
Oregon
Samoa
Lesser Islands
Blackberries Verified by Irish Perspective
A dispute over whether blackberries are black or red if unripe is resolved by an Irish observer who declares all blackberries are red when green, settling the argument with a humorous folk point.
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Junior
Christian Endeavor World
A Good Old Fashioned Physic for Gentle Relief
Foley cathartic tablets touted as a wholesome bowel cleanse and stomach toning remedy. Claims include relief from indigestion biliousness bad breath bloating gas and constipation with no griping and a light freeing sensation. Sold by Mann Drug Stores.
All Nations to Adopt Protective Tariffs After War
Viscount Ichiro Motono, Japan's foreign minister, told the Japan Foreign Trade association in Tokio that all nations will adopt protective tariffs postwar to curb foreign imports and aid home industry. He urged local manufacturing of goods sold abroad and warnedJapanese exporters against selling inferior products harming the empire's commercial reputation.
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Ichiro Motono
Japan Foreign Trade Association
Russia
Viscount Morono
Sing Loo the Pekin Doctor Story
An English traveler in Pekin recalls Sing Loo, praised as the greatest doctor. His servant narrates how Sing Loo saved the life after other doctors worsened the illness, ending with Sing Loo’s timely aid.
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Pekin
Lesson in Letters from an Indianapolis Star Column
A brief humor piece shows Little Mildred asking what A B stands for and a playful reply about a Bachelor of Arts. The mother explains the degree and jokes that any bachelor trying to stay in the bachelor class remains so.
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Mildred
Indianapolis Star
Carolina and Yadkin River R R Co Schedule In Effect 1916
Train schedule for the Carolina and Yadkin River Railroad Company effective October 1 1916 lists expected arrival and departure times for stations but notes times are not guaranteed. Times include 1 22 am 8 06 am 12 29 am 3 37 pm 5 66 pm 10 03 pm and 10 43 pm with a notice appended.
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Evereer
A. x. Ly
High Point
Wish Tases Weagenes
Themasville
Cee Eressee Eresseese
Gordontown
Denton Seer
Soury North
High Rock Ee Swene
A. m
High Rock
Denton
A. Ma
Gordontown Teeree
Thomasville
Dea
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United States of America
Canada
John Congleton
Samuel
Eer
Marietta, O
Register-Herald
Marietta Paint and Color Company
Terest
Norwood
North Carolina
Marietta Paint and Color Co
Congleton
LaVallee
Washington, D. C
James H
Republic
Frank HL. F .Y. Ord Eants
CUT Flower
WILLOUBAR_TERRACE
Haigh
The
Associated Press
Tokio
North State
the Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association
Southern Railway
North
Carolina & Yadkin River
R.r.co
Randolph County
Frazier’s Siding
J. F. Luck
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