Cuban trade advance and annexation views from Havana official
Senor Felix Garcia of the Mobile Cuban Steamship company arrived in St. Louis and shared a Spanish view of Cuba. He cites honest American customs, suggests most merchants favor annexation, notes potential for U.S. agricultural investment, especially sugar and corn, and predicts Cuba’s return to wealth as a U.S. state.
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Senor Felix Chao Garcia
Mobile-Cuban Steamship Company
St. Louis
Havana
United States
Senor Garcia
Spain
Cuba
Customs Service
America
Arana
Fong
Marana
Tricks of Thieving Women Train Clever Children as Aida
A New York Telegraph report describes women guiding young girls in shoplifting across Sixth Avenue stores. A mother and daughter feign interest in jewelry, then the mother pockets a diamond earring while a child distracts staff. Detected by store detectives, they are restrained, with the child only 12 and recently begun in crime. The piece notes multiple similar arrests that week and critiques shoplifting culture and protection by merchants.
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Sixth Avenue
Mamma
Alluop
New York Telegram
Two Expert Opticians Offer Free Eye Exams This Week
Drs. Chasen and Heard, famed ophthalmic specialists, tour Ohio with Crystal Vitrine lenses. They report fitting thousands and urge early treatment for headaches due to eye defects, offering two year lens warranties and free adjustments.
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Upper Sandusky
Lrazeyxburg
Somerset
Newark
Drs. Chasen & Heard
Drs
State of
Ohio
Escaping from Chinese perils aboard Empress of India
The Empress of India arrived in Vancouver with escaping missionaries from China recounting daring escapes. Miss Wawes dressed as a Chinese boy to flee over a wall to a mine crew's coastward flight, while Miss Niles and Miss Ness hid beneath a burning mission building as heat nearly suffocated them. Marines later rescued the English girls as they fled by boat with relief crews.
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Vancouver
B C
Orient
Tientsin
Miss Wawes
American Presbyterian Mission
Miss Niles
Miss Ness
Always Face the Engine Theme from a Travel Agent’s Advice
The late John Cook, a renowned tourist agent, traveled about 40,000 miles annually by rail. He found spinal discomfort from long journeys could be avoided by sitting facing the engine, a principle he urged others to adopt for similar railway travel.
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John Cook
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Aida
M. Pieter
Massillon
Dan McGinnis
Peac
Drs. Chasen & Hoard
Rucker
Graig
California Fig Syrup CO
Pittsburg Dental College
Western University of Pennsylvania
Penn Avenue
Pittsburg
Lindsey
Walter
Sera
Limscott
Gilmort CO
Pennsylvania College For Women
East End
Chalmers Martin
A. M
Princeton
City OF
Daly
Cleveland
Buffalo
AVICE
Erie
Traina
C. & B. Lina
Guffalo
Niagara
F. Merman
Anazar Paserneca Aeon
Toledo
Detroit St. Glair Flats
Port Huron
White Star
Adams St
DeTrot
Detroit
R. R
Bielman
TRF
MGR
Bickford
Detroit Mich
Warthorst & CO
Pharmacists
East Main St
California
Phatfornia
Oregon
Chicago
Union Pacific
North- Western Cine
Boston
New England
C. Travee
Smithfield Street
Chicago and North-Western Railway
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