Shining Shoes a Big Business in Havana
Havana reports show bootblacks in Prado and main squares form a busy service. A bootblack guides visitors with local knowledge, offers conversation, and scripts amid crowds while cigars, food, and drinks line the streets. The city pulses with jitneys, traffic quirks, and a lively, public-spirited street scene.
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Shining Shoes
Havana
Frederic J. Haskin
Cuba
Prado
Hiw City
Boothlock
Spason
Cobe
Havans
Wallingines
Wien
Fragmentary note from OCR with unreadable text
The readable portions are insufficient to determine a clear event or names. The fragment appears to be garbled, offering no verifiable entities or concrete facts for a timestamped news item.
Panama hats and Cuban dress in Havana streets
The author contrasts the ubiquity of chip straw hats with Panama styles in Havana. He notes Cubans favor hard straw for practical reasons, while Havana’s bright, clean cityscape features ornate, courtyard-centered buildings, palm-fringed plazas, and a lively street life of social cafes and promenading crowds amid tropical heat.
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Havana
Tropics
Undine the Water Sprite and Hildebrand Romance
A knight, Hildebrand, falls for Undine a water sprite given to a fisherman. Marriage uplifted by passion turns tragic as Undine’s kin seek vengeance. Hildebrand deserts her for Bertalda, and during a wedding eve confrontation the fountain unseals and he dies by a gush of water.
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Hildebrand
Undine
Hout
Bertalda
Fiherman
Kubleborn
Tome
Ferbesberd
Undina
Kableborn
Hilderbrand
New
Kwhtebors
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