Jamaica Life and Columbus Echoes on the Island Road
The article paints rural Jamaica as a land of easy living with minimal shelter, clothing, and exertion, notes the Panama Canal construction era work, and describes Port Antonio and Bath. It recounts Columbus’s 1503–04 stay at Jamaica, mutiny and rescue saga, and his 1504 departure after a year ashore.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Jamaica
Panama
Panama Canal
Kingston
Colon
Canal Zone
Harbor Head
Admiral Vernon
Lawrence Washington
Potomac
Mount Vernon
Albion
Yallahs
Morant Bay
Gordon
John Brown
St. Thomas
Bath
Port Antonio
Scott
Tom Cringle
John Crow Mountains
Blue Hole
Titchfield Hotel
Myrtlebank
Annette Bay
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Columbia
Island
Columbus
Annotto Bay
Port Maria
St. Anns Bay
Don Cristoforo Colon
Caribbean
Santiago de Palos
New World
Spain
Gayman Islands
Las Tortugas
Dry Harbor
Puerto Santa Gloria
Diego Mendez
Haiti
Mendez
Porras
Francisco
Santiago
Diego
Juan Sanchez
Ledesma
Barba
Ovanda
Escobar
Adelantado
Bartolome
Christopher Columbus
More paving on Nebraska roads expected this year
Four of the six highway projects proposed by the Omaha chamber of commerce will be well under way before fall. Roy Cochran says the state public works department expects to pave nearly all of the D. S. D. between Omaha and Lincoln and to lay twenty five miles of paving from Ames to Schuyler creating a continuous Omaha to Columbus highway.
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Lincoln
Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Roy Cochran
State Public Works Department
Omaha
Central City
St. Paul
Columbus
Cochran
Ames
Schuyler
Blair Road
Calhoun
Blair
Bluffs
Union
Nebraska City
Missouri Pacific
Fire Sweeps Battle Creek Businesses in Blizzard Blaze
Firefighters from Norfolk Battle Creek Meadow Grove and Tilden battled a four hour blaze in Battle Creek during a fierce blizzard. Four business houses suffered about 160000 dollars in losses with Valley bank building a total loss carrying around 15000 dollars in insurance. Flames spread from the bank rafters to neighboring Schaeffer and Marshall grocery stores while Hoover drug store escaped total loss after crews contained the blaze.
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Battle Creek
Norfolk
Meadow Grove
Tilden
Valley Bank
Bank
Schaeffer
Marshall Grocery
Hoover Drug Store
Marshall Store
Valuable Goats Killed by Dogs at Franklin County Farm
At Hildreth Havoc night dogs entered R C Mars goat pen on the edge of town and killed fifteen pure bred milk goats valued around five hundred dollars. Mars keeps about forty five goats in other pens secured from the dogs.
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Hildreth
R. C. Mars
Franklin County
Mars
McCook Approves Eastward Grade School Bonds
The McCook special election approved a $75,000 bond to build a new eastward grade school by 159 votes. A separate measure to relocate the school failed by 10 votes. No plans exist yet but officials expect a design similar to the current westward school and rush construction to be ready for September.
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McCook
Fire gut Gutru building and nearby stores at Newman Grove
A Newman Grove fire gutted the George Gutru building and damaged stock and fixtures at Einstein and Belgrade men’s furnishing Olson Hardware and Woolworth stores. Total loss about 23000 with Gutru at 4500 and clothing store at 13000. Woolworth and Olson Hardware around 3000. Origin uncertain. Much damage from water.
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Newman Grove
George Gutru
Eintein
Belgrade
Olson Hardware
Woolworth
Gutru
Orgin
Bids For New Omaha Union Station
Omaha twenty contractors have bid on the new Union Station project. Bids close January 20 with contracts awarded about a month later. Union Pacific engineers estimate outside work at 1 million dollars. total station cost around 3.5 million. Work to be completed in early 1931.
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Omaha Union Station
Omaha
Union Station
Union Pacific
Veterans award hospital contract in Minnesota project
State veterans commission awarded a $50,000 bond issue for the Ibsn hospital project, with general medical building dining facilities and officers dining rooms. Hastings sold the issue to United Security Trust of Omaha. Bundled details include bond rates, bidders, and anticipated spring pipeline connections for local utilities.
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Ibsn
Bracker Construction County
Minneapolis
General Medical
Hastings
United Sis Trust Company of
Omaha
Apple and banking notes highlight Nebraska news
Nebraska apple shipments before January 1 surpass previous record by nearly three times with 195 cars led by Shubert and Richardson county. Bee culture urged as Nebraska’s sleeping giant while Merchants Bank of Utica was closed by officials. fourth Nebraska bank failure in a week with $200000 in deposits and $25,000 surplus.
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Nebraska
State
Federal Bureau of Crop Statistics
Richardson County
Nemaha County
Otoe County
Shubert
Brownville
Nebraska City
Howe
Merchants Bank
Utica
Seward County
Department of Trade and Commerce
George Woods
R. S. Carscadden
Dialogue Snippet Sparks Curious Exchange On Street Vision
A terse exchange unfolds on a street scene as one person challenges another with a pointed question about sight and distance. The fragment hints at tension and a cold tone in the interaction.
Pearls and Confessions Highlight Coastal Driving Tale
A motorist on Marine Drive is halted by police after an arm around a girl prompts a lesson on the law. A girl reveals a birthday lie about age while a husband seconds the pearl gift as a playful twist unfolds amid the Vancouver Province scene.
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Marine Drive
Ted
Vancouver Province
Cutting Nurse Tommy Takes His Medicine Like a Man
A mother recalls her son Tommy bravely taking medicine as a nurse offers care. The exchange shows calm routine in a domestic scene with patient resolve.
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Tommy
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