Spain's Coast Cities Cadiz and Cartagena Describe Historic Fortifications
Cadiz showcases whitewashed elegance and sea defenses with walls, gates, and forts including San Sebastian Santa Catalina and San Fernando as a fortress city. Cartagena boasts a stormy history from Scipio to Moorish rule with harbor fortifications and siege-led reconstructions across centuries.
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Cadiz
San Sebastian
Santa Catalina
Matagorda
Puntales
Fort San Fernando
Spain
Enat
Castillo de San Julian
Castillo de Las Galeras
la Escombrera
Atalsya
Castillo de Despenaperros
Cartagena
Scipio the Younger
Ferdinand I
Castile
Philip IL
Spain’s Catalan Past and Coastal Forts in a Colonial Echo
The excerpt surveys Catalonia’s political stances toward Madrid, Barcelona’s famed cathedral and Rambla, Bilbao’s tree tower, and Montjuich fortress. It then traces Cartagena’s Carthage roots, expanding trade, and Esparro gras as export. Malaga’s Phoenician origins, climate, grapes, and fortifications, ending with Ceuta as a prison island fortress near Fez and Gibraltar’s approach.
Prisoners of War at Camp Long Portrayed as Contented Captives
About fifteen hundred Spanish sailors captured after the Santiago and Manila battles are housed at Camp Long Seavey’s Island Portsmouth New Hampshire. The article notes their mixed ages from veteran to boy and describes their appearance endurements and the humane treatment they receive including good food decent clothes and guarded exercises with Marines and machine guns on patrol.
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Santiago
Cervera
Camp Long
Seavey's Island
Portsmouth
N. H
Manila
Seavey's
Cabinet weighs terms of Spain peace note after late-night conference
A Washington dispatch reports the cabinet debated President McKinley’s reply to Spain on Friday. It advocates surrender of Porto Rico to the United States, recognition of Cuban independence, and cession of a strategic island for a coal station with another coaling option in the Philippines. The future of the Philippine Islands remains undecided and may be referred to a joint commission with Spain.
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Washington
Spain
Porto Rico
United States
Cuba
Ladrone Islands
United
Philippines
Philippine Islands
The
Day
McKinley
State Department
White House
Secretary Day
Canary Islands Portrait as Peaceful, Poorly Defended
The passage argues that the Canaries have few valuable resources and limited utility beyond signaling. It notes the immobility of these islands, with Teneriffe and Las Palmas as main parts, and describes inhabitants as non-combatants, weakly defended, poorly armed, and likely to surrender at the sight of a warship.
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Canaries
Spain
Teneriffe
Las Palmas
Joint High Commission to Meet in Quebec August 24
The first meeting of the joint high commission appointed by the United States and Great Britain to discuss matters between the U S and Canada will be held in Quebec on August 24. Topics include fur seals in Bering Sea and Pacific waters.
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Quebec
Joint High Commission
United States
Great Britain
Canada
Bering Sea
Pacific
Movement for Parcel Post Through Cities Grows Nationally
A new movement originating among leading Chicago business houses seeks government adoption of parcel post for small merchandise packages, modeled after Europe. Backed by the National Parcel Post league, it aims to extend cheap letter postage to small goods, boosting store trade and consumer prices.
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Chicago
National Parer] Post League
Europe
Post Office Department
Leslie’s Weekly
Living Witness Praises Pinkham Vegetable Compound
A Canton Ohio woman writes that Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cured her months of abdominal pain dizziness and insomnia after following the doctor’s directions. The letter highlights Pinkham’s treatment of female ills and the extensive correspondence department handling thousands of cases yearly.
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Omar Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Plorence R. Hoffman
Roland St
Canton
Hoffman
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