Porto Rico The Pearl of the Antilles Revealed
An expansive survey portrays Porto Rico as the fourth largest Greater Antilles by size but first in density and healthfulness. It highlights Ponce as a commercial hub near Guanica harbor, San Juan as capital, and Arecibo, Mayaguez, Yauco among major towns, with rail and road networks expanding. The article notes a white majority, strong trade ties with the United States, rich resources like coffee and tobacco, and a relatively lenient Spanish administration fostering enterprise despite Spain’s colonial rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Rico
Greater Antilles
America
Guanica
Gunnica
Yauco
Miloy'a Couiny
Ponce
San Juan
Charity
Aguluima
Juana Dias
Coamo
Aibonito
Cayey
Fas
Caguas
Aguas Buenas
Guaynabo
Rio Piedras
Cogat
Cuba
Weyler
Arecibo
Utuado
Mayaguez
San German
San Antonio
Plazuela de Santiago
Columbus
la Correspondencia
Juana Diaz
United States
Spain
Madrid
American girl turned German princess behind Kaiser's throne
Mary Esther Lea, once a New York grocer's daughter, rose to be Princess von Noer and a key influencer in Berlin. The article traces her life from Front Street to Stuttgart and Vienna, her marriages, rise to power, and her role shaping royal ties with Emperor William and the Prussian court.
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Mary Esther Lea
Front Street
New York City
Bismarck
Princess von Neer
Ahe
Berlin
Connecticut
Lea
New York
Stutgart
Baron von Waechter
Wartenberg
Paris
Mary Esther
Princess Louise
Schleswig-Holstein
Count von Noer
Vienna
Noer
Count von Waldersee
Nieos
Augusta Victoria
William
Prussia
Germany
von Noer
Prince William
Empresa
Aguadilla Port and Island Attire Noted in Sea Travel Text
The passage describes Aguadilla as a leading inland seaport on the west coast with a spacious bay sheltered from trade winds. It notes sugar and coffee shipments from the island, and observes local dress: many wear elaborate mantilla in towns, while laborers forgo coats and shoes, reserving woolen clothes for holy days.
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Aguadilla
Flere
Porto Rico mining and drainage issues noted
The report describes natural resources on the island including iron gold copper zinc coal and salt with salt the only extensively worked mineral. It notes sparse railways and decent wagon routes, but deficient water systems and drainage in most cities except Ponce where underground sewers exist. The harbor outlet should be widened to improve drainage and access.
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Porto Rico
Cuba
Ponce
Pones
New Field Marshals Dress Rule Draws Uproar
The London Naval and Military Record reports a proposed regulation for field marshals to wear buckskin pantaloons junk boots and gilt spurs at drawing rooms and occasions. The rule was soon varied after attention to the sensational effect such a meagre costume would create.
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London Naval and Military Record
Death ends Morales rule in Guatemalan revolt
General Morales, leader of a Guatemalan revolution, died as he was transported toward San Sebastian after being captured in a cave at Cachumatens. The collapse ends a two week wave of unrest with raids and depredations along the Mexican border and against foreign interests.
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State Department
Hunter
Guatemala
Morales
United States
Cachumatens
San Marcos
San Sebastian
Hia
Hester
Ocos
Mortality Rise and Currency Debates in Santiago de Cuba
In Santiago de Cuba the death rate continues to climb amid ongoing reforms and local tensions over currency values. Despite General Wood's 6 percent cut on Spanish gold and 50 percent silver discount, residents cling to old exchange rates with Spanish coins, causing widespread financial uncertainty and barter strain.
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Santiago
Santiago de Cuba
General Wood
Five Children Drown In Pittsburgh Flood Wave
A cloudburst on Sawmill run Friday morning sent a tidal surge twenty feet high, sweeping a tenement porch into the current. Six children are missing and presumed drowned: Irene Loftus Regis Loftus Genevieve Shaughnessy Margaret Shaughnessy Nellie Suals Anna Holzapfel. A dozen people were endangered as the porch failed and carried them away.
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Pittaburg
Irene Loftus
Regis Loftus
Genevieve Shaughnessy
Margaret Shaughnessy
Nellie Suals
Anna Holzapfel
All Anxious To Stay In Service As War Ends
The War Department seeks troop wishes on mustering out with plans to accommodate them. Indications suggest volunteers prefer to remain in service, with the rank and file supporting continued government duty rather than arbitrary mustering out.
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War Department
Dons Say Capitulation of Manila Doesn’t Include Islands
Advices from Madrid report Spain will insist the Manila capitulation after the protocol has no bearing on peace talks. The government also contends that the capitulation, signed by the town commander, does not amount to surrender of the entire Philippines.
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Manila
Islands
Madrid
Spain
Philippines
Parlor or Courtroom? Kidder’s Daughters Shape Real Estate Tale
In a Harper's Bazaar quip, the real estate agent surveys a house and asks about its parlor. Old man Kidder replies that he calls it the courtroom, noting he has seven daughters. The banter frames a multi daughter household through property humor.
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Kidder
Talmage
The Biggest Bicycle in the World
A German completes a bicycle with a wheel that spans foot in diameter and two riders, one on each side. The text also markets Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for health, claims about tobacco cessation products, a patent ironing board, a cold remedy, and various busy asides including milk to butter ratios and nail growth.
Stories of Relief From Lydia Pinkham Remedies
Mrs. Joan Willtasts of Englishtown North Dakota writes she suffered womb trouble back and limb pain and could barely walk before taking Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills She says after two and a half bottles and half a box she was cured Mrs Josma Perenson of Warren Pennsylvania recounts fifteen years of womb trouble including inflammation enlargement and displacement with constant backache headache dizziness and heart distress She credits several bottles of the compound and three packs of Sunative Wash with a complete recovery and ability to live healthily again.
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Joan Willtasts
Englishtown
N. d
Dean Mus
PryxiAm
Lydia B. Pinkham
Josma Perenson
East St. Warren
Mus
Pryxiram
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