Isthmian Canal notes life and toil in Empire Panama
Correspondent’s sketches describe Panama Canal Zone life from Empire, Panama to Ancon and Cristobal. Weather, transport, flora and fauna, farming limits, Sabbath practices, and daily canal work illuminate the vast diggings, with 36,000 workers and ongoing blasting, shovels, and dredges under the Canal Commission.
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Panama
Canal
Isthmian Canal Commission
Panama Canal
Appropriations Committee of Congress
Monkey Hill
Heaven
Robert G, Lee
Prince Lucifer Entangles Tempest Island Gossip
Miss Ravenel narrates Tempest Island’s sunlit upheaval as Hawkstone hosts a glittering set of guests led by Doris Rokewood and Mrs Van Dorn. Amid social whirl, Ravenel worries over her brother Gabriel, the Rokewood engagement, and Hawkstone’s rising fascination with Doris while others court the island lord’s favor.
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Island
Hawkstone
Tempest Island
Mrs. Otway
Jetta Ravenel
Bee
Vincent Hawkstone
Vincent
Whithaven
Latimer
Dudley
Nile
Gotham
van Dorn
Otway
Rokewood
Gabriel
Mr. Sutton
Mr. Hawkstone
Plano
Colonel Latimer
Miss .Ravenel
Doris Rokewood
Deuce
Miss Ravenel
Parker
Jane
Sarah
Maggie
Little Bee Hawkstone
Gabriel Ravenel
Doris
Miss Rokewood
Basil Hawkstone
Mademoiselle Zephyr
Sir Lancelot
Camelot
Damon
Pythias
Lucifer
Ebody
Mrs. van Dorn
Ispahan Describes City of Roses Turned Ruins
A traveler records Ispahan as the city of roses yet laments its streets as alleys between high walls with few openings. He notes dust, crooked lanes, many ruined walls and palaces, a deserted mosque, and a population decline from one million to about one hundred thousand.
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Isthmus
Panama
States
Sodom and Gomorrah
Main Street
Demosthenes
Christ
Earth
Jerusalem
Ispahan
Persia
City of Roses
Parliament snuff supply labeled as lamp oil in estimates
Seven MPs and House of Commons officials are provided with snuff at public expense, with $1,000 a year set aside for its purchase. The snuffbox sits at the entrance and all may refill. The cost was concealed in estimates as lamp oil to dodge objections to better habits.
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Robert Burns
Colon
Atlantic
Panama
Pacific
Carolinas
Dixie
Ancon
House of Commons
Minnesota Receives Over Million yearly from pre leases
Minnesota derives an annual income exceeding $1,000,000 from its pre leases. The funds support public education from kindergartens to the university. the fund totals about $9,000,000 with royalties ranging from 30 to 75 cents per ton. Many leases run 30 years though some are perpetual.
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Minnesota
Also Mentioned on This Page
Isthmian Canal Zone
Yorkville Enquirer
Empire
Canal Zone
Canfield
Tropics
Greenland
India
Coral
Carolina
Panama Railroad
Isthmian Canal
Cristobal
J. P,. Morgan
Prince Lucifer
Etta W. Pierce
Jetta
Papa
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