davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-18
THE PERIL IN THE HOUSE OF
 STIR.

The second series of chapters lh the sequel of The Ruby of Destiny at Grand theatre tonight
 The Peril in the House of styr in three long exciting parts takes 5op al through Europe Co find the miss ing ruby the acting is strong cos mmes are beautiful - wonderiuily fascinating mystery story woven aeoue a small European monarchy Hnis IS the second series and tho last ol the storys Come and see howit ends. As. t Is thrilling and mgstIiying.
 "Hls Brand. a powerful Rex drama always good
 Bob Takes Trip and Oxygen 7 closes 8 good show
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-18
NswsPAeER FAILS
 As MATCHMAKER
In sDito oT all fHa boo8llng lho N

In spite Of all the boosting the Mn- CT did for him c. L. Drake, Of the Forest Service who had been below on a vacation trip returned all alone and had to carry but one grip of the boat Tho sympathy of the Miner ,3fan is extended him with the hope that he will have better hunting next time he goes out for duck (Setcbi- kan Miuor)
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-18

Mrs Downie D. Muir IT, and daugh. ter Mnene leave this evening on the Mariposa for Salt Lake City, where they will visit for two or three months.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-18
& AMONG THE THEATRES. '
 THE HOUSE or GOOD SHOWS

played to standing room only before the firat performance was hait over aud mo missutement was made when
 inc management assured the public aore would be class 8 show
 lToarst seiig the world before your aycs was up to the standard and Che part feature, "The Street slngers with the entire Vitagraph company supporting Lillian Walker and waiter Van was novel performance m is- self
 "pbe Circles End' was strong drama by the Luhin company and che comedy kcpt the audience in roar and sent them aii home feeling cheer ul and well plea8ed with the per tormonce. at least this was the yer dict of everyone as they passed out
 lf tbore were any who missed last nights show, they should not do SO tonight as thoy surely will be pleased.
 Tuesday and Wednesday strong 3-part drama The Modern Nendet- ta.e a story with Q moral to lt
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-18
WAo,s YonR- nRueGIsr7

WHO'S YOUR DHUNHIo I3
 During the past year We have been favored with a large share of the pa tronage of careful drug buyers and We believe our policy Of Quality eoods and Right Priceo will cause you to continue go. If you are not a custom CT we should like you to be.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-18
INSANE MAN HERE
 ON -WAY 10 AsYL0M

Levl Dobbims Ketchikan pioneer who entered the Territorial Home at sitka in July 1912 was brought to Juneau yesterday on the steamship Georgia, in charge of Deputy U. Ss Marshal Frank Bach.
 Dobbns was adiudgod insane early last week and will be taken to Port land on on early boat to enter Morn lngside Insane Asylum
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-18
WHY HAVE A coLp2

Joscs COLD TABLETS will do the work. 2s centa box. Only at the JUNEAU DRUG co, Opposite Alas- kan Hotel Phone 2-5-o. i.i3.tf.
The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-18
cANNERY rENpER FoR

USE IN ALASKA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05

agreed that Hayti should becum the reel honest to-goodness brunett republick Nowheere else had the black man had chance to see what he could really do toward running the country, 1t was unnanmusly agreed that he should have this op portunnty The successor of L'Overture desided that he would do the stunt grand scale. He de clared himself Emperer of Hayti. and he forthwith appointed moor dukes and markeses than theere air remembers of the Alabama Legislature Talk about fansy regalier: beleeve me, they weer theere No eoored K. of P. lodge dreemed of by Americon immaginatve in the same class with them. The Duke of Spades and his courtiers weer objects of extreem glory, They look like a street parade with a dime srcus. But the Einperer didn't last His administration breef but superintendent Crowned heds failed to appee to the plain mon nawkers of Hayti, they sent heere esteemed Elm perer to the Happy Hunting Grounds in plain box decorated with bullet holes and theere kind regards and established the present form of guvvermint-- which is supposed to be republick.
 Cents that time they air running close rase with Mexico to establish record for the pressdints tho contest is verry exsiting and verry close
 The reveew of the history of Hayti ought to con vinse most ennybody that the very worthy colored citizens of this country air blooming site better off when they air seperaed far as possibull rum
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05

poyticts. Hayti has compulsory educasion but owen with that it is striking lustrasion that the coored peepu have not yet lerned selfrestraint or arrived at the point in sivvilizason to govern theu selves. Turned loose theere evven in a country rich with possibilities Hayd and they peseed to fall out amung themselves squander ,heeIe opportunities. neglect theere bizness and things up. Theere unit of vaew in nasional coin .s supposed to be worth $1 Theere air times in Hayti's history cents she republck that theere dollar has risen to the supendus valew of 25 cents That was when they had had unpresedent ed period of peese of at leest three weeks.
 Hayti is failure; it has always been failure. It is also likely to continew in the failure bizness in definitely unless strong hand takes hold of it and makes desent guvverment out of it.. The negroes themselves air arte. and under the proper inflewenses would do alre, but left to theere own leede ship they air as helpless rube Wall street. Sum country with an run hand needs to take hold of Hayi for a while and make them cut out theere mrnkey bizness and try work for a change the medisne ought to be prescribed for Mex ico. Its cumming to it.
 Yours trooly.
 BILL VINES Washington, D. C.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05

rI'e much of interest to tell about Here way are now playing nightly and it is amusing to see the difference in the criticisms of them.
 Without mentioning titles, sufficie it to state that one show which Broad Way could not see and which had the hriefest of brief runs in the big burg, is being lauded to the skies in Boston this week The press has praised it almost without exception come to think of it--wonder If there was something in that show that New York city overlooked
 Bostonians take it for granted tha t strangers can get around here on very hazy information. Can you tell me where Milk street is?' I asked one of them soon after my arrival
 i"Certainly,' was his reply. You go down to Washington street, then keep walking until you get to Water street --the next is Milk" Following out those instructions I soon thereafter ar rived at the Harvard Medical college. some miles out on Huntington avenue.
 All the big public buildings are in- scribed and dated in Latin and with Roman nuhierals. Never have been able to discover what is wrong with the English language where such things arc concerned but for some reason we must continue to puzzle over dead lam guages in these cases.
 But within the week we will once more be in Gotham where we can split ar infinitive six different ways if we want to and get by with it. preyided We really s0' something. Here. how . ever. a split infinitive or an advsrb
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05

mo the land is excellent The populs- tion of Matto Crosse Is only two teDths of one person to the square mile. You could drop it's population into New York, Chicago or Philadel- difference.
 Just east of this state Is Goyaz. where the future capital of the country Is to be located. plans having already been made to that end Goyaz is the center of Brazil. The state is bigger than Texas, and it's population is just about one-tenth the size of the latter X great part of the country is high and the lund is rough. It is rich in minerals and Is said to have iron by the hundreds of millions of tons. It also yields diamonds.
 One of the most interesting states of Brazil Is Minas Geraes. which is more than four times as big as New York. It lies east of Goyaz It is bounded on the north by Bahia and on the south oy Sac Paulo, while separating 1t from the Atlantic on the east are the small states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirit o Dantos and a bit of Bahia This state is high and healthy and has one of tue ptSt ueTic ana paSIpIal QlS- tricts of the republic. 1t supplies the butter and cheese of the capital and quantities of eggs. poultry and bacon as well. It exports 300. 900 head of cattle year and great number of pigs.
 The state is noted industrially, it's man uficturing establishments turning out product of something like S250, ,0O00 900 year. and it's factories being numbered by hundreds It is rich In mines It has vast iron deposits, for which Ameri- can capitalists are now negotiating.
 The state is the most thickly populated lion inha bitants. but no towns of more than 5000 and only two of over 5000
 Rio de Janeiio Is one of the small states. It Is little bigger than West Virginia and almost as mountainous. It has over 100000 people. of whom half or more than 100000. live In the capital. the city Of Rio de ,Jsnero This state is noted for it's factories. leading the republic in tIat respect. It is the chief state in commerce and is agriculturally rich.
 Esplrito Santos at the north has only 1I,000 square miles, being next to the smallest of all the Brazilian states. It's population Is 400 OG0.
 The chief coffee states of Brazil are Sac Paulo. Minas Geraes and Rio de Janeiro. with Sac Paulo far in the lead. (Sao Pauo is more than twice as large
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05
MORE GLIMPSES BY A SOUTHERNER IN BOSTON

and enter her confines. She merely uses them as objects upon which to practice pulling herself fh
 Sometimes it works rather oddly: Re- gently l was talking with a Bostonian who seemed very proud of the fact that Boston has the reputation of be- ing a city of intellectuality and refine nient culture and class. He insisted that the town deserved the title of the city of culture, and. talked at some length of his reasons for making that contention. Many things he said had a certain impressiveness about them and l was almost going under--a victim of .ne Boston bull--when my acquaint- ance let slip a few remarks anent beans
 Really. said he, i've don't Iove5 beans so much as other people are told we do. Our alleged love for them is largely mythological. As g matter of actuaIness you will find our visitors ordering more beans than the real Bostonians.'
 Do you get the idea? Boston loves its high sounding words and phrases and, in many cases where the speaker Is not certain of them, he VIII take a chance Oh, well. there is something in having courage at any rate.
 Then, too. I could almost forgive my acquaintance of the love and beans story after I heard him pronounce tho word, Boston" When he said that and he said 1t like the best Bostonians- I could see visions of great halls of learn ing and culture filled with the wisdom and intelligence of the twentieth cen tury.
 How do they pronounce it? Well, it is a bit difficult to write 1t out for publica- tion, but the idea is never to pronounce the 70" in Boston as one would pro- nounce it in broad" but very much as 1t sounds in the appropriate word. 'bcsh. If one says 'Bawston. the Bos-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05

with large wad of the needfu and spend life of ease and cumfort in Spain Cuba: but Hayti don't munkey with hers. Nnthng doing on that get away with the long green stuff. When Hayti is finnished with one of her presidents he is much further use to sosety. They put large crimp in all future activities by rudely preparing him for the under aker Sevverel ex-pressidents of Hayti have under taken to accumulate an inflewensia bunch of coin large enuff to choke elefant while in offse and then hurry away and then enjoy the gayty and fes. tivvity of Paris, but they maid fizzle of it and air now occupied in sum uther line of endever of which we wot not ennyhow, they air extreemy dead.
 Hayt is naturelly rich. Like Mexico it abounds in naturel resources. The furst inhabtents-aftur the discuvvery of Hayt-that is the settlers weer Span- nish and French. They gummed things up as usuel and imported slaves rum Africa to do the work After while theere weere nipor slaves than masters and in 1878 Tousaint LOverture, a slave organized the uther slaves and played overture up and down the spinel columne of sed masters and took posses sion of Hayti He didn't get much out of it himself for he allowed himself to be ricked and was carried away and died But he originated the prac3se of revvoluson in Hayt, which they have stuck to with marvellus persistensy evver cents Fneay evvery-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05

can give the suthern republic three laps the start and then show her up piker when it cums to variety and varigated brands of nsurrectsions When warships of forrain nason ceers for sum unknown port everybody at presumes that they air bound for Hayti; indeed Hayti feels lonesum when theere air fewer than half dozen drednoughts in her ports and a few thousand mareens her guests
 One thing that they air not bothered with in Hayti is labor unions. No works in Hayti-no grate exersions is required to go out and pick few man. and bananas for food and it but little live, provided one don't munkey with polyticks Poly ticks however is theere than yellow feevur ust to be in Cuba, and when eppidemick sweeps the Hand it gives it fateeged and depressed ap- perense and can only be checked by overdose of the United States navy, which applies shrapnel and 10nch shells in discurraging manner which usuelly brings temporary reeef When prommnint citizen of Hayti gets polytcks in his he'd it usuelly takes change of sceen to effect curehe always gets the change of but theere is reliabull infor
 asion to how effective the was, inAsmuch wonderer has returned with sed e.fer- masion Mexico has kind of half and half plan with hereXpressdents about half of them they shoot at sunrise. while the uther half escape the country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05

Boston to Salt Lake and the Rio Sac Francisco has length of 1920 niles, and you may ride upon it in steam ships for days. Some of these rivers have mighty waterfalls The Sac Fran cisco has one drop of 26S feet. or 100 feet more than that of Niagara. The Iguazu Falls are said to surpass those of Zambesi in South Africa, and in the state of Sac Paulo alone there are 2,000,0C0 horsepower in the yet unde- veloped cascades The. length of .tha lguazu is 792 miles. the Itapicuru flows 990 miles, the Juguininoh measures 1870 miles, The Doce, or Sweet river, if it could be lifted to our country would reach from Washington to CIeve- land.
 This world of Brazil is one of enor- nous resources, and it's crops include almost every product that grows upon Gods green earth. The highlands are temperate, and they will raise wheat and corn. The lowlands are tropcai and fitted for sugar and tobacco, while between them We have the vast coffee fields that tickle the stomach and stiffen the backbone of the human race every morning. The coffee plantations cover more than 5,000.000 acres. The cattle number something like 30,000, 900. ana the pOSS1DllltleS ID cotton, CacaO sugar and tobacco are enormous. The country is growing in manufactures The capital already invested in indus trials Is something like quarter of a billion dollars and of this the cotton factories alone have a capital of S9G,- 000.000 and more. There are 194 cotton mills now working.
 Many of the Brazilian industries are operated with foreign money, and the country is open to Americans as never before. The amount of foreign capital already invested is more than eleven hundred million dollars and to this must be added half billion dollars il. Brazilian stocks and bonds. The amount invested in railroads alone is estimated at over S225,000,000, and more roads are being surveyed and some are under construction. At present the state of Rio de Janeiro and parts of Sac Paulo and Mfnas Geraes only are well served by rail. and tens of thousands of miles of new tracks will be required to open the country.
 In the future I shall write as to tile timber lands and mineral resources of Brazil. The country has some of the greatest forests yet unexpfoited. Tine woods of the Amazon alone cover 2.0O0.- 900 square miles, a territory as great as two-thirds of the United States proper. There are pine forests in southern Bra gil, and the highlands of Matto Crosse have wood. lands intermixed with their pastures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05

The mineral regions of the country are practically unprospected The re- public contains everything from gold and diamonds to iron and graphite. All most 2,000,000 pounds of gold have been taken out of the mines and gold is known to exist in nearly every one of the states There is a town in Matto Crosse where the boys look for gold III the gutters after the rains, ana cn the highlands of Mnas Geraes, the gold mines are now paying we'll Brazil has enormous deposits of iron. an op- tion on some of which is now held by the millonaires of the Steel trust. The Southern Star one of the fine diamonds discovered. weighed 254 carats It is now the property of an Indian prince
 Brazil is the baby among the demo- cratic governments of the world 1t became republic only 35 years ago. at about the time that Garfield was elected President of the United States. It's constitution was made as late as 1891. Shortly after the organization ot the government financial experiments were undertaken, which caused the peo- pie to speculate. The result was boom which collapsed in 1892. halting all pub lie works and setting the country back for about 10 years. After that came a civil war. The navy revolted and Rio de Janeiro was in a state of siege for six months. The foreign powers inter- vened, and finally in 1894 President Moraes, the first civil ruler, took his seat.
 Since then Brazil has been moving straight onward. It has been growing industrially and politically. and it is now on firm financial and industrial basis. The country has constitution like ours. First is the legislative branch. consisting of chamber of deputies and senate corresponding to our Congress. Then comes the executive, whose powers are exercised by the President of the republic. And third Is the Judicial branch constituted by the supreme court
 The republic of Brazil consists of 20 states and one territory Some of these states are enormous, others compare in size With the smaller states of the union although none is as small as Maryland Amazonas. which includes the western half of the Amazon basin, is bounded on the north by British Guiana, Venezuela and Colombia. On the east are Colombia Ecuador and Peru. It's southern boun- diary touches Bolivia.
 This state is one-fifth as large a S the whole United States including Alaska It would make eight states as big as Kansas or 16 the size of Kentucky. Never theless, it does not begin until hundreds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05

of miles east of the Atlantic, and it has thousands of miles of river naviga- tion. You can cross Amazonas on steam ers from east to west and the largest ocean vessels can come from the At lantic to it's capital. Manaos. which is more than a thousand miles from the mouth of the Amazon. Manaos has 5o,- eeD population. It has telephones, efec- tiic lights. electric street ears and a beautiful theatre. It Is a great rubber port Amazonas has some of the finest rubber forests earth. Much of the country is low and covered with woods IL, has also highlands. It has network of rivers, many of which carry more or less gold #
 The big state east of Amazonas is Para. This state is 10 times the size of PennsXiva ria and about II times as big as Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky. It comprises s,se eastern part of the Amazon basin. and t has one city. named Belem, whicl has over 100000 inhabitants. Belem has been one of the death spots of the world. 1t h.s been noted for It's yellow fever and other diseases, but they are now irauguratng sanitary regulations like those that cleaned up Panama and it will eventually be safe as any trop- ical city. The total population of the state of Para IS not half that of Greater Boston. while you could put all the peo- pie who live in Amazonas into Buffalo and Nstil have room for something like 100000 more.
 Just south of these two states and Dordered on the west by Bolivia and Paraguay is Matto Crosse, great un- developed region which is bound to boom in the, near future. This state is a. vast plateau nine times as large as either Illinois or Wisconsin and more than six times as big as either Mnne- sota or Kansas. It Is in the tropics. but it is so high that 1t is healthy and parts of 1t are already feeding mill lions of cattle. This country so far Is inaccessible. by railroads. It's capital, cuyaba. has to be reached from Rio de Janeiro by travelling several thousand nliles. The steamers go down to the mouth of the Rio de la Plata anG thence up the Paran and Paraguay to Cuyaba When the railroad Is com pleted Cuyaba will be reached from tae Atlantic as easily as Cleveland is reached from New York. The distances are the same. Then the trains will bring the Matto Crosse cattle to the erected for the purpose at Sac Paulo.
 The state of Matto Crosse contains more than half a. million square miles. Americans who have recently travelled oyer 1t locating the railroad routes tell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-05

as Illinois and it's soil is said to be equally good.) 1t is the best farming state It produces three-fourths of all the coffee used by the world and in addition almost a million bales of cot ton, hundreds of thousands of sacks of sugar and some millions of pounds of tobacco.
 Tn. wholc state has just about as many people as Chicago and of these perhaps one-forrth. a little more than one-half million. live in the city of Sac Paulo. The state has many millionaires, and it is altogether about the most progressive state in Brazil
 South of Sac Paulo are three states of considerable size, all of them high. healthy ard fitted for the homes of white people This includes what is known as West Deutschland or German Brazil, some parts of the country being largely settled by Germans and the chief farms and industries belonging to them. These states are known as Parana. Santa Catharina and Rio Grande do Sul. They border on Uruguay end Paraguay and have vast pastures and wheat lands. They are being largely developed by the Brazil Railway company which is pushed by Americans
 In addition to the states have named there are nine others situated in tho great cotton, tobacco and sugar belt of northeastern Brazil. Of these the most important Is Bahia Bahia is about as big as Massar husetts and California com bined. It has 166,0o0 square miles and it's population is two and one-half millions. The capital IS the port of Bahia which was once tne capital of Brazil and which now has about 300O0 popula tion. Bahia Is noted for it's tobacco. It raises about 5o.00000O pounds a year and turns out more than 51.00000o cigars. The stats is said 10 he rich in minerals and agri- eulturally it is only partially developed.
 North of 3aaia Is Pernambuco a state noted for its cottor; and still furt CT north Is Ceara, as big as Ohio. which produces cotton. cacao and coffee.
 The state of Parahyba is about big as South Carolina It yields cotton and sugar. Algoas Is another little cotton state. and so Is Rio Grande do Norte.
 Maranhao, which lies next to Para. is bigger than any state of the union out side Texas. and it has only one railroad about 50 miles long. Its land Is fitted for cotton The same Is >re of Piauhy. ar- other large state which adjoins 1t on the east. All of these states are now raising more or less tobacco, cotton, sugar and cacao Much of their soil Is rich and it may be that they will some day compete with the cotton lands of the union.