The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-01-03
TRBUNE'S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES
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ours. one found. except that break
fast Is confined to coffee, roll and
butter and lunch comes between IL
and H.
San Jose turned out to be perhaps
more cosmopolitan than American
ized with American. German,
British and Spanish influences
blended Women get their silk
dresses and stockings from Paris
and their diamonds from Amsterdam.
San Jose cops ride on Indians and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Campbells sends
the soup. London supplies the cook
les and crackers. The street cars all
carry large Goodrich Silvertown"
signs on top One uses American
sanitary drinking cups everywhere.
The Police Gazette appears In the
Gan Hotel. Vanity Fair and Pictor-
ial are observed on a beauty parlor
table alongside snappy magazines
from Madrid. flashy Spanish Ian
guage magazine printed in Stevens
Point. Wis, appears to be favorite
and there's Spanish language movie
magazine published in Nueva York.
Lucky Strike and Camel cigarets COM
pete for Costa Rican favor at reason
able prices and the Lucky Girl" Oft
EN- smiles across at Wrigley's gum girl
ad. Remington typewriters and Gen.
eral Motors machines are shown In
large showrooms.
Autographs OH many billboards
ballyhoo movies featuring Pola Negri.
Harold Lloyd and other American
stars. Modern drugstores show Amer
lean dental floss, fountain pens and
razor blades besides cosmetics and
candies from France and Britain. The
leading bookstore sells Spanish, Eng
lish and German novels.
There's a grocery store which is a
dead ringer for any American chain
store, carrying all the familiar canned
brands. San Jose is being paved by
a German firm. Road building con-
tracts have lately been awarded to a
North Carolina concern and the rail-
road to the Pacific coast is being cleo
trified under American supervision.
But perhaps nothing reminded
your correspondent SO much of home
as the conversation of two women
across the table at the Hoover lunch
con. who turned out to be Ameri-
canos. Said one to the other:
What do you know about that
Mrs. Blotz? Everyone here has hats.
Suppose we'd taken her advice and
not worn any. Then where'd we be?"
American investments in the coun-
try are supposed to run up above
$30,0OO,0O0. much of which was put
in by the United Fruit Company,
which owns some IS per cent of the
railroads. The Sinclair oil interests
have million acre concession in
Costa Rica. though ideas differ as to
how much oil there is under Costa
Rican grounds. There is demand for
capital for more agricultural de-
velopment.
Bananas and coffee are the big ex-
port crops. Extensive forests remain
to be exploited and there are vast
tracts of uncultivated land as we'll
as great deal of unused water pow
err. The mountainous nature of much
OF Costa Rica appears to have him
dered development, although there is
excellent railroad service between the
Pacific port Of Purtarenas and the
capital and between San Jose and the
Atlantic.
At the time of the Hoover visit
a government representative was in
New York trying to raise a $1O,OOO,-
600 loan for highways to feed the
railroad system, which will open up
market for trucks and more pleas
ure automobiles.