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...while I was chronicling the not-too-breath-taking affairs of the Isthmus on noisy Nelson Rounsevell's Panama American, there came to Panama City two Spanish boys in a battered Studebaker touring car. The chassis of the machine was set high on the axles, it had no mudguards, and it looked to be capable of negotiating even a jungle cart trail. On the side flapped a dusty banner proclaiming its destination as "New York, America, U. S. A." At that time no motor road crossed the Isthmus from Panama City (southeast) to Colon (northwest). The Panama Railroad hurdled...
...Reporter Cole's recollection. On Jan. 11, 1927 an Italian named Jose Mario Barone left Rio de Janeiro with a companion in a 1922 Studebaker touring car which had already gone 124,000 miles, drove to Buenos Aires, hacked his way north through the Bolivian jungle, crossed the Isthmus, reached New York City March 1. 1929. The 20,000-mile trip was largely financed by giving exhibition "Leaps of Death" in the car. Barone's first companion was killed in a race soon after their start. His second, picked up en route, died of jungle fever. His third...
...Panama Canal Zone. Refreshed by a fortnight at sea, the President proceeded to turn on his most charmful smile. Taken out twelve miles through the jungle to see the new $13,000,000 Madden Dam on the Chagres River, completed since Mr. Roosevelt's westward passage across the Isthmus last year and calculated to supplement the Canal's water supply by 22 billion cubic feet, he graciously remarked: "When you compare the two, you wouldn't believe that Boulder is so much bigger than this. It is about three times as high, but it doesn...
Roosevelt I coveted a piece of the Panamanian Isthmus and took it for a Canal. But before diggers dared pervade that fever-infested series of swamps called "White Man's Grave," Sanitarian William Crawford Gorgas went ahead, chasing away the mosquitoes. Dr. Gorgas had learned about the fever-bearing mosquitoes in Cuba where Dr. Carlos Juan Finlay had indicted the insects and Dr. Walter Reed had convicted them. Their work enabled Dr. Gorgas to help make Havana the healthiest large city in the world, the Panama Canal an actuality. Similar work practically drove yellow fever from all North America...
Hakodate's great wind last week marched Hakodate's great fire down the sandy isthmus of the poor folk, to the office buildings, hotels and banks along modern Ginya Boulevard, through the fine houses of the residential section, up to the base of the peaks. First to burn was the power house and out went all Hakodate's lights. Soon after the wireless station went, shutting the city off from the world. With the flicker of flames over their shoulders, crazy mobs stampeded down the dirt streets. Frantic little firemen ran toward the fire, hosed impotently. turned...