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...Notable progress and development have characterized the past year [ending in June] of Porto Rico." General health and sanitation measures were made more effective; progress was made in education; the percentage of illiteracy was reduced. Total revenues for the year were $11,740,384, five per cent more than Treasury estimates. All budgetary expenses were met; more than $1,000,000 was paid on the floating debt; more than $400,000 remained in the treasury at the end of the year. External trade totaled $194,000,000; 88% was with...
...Schools. Dean Everett W. Lord, for instance, of the business college at Boston University, was back at his desk after visiting Porto Rico to establish there the first of a chain of schools in business administration which Boston University proposes to extend to many a foreign land...
...Princeton Theological Seminary occupied the pulpit of the little Presbyterian Church at Saranac Lake, N. Y., whither came the President and Mrs. Coolidge, Frank W. Stearns, Senator Cameron of Arizona. ¶ Last December soldiers in the barracks at Culebra, Panama Canal Zone, watched horrified while one Ramon Cordero, Porto Rican native in the U. S. army, shot, killed Corporal Antonio Cruzalso. Last week, following President Coolidge's approval of his sentence, Cordero was hanged by the neck until dead. ¶ Three years ago a long, black funeral train crossed this vast continent bearing in sombre state one lone coffin...
Died. Commander Oscar Cosulich, mighty builder of the Italian merchant marine; in the Gulf of Porto Rosa at Trieste, while trying to save his six-year-old son from drowning. After the father went down the son grasped the cutter, was rescued...
...from malarial deaths and incapacities is about $300,000,000. A mosquito, Anopheles quadrimaculatus (southern U. S.) carries the disease fully 1½ miles from its breeding place in stagnant waters. These breeding spots must be cleaned up, the Board taught 12 states here. It explained the same in Porto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Palestine, the Philippines, Hayti, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ceylon...