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When the Maine sank and the last of Spanish dominion in the so-called Western World had foundered after it, new title deeds had to be made out for several parcels of real estate. The U. S. took title to Porto Rico and several holdings in the Pacific...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, from the people of Porto Rico...
...Porto Rican elections held Nov. 4, 1924, are the greatest outrage upon American citizenship ever committed...
Died. Cipriano Castro, 62, one-time dictator of Venezuela; in San Juan, Porto Rico, from hemorrhage of the stomach. In 1890 his neighbors sent him, part Negro, part Indian, to Congress. He bought him a pair of patent leather boots. Boots, however, were his abomination; and each time that he went to Congress he was wont to take them off and place them under his desk until time for leaving came around...
Married. Miss Sylvia G. Van Rensselaer, granddaughter of Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, of Manhattan, to Harold Ingalls Sewall, of Boston and Porto Rico; in Manhattan. It is claimed that Miss Van Rensselaer, a member of one of the oldest families in the U. S., can trace her descent through nine Colonial Governors from the famed Jack Spratt of nursery rhyme...