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Haiti in the American PressHaití en la prensa estadounidense

A companion to the main timeline: the same American newspapers, turned toward Haiti itself — its ports and presidents, its sugar and its storms — in English and Spanish.Una compañera de la cronología principal: los mismos periódicos estadounidenses, vueltos hacia Haití mismo — sus puertos y sus presidentes, su azúcar y sus tormentas — en inglés y en español.
August 15, 191215 de agosto de 1912 · Newport, WA · 1910sAños 1910

The Newport miner

SourceFuente: The Newport miner · Newport, WA · August 15, 191215 de agosto de 1912
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87008085/1912-08-15/ed-1/?sp=6

In contextEn contexto

1910sAños 1910 · 726 articles in this collection from this decade726 artículos de esta colección de esta década
← Earlier articleArtículo anterior: Potosi journal · August 14, 191214 de agosto de 1912Later articleArtículo siguiente: Virginia free press · August 15, 191215 de agosto de 1912 →

More on Sugar & TradeMás sobre Azúcar y comercio

From the original pageDe la página original

This page carries the passage as it was found on the newspaper page, copied with its reading errors and all. The article's fuller presentation is still to come; the original page is linked above.Esta página lleva el pasaje tal como se encontró en la página del periódico, copiado con sus errores de lectura y todo. La presentación completa del artículo aún está por venir; la página original está enlazada arriba.

the lowest level of the season.

The battleship Nebraska ran on an

uncharted shoal and was so seriously

damaged that she has been ordered to

drydock at the Boston navy yard.

Four hundred persons were killed or

wounded by the explosion of the pow

der magazine attached to the palace

at Port au Prince, Hayti. General

Cincinnatus Leconpte, president of the

republic, perished in the fire, which

destroyed the palace following the ex

plosion.

Operators and other employes of the

Pacific States Telephone company

were notified this week of a voluntary

increase in salaries averaging 15 per

cent. The increase applies to the

cities of Portland, San Francisco, Oak

land, Seattle and Tacoma.

General increases in freight rates

on commodities, to become effective

September 2, are proposed in new tar

iffs filed with the interstate commerce

commission. The new tariffs will ma

terially increase rates from all the

east to Pacific coast points.

Political News Bits

Colonel Roosevelt has given out his

campaign plans. He will begin his

tour in Rhode Island August 16, visit

ing 40 states, and winding up on the

Pacific coast in October.

Ex-Governor William T. Durban, a

strong Taft supporter, was nominated

by the state republican convention of

Indiana to head the ticket in the com

ing campaign.

At a meeting of the national com

mittee of the progressive party Sen

ator Joseph M. Dixon of Montana was

elected chairman and O. K. Davis sec

retary.

Kentucky's state republican commit

tee has ordered the picture of Colonel

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Newport miner. (1912). Newport, WA, 1912-08-15. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87008085/1912-08-15/ed-1/?sp=6

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Newport miner, 1912-08-15.

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