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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.
November 3, 19203 de noviembre de 1920 · Montgomery, Ala. · 1920sAños 1920

The Montgomery advertiser

SourceFuente: The Montgomery advertiser · Montgomery, Ala. · November 3, 19203 de noviembre de 1920
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020645/1920-11-03/ed-1/?sp=4

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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.

purchasing land, introducing agricultural

machinery, training Haitians for plantation

work. One such enterprise is in full career

near St. Michel, with thousands of acres

of land under cultivation by trrftor drawn

plows. What the future of American en

terprise in Haiti will be, however, is

problematical.

It is not strange that in the brilliant

sunshine, on the fertile, soil of Haiti, Where

fence posts put out leaves and tendrils,

where people live on uncultivated mangos,

plantains and sugar cane, where a mini

mum subsistence is to be had almost with

out labor, many of the best Haitians should

be filled with a brooding and bitter doubt

of the future of their black man’s coun

try. They feel that they have never had

opportunity to develop the republic in fact

which they have had in name. And to thoir

perplexities the- white man has served only

to add more and heavier burdens.

i ___

THE DECADENT POSSUM.

Now York World.

I Ii\the columns of the Post-Intelligencer,

of Paris, Tenn., we note the following social!

note:

1 The Senior Epworth League of the First j

Methodist Church gave an opossum hunt i

last Friday night The hunt was chaperoned

by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gilbert. About j

twelve couples enjoyed the outing. They j

were successful enough to catch two opos-1

sum. A midnight lunch was served around

a camp-fire after the hunt. The lunch;

consisted of sandwiches, cakes, toasted I

marshmellows, wienies and all that camp

Are lunches suggest. Everybody present

had a pleasant time.

“Cakes, toasted marshmallows and

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Montgomery advertiser. (1920). Montgomery, Ala., 1920-11-03. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020645/1920-11-03/ed-1/?sp=4

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Montgomery advertiser, 1920-11-03.

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