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Title: The Cuba review and bulletin
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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ns bring $1, broilers 40c. to 50c.Eggs 4CC. per dozen and upward.Tomatoes 5c. per lb.Strawberries 50c. per quart. Itabo has two mails a day, and is easyof access to Cardenas. If the productionwarranted, no doubt, cars could be des-patched without change from Itabo to Ha-vana nnd to the North. Itabo is not muchfurther away from the Havana shippingpoint than Herradura. and the settlers atthe latter place are making money shippingearly vegetables in the United States. Thetrouble, said Mr. Leeder, is that people havenot much reserve capital and cannot im-prove their holdings as rapidly as they wish.There are 20 families in all. There is aschool with an American teacher, and 15 ormore children attend for ten months, be-tween September and July. The teacher.Miss Ella Tallmadge, is paid by the landcompany. The children showed the resultsof good tuition and readily went throughtheir lessons for the benefit of the visitor.Two flaxen-haired little Finn girls showedwonderful progress in reading.
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SCENES IN THE AMERICAN COLONY AT ITABO. 1. A young orauge tree, with fruit. 2. Mr. Jones house. 3. Hous? of a Finn settler. 4. The cane fields. 5. A mango grove. 6. Lay of the land. i6 THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. Jlgricultural A VISIT TO CEBALLOS. The hotel is in good shape. The roomsare well furnished in col.i greens andbrowns, enameled iron beds, comfortablemattresses, wicker chairs and grass rugs,all bright and inviting. The hotel wasopened on January 17 of this year andhas iiad a steady run of visitors eversince. Most of the guests at present atthe hotel are the officers of the .Ajnericanforces at Ciega de Avila and Ceballos,with their wives and children. Perry E.Tanner, of Akron, Ohio, is the generaljTianager. The grounds of the colony showedmuch improvement over last year. 1 neroyal palms planted along the boulevardlooked strong and the flower and foliagebeds were numerous. The orange andgrape fruit trees had become large,healthy trees and the fruit, which lastyear in some ins

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