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The Beatrice Daily Express
Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska
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Wealthy planters in Cienfuegos, Cuba, offer $1,000 gold reward for the best invention to load cut sugar cane onto rail cars. Cane fields appear splendid across most sugar districts, but eastern areas like Porto Principe and Guantanamo suffer from severe drought.
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HAVANA, Dec. 26.-Several of the wealthiest planters at Cienfuegos have agreed to offer a reward of $1,000 gold to the inventor of the best apparatus presented them to load the cut cane from the field upon the cars which are to carry it to the sugar houses. The cane fields, in all the sugar-producing districts, continue to exhibit a splendid appearance, excepting those in the eastern part of the island, which have suffered severely from the drought that has prevailed at Porto Principe, Gibara, St. de Cuba, Guantanamo, and several other districts.
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Cienfuegos
Event Date
Dec. 26
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offer of $1,000 gold reward for best cane-loading apparatus; cane fields splendid except severe drought in eastern districts
Event Details
Several of the wealthiest planters at Cienfuegos have agreed to offer a reward of $1,000 gold to the inventor of the best apparatus to load cut cane from the field onto cars for sugar houses. Cane fields in sugar-producing districts exhibit splendid appearance, except eastern part of island suffering severely from drought at Porto Principe, Gibara, St. de Cuba, Guantanamo, and other districts.