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Facts About Cuba

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
November
Year
1885
Copyright
Public Domain
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Cuba s abont r: or rotten enouïli to drop loto tile liip or Madame Columbia. Cuba is omy a llttJe over 100 miles distunt trom Florida. Each free family In Cuba nius-t pay aunually lo dirvct fr indirect laxes $500. Au agrégate of $211,000,000 yearly Í8 wrunjj rrora tlie people. The press s muzzled by an iron liand. Cuba's last ifieat revolution lasted 11 yeurs, and cost Spain the lives oí 150,000 soldiers. Tlieisland isoverrun with bri};ands, itul Snancial ruin stares the peojlein (lie face. 8ome 50.000 officials live o ft" the taxes extorted frona the CubanU Each retuil merobaut luis to pay $300 a year for Ucease. Under Prealdenl I'olk thisconnty offered Spain $100.000,000 for Cntm. The world cannot show .i richer or more prodootlyenot th.-m tlils Mand. About 100 iniirquiscg and eouoti reside ín Cuba. TbeM titles can be purchased at $25.000 apiece. The Cubans are handsome, briht and brave. They are smaller Ihan the Amercans.and have black bair and olive

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News