HOW BIG IS AMERICA?
On the British Empire the sun never sets. In the short summer nights it never sets on the American Republic. S'an Francisco is the. middle city in our territory. It is literary true that in August the sunset has not ceased to flash on "the spears of the fishermen in the Aleutian Islands before it begins to glint and blaze on the axes of the woodsmen in the forests of Maine. Roll tip the map of New England ! Unroll that of your whole country! How large is Texas i You could burv "in it the German Empire, and have room enough, left for England and Wales. How largo is California? You could bury in it England, Scotland, Ireland. Waics, and have room enough left for Switzerland and Belgium. How largo is Colorado? You could bury in it Norway, and have room enough left for Denmark. How large is lowa.' You could bury in it Portugal and Switzerland. How large is Lake Superior? You could sink Scotland in it. How larse is New York'. 1 You could bury in it Belgium, and -.Switzerland and (Jreece.— 'Denver Republican,'
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Evening Star, Issue 15072, 2 January 1913, Page 3
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190HOW BIG IS AMERICA? Evening Star, Issue 15072, 2 January 1913, Page 3
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