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Black boxers have seized the Cuban fancy. Rumored (not without reason) : that Jack Johnson (L'il Artha), sometime heavyweight champion of the world, is matched to meet Sam Langford (Boston Tar Baby), champion of Mexico and Spain, in the Stadium Marina, Havana...
...Army airplanes completed a 6,000-mile flight, begun on March 3 at Kelly Field, San Antonio, covering Havana, Port au Prince, Santo Domingo, and ending at Bolling Field, Washington...
...past three years remarkable advances have been made in the telephone art. The most notable of these include the extension of transcontinental service to Havana, Cuba, through a submarine cable from Key West; the use of loud-speaking apparatus in connection with the transcontinental line in simultaneous ceremonies at Arlington, Va., New York and San Francisco, on Armistice Day, 1921; and the linking up of wire and wireless transmission in speech from ship to shore and across the Atlantic. All of these developments are due wholly or in part to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Western Electric...
...United States Air Mail Service is endeavoring to reach an agreement with the Cuban Government whereby transportation of air mail by seaplane between Havana and Key West can be maintained throughout the year. Mail from the United States is now received in Cuba by plane daily, but arrangements for return delivery are not completed...
...There are now only two active commercial routes, both over water, where marked airways are not so essential. One route is between Cleveland and Detroit, the other between Key West and Havana. Other water routes will undoubtedly be inaugurated next summer, one from New York to Newport and another in Chesapeake Bay being almost ready to commence operations. At the present time, efforts can be only on small scale...