Traveler's and Writer's Sourcebook, circa September-November, 1910, Number 1

way the [???] ctzns ply thr trd in the ctry"

Sir John Jordan "In the Erpn snse of th tm, Xna hs md mr pgs the lst 10 yrs thn|th pcdg 10 ctrs"

"The int stblty of Xns chrctr, the lv of pc & abv all the snctity of th farm rltns"

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[Chna?] Csl

Jpns [Costly?] secret service in China

Taotai ntfd [Am?] cnsl mst pay $[1?] head [prmsh?] to ship cattle Huchao

FK Ward after ntg many [promises?] & Shghai Nat Review) fndng sme of antiopm war "It is the miracle of the mid Kg & a lsn for the wrld"

Procter: "In my 18 yrs at [crossed out] Horchow [end crossed out] ^(Huchow) it was thru the hosptl rthr than [Evglic?] Wk that we rchd the ldg men & won their fdliness for Xtnty many of these becoming givers to

[column one] Procter Shanghai

[circled crossed out text] Xna's Tasks

1. Estb. Schools 2. Ablsh "Squeeze" 3. Refrm Curcy 4. Estab Plmt 5. Dvlp Army 6. [end circled crossed out text] [end column one]

[column two] [Boy?] Boy grad St Johns father $150M a year he gets $70 a mth

9 [mos?] $180 Yale Bd $90 to 100 tuition

St John's Shghai Chgng $230 Mex tuition & board $40^(M.) Board

Paying 5 times as much to edct tht boy as it wd tk to board boy at home

[Brf?] College $40 Board [circled text] Mex [end circled text] $40 Tuition [left margin note] (for (9 months) contract $40 a month) [end left margin note]

Chgng twice as much in prop to stdrs of lvg as in America

Soochow University [bracketed text] $40 Board 120 Tuition [end bracketed text] [text to right of bracketed text] Mexican [end text to right of bracketed text] [end column two]

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Japan Chronicle

[begin cross out] Pc [end cross out] Jpns pc goods now in demd in Mchuria bcs chpr & inferior to Amern & Erpn goods

Miltrst & pctnst policy [vry?] "chp labor" advantage "The notion tht Jpn will prove a sers comptr\in the wld's mkts where free cml. cptz is combd. with the open dr. mst be abnd. How lg. the op. dr & free [???] will pvl in tery. wh. thr. is Jap [???] we shd nt lk to say."

Jap Chronicle Open Mch to world's trade

"withn 10 yrs tm Jap goods will enter Korea free of duty on the grd tht Korea is an intgl pt of the Jap empr--all the advg of a strong customs dr's arm in [begin circled text] over #2 [end circled text]

Ldn Times on Jpn "Too much is scrfcd on the altar of divds. Shrhldrs insist on [crossed out letters] [???] [end crossed out letters] lg divds, & directors, yldg to ths exgcy, mk no due pvsn for reserves"

#2 tho for [basis?] th advtg of gegphcl contiguity. yet it is [crossed out word] only [end crossed out word] not 5 yrs sc the [Jp?] Gvt gv [an?] [understdg?] to the Trty Pwrs nt to pjdc in any way the legit comcl & indstl intsts of the Pwrs in Korea#. A phrs lk "the #open dr & eq of" is of no more value [in Manchuria) than th [crossed out word] [???] [end crossed out word] [crossed out word] slv [end crossed out word] [???] [???] by refe to Krea"