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Teddy Roosevelt: “There is no reason to doubt that when the plans for water supply, paving, and sewerage of Panama and Colon and the large…”

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There is no reason to doubt that when the plans for water supply, paving, and sewerage of Panama and Colon and the large labor camps have been fully carried out, the Isthmus will be, for the tropics, an unusually healthy place of abode.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt expresses confidence that the Isthmus will become a healthy living area once infrastructure plans are completed.

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