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Synopsis
Excerpt from California Today: San Francisco, Its Metropolis; A Concise Statement Concerning the State That Faces the Orient, and the City by the Golden Gate, Undisputed Facts and Telling Figures From Various Authentic and Official Sources Concerning the Geography, Topography, Climate
A century ago, and the century through, Europe and America have shaken fists and shaken hands by turns across the Atlantic. Today at the opening Of the Twentieth Century the path of progress is over the Pacific. Old World powers are gathering their forces in the Orient. Alaska and the isles Of the sea belong to America. The course of empire is still westward as much today as when wise Bishop Berkeley penned his famous prophecy. And the pathway across the United States is through California.
TO tell, then, Of this big State and the gateway, where - East is East and West is West.
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