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Show "Little North America" in Germany Losing Out Little North America in Germany is decreasing in population. Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania now has no school, and the parents must send the children to Maryland. Boston's population has dwindled to only a little more than 100, and Quebec has only four houses. New York and Florida are also diminishing In population. The tract of swampy country about eighty miles east of Berlin, and called Warthe Bruch, once had many thousands of people, but now there are comparatively only a few. Nearby Near-by places, such as Jamaica, Transvaal Trans-vaal and Havana are also losing out. The tract was promoted by King Frederick the Great, who induced farmers who wished to emigrate, to settle on the swamp land which was reclaimed, and named the villages and districts after the foreign destination des-tination they had in view. |