Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1897 — Palestine’s Population. [ARTICLE]

Palestine’s Population.

As one testimony to the rapid growth of Palestine's population, it is stated on good authority that while ten years ago there were only 15,000 residents in Jaffa, to-day there are nearly’ 50,000.