Island Seeks Annexation.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 10, 1913:
American Inhabitants of Isle of Pines Will Petition Wilson.
    PITTSBURGH, March 9.—Announcement was made to-night by Thomas J. Keenan of this city, President of the American Association of the Isle of Pines, that a petition directed to President Wilson and the Senate, requesting annexation of the island, would be put in circulation to-morrow in this country and the Isle of Pines.
    The petition states that 6,000 Americans, who reside or have property in this Isle of Pines, wish to have action taken to make the island a permanent possession of the United States. The Isle of Pines, the petition says, has become a distinctively American colony, citizens of the United States owning more than 95 per cent. of the land, and making up a majority of the population.