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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1919
Page
8
The article outlines the life of the English poet John Milton from childhood in Broad Street London to his university years, marriage hardships, political pamphleteering, and the long path toward Paradise Lost, noting his later years, blindness, and eventual death about a decade after the epic’s publication.
The Chicago Daily News describes Nishapur in Persia as Omar Khayyam’s birthplace and a city defined by stark geography. Isolated by barren uplands, encircled by low mountains, and tormented by summer dust, it shapes the Rubaiyat’s mood of defiant pessimism through its stark plains and brief spring respite.
In a busy morning at his flat, famed tenor Signor Tosti refused a visiting vocalist while he had two pupils and a third waiting. The extra guest forcefully entered the studio after a heated exchange, then fled when he stood firm.
The article links the November feast of St. Brice to football culture and a legendary 1002 Danish massacre in England. It notes St. Brice a bishop of Tours in the fifth century and clarifies he died centuries earlier, not tied to the events.
Classified column items advertise WG and MEN WANTED to sell Joselyn's Hog Powder for farmers must be 40 to 60 with own car call or write Ed S Joselyn Rockwell City Iowa WANTED rent eight room modern house by February 1 call 1538 WANTED girl to work evenings at The Purity apply in person WANTED girls to learn to operate machines Fairfield Glove and Mitten Co phone 394 WANTED white Wy andotte pallets hens pallets needed T F Higly phone 2349 WANTED girl at Iowa Cafe apply in person WANTED to rent five or six room modern house address O care box 28 Fairfield Ia WANTED man to sell groceries no experience needed large national brand long established John Sexton Co Chicago Illinois 570-4
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