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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1908
Page
5
A Washington woman near the Persian minister hosts an Omar Khayyam room modeled on a Persian home living room. Rugs and draperies decorate the walls and rustic frames hold quotations from The Rubaiyat. An idealized sketch shows the poet with a lion and a lizard.
Sir Robert Hart predicts China will become a powerful nation as it modernizes but will advance slowly. He says even if China grows aggressive it will temper strength with wisdom and will not pose special trouble to the world despite likely industrial and trading competition.
Santiago Hernandez the last survivor of the Chapultepec defense in 1847 died in Mexico City at age 75. A well known Mexican artist he enlisted as a cadet at the College Militar, was captured during a Chapultepec assault, and earned high praise from Gen. Scott for his valor.
The Delineator reveals that famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands in 1840 near Denbigh Wales. Orphaned at age three, he entered a St Asaph poor house, left for America as a cabin boy at ten, and later was adopted in New Orleans by Henry Morton Stanley adopting him and renaming.
Near the St Lawrence river a three mile long water slide moves pulp wood to the railway at a rate of about 8000 cubic feet per hour. A company once piled pulp wood 1000 feet long 26 feet high and 40 feet wide transported by this method. Another slide seven miles long carries pulp to the river for milling.
Wilson rushes to marry Marjorie on a departing train after a frantic chase to Frisco. A minister on board, delayed by a missing collar button, finally marries them as the train pulls away, sealing their vows amid a humorous scramble.
A London club scene shows Rudyard Kipling dismissing Baconian cipher theory as the matter of concern whether Shakespeare was written by Bacon or not. Kipling quips that it matters little as long as the author was an Englishman.
Billy courts a blonde visitor who wins over his sister and secretly marries Billy. The sister initially disapproves then accepts the match as the couple announces their marriage, celebrating the new steam yacht in the family.
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