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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1931
Page
13
Edna Ferber follows Sabra and Yancey Cravat with Cim and Isaiah as they drive two wagons from Wichita into the Oklahoma country. Tense days of heat, dust, and shifting dangers test their endurance while Sabra полishes outward calm and Yancey revels in frontier lore and fortune chases.
Yancey Cravat, recently returned from the Indian territory, recounts his experience to the Venable family. He is married to Sabra Venable, a criminal lawyer and editor of the Wichita Wigwam. During a Run, Yancey raced a girl’s thoroughbred, her horse bolted, he fired to stop it, won the land he sought, and plans to move with Sabra and their four year old son, Clmarron, back to Oklahoma.
In a tense family parlor scene Sabra Cravat asserts she will join her husband Yancey Cravat and their child on a new western journey. The Venable family resists but Sabra demands freedom as Yancey proclaims a rugged move toward pioneer life with two wagons and a bold, untamed plan.
In Wichita, Indians visiting twice yearly parade through town with beads blankets and goods. The Kansas regiment from Fort Riley and the U.S. Army uniforms provide reassurance as residents stream from doorways and kitchens to watch the spectacle.
Omar Khayyam born in Nishapur in the seventh century and died about 1128, was an astronomer who revised the Persian calendar and served Mahmud of Ghazni. He authored the Rubaiyat, a collection of four line quatrains, famed for swift shifts from love to grave inquiry and ribald tavern song. His fame influenced Fitzgerald whose anonymous 1850 translation popularized the quatrains.
A traveler notes palm trees signal water in desert plains where springs may be scarce. Natives dig to find water at roots, and oases marked by tall palms offer shade and refreshment, with dates as a staple food for Arabs in extended seasons.
An article in the Baltimore Sun notes Maryland rivers bear poetic meanings. Names such as Potapskut Potomac Susquehanna Magothy Nanticoke Wicomico Onancock Choptank Monocacy and Youghfogheny are traced to tribal terms describing rocks marsh uplands and winding streams.
The Texas statehouse at Austin is claimed as the largest state capitol in the United States. It was built between 1881 and 1888 by a Chicago capitalist who secured 8,000,000 acres of land. The site was chosen by a 1880 commission appointed by the Republic of Texas to locate an appealing governor’s seat within the country.
Sabra searches frantically for Cim after he wanders off and finds him seated on a cowhand’s knee inside a hidden cabin by the hill. The cowhands, led by a soft-spoken young man, calm her fears, offer supper, and prepare to return Cim safely to camp as Sabra recalls her missing husband and the tense ride back.
A 1932 report describes the bean sorting eye using a photo-electric cell to separate inferior beans, saving labor in canneries. It explains how the device can also grade oranges, tobacco, and fabrics, matching colors with precision beyond human sight and promising broad industrial use.
A schoolboy eight years old gave his aunt a Bible for her birthday and, unsure what to write, searched his father’s bookshelves for a fitting inscription. He chose a line reading With the author’s compiments after careful study of many dedications.
A fragmentary poem-like exchange questions why someone runs 807 and aims to stop a duel between two married men. One speaker claims to be involved, prompting curiosity about the identities and motives behind this obscure offer.
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