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Newspaper
San Mateo Item
Location
San Mateo, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1909
Page
2
A verse meditation on sleep as a passage to God and eternal calm. It frames rest as healing through divine mercy, portraying sleep as a gateway to eternity and communion with the Sovereign Power, with imagery of cleansing and heavenly winds from the hills. The poem concludes referencing a publication, Warper's Weekly.
Patricia, a young woman born in Africa, travels with two servants after a wounded lover is carried home. Bruce Stockton, English and of a noble line, asks her to marry, but fears his mother. Patricia seeks acceptance with Stockton’s mother, who finally warms to her.
The article recalls John Wroe of the Christian Israelites, once in Britain and Australia, who died in 1863 in Melbourne age 81 but followers still claim he lives. It notes Johanna Southcott, the Wroeties, and the Fisherites, plus a Melbourne church scene and a historic elephant tragedy at Batesar fair with a drowned elephant.
The Vallecas district in Spain is described as nearly a town made entirely of meerschaum. Nearby quarries yield coarser material unsuitable for pipes, while the finished town gleams ivory white in the Spanish sun.
A local gentry led by Chan Su l-ying formed a company to start mills in Tsingyuen city, Kwangtung. Youths studied spinning and weaving in Japan, returned to teach the craft, and the plant already produces woolen cloth drills and other fabrics. The venture reports good workmanship and a market in Canton and the delta.
The Illinois River fishery reports over 9,000,000 pounds of fresh water fish shipped to U S markets in fifteen weeks since September 1 1908 09 season end due to cold weather. Carp and buffalo dominate the catch with carp making up about two thirds of shipments from Henry to Grafton and all markets along the river.
The piece lauds Eton College for its wartime record asking if any school sent 1400 sons to battle and saw 129 killed in a single war. It notes Eton’s unique position among great schools and attributes both virtues and faults to the institution in a Saturday Review assessment.
More than 120 India rubber manufacturers operate in the United States employing over 15 000 workers across the industry.
About thirty thousand women dedicate their lives to driving and steering canal boats across Southern Nidland Ung land, a demanding work by river and waterway.
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