Birmingham Age-Herald · Birmingham, Alabama · 8 January 1911

CP-1911-001

The Farms Of Palestine

By Frank G. Carpenter

Shown from the top. The whole column — 3.2 times taller than it is wide — is in the enlargement.

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Transcribed from the clipping

“Zammarin, Mount Carmel, Palestine. I give you to-day some bits of Palestine out of doors. Within the past few weeks I have kept away from the cities and towns, and have watched the shepherds and farmers. I have seen the real Palestine, with the same sky, the same rocks and hills and the same carpet of wild flowers that were here in the days of our Lord.

I have talked with the farmers in the fields, have ridden side by side with the modern Balaam as he climbed the hills on his ass, and have even put my hand to the plows, such as were used in the times of the Scriptures, and with a goad have pricked on the bullocks and donkeys as they turned up the sod.

The Land of the Farmer. The Palestine of the Bible was a land of the farmer. The children of Israel and their leaders were reared or worked on the farm…”

Context added by this archive

The same Frank Carpenter column as the Richmond Times-Dispatch printed that Sunday (CP-1911-002), and the whole difference is the room it was given. Richmond ran it across a page under a headline naming stock, grain, shepherds and sheepfolds, with four photographs of the people doing the work.

Birmingham ran it in one narrow column headed The Farms Of Palestine, between an advertisement for a drunkenness cure and one for Curo Grains of Life. The copy underneath is the same.

A correction

The presentation captions this scan as the Birmingham Post-Herald. The masthead reads THE AGE-HERALD, which is the Birmingham paper that existed in 1911; the Post-Herald was formed later. Filed under the name on the page.

Cite this clipping

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• Farms of PalestineRichmond Times-Dispatch · 8 January 1911
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• Palestine Is In Hands Of JewsHartford Courant · 31 July 1911
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The same copy, in 1 other paper

• Farms of PalestineRichmond Times-DispatchRichmond, Virginia8 January 1911CP-1911-002

Their text and this one are nearly identical. Found by comparing transcriptions, not by reading them side by side, so this establishes that the text overlaps and not that these papers ran the same dispatch. How this was done.