Roanoke Times · 13 January 1915
CP-1915-006
PALESTINE PEASANT LIVES IN HUTS
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PALESTINE PEASANT LIVES IN HUTS Jan.
11.-The latest Washington, land to have been brought within the rapidly-expanded war area is that thin strip upon the eastern coast of the Mediterranean sea, the Holy Land, sacred to the believers of three world- Jews and religions--to Christians, Moslems-and ground wherein were cradled ideals which have made al- most all civilization tributary.
It is a bridge between the Moslem power in Asia Minor and the Moslem power in Egypt, and so assumes strategic im- portance in the war of the nations. Yet the Holy Land is a land em- balmed in the spirit and customs of 3,000 years ago, according to a de- scription of village life there as pre- pared by John D.
Whiting for the National Geographic Society: "Manners and customs which pre- vailed in Palestine in Biblical days still unchanged," writes. he are "While the townspeople are losing their ancient customs a
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"PALESTINE PEASANT LIVES IN HUTS," Roanoke Times, 13 January 1915. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1915-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1915-006
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