Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — Historian a Mill-Hand’s Son. [ARTICLE]

Historian a Mill-Hand’s Son.

Joseph Owen of Balliol college, Oxford, who has just been elected to a modern history fellowship in Pembroke college, is the son of a Lancashire artisan and worked in an Oldham mill when he first left school, at the age of 13. <

Some historians say that the manufacture of silk was Introduced into Spain by the Moors.

Of the 196,500,000 Mohammedans in the world, only 18,000,000 live in Turkey.