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Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico
Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico
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Nook version of vintage magazine article originally published in 1900. Contains lots of great info and illustrations seldom seen in the last 112 years.
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Porfirio Diaz, who is just rounding out his seventieth year in peace and honor, was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, September 15, 1830. On the maternal side he is descended from the Indians, and by his father from the Spanish race. In his infancy his father died, leaving his early training to be supervised by his Indian mother.
In his youth, after a period of clerk¬ship and service in an inn, he prepared for the priesthood of the Roman Cath¬olic Church, but gave up his purpose to begin the study of law.
It was at this time that Porfirio Diaz really entered upon a career destined to become one of the most romantic and picturesque in history—a career marked with adventure, adversity, and success almost beyond belief.
As a youth he displayed a passion for war. He hunted, rode fearlessly, craved the open life, and was distinguished as a chief among his schoolfellows. There is a story of his leading, at the age of fourteen, a corps of classmates against the students of another school, which resulted in a battle of sticks and stones as weapons that still forms one of the local traditions of Oaxaca. It was the forerunner of the real military triumph at Pueblo and the City of Mexico.
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Porfirio Diaz, who is just rounding out his seventieth year in peace and honor, was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, September 15, 1830. On the maternal side he is descended from the Indians, and by his father from the Spanish race. In his infancy his father died, leaving his early training to be supervised by his Indian mother.
In his youth, after a period of clerk¬ship and service in an inn, he prepared for the priesthood of the Roman Cath¬olic Church, but gave up his purpose to begin the study of law.
It was at this time that Porfirio Diaz really entered upon a career destined to become one of the most romantic and picturesque in history—a career marked with adventure, adversity, and success almost beyond belief.
As a youth he displayed a passion for war. He hunted, rode fearlessly, craved the open life, and was distinguished as a chief among his schoolfellows. There is a story of his leading, at the age of fourteen, a corps of classmates against the students of another school, which resulted in a battle of sticks and stones as weapons that still forms one of the local traditions of Oaxaca. It was the forerunner of the real military triumph at Pueblo and the City of Mexico.
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