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Show SIYTH BUYS OIL PAINTING Tho large oil palntiug of President Taft in Ogden canyon, on September 2C. 1909, executed by Artist Thomas Slight of this city, and which has attracted at-tracted so much attention throughout the state, has been purchased by Dennis Den-nis A. Smyth, proprietor of the Eu ropean hotel, and now hangs in the corridor of that hostelry. Tho picture, which measures five feet ten inches by four feet eight Inches, )s a splendid piece of work and is considered by those who who have seen it as being Slight's masterpiece. master-piece. It represents the presidential party, consisting of President Taft. Captain Archibald Butt, his mIK'tary aide, and James Sloan, tho president's bodyguard, iu the Smvth automobile, vv.th Mr. Smyth driving. The likenesses like-nesses of the men are perfect and can be easily distinguished. The pitturo Is at the point' of the canyon road about half a mile west of the sawmill. |