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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1909
Page
5
A profile tracing a shipwrecker’s harsh career from enlistment with a major wrecking firm to ashore crippled or killed. It chronicles constant dangers, including pneumonia from wintry seas, lost limbs, and frozen extremities, with crews facing brutal accidents and long watches. The piece cites The Youth’s Magazine as the source.
A column discusses coughs and hiccups cures via neck pressure on the pneumogastric nerve with steps to perform. It also reports 1806 balloon plans from Petersburg proposing a 722 foot diameter airship with safety features and a polemic anecdote from Hudson.
The article surveys the old Teutonic practice of Wer Geld as compensation for killing or injuring others. It notes that payment could avert feuds, with damages set by rank and wealth and paid in public view. failing wealth could force slaves or the slayer into debt. It also includes a fragmented literary aside on art and politics.
The article describes the Scottish kirk's harsh attitude to worldly pleasures in the seventeenth century. It notes stern sermons, prohibitions on smiling on Sundays, prohibitions on kissing, jesting, music, and dancing, and urges gravity and affliction as the norm. Buckle references scholarly arguments on this culture.
The article explains that ancient Egyptians shaped stones into beetles as emblems of immortality and burial customs. It notes common counterfeit beetles buried with the dead and inscriptions praying for future repose, with hieroglyphs including a hawk and human head for resurrection and a vulture for maternity.
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