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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1900
Page
2
The text describes extreme fatigue causing sleep in soldiers during battles, citing the Nile era and a frigate captain who slept for two hours near heavy guns. It notes Damiens’s torture in 1757 and the mind’s drive to sleep despite pain, illustrating sleep’s overpowering force under distress.
The article discusses how habits dictate sleep and waking, giving examples from a warship watch and a surgeon’s bell. It notes scientific uncertainty over why sleep is aroused and cites Sir Edward Codrington’s long watch and a telegraphist’s sensitivity to noise.
A playful domestic exchange ends with Sue unable to name a piano piece she was asked to perform while Tommy, urging her, orders her to bed. The clipping captions a cartoonish domestic moment from an Independent Portraits note and lists a portrait enlarging service by Enn ie Greenberg in the Devils column.
The Church of The Advent there will hold a morning service on Sunday July 22 at 11 o'clock followed by the Sunday School. There will be no evening service. G Turner Rector.
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