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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
3
A traveler recounts swimming in the Dead Sea and the Jordan near Jericho. Rough seas and strong currents knocked him down and starred his mouth nose and eyes with brine. He later plunged again and struck a hidden stake causing chest injury and two months of pain yet reflects on the lesson learned.
New evidence notes William IV fulfilled the sailor claim at a 1554 Westminster Abbey festival presided by Sir George. The king and Queen Adelaide attended as the bass duet in Israel in Egypt sang, and the monarch woke gently, muttering about the Lord as a man of war and asking how many guns the queen carried.
A woodman meets a bear rolling on the ground in misery over stings and a shed coat. The bear laments vanity and insatiable desire for honey, noting nature's gift of fur but enduring pain from bees. Moral: none of us is ever satisfied with a good thing.
The article traces massage as an old remedy for insomnia and more, noting word roots from Arabic mass and Indian and Chinese origins. It cites historical figures and texts, including Odysseus, Alexander the Great, Captain Cook, and Egyptian practices, as reported by Chicago News.
An anecdote from an account of Millais and Newman recalls Cardinal Newman visiting the artist for a portrait. When asked where to sit, Newman is directed to the elevated dais, with Millais quipping about posing “on that eminence” and inviting him to “jump up, you dear old boy.”
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