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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1907
Page
7
Article discusses vision problems including myopia hypermetropia and astigmatism, describing how glasses help the nearsighted and farsighted, and noting how refractive errors affect reading and daily life. It mentions ages and the idea of cure or improvement through optical correction.
Pall Mall Gazette reports a painless method to adjust the lens shape behind the pupil to shift the focus and cure errors of refraction such as myopia hypermetropia and astigmatism. Dr Derier of Paris first showed convex lenses could extend focus and London surgeons later demonstrated numerous cured cases at Park Hospital.
A short exchange shows a mother and child debating which doll is nicer. Mary praises her dolly for not interrupting her when she speaks, while the mother counters that even the mother is nicer for this reason.
A lady on a morning train recreates a perfect dictation from a shouting speech, matching quick speed and clarity. She uses the congressman's train sermon as her sample, impressing the speaker when she offers her notes for his dictation task. He finally grants her the stenographer position.
In the Vilna province of Lithuasia geese are shod to withstand long market travels. Geese, famed locally, are walked to distant markets. In autumn they practice the goose step, first in tar then sand, aided by boots fitted for a 210 mile trek to Wareaw’s goose fair.
Blakesley, famed as the most persistent optimist, slipped and fell in a mud puddle yesterday. He rose laughing, praising the soft ground and joking that harder terrain might have broken a bone.
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