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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1907
Page
6
A historical advertisement urges sufferers to take Dr Miles Heart Cure for weak heart with immediate effects. Testimony from 8 H Dunnam of Livingston Texas promotes the product and a refund guarantee from Miles Medical Co. Elkhart Indiana.
A discussion notes that birds employ multiple weapons beyond beaks and leg spurs. Wings can strike, with spur winged geese bearing 1½ inch wing spurs and some extinct birds showing bone outgrowths. Screamers have two wing spurs, and jacanas and other birds display wing adaptations including sharpened edges and knuckles.
The article sketches the sight of a dry land fish from Mauritius a small four to five inch creature with a big head prominent eyes and leglike side fins. It recounts nocturnal hunting on mud flats and mentions New Zealand relatives called running fishes. It then tells a comical London Answers anecdote about a bank manager’s misdirected shout to a missing woman named Ethel.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt notes young birds with batlike claws as an example of how certain species lose this feature before reaching maturity. The passage discusses structural changes in avian talons and their development through growth stages.
London Telegraph praises Professor Jebb for rendering Browning's Abt Voger into Greek verse. The critic notes the soliloquy is richly imagistic and difficult in English, yet Jebb reportedly found Greek equivalents. The piece admires his linguistic achievement and questions others’ ability to match it.
Two Irishmen debate political economy in a Buffalo Commercial piece. Casey asks how wealth should be redistributed from the rich to the poor, while Grady questions how the poor ever accumulated the money alleged to have been stolen.
A hotel lobby mix up ends with a man from the north mistaking the cigar stand for the desk register. He asks about room rates and is told prices range from 10 to 50 cents, then orders a cigar and leaves with a bad impression and one cheap cigar.
A London paper cites 1832 source claiming the chant arose during the crusades from Peter the Hermit. The banner bore H E P for Hierosolym Est Perdita, read as Hep, prompting crowds to shout Ilep hep hurra to pursue and attack Jews in the streets.
A six year old boy named Dick, eager yet anxious, prepares to go out with his mother for the first time without direct supervision. He puts on his hat and coat, then asks whether to wash his hands or wear gloves, showing hesitation and a touch of stubbornness in this small act of independence, as Harper's Southy reports.
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