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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1902
Page
8
Faculty aims to promote athletics with tennis courts bowling alleys and a golf club on university grounds. Miss Ione Pease returns from Tempe to enroll, while cadet drills and a military hop are planned. Language classes expand using a natural method with German added, and Philomathian debates begin as students adopt a short order dining option.
A fire brigade is being formed with members chosen for quickness and strength. On alarm, the department will rush with hose and buckets, assigning sections to each room such as the museum and library to carry out essential tasks.
A pretty young woman panics when she loses a diary that holds her private thoughts about friends and rivals. Her companion Kate and others recall sharp observations, and the two women cry and reconcile after rediscovering the diary at a friend's home. The piece also defines sippets and a simple homemade weather glass.
The passage notes reverence for the African cobra with a yearly ritual of killing and skin display to bless newborns. It links the cobra de capella and the horned viper to Cleopatra's fate as the Nile worm. It also mentions puff adder venom used on arrows and swallowed for protection, and a Punjab lore of dressing a dead serpent for a grand funeral.
An anonymous physician recalls a case where he treated the wrong elderly sister. He used playful humor to inspect her tongue and prescribed a soda water remedy, later realizing he had prescribed for the wrong patient and left before the sister could be treated.
A Philadelphia Record tour reveals inmates’ clever makeshifts. Lambrequins sewn from old trousers, a gilt bracket holding a rat figure, and a wall of reed artwork with about 200 colorfully drawn birds. Numerous checkerboards and chess sets showcase fine inlay and carving.
A Philadelphia druggist told a Times reporter that drug prices astonish many. He cites pseudo physostigmine as exceptionally valuable, costing $1 per grain or $437.50 per ounce, with seeds grown in India, Brazil and parts of Africa. The seed’s historic use as an ordeal reportedly led to deaths, while the prepared drug is now prescribed for heart disease.
The earliest English sport text is the rhymed Boke of St Albans by Dame Juliana Berners. Wynkyn de Worde printed a second edition in 1496. Her lineage includes Lord Berners who translated Froissart. She also wrote hawking and fishing essays that influenced Izaak Walton.
An English soldier shot a farmer's pet crow in Virginia. The colonel sentenced the soldier to eat the crow as punishment. The farmer watched. after part of the crow was eaten the soldier gave a gun and forced the farmer to finish the meal or be shot.
The University of Athens, old and German-influenced, follows the German plan with many professors trained at German universities. German is common around the building, aside from Greek, and the institution holds substantial property with several chairs richly endowed by private donors.
Charles James Fox, famed English politician, gained notoriety for gaming. He reportedly squandered large sums, including 60 000 after a big loss, then 55 000 more, debated in parliament on the thirty ninth articles, and later won 30 000 before a journey to Newmarket.
The article argues humans improved bees by selecting long tongued individuals, extending tongues by a hundredth of an inch and boosting work output. It also notes human contributions like ready made homes frames for combs and supplemental food during flowerless periods.
In a Scottish parish a pair of collectors sought charity for the kirk. They visited a poor hut where an elderly man admitted he could give nothing. He refused whisky and snuff, then offered two pence he paid to Sandy the barber, suggesting the barber shave him himself to claim the two pence.
In a historic scene at a divinity hall the senior class began with prayer. A novice from a distant region led, asking God to have mercy on the esteemed professor, naming weakness and ignorance and requesting strength for him to lead like a he goat before the flock. The moment lingered in memory.
Carlyle described Tennyson to Emerson on August 5, 1844 as one of the finest looking men with rough dark hair, hazel eyes, a massive yet delicate aquiline face, sallow complexion, loose clothing, and a musical voice suited to laughter and wailing. He noted Tennyson’s conversational ease and abundant speech.
The article notes medieval impressions of animals in devotion and cites Herodotus on the Egyptian city Bubastis where the cat Alurus was embalmed. It mentions Diana Bubastis, deity said to have become a cat when the gods fled into Egypt, linking myth to feline veneration.
The passage notes sucking the wound as the most effective immediate remedy for snake bites across many cultures. It mentions Africa using cupping instruments in emergencies and ancient practices by psylli snake charmers during Cato's African expedition, whose reputed efficacy rested on drawing out poisoned blood.
A humorous item from the Boston Post about a boy asked by an employer if he will work for small wages. The boy replies with unclear enthusiasm, illustrating a light, opinionated moment in early 20th century workplace humor.
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