Cape Town Lens: Image from page 54 of “Boone County Recorder” (1914)

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Image from page 54 of “Boone County Recorder” (1914)

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Identifier: Boone_County_Recorder_Vol_40_1914
Title: Boone County Recorder
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Boone County Recorder
Subjects: Boone County, Kentucky newspapers
Publisher: Boone County Recorder
Contributing Library: Boone County Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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expanse ofocean. So, while the questioners aretold that off HatteraB the water willbe as calm as anywhere else, captainand crew always make things snugfor a gale or worse when approachingthe sea off the headland. Congress has appropriated ,400,-000 for preliminary work on a Hat-teras sea wall, which is to be a mileand a half long, 20 feet wide at thetop, and 45 feet high. It will be the guarding wall of aharbor of-rofiif;o,-iato th« lee of whichvessels can run for shelter when thestorms rage. This wall will rob theHatteras seas of some of their terrors,and with them will pass some of theInteresting excitement always feltby seagoers when they approach thewater zone which always has beenone of tumult. Little by little man is trying tomake safer the journeys of those whogo down to the sea in ships. He neverentirely can conquer the ocean, andhe knows it. It is perhaps the onething in nature which is absolutelyuntamable. The shipwrecks off Cape HatterasJiave numbered thousands. The sea

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SURGICAL WORK OF THE PAST Researches Have Shown That Art Was Known Many Thousands of Centuries Ago. wall will provide means to save livesand property, but the winds off theold storm cape still will rage and onoccasion work their will. LAST FLOWER OF AUTUMN Dr. F. M. Sandwith, lecturing atKensington (London) Town hall, saidthe first surgeon of whom he couldfind any record lived In the fifthEgyptian dynasty, and must have beencourt doctor to the Pharaoh Sahura,somo 4,000 years before Christ. The first surgical implements ofwhich we know anything were splintsfound in the Nubian deBert. In oneplace a graveyard was found, andhere were remains of bodies with frac-tured limbs that had been set withbark splints. One was a right thighbone that had been broken and wasBtill held in position by a workman-like splint and bandages. All theknots were true reef knots, and thewrapping showed how the strips ofpalm fiber cloth were set just ae agood surgeon would set them now-adays, so as to use the ful

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