More from Old Newspapers
This section of The Quack Doctor is for newspaper ads and pictures I stumble on while researching the main blog. They are the bits and bobs that don’t fit the medical theme, but are interesting anyway!
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Fair bathers attacked by an octopus
Illustrated Police News 17 Oct 1896 A CORRESPONDENT from one of the fashionable American watering-places sends us a sketch of the above alarming occurrence. He says it caused great consternation – not only to the fair bathers, who were the victims of the awful thing’s embrace, but to many on the beach, who were alarmed by the screams of the ladies, and by seeing one of them suddenly disappear below the surface of the water. However, “All’s well that ends well,” and assistance being close at hand the water nymphs were soon rescued from the loathsome clutches of the octopus and brought safely ashore. Beyond a severe shock from the fright, none of them were in any way injured. We imagine they will not be in a hurry to bathe in that particular locality again.
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This is a fascinating site, Caroline. There is one small danger here, I could spend hours if I don’t watch it. Excellent, well done but don’t forget my offer. Incidentally I am on the writing bug, have been for some time and doing a WB course. I returned to it in 2002, having left United Nations Association, the situation in the middle East and the UN secretary General who had hoped to go back for a second visit, had been prevented by the Americans. Why he could not have turned around and told them to mind their own business, I shall never know except I think he was caught by the short and curlies for the fact that the main UN building is on US soil. Frankly it should go back to Geneva where it originally started, having taken over the League of Nations