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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 07, 1949
Page
11
The Burden Neurological Institute in Bristol reports successful animal trials with electricity to induce sleep for operations. Dr Grey Walter says the brain's sleep impulse is being studied, noting partial self-experiment and the difficulty in proving pain absence in animals.
John Gardiner, a 70 year old merchant seaman, told police he thought gaol was a pretty good place with meals. Cardiff magistrates jailed him for two months after he threw a brick through a window and smiled as his sentence started.
Port Adelaide butcher Charlie Trowse touts horsemeat as a profitable sale, claiming customers cannot distinguish it from beef and noting weekly carcass sales around a dozen. He asserts 6d per pound pricing and wide consumer interest despite meat coupon periods. In Memphis a barber trims a persistently unruly boy.
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