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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
May 19, 1936
Page
4
A London theatre sees an elderly man ignite as a cigarette sparked combustible vapors from a diseased stomach. Dr T East at King's College Hospital notes excessive fermentation causing flammable gases and an explosion at the moment the match flared.
A man charged with taking a car without owner Alfred William Bennett’s consent was remanded until Monday May 2. The vehicle, found on Pound Hill, Fast Queanbeyan, belonged to Bennett. No damage reported.
Hospital service in public ward 1 will be offered for up to 10 consecutive weeks per person. Private ward options mirror the public rate with a difference payment. A maternity cash of 4 is provided to any woman confined to a hospital, ensuring full physician services without charge. Financial arrangements involve salary, per capita, or fee systems with a defined pool. Doctors receive 18 to 22 shillings per injured per year.
Latest display reveals relics from Egypt's oldest tomb near Sulkkara, 10 miles from Cairo. The 3400 B.C. site yielded 42 burial chambers containing 5800 year old items, including bone and ivory arrows, wooden sickles with flint blades, ivory handles, inlaid boxes, and two large flint knives.
At Flemington sale yards buyers faced a heavy penning of 47000 sheep and lambs with ready inquiry and sales mostly steady. Cattle yarding of 2840 head saw steady demand. general quality fair to good with western weights and prices noted as lambs 14 to 26s per hundred. ewes 13 to 20s. bullocks 4 to 13 pounds. cows 3 to 10 pounds. Overall market unchanged from last Thursday with some items dearer and quality the main factor.
A fragmented report from Jerubalem on a Sunday describes shots fired at a cinema audience in a Jewish quarter. The piece notes a person or party emerging from a motion picture as police and witnesses react, with the scene marked by tension and ongoing investigation.
The fragment notes a historical publication by Chrbinpaee Jame pang and mentions Myst Wireih Bapigad in a ceremonial context. It hints at a periodical record or annals linked to a procession or archive with unclear scope and dates. Further readable details are limited in the fragment.
Canada ranked sixth among 24 countries in 1985 for world trade, behind the United Kingdom and the United States. Britain, India, Australia, and New Zealand followed in the ranking. A February report showed Canada’s imports from British countries rose about 17 percent year over year, totaling around £2.3 million, while total foreign imports reached approximately £2,080,900.
A fragment describes a man with impaired temperature sensation following spinal cavity damage. It notes he could feel touch but not heat or cold, with nerves in the spinal column disrupted, leaving him unable to distinguish hot from cold while still sensing light touch. The account mentions he died later from septic poisoning after biting his tongue.
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