16 Jul 1914
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Newspaper
Grenfell Sun
Location
Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jul 16, 1914
Page
1
The article recounts an early daring heart surgery where surgeons exposed the chest, held the beating heart, and sutured a wound using cat gut. The 66 minute operation occurred after signs of death appeared, with the patient recovering enough to sit up by the sixteenth day.
Report recounts a crude description of Arctic peoples by explorers, noting their simple tools of reindeer horn spears and fire-making by friction. It describes their belief that their tribe was unique and their astonishment at distant lands and ships arriving near their shores.
Local notes record visitors and holidays at Crooked Lake cottage homes. Mr and Mrs Walker host and entertain Grenfell friends with tea, while others, including Cox Barry Roberts Bowen and Rhoas FitzGerald, spend two weeks of rest under covam.
Readable names show grade advances from Grade 1 to 2 and Grade 2 to 3 with lists of students including Maudie Gowdle Liesie Cooke Huth Lines Dorothy Sheck Willie Leveridge Jame Fother-Ingham Jack Leveridge John McGregor Hubert Reviggwick and more. The text continues with Grade 3 to Grade 4 recipients Gilbert Hurst Ivy Gordon Willie Kedgwick Edith Jones Mabel Greeotees Lasile Geddes Merrill McKenzie Jess Peters.
The Grenfell Methodist Sunday School held a large picnic at Newlandside Farm on a sunny afternoon, drawing hundreds. Local figures such as Mayor Rosborough attended as races and games from egg to bat ball provided entertainment, with W. H. Thompson winning the preacher handicap.
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