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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1936
Page
8
Kelvin Rogers, an Australian boy, arrived with his mother after a 9000 mile journey and had a three inch wire nail removed from his lung at Temple University Hospital. The operation via bronchoscope took seven minutes and the patient was reported "doing nicely" after the procedure.
Philadelphia June 25 AP Missouri delegates at the Democratic convention consider James P. Aylward of Kansas City as the leading candidate for Missouri's new federal district judge. If unavailable, Governor Park or Circuit Judge Daniel Bird are potential options. Roosevelt likely to delay appointment until Congress reconvenes next January.
Minneapolis report states trans parental stratosphere balloon by Dr. Jean Piccard rested 613 air miles from campus near Huntsville Arkansas. It was recovered from a tree five miles from the town by J Denver Smith who earned a five dollar reward. Instruments to yield data on temperature pressure and humidity were aboard.
Former Governor Alfred E Smith remains in seclusion near New York and will not attend the Democratic convention in Philadelphia. Close associates say he has no plans to travel there.
Rep William Lemke presidential candidate of the New Union Party predicts Congress will elect the next president because neither Roosevelt nor Landon will win a majority of electoral votes. He blasts both major parties as Wall Street representatives and says wealth concentrates in too few hands while 20 million rely on welfare. He warns the republic is in danger and the nation must change course. In Alameda California motion pictures document county anti mosquito operations including a motorcycle unit spraying breeding pools. In Pasadena California a man is fined 50 dollars and given two years suspended jail for electric current theft.
A report notes a single stolen current drawn from a power cable used for power purposes. It also cites a claim that the United States Navy cost the government about 4,000,000 dollars per year a century ago.
Vast grasshopper swarm darkens eastern Nebraska skies as entomologists warn it could devastate crops. The insects spread miles long and up to 100 miles wide, blotting the sun over Gar land and other farms near Lincoln amid drought conditions.
Myron H Swenk head of Nebraska University's entomology department pins the grasshopper surge on a Kansas gathering with possible movement into southeastern South Dakota northwestern Iowa or southern Minnesota The swarm likely stemmed from early hatching while Alfred Nobel’s nitroglycerin work is noted as a separate historical aside.
Mercury has been known for at least 2500 years but its wide use is a development of recent centuries.
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