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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 16, 1936
Page
6
The article discusses how worldwide laboratory work drives industrial progress and knowledge, reshaping life and work. It cites philanthropists funding research, corporate investment, and the cumulative, interlinked nature of discoveries, noting Canada’s undercompensation risks driving talent south of the border.
John D. Rockefeller recounts his first earnings came from raising turkeys when he was seven. He says his mother fed him curds from milk to care for the birds, illustrating his frugal childhood.
A severely wounded black soldier resisted anesthesia during surgery, urging doctors to proceed so he could watch the procedure. He finally accepted chloroform, but just as stitching began he awoke and said to the doctor not to stitch. The event reveals his intense focus on witnessing the operation.
The Canadian Tuberculosis Association announced encouragement from the 1935 Christmas car campaign to raise funds to fight tuberculosis. Final receipts were expected to show a 10 percent increase over 1934. The association will hold its annual meeting in Vancouver on June 22 to 24.
A sixteen year old Jom Seeley undergoes a provincial restoration operation under rain at Nutty New Seem. A surgeon grafts muscle to connect nerves in the arm, aiming to repair a damaged limb for the Nutay Bika Lodge fundraiser. The procedure will be repeated on the other arm with cost-cutting measures anticipated.
Mrs E N Dunn wife of Dr E N Dunn resident doctor at Goldfields Sask enjoyed her first season in the north mining camp. She calls dog sleigh rides novel and pays tribute to a lively social scene where about 30 women and 300 men gather for bridge dancing and sleighing. She travels often with her husband and finds the life well worth trying.
Rt Rev A L Fleming Bishop of the Arctic spoke in English and Eskimo broadcasting from Ottawa on the Canadian Radio Commission Northern Mission program. His diocese spans sub arctic fringe to Cache Peninsula as the bishop addressed friends and charges across thousands of miles on a recent Saturday.
Observers mark Animal Day in China noting no livestock killed for 24 hours as slaughterhouses stayed open yet unused and cities halted stray euthanasia. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals held open air messages urging kindness to animals amid estimates of about half a million species on earth, three quarters of which are insects.
An electrical firm at Prague has developed an artificial ear to measure sound exactly and assess its effects on the human system. The device will aid the Ceecho-Slovak Ministry of Health investigations into noise problems, addressing prior instruments that were subjective or failed to capture true ear response.
John Johnson of Canadian Pacific Steamships told the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London that future ocean liners may be funnelless. He described smoke from furnaces being cooled and the heat recovered for work, with gases washed by sea water and discharged just above the waterline. In a separate note, Soviet workers drill an oil well on the sea bottom near Baku.
Electrification of the Southern Railway main line to Portsmouth harbor progresses rapidly. The project, costing about 15 million dollars, aims for completion by July 1937. It will convert 95 route miles to electric operation, forming one of Britain’s longest electric tracks from London to Portsmouth.
Plans unveiled at the Ontario Good Roads convention describe a large totem pole traffic light in Parry Sound Ontario. A moose figure with blinking red and green eyes will direct traffic while carvings show a bear, deer, geese, a duck, a voyageur in a canoe, a tepee, a schoolhouse, and a church. The moose eyes are animated and a kite tail balances the structure.
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