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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 14, 1936
Page
2
The piece argues that worldwide laboratory work advances industry and knowledge, reshaping life and work. It cites philanthropist funding and corporate support as key drivers, notes cascading discoveries and new tools, and laments Canada losing scientists to better pay south of the border.
John D. Rockefeller recalls earning his first money by raising turkeys at age seven, guided by his mother who provided curds from milk to feed the birds.
A badly wounded black soldier resists anesthesia during surgery urging the doctors to proceed so he could watch. He finally accepts chloroform but requests not to be stitched with white thread, warning the doctors to avoid a mistake.
The Canadian Tuberculosis Association said returns for the 1935 Christmas seal drive were encouraging with final receipts expected to be about 10 percent higher than 1934. The association will hold its annual meeting in Vancouver on June 22 to 24, 2146.
A Newark orthopedic surgeon plans a cineplastic arm restoration for 16 year old John Seeley after a train accident in Nutley New Jersey. The operation uses Vanghetti inspired muscle grafts to connect artificial limbs with skin flaps and muscle flexing. The anonymous surgeon works with Nutley Elks crippled children's committee and Beth Israel Hospital on two initial stump procedures.
Mrs. E N Dunn wife of Dr E N Dunn resident doctor at Goldfields Sask completes her first season in the north mining camp. She praises the novel life at Lake Athabaska field after a flight from Edmonton. She notes a pleasant social life with about 30 women and 300 men, and favorites include bridge dancing and dog sleigh riding. She often travels with her husband.
Rt. Rev. A. L. Fleming, Bishop of the Arctic, spoke in English and Eskimo from Ottawa on the Canadian Radio Commission Northern Mission program. His diocese covers the sub Arctic fringe to Cache Peninsula, reaching thousands across remote radio audiences.
In observance of Animal Day in China no animals were killed for 24 hours as slaughterhouses stayed open yet no head of livestock was taken. Cities did not euthanize strays, while the SPCA delivered open-air talks on kindness to animals. The text notes about 4.5 million living creatures exist on earth, with roughly three quarters insects.
An electric firm in Prague unveils a new artificial ear for exact sound measurement to study its effect on the human system for the Czecho-Slovak Health Ministry. Britain progresses on electrifying Southern Railway to Portsmouth, a 15 million dollar project expected by July 1937, adding 95 route miles and 74 miles London to Portsmouth. Forty-eight four-coach motor units are being built with 19 kitchen cars among the new rolling stock.
John Johnson of Canadian Pacific Steamships predicts ships will run with nearly cold exhaust, using recovered heat to power ice production, with cleaned gases released just above water level. Meanwhile, Soviet workers drill an oil well on the sea floor near Baku. In Ontario, Parry Sound unveils a traffic light moose image on a grand totem pole to guide motorists.
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