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Newspaper
Rivers Gazette
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 23, 1936
Page
2
The piece argues global laboratory work in industry advances science and shifts life. rich philanthropy and corporate funding accelerate discovery. It cites Canada losing researchers to better pay south of the border, risking national benefit as breakthroughs reshape production and knowledge.
An announcer wore a radio equipped silk top hat, called an electrified Easter bonnet, and promenaded with Easter Sunday crowds in New York to test a portable microwave station. The hat’s broadcasting range reached about a quarter mile. Also noted is a remark on human hair growth averaging five inches annually in temperate climates.
Mrs. E N Dunn wife of Dr E N Dunn resident physician at Goldfields Sask enjoys life at the northern mining camp. She describes the social scene and novelty of the work travel with her husband while noting about 30 women and 300 men inhabit the camp and activities like bridge dancing and dog sleighing are popular.
Returns from the 1933 Christmas seal campaign to fight tuberculosis were encouraging and final receipts were expected to show a 10 percent increase over 1934, the Canadian Tuberculosis Association announced. The association will hold its annual meeting in Vancouver on June 22 to 24.
The London News Chronicle notes rising ice cream demand this summer with forecasts of 5.9 million gallons. It describes penny in the slot machines style packaging and new waste wafers, and mentions bulk wholesale milk pricing by the Milk Marketing Board.
Egyptian archaeologists uncover a richly dressed mummy of a Fourth Dynasty princess, daughter of Cheops. She rests in a limestone sarcophagus in an undisturbed tomb. adornments include a gold diadem, bead necklaces, anklets, sandals, a gold belt, and gold-inlaid fingers. Prof Selim Hassan led the excavation confirming the tomb’s lack of pillage.
At a Cardiff book festival a revived tale links Wales to the discovery of America. The legend says Prince Madoc sailed from North Wales in 13 ships in the 12th century, reached the Mississippi area, formed a white Indian tribe, and never returned.
Rt. Rev. A. L. Fleming Bishop of the Arctic spoke in English and Eskimo to listeners across the north. The broadcast came from Ottawa on the Canadian Radio Commission Northern Mission program reaching from sub Arctic fringe to Cache Peninsula.
Lincoln Ellsworth, fresh from an Antarctic air crossing, expresses interest in camel travel through the Australian desert with no firm plans. He notes a century of exploration remains in the Antarctic and expects to do some of it, having just landed in Los Angeles in March after nearly a year away.
John D. Rockefeller recounts that at age seven he earned his first money by raising turkeys. He notes his mother supplied curds from milk to feed the birds as part of the lesson.
Advice urges consulting a family doctor about aspirin safety for regular use. It notes aspirin as fast relief for headaches rheumatism neuritis and neuralgia and cites millions of users finding it safe for the average person. It adds aspirin tablets are made in Canada and Bayer is the registered trademark.
The Southern Railway plans rapid progress in electrifying its main line to Portsmouth harbor. The project, costing nearly 15 million, aims to finish by July 1937 with 95 route miles converted to electric traction and 74 miles London to Portsmouth becoming one of Britain's longest electric stretches. Forty-eight new four coach units including 19 with kitchen cars are being built.
J. M. Daly explains plans at the Ontario Good Roads convention for a monumental totem pole directing tourist traffic in Parry Sound Ontario. The carving will show a moose beacon as the sole animated eye of a scene including a bear deer geese a canoe voyageur tepee schoolhouse and church.
A Newark surgeon plans to apply Vanghetti muscle graft technique to attach cineplastic artificial arms to John Seeley under Nutley New Jersey. The operation will use skin flaps and muscle movement to control artificial limbs, with two surgeries on each arm stump. The project is supported by Nutley Elks crippled children's committee.
An electrical firm in Prague has invented an artificial ear to precisely measure how sound affects the human system. The device aims to address flaws in earlier sound meters which were subjective or failed to reflect the true impact on the ear. The Czecho-Slovak Ministry of Health plans to use it in noise research.
John Johnson chief engineer of Canadian Pacific Steamships told the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London that future steamers will exhaust almost cold heat from furnace gases and use sea water wash to clean and discharge them just above the waterline.
A wounded African American soldier resists anaesthetic during surgery, urging doctors to proceed so he can watch. He awakes mid stitching and warns, Don’t stitch me with white thread, prompting a cautious, poignant moment in a wartime hospital.
Observance of Animal Day in China reports no livestock slaughter for 24 hours. Slaughterhouses stayed open yet none were slaughtered. cities refused to euthanize stray animals. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals held open air talks promoting kindness to animals.
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