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  2. One hundred years ago, in Edinburgh, a great revolution in surgical practice was being worked out: the use of anaesthetics in operations. The pioneer who led the revolution was Professor James Young Simpson, a baker boy who had made good. His greatest difficulty was to persuade people that it was not wrong to save patients from the pain of the operating table.

    THE possibilities of anaesthesia by ether had been discovered in the United States in September, 1846. Simpson's ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,169 words
  3. The Man They "Should Have Killed"

    LIEUT. MITSUBA, who was awaiting trial on five atrocity charges, said: "We should have killed him." When I told Chint Singh he smiled, showing has white teeth, and said: They will pay. They will pay." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,615 words
  4. Giant Airships May Link Sydney And Vancouver

    Giant airships, each costing more than £3 million will link Sydney and Vancouver in a regular nonstop passenger service if plans being discussed by American experts and Australian interests are brought to fruition. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 642 words
  5. When It's Fun To Be Fooled

    Popular traffic in this two-way fun is heightened by the postwar revival of the magician cult in entertainment, and ...

    Article : 1,223 words
  6. Britain's Big Yachts To Go

    AFTER seven years of idleness Endeavour I. and Endeavour II., last British challengers for the America's Cup, are to be auctioned ...

    Article : 374 words
  7. SUBURBIA—This Week From Calico Flat To The Dirty Half-Mile

    Lambton-road is not a glamorous street. It is wide and dangerous, and some of its residents say that, because of the smoke blowing over from Broadmeadow marshalling yards, part of it could be called "the Dirty Half-Mile." BUT it is a street of character and ...

    Article : 982 words
  8. Fish, Bow-Tie Help Beautify School

    A bucket of goldfish, a gas mask, two dozen cakes, a bow tie, marbles, and a tin of powder are just a few of the articles sold at a "shop," conducted by 11-year-olds at Carrington Public School. ...

    Article : 582 words
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  10. Blackfellow Crab Came Late To Lake

    ALTHOUGH those big, blue-nippered crabs, which some people call Blackfellow Crabs because the marks on their backs resemble the features ...

    Article : 524 words
  11. Maitland Bells Chime For 60 Years

    On June 21, 1887, the jubilee day of Queen Victoria, the clock and chiming bells in the Church of St. Mary, Maitland, were started. For ...

    Article : 148 words
  12. HAND-OUT DEFINED "BELLY-ACHE"

    VISCOUNT Montgomery has been addressing young farmers. He read them some rules for success in war and suggested they could be applied ...

    Article : 72 words
  13. FOR MEN ONLY

    JUST how anybody can open a new restaurant, let alone maintain an old one in austere Britain these days, isn't easily understood. Still, a new ...

    Article : 86 words
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