Tennis backhand technique from Sports College coaching tips
A featured sports instruction column from Sports College explains backhand grip and stance for right handed players. It covers grip position, wrist alignment, sideward stance, weight transfer, timing to contact, and backlift, plus practice drills and how to access ongoing coaching via radio on CBX CBK CFGP and CBW.
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Sports College
Box
Toronto 1
Ontario
Nou
CBX
CBK
CFGP
CBW
Patterns Summer Pastime Scrap Quilt Pattern 7278
A brief note on a summer pastime describing a scrap quilt pattern 7278. It promises a gay, attractive quilt made from small pieces and includes directions. To obtain the pattern, send twenty five cents in coins. stamps not accepted.
Alice Brooks Needlework Catalogue Teasers
Needleworkers urged to request the 1951 Alice Brooks Needlework Catalogue from the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union Toronto. Send twenty five cents for a copy. illustrations cover crochet knitting and embroidery with a free pattern in the nook.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
Front Street W
Toronto
Alice Brooks
Side Talk and Social Notes Mix Abroad and Home Short Bits
A column blends British tipping law with employee rights and hints at a US chain’s tax woes over tip theft. It recalls a grumbling husband and a long-lived jockey, then jokes about German marriage odds and a marriage tale of Helen Mayes and Charlie MacArthur, whose silver wedding would occur in 1955.
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Great Britain
U.S
Helen Mayes
Charle MacArthur
Neysa McMein
Helen
Charlie MacArthur
MacArthurs
Gasoline Price Cut in British Columbia
Vancouver reports a two cent a gallon reduction for industrial gasoline after removal of BC price controls. Fleet operators, fishing boat and farmer buyers gain one cent, with standard at 21.1 cents and premium at 23 cents plus a 10 cent road tax. individual motorists remain at 38 cents for premium and 25 cents for standard.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
B.C
Weekly Tip Cracked Eggs Boiled With Tissue Paper
A tip suggests wrapping eggs in tissue paper before boiling. When wet, the paper adheres to the shell and helps seal cracks during cooking.
Kitchen Meditations by Jane Dale
A reflective poem recounts leaving school and entering adult work life. It contrasts childhood freedom with the obligation to work, promising loyalty to the old school and sharing memories with future generations. An odd final line about a date palm bearing fruit appears as an abrupt, unrelated thought.
Crossword puzzle grid readout from old newspaper page
The fragment lists horizontal and vertical crossword clues with mixed garbled text. It cites numerous entries such as terms for animals, objects, actions, and places, but the OCR is incomplete leaving many broken phrases and illegible portions. The readable clues reference diverse topics including geography, language, and culture, typical of a syndicated puzzle page.
Good Hatch Of Fish At Duncairn Dam
Fishermen report a very good hatch at Duncairn Dam 25 miles southwest of Swift Current this year. The latest stocking added 1 000 000 pickerel fry from Fort Qu Appelle hatchery under the supervision of JL Gilchrist and Bob Blackwood. The move followed a request by the Swift Current branch of the Saskatchewan fish and game league.
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Duncairn Dam
Fort Quippelle Hatchery
JL. Gilchrist
Fisheries
Department of Natural Resources
Bob Blackwood
Shaunavon
Swift Current
The
Saskatchewan Fish and Game League
World Happenings Briefly Told
Various brief items from 19th and 20th century sources. Bed sheets auctioned in Apsley for 222 a pair. A smallpox hospital in King's Lynn noted. Health Ministry sold hospital building for 1 shilling to legal council. Pakistan to build modern medical factory at Landhi near Karachi. Timothy Jacobs arrested in Sacramento for drunk driving on a horse. A 14 year old caused a traffic jam after falling from a horse. Robert Henry Dougall wins $200 scholarship from Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons. Atom bomb effects on Nagasaki and Hiroshima to be published in a 1200 page report. Nova Scotia guides to display skills at Molega Lake from Aug to 22. Ferintosh rural line short circuit duck entangled in wires. duck released and wanders into open spaces.
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Esson Timothy Jacobs
Sacramento
Calif
Robert” Henry Dougall
Ase Sask
College of Po Ees and Surgeons of Alberta
Dougall
University of Alberta Medical News
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Nova Scotia
Woodland Guides
Molega Lake
Ferintosh
Alta
Festival visitors find Chinese Shakespeare upside down display
Chinese visitors at a London Festival of Britain showcase complained a Chinese Shakespeare play could not be read because the page was printed upside down in the display case.
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London
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Lloyd
Ace” Percive
Ford
Awgice Brooks
E. V. Durling
Campbell McGavin
Yesteryear
Ted Sloan
Snapper Garrison
Winnie O'Connor
Reiff Boys
Fred Tara Campbell Stille
Germany
Berlin
Clark Gable
Cyprus
16Th Fish Parachute Brigade
England
Mediterranean
Iran
Middle East
Britain
Central Press
By Jane Dale
Brooks and Fields
William
Ferguson
Europe
Bushelman
M Reg V
Fat Off
Chicago
Loop
Continert
High Mountain
Shels
City
India
Ewrium
Agia
Guido
Apsley
Anyland
King’s Lynn
Norfolk
Health Ministry
Legal Council
Pakistan
Inne Sina Laboratory
Ipletion
Landhiut
By Les Kleis
Virgil
Priscilla
Les
al Vermeer
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