Flexibility Drills Highlight Sports Clinic Guide
A Sports College column by Lloyd Percival outlines flexibility as a key factor in athletic success. It details back leg, hip, and back stretches, explains the Spread Leg Head Touch and Back Thigh Stretch, warns of knee strain, and encourages regular practice for improved performance and reduced injury risk. Some trivia notes mention giraffes at the end.
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Sports College
Lloyd “Ace” Percival
University of Ilinois
Sports Colle
Ontario
Crossword Puzzle Clues and Word List Fragment
A damaged OCR style fragment lists crossword clues and word fragments across topics from geography to mythology. It includes references to Mindanao trips, Algerian seaport notes, vocal and linguistic hints, and miscellaneous terms such as evergreen, Neptune, and Tyre. The text appears as an unpunctuated jumble of clues, partial definitions, and stray numbers.
Oddities in the News Snapshot of surprising incidents and quick humor
An impatient stork shower ends with a city ambulance arrival for a five pound newborn. A power cut silences a choir in Essex. Senator Hurst introduces twin daughters who correct him. A Baltimore mother welcomes a third son born on January 21. Japanese learn hitchhiking via thumbs from American soldiers. A train crew stops for twenty hitchhikers at Abashari crossing.
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Fure
Abashari
Japan
World Happenings Briefly Told
Air Commodore W E Ben nett 41 of Halifax named chief staff officer at Northwest Air Command in Edmonton. The Dody of Sinclair Lewis cremated with ashes flown to the United States. Spalding England warns motorists over unpaid 35 cent monthly parking fee with tires deflated. An olive sapling marks location linked to Socrates and Mahatma Gandhi cremation sites. Pakistan to open embassy in Peiping with Ahmad Ali named chargé d affaires and a future ambassador. Three crew members of a wrecked coastal boat on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef survived after eating a dam weighing five feet and 500 pounds. Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh become Archers of Honor of Bruges Royal Guard. US signals possible ban on nickel in auto bumpers and trim as in WWII.
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Spalding
Eng
Athens
Socrates
Athens Garden
Mahatma Ghandi
Pakistan
Peiping
China
Ahmad Ali
Australia
Great Barrier Reef
Elizabeth
Duke of Edinburgh
Saint Sebastian
Bruges
Belgium
United States
Morning Frost Transformed by Unseen Magic Wand
The narrator describes a sudden dawn transformation from frost and darkness to a rosy, jeweled landscape. Trees stand bare before dawn, then sunlight reveals sparkling branches and a fairy land scene. The speaker wonders who waved the wand yet delights in the beauty now visible.
Exercise and Heart Health For Youthful Hearts
Strenuous activity does not cause heart disease in healthy young hearts but adds strain to damaged or aging hearts, highlighting that exercise tolerance varies with heart condition.
Arctic Cold Saved Tweedsmuir's Life
Lord Tweedsmuir, son of the Governor General, credits a Canadian Arctic winter with saving his life after being given four months to live from a tropical disease contracted in Africa in the 1930s. He says frost and cold proved lethal to the disease.
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Chile
Canada
Africa
Canadian Arctic
Timber wolf killed by car after long chase
In Ontario on Lake Superior a large timber wolf was pursued by three Port Arthur men who drove nearly 20 miles at speeds up to 40 mph before the exhausted animal was struck. The wolf weighed about 160 pounds and fought back, injuring the car as it was spotted five miles from shore. The retired note about the Winnipeg Brandon railway mail service in 1882 appears as unrelated history.
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Fort William
Ont
Lake Superior
Port Arthur
Fiery Itching Skin Relief Promised by Emerald Oil
An antiseptic oil named Moone's Emerald Oil is marketed to rapidly ease itching from eczema barber's itch and related skin troubles. The advertisement claims quick healing of open sores boils ulcers eruptions and dries eruptions in a few days with distribution through druggists.
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Moone
Sewing Machine Spool Loose Tip
If the thread spool on a sewing machine is loose and tangles, place a piece of cloth larger than the spool on the post under the spool to steady it. The cloth prevents movement and keeps the spool stable during stitching.
Weather foolishness and feet tame the comic page
A humorous column surveys weather myths about corns and bunions and offers absurd remedies. It jokes that bread and melodic therapy can cure ailments and ponders Monaco trials. It dismisses flirtatious bachelor life and urges men to inspect fiancées feet. The piece closes with a year stamp 2918.
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the Society For Prevention of
Sf.p.c.t.f
S.F.P.C.T.F
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Mindanao
Mohammed
Great Lakes
Sor
Zeus
Hera
Tyre
Odin
Styx
Ferrymar
Ireland
Priscilla
Hazel
Caribbean
MacGregor
Montreal
Quebec
West Indies
Overseas Department of Imperial
England
Chingford
Essex
W. J. Hurst
Little Rock
Ark
Judy
Jeanie
Arkansas Senate
Patricia Fish
Baltimore
W. E
Ben) Bennett
Halifax
Northwest Air Command
Edmonton
Sinclair Lewis
BY Jane Dale
Tweedsmuir
Ottawa
Lord Tweedsmur
West
Winnipeg-Brandon
Fleischmann
Principality of
Monaco
Kwiz Korner
National Speleological Society
Teres Ste
Ciorseans Amateur Opera
By William Ferguson
Wes
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