RCMP recruits endure tough but worthwhile training
RCMP recruits face a rigorous nine month course at Ottawa and Regina training centres with early mornings, riding drills, and massed drill. Recruits come from across Canada and beyond including Scotland, while discipline includes strict dress and evaluation rules. Graduates anticipate future special training after years in general field work.
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RCMP
Ottawa
Regina
Co. N. K. Kirby
Hugh Clark
Canada
Mounties
Criminal Investigation
Rockcliffe
Hugh
Sve
Tom Ireland
St. Lat Boulevard
Scotland
Tom
Aberdeenshire
Winnipeg
Force
Alamogordo Twice Humidity May Immigrant Steel
Paul Ely immigrant from Louisville faces humidity and steel industry shifts in New Mexico. Does not. May reveals industry changes affecting Alamogordo and nearby cities.
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Alamogordo
Paul Ely
Steel
Louisville
New Mexico
UC Uaterealyy
Henri Navarre
Indo-China
U. S
Lexington
Canada
Carlsbad Caverns
Nevada
How to Start a Car in Hot Weather
The guide advises pressing the accelerator or pulling the hand throttle and holding the starter engaged until the engine fires. It notes persistent throttle action may help overcome hot start difficulties.
Side topics mix with curious questions from a bygone column
A collage of gossipy queries and humor on marriage, sidewalk etiquette, Joan of Arc, Arctic hospitality, feminine intuition, and a London lottery winner. It blends social curiosities with light anecdotes about marriage, pedestrians, and travel cost in Europe.
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Joan of Arc
Joan
Jeanne D'Arc
Maid of Orleans
Ingrid Bergman
Betty Fox
London
England
Tex
Paris
French Riviera
Europe
Majorca
Normandy
Brittany
France
High River Alberta airport faces change as crown assets take over
High River Alberta site once a pioneer air base has been taken over by the federal crown assets disposal corporation. Local officials and the High River Flying Club seek to keep training use while preserving the airport’s historic role in Canadian aviation including early parachute drops and air-ground radio experiments. The air base opened in 1921, hosted famed aviators, and supported early air mail and forest fire detection before closing in 1938 and reopening a decade later under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
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High River
Alta
Crown Assets Disposal Corporation
Canada
Calgary
High -River Flying Club
Ada
A. A. Leitch
RCAF
Hudson Bay
Straits Navigation
Duke of Windsor
Prince of Wales
Albert Carter
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Weekly Tip Hemstitching For Easy Thread Drawing
A short tip suggests wetting a brush rubbed on soap to ease hemstitching and notes a newborn bear cub weighs about 15 ounces.
Secrets of Parry O Brien's top performance tactics
The piece outlines Parry O Brien and other athletes routines emphasizing hard work, heavy weight training, sprint drills, diet rich in protein, and daily crouched mile runs to boost knee strength for shot putting. It also stresses learning to float, and notes Canada’s voluntary flour and bread enrichment program boosting athletes' nutrition.
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Parry O'Brien
O'Brien
Parry O’brien
Canada
Jesus in Gospel: compassion and stern rebuke in one
The article contrasts Jesus as compassionate savior and gentle helper with the indignant temple cleansing figure. It notes His rebukes in Matthew’s woes and the call to repentance, blending mercy with firm moral judgment. The piece ends by defining Kremlin’s literal meaning as citadel.
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Jesus
Christ
Matthew
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