The Sports Clinic Guide to Finding Your Best Events
A practical guide recommends trying all events before the season to record performance, compare with friends, and analyze strengths. It suggests hurdles for slender sprinters, high jump for bounce, field events for strong athletes, pole vault for gymnastic types, javelin for throwing arms, sprints for quick runners, and distance running for endurance. It also advises warmups, gradual throwing progression, arm care, and quick energy snacks to maintain performance.
World Happenings Briefly Told
A Norfolk style roundup notes a Lord Nelson trunk on display in Halifax by the Navy League of Canada. Leonard Williams advises one daily wash for young children to protect skin oils. London plans air inter city heli travel on the Thames south bank for cheap future voyages. Motherland mine casualties haunt Italian youth as 1,400 children died last year. Moose Jaw readies a 3 million training school for mental defectives housing 1,000 patients with 300 staff. Balmoral Castle’s 100 year spring clean uncovers forgotten royal era wares. Queen Victoria era coffee pots to be sold for about 1000 pounds. Canada to exhibit at Venice Biennale under H C McCurry. British student Percy Wilkins maps the moon complete with features using a 100 inch scope.
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Saskatchewan
Moose Jaw
Subscribe Offer for Sports College Research Guide
Readers are urged to subscribe to the Research Guide the official newspaper of Sports College. A one year subscription costs one dollar and two years cost 1.75 dollars, payable by money order to Sports College Box 99, Toronto Ontario with name and address.
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Sports College
Toronto
Ontario
Dominion Bridge lands $2 million defence contract
Vancouver reports a $2,000,000 contract for anti submarine weapons awarded to the Dominion Bridge Company. The project will be built at the suburban Burnaby plant as the first major defence award in the area.
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Vancouver
Dominion Bridge Company
Burnaby
Cleaning wallpaper to remove grease spots
Apply fuller's earth French chalk or plain talcum powder to the spots and let sit for several days. Brush off to finish.
On The Side : aging and attitudes toward retirement
A humor column notes aging men and retirement as a disease of the mind, cites P. T. Barnum’s 61 years when organizing the circus, and jokes about money saving and era fashion. It quotes Sylvia Sidney on age and attractiveness and wryly observes hosiery life and leap year engagements.
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P. T. Barnum
Barnum
Brooklyn
Sprouting Potato Seed Before Planting Gains Early Potatoes
Ontario official urges sprouting seed potatoes to speed early yields and cut losses. After disinfection, tubers should be exposed to light in a heated room for 10 days to two weeks at 50 to 60 F, producing short dense sprouts and stronger plants.
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R. E. Goodin
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Goodin
Banff Park Traffic More Busy In March
Traffic through Banff National Park’s eastern entrance rose in March with 6,246 vehicles and 19,027 passengers entering, up from 4,938 vehicles and 15,901 passengers a year earlier.
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Banff
Alta
Banff National Park
Garden Notes Grow Roomy Beds for Bigger Blooms and Easy Weeding
Practical gardening tips emphasize generous spacing, staking tomatoes six feet high, and regular pinching of side shoots. Use crop rotations with green manures like rye or oats to enrich soil. Grow home flowers in rows with vegetables to produce armfuls of blooms at low cost.
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Britain
Kitchen Meditations by Jane Dale Awakening and spring renewal
A poem speaks of earth awakening and a vast rebirth after winter. It attributes the change to divine mercy guiding creation through ice and snow to spring, bringing lighter hearts, renewed courage, and restored faith as death is overcome.
Leather samples preserved in museums date to 10 000 years ago
Some samples of leather preserved in museums are known to be at least 10,000 years old.
Crossword Puzzle Wide Ranging Clues and Word Fill
A dense crossword grid lists numerous horizontal and vertical clues spanning seeds spices metals animals professions and places. Readers parse entries from Edible seed to Occupied a india seat with many proper nouns and regional terms, including river, cheese, and tribal names.
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Department of Sports College
Lloyd
Ace” Percival
Lord Nelson
Halifax
Navy League of Canada
Leonard Williams
London
Thames South Bank
Rome
Momento Sera
Scotland
Balmoral Castle
Queen Victoria
Canada
Venice
Italy
H. C. McCurry
National Gallery of Ottawa
Percy Wilkins
Moon
Wilkins
Sylvia Sidney
Speedy
T. R. Togna
Mr. Togna
Louiseville
Joseph Fallon
By William Ferguson
Wwe
NEA Service
Off. K. Korner
By Len Kleis
Virgil
Priscilla
Pop
al Vermeer
By Jane Dale
Tarry
Troy
Greenland
Java
Naga Hills
India
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