Rivers men open new Royal Canadian Air Force training school
Royal Canadian Air Force personnel from Rivers are involved in opening a third Western Canada training school named Wo. 3 Flying Training School at Claresholm Alberta, 73 miles south of Calgary. Veterans who pioneered Rivers four years ago now help establish the new facility with similar challenges.
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Royal Canadian Air Forse
Rivers
Western
Canada
Claresholm
Alta
Wo. 3 Flying Training School
Calgary
Warfarin Emerges as Weapon Against Rats and Mice
Historical note details rat and mouse threats to grain storage and public health, urging sanitation, trapping, and poisoning. It explains Warfarin as a low acting poison killing rodents in 3 to 10 days, with vitamin K as antidote and careful baiting on farms, mills, warehouses, and eateries.
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Harman
University of Wisconsin
Dear Editor Teases Readers of The Christian Science Monitor
A fragment shows a reader letter praising The Christian Science Monitor as the most carefully edited daily world newspaper in the US. It hints at the value of the paper as an aid in teaching and informing.
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Christian Science
Monitor
Bagpipers Learn Cadence at Edinburgh Clan Gathering
Canadian bagpipers touring Edinburgh for a 200 year first work gathering studied local talent. They noted Scottish players favor a slower beat, shifting from about 101 to 90 to 94 beats per minute, and stressed need for polish to improve the marchers' cadence. Winnipeg piper quoted.
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Edinburgh
Ruinburgh
Winnipeg
Cumberland House Metis Carve Out Living in Saskatchewan Swamp
In Cumberland House Saskatchewan a Metis community of 24 whites and descendants of half breeds sustains life in the Sekatchewan swamp. They farm 24,000 acres, trap for muskrat pelts, raise crops, and operate a portable lumber mill. A historic Northcote packet wreck marks frontier memories while a new 56 bed hospital rises at Morden.
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Saskatoon
Widterness
Cumberland House
Here
Cumberland Lake
Saskatchewan
Louis Riel
Northcote
Saskatchewan River
Prince Albert
Odd Names Appear in Vancouver Directory
Vancouver directory shows two doctors Dr Freeze and Dr Frost in the same building. Odd names appear including A Bath A Bunn A Shipp C Cruise A Grubb Tell Hoo and Alva Lott. Minnedosa urged to form a cadet corps per the Tribune praising air cadet impact from Abbotsford BC camp on local youth.
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Vancouver
Dr. Freeze
Dr. Frost
A. Bath
A. Bunn
A. Shipp
Ccruise
A. Grubb
Tell Hoo
Alva Lott
Minnedosa
the Tribune
Air Cadet Corps
Abbotsford
B.C
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New Training Centre
Brockie
Brandon
Christian Science Monitor
Morden
Hospital Board
Chevrolet
Borden Motors Limited
Barley Improvement Institute
Grain Exchange Building
the Drewrys Limited
Gazette
KME
Matter
Eral Motors Vai
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