Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JAMIESON Calgary, Alberta, Canada So close is Canada to the U. S., so similar its interests, so interwoven its activities, that many a Canada story is treated of by TIME Foreign News. Example: "'World's Greatest Railroad," TIME, April 15, Business. Let more Canadians say how they would like their Canada news - under "Canada" in Foreign News or mixed through TIME...
...down train from London stopped at Ringwood, Hants, last week, and Fred Perceval and his boy, and Harry Trimmer and his wife, all of Priddis, Alberta, Canada, got out. Harry Trimmer is postmaster at Priddis and runs the general store. Fred Perceval has had a cattle ranch there for a good many years, but he had to give it up. A dozen deaths among distant relatives made him tenth Earl of Egmont, Baron Lovell and Holland, Baron Arden. He was going to Castle Avon at Ringwood to take possession of his ancestral home...
...Zealand had "gone wet" by a 100,000 majority of referendum votes was hailed with hosannas, last week, by wet U. S. news organs. The Republican but wet New York Herald Tribune editorialed: "In thus abandoning prohibition, after an extended trial, New Zealand follows the example of British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, New South Wales, Norway, Turkey and Russia...
Skeptics gaped at reports that in the fructiferous Milk River Valley of Alberta several persons bought farms, last autumn, which they have now paid for out of the proceeds of one summer's crops. Farmer S. I. Harris, shrewd, bought a Milk River quarter section for $15 per acre, raised 10,000 bushels of wheat, and with the proceeds more than paid for his land. Farmers Loft & Pederson slightly bettered even this phenomenal procedure, but other Milk Riverites were perceptibly less fortunate...
Canadian Railroads. The Alberta Government is selling half interest in all its province railroads to the Canadian Pacific...