Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of fastidious Canadians at Medicine Hat, Alberta, once decided that the name of their town was too barbarous. They sent a letter to a great poet and asked him to suggest a new one. The poet advised them to keep the one they had. They did. Unlike the Medicine Hatters, a large block of the citizenry of Linoleumville, Staten Island (pop.: 2,200), dissatisfied with their town's name, chose not to write to a famed poet for advice but to settle the question by ballot. Last week they did. Proposed were ten names (although any citizen...
...Provincial Legislature, has steadily advanced in the Conservative Party, was at one time Minister of Justice. In 1927, with the Party politically bankrupt, Bachelor Bennett was called to a helm he has since masterfully held, putting new vim and fight into Conservatives. He lives at Palliser Hotel in Calgary, Alberta, in austere magnificence with his sister, who idolizes and prays for him. In the lay councils of the United Church of Canada he is paramount...
Among those at San Quentin who had felt the full impact of the Keyes prosecution were bad-tempered Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), in for the murder of Mrs. Theresa Mors; Leo Pat Kelle, convicted of killing Mrs. Myrtle Mellus; Herbert Wilson, train robber; Clara Phillips, who slew Alberta Meadows viciously with a hammer...
...ranch in Alberta went to London to buy livestock. When his employer returns from hunting in Africa they will discuss a recent discovery of oil near the ranch...
March 19-22-Third annual "Great West" (folksong, folkdance & handicraft) Festival at Calgary, Alberta. Sponsors: Premier Brownlee, Canadian Pacific...