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Post Haste. In Medicine Hat, Alberta, Postmaster Sam Goldie announced that his office is trying to speed up mail service by putting on two new men: M. V. Quick and C. R. Fast...
...Dominion government took over all prairie mineral rights not then privately owned, turned them over to the provinces in 1930. Almost all the royalties from the current Alberta oil boom have gone to the province, some to the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Hudson's Bay Company...
...half-century since he moved from Ontario to a scrubby homestead near Alberta's Bon Accord, life for weather-lined Bill Mulligan, 62, had been hard-pressed. Old Bill and his wife Florence were a local Maw & Paw (The Egg and I) Kettle. They lived in an unpainted shack with their eleven kids. Through the hard winters they had to rip up the floor for firewood. The family's income fell so low that the boys would hire out to neighbors, then borrow the neighbors' farm machinery in lieu of wages to work their own land...
Then, last April, Alberta's great oil bonanza dumped a derrick on Bill Mulligan's 320 acres smack behind the tumbledown Mulligan shack. Unlike 99% of Alberta's farmers, Paw Mulligan held mineral rights to his land.* By last week his windfall had reached $40,000 or $50,000-he hadn't bothered to figure it out exactly. Besides, most of it had already been spent on a whale of a good time...
Bonds in Sewers. Today the corporation's domain includes 165 buildings, 11,000 students, 5,000,000 books, an endowment of $177 million. It owns bonds in the sewers of Baton Rouge, La. and in the Province of Alberta. It has stock in every sort of industry from Jacob Ruppert (brewers) to the A. & P., and real-estate from the Kentucky coal fields to some island parcels off the coast of Maine...