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...Leader King need find only four more votes among the smaller parties to hold a whip hand majority of 123 over the House which numbers 245. He can unquestionably secure this majority, for eleven Liberal-Progressives markedly sympathetic to him were elected. "Straight Progressives" number eight; United Farmers of Alberta, eleven; Laborites, three; Independents...
...nine Canadian provinces, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Saskatchewan, have each their own Lieutenant-Governor, Parliament and Premier...
...British peerage in descending order of rank: Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts, Barons. There are 28 British dukedoms of which only four have been created since Wellington was made a Duke in 1814. The last dukedom created was that of Fife, in 1900, now held by H. H. Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise Duff, wife of H. R. H. Prince Arthur of Connaught, uncle of George...
Cattaloes. Purpospful breeding has increased Canada's dwindling buffalo herd from a few score head to over 11,000. In Buffalo Park, at Wainwright, Alberta, some of the shaggy loggerheads were experimentally crossed with Angus, Hereford and shorthorn cows. The resultant "cattaloes" grew up thick-hided, long-haired, with all the hardiness of buffaloes and most of the meat of cattle. They seemed excellent range animals for the vast northern territories (which Arctic explorers have long been recommending for stock-raising), as they can be left to graze all winter without prepared food or shelter. Asians have long crossed...
CHRISTINA ALBERTA'S FATHER- H. G. Wells-MacMillan ($2.50). Returning to a dilatory manner that he had before he began inventing worlds, Mr. Wells writes of the husband and daughter of a London laundress and what they did when, their capable relative dying, they shook off the suds and embarked upon a career untrammeled by clotheslines. It is a contemporaneous chronicle, in the age of Ramsay MacDonald, broadcasting and world-flying. So that there are several "remarkable experiences", especially for Widower Preemby, despite the fact that some of the minor characters play Canfield every evening...