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We Wish To
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The Nome Nugget, the Nome merchants,
and the Citizens of Nome on their fine spirit and
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fortitude during our recent conflagration and
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We have taken the Alaska agency for——
“Corkanstele” sectional buildings and will be
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pleased to submit quotations for any require
ment from a small cabin to Nome’s largest build
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Corkanstele construction is Soundproof,
Fireproof, and insulated against heat or cold.
. Three inches of Cork is equivalent to
four feet of concrete as protection against cold
and in retaining heat—Cork construction is
cheaper and better.
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LOCAL NEWS
P.A.A. MAIL PLANE
COMES THRU TOUGH
WEATHER TO NOME
Pilot Robbins flying the Fleetster
plane of the Pacific Alaska Airways
arrived Nome early this afternoon
from Fairbanks with a large con
signment of mail, on regular mail
schedule. The-'Nome weather was
not favorable for flying but up the
Yukon river, there was clear vis
ibility. Pilot Robbins made the
flight in three hours and forty min
utes flying time stopping several
places with the mail enroute.
Several passengers were carried to
down river pojhts from Fairbanks
and Tanana. A strong easterly
wind added to the speed of the
plane brought him into Nome; about
one p. m., after leaving Fairbanks
about 9 a.m. Weather permitting,
the mail plane will return to Fair
banks tomorrow morning.
FERA WORK STILL
CONTINUES HERE
ARE DIGGING DRAIN
The Nome Committee of the Fed
eral Emergency Relief Administra
tion is still carrying on work in
Nome. About ten men are at work
constructing a main drain from
First Avenue on the corner by the
Office of Indian Affairs north to the
corner by the U. S. Weather Bur
eau blocks away.
At present the men are digging a
ditch for the placing of the drain
which is made of wood. A steam
boiler is being used to thaw frozen
ground. This work is being carried
on now and upon completion will
remove in the spring, much of the
stagnant water that gathers when
the snow melts in these localities.
A gravel truck is filling in a large
hole on the corner of Front Street
and B Street, so as to make it safe
for vehicles rounding that comer.
Outside of these activities no other
labor is being carried on outside of
administrative work.
NEW MAN CHARGE
U. S. WEATHER STA.
AT NOME, ALASKA
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An item in the Juneau Empire
told of the departure from there of
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Prucha and
daughter DeVee for Seattle aboard
the S. S. Aleutian, bound for Nome.
They were accompanied to Seattle
by Mrs. Prucha’s sister, Ruth Mason
The Pruchas connected with the
liner Victoria of the Alaska Line
and came to Nome on the last boat.
Mr. Prucha is in charge of the U.
S. Weather Bureau at Nome, taking
the place formerly occupied by C.
J. McGregor, who left here aboard
the last Vic for Seattle. At the time
the last boat arrived at Nome the
Nome Nugget was not in circulation
and a belated welcome is offered
the new citizens of Nome.
WEATHER HOLDS
LOCAL PLANES ON
' FIELD AT NOME
Hie Roust Airways plane was ex*
pected to fly to Nome today but the
weather will probably prevent this
plane from arriving here.
The Northern Air Transport have
scheduled several plane flights
around the Seward Peninsula,
down along Norton Sound, and a
plane to Fairbanks, but schedules
will have to wait on weather now.
The Mirow Air Service, which has
several flights scheduled for north
ern points, is held on the ground to
day by adverse weather.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
NOME DAILY NUGGET
Subscription rates to The Nome
Daily Nugget will remain the same
as before the fire. $2.00 per month
delivered by carrier, and $1.5? per
month delivered by mail. Those
subscribers in the outlying section
who received the paper before the
fire, will confer a favor if they will
write in to the office stating they
Would like to continue their sub
scriptions, as the entire list of sub
scribers in the outlying sections was
completely destroyed in the fire.
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RADIO STATION
AT MCGRATH IS
IMPORTANT ONE
New radiophone equipment has
just been installed at McGrath
The station can now transmit oq
three frequencies. This is expected
to improve communications be
tween McGrath and Anchorage.
The new equipment was installed
by William J. Wagner, radio tech
nician for the U. S. Signed Corps
Service, who went to McGrath from
Anchorage.
Mr. Wagner says that while the
new equipment is expected to im
prove the communication with the
station at Anchorage, it is his opin
ion higher power equipment really
is desirable at McGrath. The Mc
Grath station is one of several the
Northern Com m ercial Com pany
took over from the Signal Corps
last winter. The communication
from that point by radiophone nev
er has been satisfactory, and the
company has had much difficulty
trying to make it satisfactory with
the old equipment. McGrath is the
chief radio center of the Kusko
kwim Valley and it is highly de
sireable that the station be made
one of the best.
Mr. Wagner returned to Anchor
age last month from a visit to Nome
where he gave the radio-telegraph
station at that point its first thor
ough overhauling in several years,
and fortunately got the power of
the station stepped up to a far great
er degree than it ever had been be
fore, completing the work before
the fire, and making it possible to
handle the enormous business due
to the fire with speed and clarity
that otherwise would have been im
possible. No doubt this improve
ment in the station has been a great
factor in averting what otherwise
would have been a congestion of
the traffic between that point and
the major station at Anchorage dur
ing the emergency.
FOB SALE
Two Corner Lots located at First
and C ..Streets. Also two ..Corner
Lots located at first and D Streets.
Make offer. Inquire at Nome Nug
get Office for information..4
The Nome Daily Nugget is prepar
ed to do your job printing.
former nomeite dead
Bill McPhee, one of the most fa
mous of Forty-mile, Klondikef Fair
banks and Nome pioneers is dead.
News of Mr. McPhee’s death was re
»ceived in a letter to John L. Mc
Ginn, lawyer, who is in Fairbanks.
Mr. McPhee, who was 84 years old
passed away in San Francisco,
where he had lived of late years.
Mr. McPhee was one of the , early
residents of Circle City and Forty
Mile and also among the first stamp
eders to Dawson, Y. T. He left Daw
son for Nome soon after the discov
ery of gold on Anvil CreeK. He was
a member of Nome’s first city coun
cil. He came to Fairbanks in the
early days of the city and for years
was engaged in business here. As
Bill McPhee he was known all over
the Territory. Big and powerful,
good-natured and generous, he was
one of the outstanding characters of
the Northland.
BEACH MINING IS PAYING
ON COOK INLET
Beach mining along the shores of
Cook Inlet from Happy Valley to
Homer is proving to be a lucrative
pastime for those who have the
time to engage in the work. Miners
are reported cleaning up an average
of $2 and $3 a day. Some interior
ites are among the campers, while
there are some who have come
from the Middle West and East pur
posely to see what is going on.
Among the Sewardites with some
outstanding success is Knute Arm
strong, of Ninilchik, canneryman,
who has not been active in fish op
erations the past few seasons, and
is now turning his hand to the line
of work that originally brought him
to Alaska. He is concentrating his
explorations about Happy Valley, it
is reported, and appears to be well
satisfied with returns to date.
Gus Norden, well knonw pioneer
miner of Nome and other Alaska
camps, arrived at Anchorage by
plane from Nelchina, where he was
engaged in placer mining for the
season with his brother Knute, and
others. He plans to return to Nel
china to engage in trapping this
season with Andy Christofferson on
't’yone Creek, 20 miles from their
summer camp.
BULB
DAY
THURSDAY
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WE WILL PUCE ON SALE OUR
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BULB STOCK ON THURSDAY
MORNING AT 11 A. M.
NO RESERVATIONS
COME EARLY
A.POLET
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