THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
Published every evening except Sunday by the NOME PUBLISHING
COMPANY, Nome, Alaska.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Delivered by carrier'ip l4ome, Little Creek, and Sunset Creek, for
$2.00 per month. •
By mail postage paid outside of Nome and vicinity, $1.50 month.
Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify the Of
fice of any failure or irregularity in the delivery of their papers.
„ MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republica
tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in
this paper and also the local news published herein.
Entered in the Post Office in Nome as Second Class matter.
FROWN ON FREE-DISTRIBUTION NEWSPAPER.
In changing its distribution method, the Fishing News
of Ketchikan, is taking a logical and necessary step. It is
logical because it is the accepted method of distributing
newspapers. It is necessary because of various legal re
quirements and postal regulations. There are also certain
large advertising contracts from whom inquiry has been
received, who frown on a free-distribution newspaper.
We have been publishing The Fishing News a little over
four months. We were told by newspaper men before we
started that it could not be done, but we disagreed with
them. However, we have been both surprised and gratified
by the enthusiastic reception accorded us, and we are grate
ful for it.
It is our desire and intention to make The Alaska Fish
ing News the most complete local news purveyor in this
section of the territory. We think that at the present time
we have the largest volume of local news in Ketchikan, and
we will constantly striv£ to increase and improve it. Al
though The Fishing News was started as the organ of the
Alaska Trollers Association, which it still is, and will con
tinue to be, we have entered the general news field because
of an increasing demand that we do so. We have plans for
future expansion and development which we cannot an
nounce at present.
Residents of Ketchikan have had ample opportunity
to get acquainted with The Fishing News, and on our per
formance thus far, and on our pledge to do even better in
the future, we base our request to our readers that they
either bring in their subscription, or give it to the solicitor;
who will call—Alaska Fishing News Ketchikan.
" ""
ENGLISH, BECOMING UNIVERSAL TONGUE
(By Edson R. Waite)
G. K. LeFevre, Advertising Manager of the London;
(England) Daily Mirror, says: |
“In many literary journals throughout the world, the
possibilities of English, rather than some synthetic language
becoming a universal tongue, is being seriously discussed..'
Americans will be among the first to realize the commercial
significance of the suggestion. Though fruition may be dec
ades ahead, a valuable hint is embodied in the discussion.
“The most far-seeing' of American advertisers and ad
vertising agents have long since established themselves in
England. Those who have not yet done so and still hope to
sell to English people make an error in,not adapting their
copy ‘angles’ to our more staid standards.
“Through an Englishman’s eyes present day American
distress is simply an inconvenient display of growing pains.
A vast nation with almost unlimited resources is bound
sooner or later, to manifest itself for the beneficient influ
ence it will eventually become. But American virility and
undeniable commercial ability is vastly in excess of its cul
ture. This indeed must be so, for many years of culture lay
behind European civilization before the first discoverer set
foot on your shores. And a civilization embedded in ceri
turies of art, a language which in its perfection has grown
McCONAGHY AND BROWN
Contractors
BUILDING MATERIALS, SASH AND DOORS,
CELOTEX, PLYWOOD, CORRUGATED IRON
AND GLASS
—FURNITURE—
Office and Warehouse West of Nome Harbor
Lighterage Warehouse
ROUST AIRWAYS
MEMBER OF THE ALASKA AIR TRANSPORT
ASSOCIATION
When You Travel, Fly in our New
And Comfortably Heated Cabin
Planes_For Rates, Any Place,
Any Time, Call The
~ ROUST AIRWAYS
BASES AT NOME AND CANDLE
out of the same struggles through which your great nation
is just now emerging cannot be ‘crashed’ by sophisticated
‘wise-cracks’ and a style of ‘reasoning’ in advertisement
copy which alternates between the ludicrous and the sped
ous. It was perhaps the greatest of all Americans, R. W.
Emerson, who observed, ‘The Englishman is he who stands
firmest in his shoes.’ That is still true today.
“Intelligent Englishmen have nothing but admiration
for America, buy they prefer to read of American goods via
‘copy’ that takes account of their standard of culture. And
if we English are to have a share of world trade when our
sales-talk is presented in English, we should do well to re
member that the Oriental is poetical and romantic and that
a common ground is something on which the Teuton and
the Latin can never meet.”
No field presents more opportunities than the broadest,
surest field of effort called BUSINESS, yielding its rich har
vest in quick response to well directed energy. As business
is developed in a community, so will that community
develop. ?
Reliance
ROASTED. BLENDED, AND VACUUM SEALED’
BY NATIONAL GROCERY CO.
NOME MOTOR CO.
MODERN TRANSPORTATION
TRUCKS, SfiDANS, AND
CATERPILLARS
Let Us Move Your Cabin Or House
I NOme HArbor I
I Lighterage COmpany I
I AT YOUR SERVICE I
WINTER FUEL, GASOLINE, OILS, F
■ • LUBRICANTS AND GREASES FOR ALL ■
■ PURPOSES—ALSO I
I PRESTONE, DRY CLEANERS, AND OTHER I
■ SPECIALTIES I
I LEAVE ORDERS AT POLET’S STORE OR I
I NOHAUCO I
OFFICE ACROSS FROM WAREHOUSE
PIONEER DRUG CO.
LOCATED IN
OUR NEW
STORE
(FRONT STREET AT HUNTER WAY)
XMAS CARDS ON SALE NOW
PIONEER DRUG CO.
ED. STEFFEN—CHARLOTTE POTTER
MIROW AIR SERVICE
Nome, Alaska.
FASTEST THRU SERVICE TO FAIRBANKS
MINERS AND MERCHANTS BANK
OF ALASKA
NOME, ALASKA.
Has established temporary quarters in
the former office of W. J. Rowe Transfer, and is
carrying on its business as usual.
. - - - -
WE SOLICIT YOUR ACCOUNT
PAINTS,
BRUSHES,
GLASS
LUMBER
“FOR EVERY PURPOSE”
> • .
WINDOWS AND DOORS,
PLYWOOD, INSULITE
Bolcom-Canal Lumber Company
S. W. TAGGART, Agent
SAFETY
SPEED
FLY WITH THE
N A T
MEMBER OF ALASKA AIR TRANSPORT
| — ASSOCIATION
Bases at Nome and Fairbanks
! * *
COURTESY
lk‘ * ..... .... ... «- r
COMFORT
N