The Nome Nugget
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Geo. S. Maynard, Editor and Publisher
Published every evening except Sunday by the NOME PVB
LISHING COMPANY, Front Street Nome, Alankn.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Delivered by carrier in Nome, Little Creek, and Sunset Creek,
for $2.00 per month.
By mail postage paid outside of Nome and vicinity, $1.50
per month.
Subscribers will confer a favor if they will promptly notify
the Office of any failure or irregularity in the deliyery of their
papers.
Entered in the Po«t Office in Nome as Second Class matter.
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The Associated Prese is exclusively entitled to the use for
republication of all news dispatches credited to it or aot other
wise credited iq this paper and also the local news published
herein. v
AIRMAIL QUK8TION IN NOMK
SKRIOUS ItFyi IRKS ABLK
SUPPORT BY PUBLIC
The airmail question in Nome
«t present liaR changed little dur
ing the past week. The problem
■till remains before the public
that the mail will not be carried
nntil the ferlght charges are gua
ranteed, and paid.
Last week Pilot Frank Whalev
of the Roust Airways carried tfie
mall from Nome to Fairbanks.
The mail was taken from tho
post office here and the
freight charges at 50 cents
peT pound, were paid by several
Individuals, whose purpose was tl
nee the entire quantity of mail
moved. The money w«* put up for
this shipment and in rase the com
munity subscribes the Till amount
for the carriage of the air mail
for four incoming and four out
going mails during th* next tw-v
months, this money will serve as
their individual contributions.
Now, the point is this. During
th6 months of August and Septem
her considerable business is taken
care of through the mails. Or
ders for supplies, business trans
actions and other important fea
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tures must leave Nome and arrive
here as rapidly as possible. If
such be not the case, then a
crippling blow bas been dealt to
this district,
The Chamber of Commerce Is
doing the utmost to raise enough
money to guarantee the flights
GOLDEN GATE
HOTEL
Rooms and Bath
NWB, ALASKA
ANNOUNCEMENT
IT IS WITH PLKASl'RK THAT WH ANNOUNCE
OUR APPOINTMENT AS NOME REPRESENTATIVE
FOR ***'!
MAX FACTOR SOCIETY MAKE-UP
FREE (DMPLEXIOS ANALYSIS BY
HOLLYWOOD’S FOREMOST COSMETICIAN
LOMEN IrOEIIERS
DREG STORE
NOME MACHINE SHOP
(SUCCESSOR TO W. H. STURTEVANT)
\V. L. SLACK A II. L. CROSBY, PROPS.
BOILER, ~ MATERIAL
a ■ in i m STOCKED:
MARINE, 01 R AIM
WAJI\ HIITI SHAFTING,
tractor. SATISFIED CUSTOMERS
ACETLYNE BRONZE,
_ BUSHING,
A ELECTRIC Prompt Attention to Local BABBITT,
WELDING. And Ont of Town Work ACCESSORIES.
Roust Airways
MEMBER OF THE ALASKA
AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION
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WHEN YOU TRAVEL, FLY IN OUR NEW
AND COMFORTABLY HEATED CABIN PLANES
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FOR RATES, ANY PLACE, ANY TIME
CALL THE
ROUST AIRWAYS
BASES AT NOME AND CANDLE
menti mod. They have appealed
'irectly to the people of Yom.
aud outlying seftlqns to contrib
ute what they can toward allay
ing the expense of transporting
the airmail via freight charges.
Todate small return? have re
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suited. It appears to us that
this measure which is so Import
ant to this city at this time,
should receive the whole hearted
support of everyone, business pes
p'" a? well as prlv't-' iltixens.
Your contributions will be receiv
ed by J. R. Stangroom, in case
von wish to subscribe to the fund
to be used for the payment of
airplane charges on the mail. V
Every effort is being pushed
forward to sed that the mail con
tinues to move during the next
eight weeks, but the chamber can
not guarantee the payment of the
freight charges, alone. It requir
es the subscription of a sum of
money from the public and that
as goon as It can "be raised.
Planes will be flying forth and
back to Fairbanks regularly dur
ing the next six or seven weeks
and It would not help matters at
all If they leave Nome without
SO.
mall: so every public and fair
minded citlxen should give this
matter his consideration, and help
,the fund along as much as he
feels able to subscribe. Remem
ber when the mail moves, all of
It moves, that mearts your letters
is well as the next man’s. Wa
must all work together on this so
that the business dealings in this
section are not retarded at this
period of our development, until
the government straightens our
the airmail tangle. Subacrib-*
Now. Don't wait! $
All changes of regular advertise
ment must be In the Nugget office
not later than 4:80 p.m. of the
day preceding Insertion, otherwise
the change of copy will aecesear*
lly be held over one day.
M.S. METEOR
V. 8. MAIL BOAT
Freight and Passengers
Operating Between
8t. Michael
- And Kotaebue
FRANK P. WILLIAMS
Nome Agents
I/omen Commercial Co.
WE K.Ycm, IN GOOD HOT OOFTTK
QUALITY BAKERY GOODS FRBHH KYRRY AKTKHXOON
NORTH POLE BAKERY
AND RESTAURANT
Op«n at 6 a.a. Until 2 a m.
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Lighterage
Freight-Towing-Shipping
SHELL OIL PRODUCTS
Gasoline, Kerosene, Oils and Grease
DOME HARBOR LIGHTERAGE CO. |
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DREAM THEATRE
ONE SHOW AUGUST 14 t. AT 8 PM.
TONIGHT
LOVERS COURAGEOUS
WITH <«
ROBERT MONTGOMERY
AND
MADGE EVANS
A ROMANTIC COMKDY
ALSO
WILDMAN’S LAND
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MOVIETONE NEWS
ADDED ATTRACTION
Neva Whaley’s Little Dancers
AdwlMdoB 75 casts Icludtag Tas
L. E. KURTH
SHKWT IRON WORKER
TIN, SHEET IRON, COPPER AND NICKEL
AINO A SPECIALTY
SAFETY' FLAXES AND TOILETS
GALVANIZED MON CORRUGATED ROOKING
NOME, ALASKA
THE BOARD OF TRADE
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NOME, ALASKA
SAFETY SPEED
FLY WITH THE
FAST DEPENDABLE SERVICE
MEMBER OF THE ALASKA AIK TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION
Plane* Serviced in Warm Hangars
by Licensed Mechanic*, and Ilnwn
by Experienced Alaskan Pilots
Passengers Pretested by Rigid
Inspection of Hqntpment and
Cactnafty tnenrance
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in
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Pioneer Sheet Metal Works
ED. GROSS
Tin, Sheet Iren wed Copper Work A Specialty
Plumbing A Pipe Fitting ■—Patented Superheaters
Wert Door to Chao. W. Lewie Nome, Alaska
NOME.