WE CATER TO YOUR
INDIVIDUAL TASTE IN LIQUORS
CARRYING ALL TYPES OF GINS,
BRANDIES, STRAIGHT WHISK
EY, BLENDED WHISKEY, IM
PORTED WHISKEY, SCOTCH &
BOTTLED IN BOND WHISKEY.
SWEDISH PUNSCH -
Besides a Complete Line of the Fin
est California and Imported Wines.
MUMM’S CHAMPAGNE
A_ Complete List of the Famous
Beaulieu Vineyard Sparkling
And Dry Wines
COMPLETE LINE OF CORDIALS
BEER
BY THE BOTTLE, CASE
OR CARLOAD!
BON MARCHE
STORES
LINCOLN HOTEL
JACK DEVINE, PROP.
“THE HOME OF THE SOURDOUGH”
ROOMS BY THE DAY OR MONTH
NOME’S OWN DRUG STORE
BEST MERCHANDISE
AT REASONABLE PRICES
PRESCRIPTION PHARMACISTS
NOME DRUG STORE
“Cappy” McDougall, Proprietor.
Distributors Abbott Laboratories
ALASKA LIQUOR STORE
DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED LIQUORS
AND WINES
BEER
GOLDEN GLOW, RHEINLANDER, AND
HAPPY PEPPY
JOHN LEPRI, Prop. DAN ALVICH, Mgr.
NOME MACHINE SHOP
W. L. SLACK AND SON, PROPRIETORS
Our Aim—Satisfied Customers
BOILER, MARINE, TRACTOR, ACETLYNE AND
ELECTRIC WELDING
MATERIAL STOCKED: SHAFTING, STEEL, BRONZE,
BUSHING, BABBITT, ACCESSORIES.
Prompt Attention to Local and Out of Town Work
FINN ALLpY CAFE
BEER
Lunches and Dinners
NOME, ALASKA.
Northern Light & Potfer Co.
AND
Alaska Telephone & Telegraph Co.
X
Second Avenue and Lane's Way
LIGHT, POWER AND ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES
LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE SERVICE
TAILOR CAUSES NOME
STAMPEDE THROUGH
ERROR TYPOGRAPHY
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It’s an ill slip that blows nobody
good. 1
Certainly that’s a mixed meta
phor, but read what a typographical
error did, and you’ll agree.
Frederick Justin Bourn tells the
story in the Los Angeles Times Sun
day Magazine under the head “A
Printer’s Blunder Launched the
Nome Stampede.”
In the early spring of 1898, Eric,
a tailor who catered to the college
trade of the University of Californ
ia in Berkely, did something he had
never done before. He picked up a
San Francisco newspaper and began
reading the “Help Wanted” column.
He not only read the column, but he
clipped out one of the advertise
ments and put it in his pocket. It
was an advertisement that said that
“tailors were wanted for a whaling
ship bound for the far north.
On that day Eric disposed of his
prosperous little business, and the
next morning he took a ferry across
the bay and, with a roul of blank
ets, some clothes and his scissors, he
walked up the gangplank of the Re
liance. She was bound for the Far
North, and though Eric had always
considered that he was reasonable
well settled in his adopted country,
he’d heard stories of the Yukon that
interested him more than a little.
The Reliance put.out to sea. A
mate, spotting Eric on deck, bellow
ed an order. The captain crossed
the deck just at that momeqt, and
couldn’t have told which expression
was the funniest: Eric’s as tfie mate
ordered him aloft to unfurl the
sails, or Hie mate's when Eric calm
ly told the mate to “go yump in the
ocean.”
Obviously explanations were in or
der, and the captain, himself a
Swede, realizing the damage suits
his company might face for attempt
ing to fnan its ships through false
advertising, agreed to let Eric trav
el as a passenger and live in the cab
: in with him. Of course, the erroi
was typographical— a “T” had slij
ped into the advertisement when
i an “S” had been intended. But-il
j would have been difficult to prove,
Eric left the ship at Port Clarence
made friends with some Eskimos,
learned to trap salmon and snare
ptarmigan, acquired a small ’but
heavy dory that had washed up on
shore, and started down the coast
with no idea where he was going.
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JACK SEIDENVERG
NOW OPEN FOR
BUSINESS
IN MY NEW BUILDING
NOME LAUNDRY
Joe Amarok, Prop.
All Types of Laundry
Work Done Cleanly and
Efficiently. Call and Get
Our List of Prices
East of Catholic Church
Nome, Alaska.
THE GREEN LANTERN
Cardroom And
Beer Parlor
1st Ave. and B Street
CITY LAUNDRY
• Harry Saito, Prop.
Opposite The Bank
Clothing Pressed And
Cleaned
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Laundry Work At
Reasonable Prices
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It was at the mouth of the Sinrok
River that Mr. Bourn first saw Eric.
Mr. Bourn told him he was pros
pecting in that section, gave him
some nuggets, and taught him how
to pan gold.
It was April of the next year that
Mr. Bourn heard of a n6w strike
near the site that later became
Nome, and when he arrived and
read the claims he decided it must
have been a colony of Swedes that
made the discovery.
Mr. Bourn noticed that the dis
tance between the two center stakes
appeared greater than the legal
length of 1,320 feet, checked it and
found that he could claim a hun
dred feet of d^And before he left
the location, he was offered $15,000
for his day’s work. He didn’t accept,
and later he and his partners took
out $50,000 in gold from that hun
dred feet along them creek.
Then he met Eric again, and learn
ed that when Eric had showed an
Eskimo one of the little nuggets
that Bourn had given him, the Es
kimo became excited, saying “Um
alaktook Umalaktook Emetna,”
meaning “Much more the same,”
took him up the Snake River, dug a
bit in the gravel and picked up big,
course pieces of gold.
At Golfin Bay, where Eric went
for help, he found several of his
own countrymen who went back to
the Snake River with him and took
out more than $10,000 in gold before
the freeze-up.
The news travelled. The Nome
gold rush was on.
FOUND—A pair of Ladies’ gloves,
inquire at Nugget Office.
Subscribe for The Nome
Daily Nugget—$2.00 Per
Month by carrier. $1.50 Per
Month by Mail
NOME LIQUOR STORE
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PACIFIC ALASKA
AIRWAYS
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OPERATING
Semi-weekly mail Trips between
Fairbanks and Nome, leaving Fair
_ banks each Monday and Thursday
at 8:30 a. m.
Office 1st Ave. and Stedman
NOME, ALASKA.
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
NOME
AN OPEN LETTER
d NOVEMBER 7th, 1934.
TO THE PEOPLE OF NOME :
Believing it is pardonable, we take pride in bringing to your attention
the service we have given over a period of many years to Nome, and particularly
the service given you since the disastrous lire which- destroyed practically all of
this city’s business section.
Within twenty four hours after the lire started our fast steel cargo
and passenger steamer the S. S. Dellwood, was on berth ready to receive cargo
for Nome. She was loaded with all dispatch and when ready was sailed from
Seattle to Nome. Immediately the S. S. Dellwood sailed, another of our steel car
go steamers, the S. S. Depere, was put on berth to take care of all the overflow
cargo of the S. S. Dellwood’s and to accept any new cargo offered. We want to
particularly point out the speed with which these ships were loaded and sailed.
Upon arrival here the two vessels discharged their cargoes with all dispatch and
have now returned to Seattle.
The United States Government gave to Nome for emergency relief
purposes the sum of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. The ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY, in cutting their freight rates in half, contributed practically the same
amount. With that, this company, if it could be possible, gave even more prompt
and better service than ever before. This service was badly needed to help recon
struct Nome before winter weather set in. It was given gladly and whole heart
edly and we are proud that we did give it.
To give Nome people full opportunity to order needed goods, after
all other steamers had sailed for Nome, our S. S. VICTORIA sailed later than
she has for many years past. She has discharged her cargo for Nome and is now
nearing Seattle, the termination of her voyage.
Nome, rising Phoenix like from the ashes, is an exemplication of the
spirit of the far north showing the will to conquer under the hardest of con
ditions. We are proud to be associated with you and to have had a part in the re
building and reconstruction of a bigger and better Nome. We are proud to have had
such an extensive part in this work and we would like to compliment you upon
your integrity, your spirit, your strong heartedness, and place with it the sincere
hope that you will never again be stricken as of this recent fire.
Most sincerely,
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Jas. P. Daly, Agent.