THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD. Manager.
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THE FLYING DOCTOR
A dispatch from Alaska about tho “flying doctor* sug
gests the new range that the physician’s skill is given by the
airplane. In an article on “A Country Doctor ’, published
in the Journal of the American Medical Association 40 years
ago, the circumference of his visitation was determined by
the strength of a single horse attached to a buggy—and the
devotion of the physician to his patients.
Tame as the adventures of that period in travel ovei
country dirt roads may seem by the side of those of the doct
or who pilots his own plane driven by the power of many
horses over 10,000 miles of snow and ice, they are closely
related in the quality of service.
One morning the horse of the particular doctor describ
ed in the article came tearing down the street of the village
without driver or buggy. The doctor had been “run away
with”, but though thrown from the buggy and badly injured
he found another horse and buggy and continued his calls
upon the sick before giving any attention to his own hurts.
The collection of buggy lanterns which he kept through
the years were many of them “mashed” and twisted from
runaways and wrecks”—memorials of the nights when the
sick or the watchers at the bedside had eagerly looked for
the light of his lantern as it came shining down the country
road.
Nor did he cease to keep abreast ot the advances made
in his science. “Every new book, every new number of a
journal, he read with utmost avidity, as one whose brother
condemned to die might read some legal document in which
he expected to find a word of reprieve or pardon." And he
never refused a call.
The one described was a Michigan doctor, but his type
was to be found all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico,
where a single physician with the aid of an automobile was
a few years ago ministering to a parish 30 miles long back to
the levee.
The Alaska doctor has in a very true sense arisen, as
the sun described by Malachi, with "healing in his wings .
He plans to visit with the aid of wings, wheels and skiis every
human habitation in his wide frigid area at least once a year.
It is a phophecy of a new winged victory—a “Nike Pterotos”
_in which the great physician of Labrador, Sir Wilfrid Gren
fell, also using wings in visiting the sick and carrying them
to hospitals, would join.—New York Times
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DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK?
By Edson R. Waite, Shawnee, Oklahoma
In the days of long ago there ruled a Dictator who was
a money-getter. One day on a big field he reviewed the offi
cers of his army of tax collectors. Among them were the
Chief Tax Collector, the Assistant Tax Collector, the Super
Torturer and Deputy Torturers.
After congratulating them upon securing from the tax
payers their last cent and property, he questioned them as to
the possibility of collecting still more taxes. The Chief Tax
Collector answered that the prospects were poor.
“How do you account for that” said the Dictator. The
Chief Tax Collector answered by saying, “This empire is so
well governed and the people have been so well plucked by
faxes that they have nothing left.”
The Dictator then asked, “Have you taxed the air? No
person who cannot pay taxes should breathe. This source
of revenue must not be overlooked.”
He then asked if there were any prisoners in the dun
geon and found there were two who were confined for the
crime of non-payment of taxes. Since the Chief Torturer,
however willing, however experienced, however skillful,
however imaginative, could collect no further taxes from
them, he requested that the Dictator pass judgment on them.
The Dictator said, “This is unpleasant news. As they are no
longer any use to me, take their clothes, chop off their heads
and enslave their children.”
We are much less concerned about how far the 1935
dollar will go than as to how close within reach it will come.
—Dallas News
OLI) TIMER OF ANCHORAGE
IS CALLED TO REST
Peter Krivokovich, better known
ns Pete Aprovilh, passed away at the
Anchorage hospital shortly after 7
o'clock last evening after an illness
of about a week . He was about 65
years of age, and was well known
and much liked in Anchorage,where
he had made his home since the
earliest days of the city He was
born in Montenegro, now a part of
Yugoslavia, and is understood to be
survived by two sons living in that
country He had been employed
here by the Alaska Railroad at
times and also engaged in prospect
ing and mining much of the time
he has been in the territory
OLD TIMER IS CALLED CLEARY
FAIRBANS. Fob. 15th—John P
Nirieh about 67 years old, pioneer
northerner, was found dead this
morning on the floor of the Skof
Store at Cleary, 25 miles from Fair
banks He had been feeling ill of
late, and his demise is believed to
have been due to heart disease Mr
Nirieh who was a cook by trade,was
proprietor at one time of the Mer
chants Cafe in this city..
He came to the North in the early
days of gold strikes He had been
in Dawson, Nome and in other min
ing camps of Alaska .
He was not married He was a
member of the Masonic Order and
of the Pioneers of Alaska
Mr and Mrs Skof, owners of the
store, are visiting in the states
Since their departure George Warm
bolt has been in charge of the busi
ness.. He was called to Fairbanks
this week to give testimony in a
case on trial in the United States
district court, and Mr Nirieh was
put in charge of the store .—News
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at Andersons
Box 33 . Nohalico 1
Box 42 Hospital
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