RADIO PROGRAM
K O M O
Sunday February 12.
7 :00 Voice at the Piano.
7:15 Real Silk Program.
7:45 Sunday at Seth Parker’s.
8:15 Andrew Jergens Co.
8:30 People’s Bank Program
9:00 Homespun Melodies.
9:15 Dance Nocturne, NBC.
9:30 Stringwod Ensemble.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Crazy Crystal Quartet.
10:30 Bridge to Dreamland.
11:00 Silent.
Monday, February 13.
7:00 The Alaskans.
7:30 Demi Tasse Revue.
8:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Spratt’s Program.
8:30 Voice of Firestone, NBC.
9:00 Gold Shield Symphony.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Dollars and Cents.
10:30 Orchestral Music.
11:00 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Organ Concert, NBC. •
12:00 Silent.
Tuesday, February 14.
7:00 Lucky Strike Hour, NBC
8:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC. .
8:15 Memory Lane, NBC.
8:45 Adventures in Health.
9:00 Fisher’s Blend Hour.
9:30 Blue Ribbon Orchestra.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Ghost Story.
10:30 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Ambassador Hotel Drch.
11:30 Organ Concert, NBC.
12 :00 Silent.
Wednesday, February 15.
7:00 Corn Cob Pipe Club.
7 :30 Safeway Stores Program
8:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Fisher Mills Program.
8:30 Wresson Team Mates.
9:00 Homespun Melodies.
9:15 Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes, NBC.
9:45 Dollars and Cents.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Washington Hour.
11:15 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
1 1:30 Organ Concert.
12:00 Silent
Thursday, February 16.
7:00 Lucky Strike Hour, NBC
8 :00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Standard Symphony.
9:15 Thurston, the Magician.
9:30 Montag Fireside Hour.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Ghost Story.
10:30 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Organ Concert.
12:00 Silent
Friday, February 17.
7:00 Big Six of the Air, NBC.
7 :30 Talk by Clifton Pease.
7:45 Concert Orchestra.
8:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Gilmore Circus, NBC.
9:15 Thurston, the Magician.
9 :30 Fisher Mills Program.
9:45 Dollars and Cents.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mozart Concert Hour.
11:15 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Organ Concert.
12:00 Silent
Saturday, February 18.
7:00 Lucky Strike Hour, NBC
WHEN BATHS WERE FEW
If certain dates we have run
across lately are authentic, the
joke about the Saturday night
bath is not so old as we had
imagined. It is recorded that
the first bath tub put in com
mission in the United States
was christened on Christmas
Day, 1842.
Looking up the day of the
week in a perpetual calendar,
we find that this was Sunday,
but it is possible that the first
bath was really taken on
Christmas eve, thus establish
ing the Saturday night tradit
ion.
Upon its introduction the
bath tub was looked upon with
much suspicion, as it is by
small boys until this day. In
I Boston an ordinance was
1 passed prohibiting baths ex
cept upon the advice of a phy
sician. About 1844 the Phila
delphia city council came with
in two votes of passing an ord
inance prohibiting baths alto
j gether between November 1
I and March 15.
Bath tubs were heavily
taxed in those days, even as the
modern automobile. Shortly
after they were introduced into
Virginia a state tax of $36 was
imposed on each tub installed.
Still, Americans of those
Why shiver while waiting for the
fire to start? Use old papers from
j the Herald Office.
8:00 Caswell Coffee Concert.
8:15 Bal Tabarin Orchestra.
8 :30 Fisher Mills Program.
9:00 Spotlight Revue, NBC.
10:30 Fox’s Tuneful Two.
10:45 Fisher Mills Program.
11:00 Ambassador Hotel Orch.
11:30 Hotel Hopkins Orch.
12 :00 Silent
times were more given to bath
ing than the old Russians. We
have read somewhere that Pet
er the Great bathed only once
a year. But there were exten
uating circumstances. Russia is
a very cold country.
ALASKA PIONEER TALE
IS GOOD READING
“Grit, Grief and Gold,” from
the pen of F. B. Whiting, M. D..
is one of the most interesting
books on pioneer days in Alas
ka that has come to hand'in a
long period. The book is com
posed of a series of stories or
reminiscences dealing with the
construction of the White Pass
and Copper River railroads
and portrays in vivid manner
the trials and achievements of
their constructor, the late M. J.
Heney. It is not fiction, but a i
plain recital of facts, the out-1
lines of which are known to
most of the old-timers of the j
North who “Dared the Chil-;
koot’s stormy heights” and to
lots who came after them. Dr. j
Whiting, as chief surgeon on !
both railroads during the con
struction period, was in close
contact with the events cf
which he tells.
Grit, Grief and Gold” is
printed and handsomely bound
by the Peacock Publishing j
Company of Seattle.
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Wednesday of the Month j
THE BARGAIN COUNTER
if you wish to sell some useful sec
I ond hand commodity or wish to buy
'something, we will list your wants in
this classified colum at the low rate
of 10 cents per line. Watch this col
umn for bargains.
.. This week we are offering the fol
lowing real bargains:
Large Fyre-Fyter fire extinguisher.
Small cook stove
Iron heating stove.
Hand force pump
Iron laundry stove
Full bed and spring.
3-4 bed and spring.
2 3-4 bed mattresses.
1 wood door •
Large electric lamps—100-150 watt.
1 Large glass oil lamp.
2 single cotton blankets.
Fairbanks-Morse 1-2 h. p. motor and
J. K. force pump, heavy duty, slightly
used-bargain.
10 gal. gas. pressure tank.
1 Iron Cot and Spring, only $4.00
2 dozen steel mink traps, only 2.50
2 large canvas pack sacks, only .50
Salmon trolling spoons, each .no
i 1 Cabinet Tool Chest, 5 drawer, 1.50
1 Diston Hand Saw, cutoff only $1
Also several plain chairs, shovels,
saws, axes, tools, cooking and table
utensils, straight razors, scissors, and
numerous other good and useful art
icles at give-away prices. No matter
what yon want, see us, we may have
it or can get it for you.
HOW =======
CORROSION IS PRODUCED BY
INTERACTING METALS.—Corro
sion, or rusting, is an interaction
of metals with oxygen of the air
similar to combustion. The reac
tion is. however, rather complicat
ed, for even iron rusts very slowly
in dry air and the speed of cor
rosion is greatly increased by Inf
purities. City air containing car
bon dioxide and sulphur dioxide
from burning of coal causes more
damage than country air; slightly
acid waters corrode pipes more
rapidly than alkaline waters. Dam
age due to corrosion amounts to
many millions of dollnrs per year.
Methods of corrosion prevention
include: Prevention of air con
tamination; removal of acids and
dissolved oxygen front water used
in boiler tubes, etc., and covering
metals with protective coatings by
chemical treatment, by electroplat
ing (e. g. chromium plating) and
by the use of paints and lacquers;
and tlie discovery of new, cheap
rust resisting alloys (like stain
less steel) and an increase in the
usefulness of naturally rust re
sisting metals, like aluminum, by
alloying them with others.
How “Fragrance” Differs
in Odor of Butterflies
Those beautiful, gorgeously colored
buttertlles you see flying over field
and stream have fragrant odors like
those of flowers. A real insect world
•‘It. O.,” so to speak! An examina
tion of some of the common American
species reveals a wide variety of pleas
ant odors exuded by the scent scales
of the males, says a report by Austin
II. Chirk issued by tlie Smithsonian
institution. The common orange-and
hlack regal fritillary was found to
have a strong, sweet and spicy fra
grance resembling that of the sandal
wood. To detect these pleasing but
terfly odors, smell the upper surface
of the fore wings of the males. But
stay away from the females of the
species. Many of them have unpleas
ant odors. Particularly Mrs. Orange
and-P.lack Regal Eri tillary Her
“fragrance" is said to be a powerful,
nauseating smell.—Pathfinder Maga
zine.
How Zebra It Colored
The basic color of a zebra is white,
and his stripes are black. This Is
proved by the fact that when a zebra
is crossed with a donkey the ofll
springs are almost Invariably of a light
tan color with eavy black stripes
on the legs and faint black stripes on
the neck and body. It Is sometimes
difficult to tell which is the basic
color, since It some species of zebra
the belly and hocks are white, in other
species the hocks at least are black,
and in all species the nose is black.
Likewise the stripes in various species
I are of varying width, the black being
wider in some and the white wider in
; others. The fact remains, nevcrthe
| less, that l Ik basic color may be con
sidered white.
How Caterpillars Climb
How does a caterpillar climb a
j thread spun by itself? H. P. Gillette
! writes in the I.os Angeles Times: “It
i reaches up and grasps the thread in
| its beak, then bends its body and
passes tlie part of the thread thus
| grasped down to two of its legs. The
; legs roll the thread into a ball and
hold it. This process is repeated until
the caterpilier reaches the point, from
which the thread is suspended.”
How “Mistletoe” Originated
This word is a corruption of Anglo
! Saxon mlstletan, which Is believed t<
| be derived from Norse “mistel,’’ birc
j dung, and “tein,” twig or plant. Birds
' often eat tiie berries of the mistletoe
i, and according to an old notion th<
j plant was propagated entirely by th<
1 dung of birds. A large Europeai
thrush is frequently called the mlsse
bird because it feeds on mistleto*
! berries.
How Steel I» Magnetized
The bureau of standards says tliai
steel can be magnetized either bj
stroking it with a permanent magnet
or, preferably, by subjecting it to tin
inffuepce of a coil of wire carrying
current, within which it is placed
ALASKA NOTES
Culled From the Newspaper*
Of the Territory.
George Modini of Nome and
Miss Evalyn Berg teacher of
the Deering school, were re
cently married at Candle, ac
cording to Nome reports.
Stephen Fryer, 32, prominent
business man of Petersburg,
died suddenly there a few days
ago from ruptured appendix.
—
Nellie Beery, postmistress at
Haines, was indicted by the
federal grand jury at Ketchi
kan last week on charges of
j failing- to account for federal
' funds demanded by inspectors
of her office. Bail was fixed at
| $3,000.
Bob Bullard and J. V. Hickey
| were arrested last week on
I charges of manslaughter in
! connection with the death in
Ketchikan last October of 6
vear-old Paul Smith, who was
fatally injured by a car driven
by Bullard and owned by Hick,
ey. Both were indicted by the
I grand jury at Ketchikan.
—
An Anchorage report of
February 3 announces that a
plane piloted by Robert Reece,
with Ole Hay of Nome and his
wife and two children as pass
engers was two days overdue
in a flight from McGrath to
Kaltag. They had emergency
food and snowshoes on board
but the temperature was 10
below zero in that section.
_
Fifty-three below zero weath
er was reported at Fairbanks
on January 28. This was the
coldest weather experienced in
Fairbanks since 1916. Tanana
and Ft. Yukon reported 64 de
i grees below the same day. The
1 mercury also reached 35 below
I at Anchorage, said to be the
record low mark for that com
; munity. Nulato recently re
ported 49 below, Holy Cross
18 below, Kaltag -42, McGrath
-36, Flat -26 and Ruby -36.
The effect or temperature upon mag
netism depends largely upon the con
dition of the steel, but shook not ex
ceed about 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
How Gluten Flour la Made
Gluten Hour is clean, sound product
made from wheat flour by removal of
u large part of the starch, and con
tains not more than 10 per cent mois
ture. and. calculated on the water
free basis, not less than 7.1 per cent
nitrogen, not more titan 30 per cent
nitrogen free extract, and not more
than 44 [ter cent starch.
How to Measure Tree
Take a stick of definite length and
measure the shadow of the tree. Find
the length of the shadow of the stick
by holding It at right angles to the
ground. Multiply the length of the
tree’s shadow by the length of the
stick and divide by the length of the
stick’s shadow.
How Hornets Make Nests
Hornets collect dry wood from dead
trees, chew it with their mandibles
and make It Into pulp by mixing it
with saliva, and then mold it into form
while it is still moist. Such paper
possesses considerable tenacity after
It Is dry.