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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
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PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
I Hyder
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THE BARGAIN COUNTER
If you wish to sell some useful sec
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.
1 Baby Ben Alarm Clock .$1.00
1 Large Butcher knife, new .60
1 3-blade Remington pocket knife .50
1 14 lb. sledge hammer .1.50
2 hand axes, each ...75
1 Iron Cot and Spring, only $4.00
2 dozen steel mink traps, only 2.50
Salmon trolling spoons, each ,s>u
1 Diston Hand Saw, cutoff only $1
10 gal. gas. pressure tank.
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.
Fairbanks-Morse 1-2 h. p. motor ami
J. K. force pump, heavy duty, slightly
used-bargain.
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 you want, see us, we may have
it or can get it for you.
Cardboards, in varied grades
and colors at the Herald office,
Phone 82.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
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ABLE IN ADVANCE. This is the com
mon practice of newspapers through
out the world. The rates charged are
the lowest asked for a newspaper
anywhere in the North and are not
yond the means of anyone. The profit
at present prices is too small to per
mit us to carry the burden of delin
quent subscriptions. ..For this reason
we ask that you keep your subscript
ion PAID UP, or we will be compelled
to discontinue delivery of the paper
when your paid subscription expires.
The Hyder Weekly Herald
RADIO PROGRAM
K O \1 O
Sunday, February 11
7:00 Chevrolet Motor Co.
7:30 Hall of Fame
8:00 Ben Tipp Program
8:15 Walter Winchell.
8:30 Death Valley Days.
9:00 The King’s Men
9:15 Pioneers.
9:45 Crazy Crystals Program.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Piano Studies J. Hopper
10:30 Washington Hour.
Monday, February 12
7:00 Carnation Company.
7:30 Demi Tasse Revue.
8:00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Crazy Wells Water Co.
8:30 Voice of Firestone.
9:00 Sealed Power Side Show.
9:30 Male Quartet
9:45 To be anniounced
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Stringwod Ensemble.
Tuesday, February 13
7:00 Phillips Lord, NBC.
7:30 Ralston Purina Co.
7:45 Caswell Coffee Concert
8:00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Memoiry Lane
8:45 Adventures in Health
9:00 Blue Ribbon Orch.
9:30 Numismatic Program
9:45 Harp Melodies
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Bal Tabarin Orch.
Wednesday, February 14
7 :00 Corn Cob Pipe Club.
7:30 Ben Tipp program.
7:45 Crazy Wells Water Co.
8 :00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 20,000 Years in Prison.
8:45 Winning the West
9:30 Best Foods Revue
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Bal Tabarin Orch
Thursday, February 15
7:00 Whiteman’s Orchestra.
8 :00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Standard Symphony.
9:15 Beauty that Endures
9:30 Musical Mannequins.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mark Hopkins Orch.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Bal Tabarin Orch.
Friday, February 16
7:00 The First Nighter.
7:30 One Man’s Family
8:00 Amos ’n’ Andy.
8:15 Gilmore Circus, NBC.
9:15 Crazy Wells Program.
9:15 Male Quartet
9:30 The King’s Men
9:45 Ben Tipp Program.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mark HopkinsOrch.
11:00 Club Villa Orchestra.
11:30 Palace Hotel Orch.
Saturday, February- 17
7 :00 Dancing Program.
8:00 National Barn Dance
8:30 Fisher Half Hour.
9:00 30 Minutes of Music.
9 :30 Andrea and Louise
9:45 Harp Melodies
10:00 Olympians, Brashen
11:00 Totem Broadcaster's
10:30 String Trio, Strong
11:30 Club Villa Orch.
HOW —
FOREST FIRES ARE FOUGHT
IN TALE TIMBER COUNTRY.—
Usually forest tires are fought by
cutting a line about them and dig
ging a trench down to the mineral
soil in front of the flames, says
Charles Lathrop Back of the Amer
ican Tree association. This Is
called trenching. Once the flames
reach the trench, they have no fuel
on which to feed and so go out.
But it is not always as simple as
tills.
Frequently fires jump ncross the
best fire lines that man can make,
and under heavy winds sparks
have been known to leap over a
quarter of a mile and start tires
far in the rear of the fighters. In
some regions airplanes patrol the
forests in search of fire and often
aid by giving the forest officers a
hird's-eve view of large fires dur
lng the battle. New roads and
trails are being built into the re
gions of greatest fire danger.
Each year the states and coun
ties are protecting their forest
lands against fire with greater ef
fectiveness. In regions where
most of the timber lands are owned
by farmers, the timber owners are
each supplied with fire extinguish
ers and other tire-flghtlng tools and
nre expected to join together in
fighting any tire that breaks out
In the woodlands in their neighbor
hood.
Each timber owner is thus In
sured the protection afforded by
the joint efforts of his neighbors
if a fire should happen to break
out on his property. Where large
tracts of forest lands are owned by
timber companies as for example
in the northwest, several of these
companies often Join together for
the mutual protection of their tim
ber.
How Sponges Are Kept
Alive by Ocean Water
When you take a sponge to your
bath, you go in company with the
skeleton of a creature which never
had a mouth, says Answers Magazine.
The fibers of your sponge are the
bones of tills elastic creature which
once lived In the Mediterranean, or on
the shores of the West Indies or Aus
tralia. It was kept alive by currents
of water flowing through it, bringing
It oxygen and minute particles of food,
while washing away waste matter.
Yet it had no mouth or any sep
arate organ. Any fragment of a living
sponge will live and grow if separated
from tfie parent.
We fcnve one mouthless Insect—the
mayfly. It usually lives but a few
hours, and has no need of food.
But though mouthless. It has a stom
ach. However, this Is filled only with
gas, which keeps It buoyant ns it
dances above the river wherein It was
reared.
How Bronze Statues Are Made
In making a bronze statue tlie sculp
tor first models the figure In clay. A
gelatin mold is then made of the orig
inal and a wax model made by pour
ing healed wax into the assembled gel
atin mold. A plaster mold is then
made around the wax figure, pipes be
ing left in the plaster so that the wax
may melt and run off when placed in
a kiln and baked. The plaster mold
is then placed in a pit and packed
solidly with earth, and molten bronze,
at a temperature of 1,000 degrees, is
poured into it. When cool the bronze
statue is finished, a blow torch and
liquid chemicals being used to obtain
the desired color effects. There are
several methods of casting the final
statue, but this is typical. The bronze
statue of the Goddess of Freedom, on
the Capitol at Washington, was cast
In a foundry.
How Black Death Spread
Black Death was an acute infectious
disease caused by a specific microbe
which spread over the world in the
Fourteenth century. It took its name
from the black spots which appeared
in the skin. In almost all cases the
victim died within two or three days
after the attack. The exact date of
the appearance of the plague In China
is unknown, but from 1333 to 1348
the mortality was great. Iu 1348 it
spread to Kurope, probably by various
caravan routes. It is not possible to
pstimate the entire mortnlitv nmitnwl
A TALE OF THE SEA
Sailors’ yarns are generally
amusing and interesting, even
if many of them are not gospel
'truth. We just ran across an
'old one firom the log of Henry
Hudson’s ship when that famed
explorer was trying to find the
long-sought “northwest pass
age to China” in 1608. For
vivid imagination it is hard to
beat.
It tells of sighting a mermaid
in the following record, dated
June 15, in latitude 75 degrees
7 minutes north:
“One of our company looking
overboard saw a mermaid and,
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Hanover, Kan3.,
who earned $750.00
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fur shippers? Awards are for careful
pelt preparation in Sears 5th National
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as anyone, because only the handling
counts . . . not the kind or value of the
fur. All awards are in addition to the
highest market prices that we. acting
as your agent, get you for your furs.
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dition, every fur shipped to Sears is
automatically entered in the competition.
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ny tne plague Because or hick ot sciu
istical data. In China 13,000,000 are
said to have died and in the rest of
the Cast nearly 24,000,000. London
lost over 100,000, 15 European cities
about 300,000, Germany, 1,244,000;
Italy, one-half its population.
How Civil War Affected U«
J. R. Perkins, in his book, “Trails,
Rails, and War," says: “The discovery
was being made that certain men had
enriched thet.'Selves while others
fought and bled; that the chauvinists
of the sixties were the bondholders
of the seventies. The seventies was
a period of disillusionment—the drab
years after the panoply of war; for
the land was tilled with the halt and
the diseased and the impoverished;
agitators roamed at will; and social
problems unknown in their particular
form before the war now loomed on
every political nnd industrial sky.”
How “Almighty Dollar” Originated
It is believed to have originated with
Washington Irving in his “Wolfert’s
Roost, Creole Village,” published In
1837 in the Knickerbocker Magazine.
The expression was popularized by B.
E. Woolf, author of the comedy enti
tled “The Almighty Dollar.”
calling up some of the com
pany to see her, one more came
up and by that time she was
come close to the ship’s side,
looking earnestly on the men.
A little after, a sea came up
and overturned her; from the
waiste upwards her back and
breasts were lyke a woman’s,
her body being as big as one of
us; her skin was very whyte,
and her hair hanging dowine
behind being of colour blacke;
in her going downe, they saw
her tayle, which was lyke the
tayle of a porposse and speck
led lyke a marcrell. Their
names that saw her were
Thomas' Hitler and Robert Ray
ner.”
Like many other myths and
superstitions this yarn was for
j a long time believed by thoun
ands. Stories equally foolish
are believed to this day.
STATISTICS TO ORDER
If one depends on the con
flicting statistics put out as ar
| gument in favor of this and
that, it is difficult to get much
information of a satisfactory
nature. While it is said that
'“figures cannot lie,” experi
ence has amply proved that
statistics not only can, but oft
en do.
A case in point is seen in a
statement by a church board
j which claims that prohibition
i has increased the national
wealth by 72 billion dollars,
while the National Industrial
Conference Board gives statis
tics which indicate that pro
hibition has caused a decrease
of 175 billion dollars. One or
both of these statements must
be in error, perhaps both.
This recalls a story of the
late publisher, E. W. Scripps,
! who decided to employ an ex
pert to compile some statistics
on matters of national import
ance, making an offer of
$12,000 for the job. The ex
pert wired Mr. Scripps:
“Offer accepted. What do
you want the statistics to
show? Can deliver to suit.”
ALASKA NOTES
The motorship Northland re
cently completed 22,000 miles
of travel between Alaska and
Seattle.
I Plans are being formulated
j for the opening of a branch of
| the Alaska Sea Food Products,
| Inc., crab cannery in Wrangell.
_
The Alaska Railroad will car
j ry on operations through the
' coming year without asking
j the government for funds, ac
cording to an announcement by
general manager O. F. Ohlson.
Mrs. Grace Selig, former res
ident of Ketchikan, died in
Seattle recently. Mrs. Selig
was the widow of Steve Selig,
salmon trap operator, who was
killed in an airplane crash at
Karta Lake nearly three years
ago.