The McCarthy
, Weekly News
VOL: X
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McCarthy, alaska, Saturday,
an. i, 1.427.
No. i
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BRIEF LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Barrett
entertained at Christmas dinner
Mr. and Mrs. Doze. Lauranee
Barrett and Ed Barrett.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Saindon
entertained at Christmas dinner
eovers were laid for fourteen.
Boh Johnson of Chititu was
in town Wednesday for supplies.
Capt. and Mrs. .) P. Hubriek
entertained at Sunday dinner
Eric Danilson, Ben Jackson, Sig
Wold and Jack Martin.
Mrs. Ed Saindon left, on
Thursday’s train for the States
i° receive medical treatment.
The Christmas dance was
well attended, and proved a great
success. The excursion train
h rough a large crowd from Ken
necott, tho music was excellent.
Mr. Mrs. Frank Iverson
wore hosts to a number of
Kenneoott and McCarthy people
Sunda\.
Mrs. Jas Murie hold a stag
dinner Christmas for the boys
on the ('rooks.
.la»-k Diship has accepted a
position with the Chititu Mines
Co; where ho expects to remain
until next Fall.
Mrs. Kennedy entertained at
Christmas dinner covers being
laid for six.
.loo Sommers was in town
the fore part of the week after
repairing the Van Creek phone
lino.
To-night! at Konnecott, Don’t
forget the big niasquarade.
THE NEWS WISHES YOU
V Happy New \
par
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TO ALL OUR KK1ENBS
We want you to know that,
we appreciate all the fav.irs of
Hit* past year, and with the heart
iest of the seasons Greetings we
extend all good wishes for your
success and happiness for the
i
j coming year.
J. B. O'Neill
Pope 'Fakes Rap at
! .
Modern Fashions
|
Rome: Modern fashions forworn,
en were characterized as “an out
rage in every sense against hum
|au and Christian dignity,” b,\
| Pope Pius today in addressing 1.
; 000 represtatives of the Federa
tion of Catholic men. Em phazising
his displeasure over the present
modes, tiie pontiff urged fathers
to check their daughters and
wives irreverence and corruption
as expressed in immodest cloth
| ink'
I REINDEER FAIR AT
NOME NEXT MARCH
i A Reindeer Fair is to be held
i
next. March at Wnite Mountain,
I about UO miles from Nome Amo*
; ng the attractions wi.l be displays
of Native workmanship ami rein
j deer races and dog races. A rel
ions gathering will also be held
' as a part of the occasion. It is
expected that nearly a thousand
natives will attend.
We wish to thank our cust
omers and the public for the
liberal patronage enjoyed during
the past year.
R. L. H. Marshall
I
STEESE GETS PR< MOTION
.J amt's G. Steoso. chai rur.m
of t he Alaska Knfi merino 1 on:—
mission, has boon pi emoted to t lie*
rank of lli t^adior General ;nr
lordingto information carried in
the United States Daily, a paper
published in Washington. D. C
Bri;4 ulier General Steese has
spent the last several months in
j Europe on business lor the Gov
ernment in connection with mil
i itar.v von strnet ion work and is not
expected to return to Iris Alaska
headquarters until spring.
FINDS STRANGE STONE
IN TURKEYS GIZ A \ID
While cleaning her Christ
I urns turkev, Mrs. J. E. Bariett,
j found nine stones in it’s wizard
two red, three blue, two purple
anu two white, they are about
the siz‘‘ of peas and will all cut
glass but one white one.
Mrs. Barrett, has the stones
land will find out if they are
! precious, but as the turkey
I came from the States, it would
i be hard to trace should it prove
■ worth while.
KENNECOTT MOVIES
Sunday January 2nd.
Syd Chaplin
in
“The Man on the Box”
, Comedy
• Music
Wednesday January nth
Marion Davies
in
“The Lights of Old Broadway"
Comedy
News
DOPE CURE FOUND
Now Treatment Eliminates
I
Craving, First Ttsts Show
Now York: A now treat merit for
■ narcotic addiction, successful in
, seven months tests in the mun—
icipal correctional hospital, is des
jci ihed in the New York Medical
Journal and record
Narcosan, discovei'ed by A.
j S. I 'orovitz. a Hungarian immi —
grant bio-chemist, is said to eli
minate the usual craving for drug
during treatment and to restore
a patient to pre-narcotic condition
within three weeks.
The article describing the
treatment )> signed by Dr. Alex
ander Lambert, attending phys
ician at Bellevue Hospital, and
former president of the Amer
ican Medical Association, and Dr
Frederick Tilney, professor of
neurology at the College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons, and pres—
ident of the American Neurolo
gical Association.
The American Medical Ass
ociation, through its official jour
nal, cautions against the use of the
remedy until it has received a
thorough trial under "controlled
conditions” and until the product
shall have been considered by the
council.
The treatment is described
as a solution of lipoids, proteins
and water-soluble vitamines. The
compound is injected hypodermi
cally.
In addition to proving effic
acious in the treatment of drug
addiction, the treatment can be
used in cases of over indulgence
in alcohol and veronal.
Mr. Horovitz has worked on
his preparation for ten years. He
is 42 years old and is a graduate
oi the Royal University of Bud
apest. He came to this country in
1909 on his honeymoon and re
mained here.