HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue,Hyder, Alaska.*
Telephone No. 82
Chas. F. Sandford. Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Tnis newspaper is not connected in any manner with any
stock brokerage firm tr other establishment associated in or
interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
lormation relative to local min ing development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
Scaring Us to Death
Clever advertising of anti
septics and other preparations
reputed to save us from all the
ills to which the flesh is heir
has done a lot of harm, accord
ing to Dr. Shaw, professor of
philosophy at the New York
University.
While real science is reliev
ing the human mind of many
former bugaboos, mod e r n
“fear factories” are manufact
uring new horrors to alarm the
gullible and shorten their live:
through sheer fright.
Just as we have been reas
sured by sccientifie control of
yellow fever, small-pox, ma
laria and a host of old-time
dangers, along comes the kill
joy tribe, warning us of the
menace of dandruff, pyorrhea
and halitosis. Quoting the good
doctor:
“Man is tormented with an
array of drug-filled rememies
which are supposed to act as
antiseptics. The bath-room be
comes a clinic, and every man
a doctor in spite of himself.'
Now, dread in the heart, and
fear in the soul is more un
sightly than film on the teeth.”
To which we may only add,
as the high school girl would
say, “Aint it the truth.”
The Crime of Demonetization
(From Minins' Truth)
Scuttling silver production was
a monumental crime. Tens and I
thousands of mines which j
should be producing wealth
and liquid capital to enrich the
nations have been ruined
simply because Central Bank
ers blasted 80'< of the purch
asing power of silver and gold.
Thousands of millions ot ;
metallic wealth have been
lost through the abandonment
of producing mines in Amer
ica, in Australia and in the Or
<
; ient. Exploration, migration,
colonization and new con
struction have been halted or
! paralyzed by the eclipse of
the precious metal mining in
dustry.
In all the’homilies about the
sterilization, mobilization and
rationalization of gold broad
casted by the propagandists of
| Central Banks, not one word
is ever said about the calam
. itous fall in its purchasing
power, nor is a word ever ut
; tered about the bankruptcy j
and ruin which the demonetiz
ation of silver has brought on
• the Orient, on Latiri-Amcrica
and on the farmers of every j
country in Europe and North
; America.
The gold standard is the bas
ic cause of the unemployment,
want, hunger and political dis- j
order now so rampant and so
ominus throughout the world. I
| If historians would visualize
the calamitous events of the j
last seven hundred years, they ;
would find that the most trag
ic was the wrecking of the j
world’s stabilized currency by!
Central Bankers, dishonest fi- j
' nanciers and incompetent gov
! ernmc-nts.
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A Complete Reply
An exchange prints a little
story clipped from an unknown
source, which is very good, and
perhaps also very old. Anyway
it is worth repeating.
It concerns an Omaha whole
sale house and a customer
merchant in an Iowa cross
roads town. A shipment of
goods received by the custom
er was rejected as unsatisfact
ory:
The wholesaler prepared to
institute suit for collection, and j
wrote to the railroad agent at
the village for information
| about the arrival of the mer
j chandise; to the president of i
j the bank for information con-1
cerning the financial standing
of their customer; fo the may
or asking him to recommend a
godd awyer to handle the case;
and to the merchant himself,
threatening suit, if he did not
make payment at once. This re
ply was received:
‘‘I received your letter tell
ing me 1 had better pay up. I
am the railroad agent here and ;
received the letter you wrote
about the shipment. I am the
president and sole owner of
the local bank and can assure
you as to my financial stand
ing. As the mayor of the city,
11 hesitate to refer you to a |
I lawyer, since I am the only j
| member of the bar in this Vi-1
i cinity. And ii’ I were not the !
1 pastor of the only church here, j
1 would tell you to go to hell!” I
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Just for Fun
Racing a train to a crossing
is hardly fair to one’s life in
surance company.
When a London boy mur
jdcred his parents-leniency was
! was asked for him because he
| was an orphan.
Sins cf fathers.. Many a small
I boy is kept in afte'r school be
| cause his father worked his
arithmetic wrong.
A Mr. Wise of Kansas, a!
' ledged to have five living
! wives, once more illustrates
how little there is in a name.
It is hinted that the crime ;
commission will soon make an
exhaustive report. It will no
doubt be exhausting to thn'-e i
who are obliged to read it.
A certain soap is said to be j
99.44 per cent pure, and floats. |
Some bootleg liquor is 99.44 i
per cent impure and will make j
your iiead swim.
A government specialist de
clares that goiter is becoming j
more prevalent among young /
women. Which may be bad foi ,
the future of polite necking. I
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WHAT’S NEW?
The first printing press to be
set up in the New World was
established in Mexico in 153G.
American universities con-1
forced 10 times as many doc-1
tor’s degrees in the sciences in ;
1930 as they did in 1900.
Sandstone as flexible as rub
ber when cut into thus strips j
has been found in certain ;
parts of North Carolina
Experiments by scientists at j
Forekheim, Germany, reveal j
that tobacco free from nicotine j
can be grown.
It is estimated that only two
per cent of the manuscripts
submitted for publication are
ever published in book form.
Airplane taxis at 25 cents a
mile for a single passenger are
operated in seven English
cities.
The largest poultry plant in
the world,, which maintains a
flock of 500,000 hens, is oper
ated at Redesa, Califorva
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
Frcm the Hyder Alaska Miner
of Jan. 15, 1920.
Three claims adjoining the
Premier on the east side and
called the Premier Extension
group, have been sold to Prince
Rupert men, the deal being
made in Vancouver by Duke
Harris. The ground was staked
by Bill Irwin and the option
was taken out by W. G. Harris.
Announcement was made by
Roy Clothier that Indian
Mines, Ltd., was on a sound
financial footing and would
start work on their property as
soon as supplies could be got
in. Discussing the outlook for
the property, the Miner said:
“The Indian is one of the first
locations on Salmon River and
has been developed to a point
where it may be truthfully
called a mine. With the re
; sumption of work, shipping
ore can be extracted from the
start, and before fall this prop
erty should be one of the big
I factors in ore tonnage of the
| camp.”
That the trouble at Premier
lias developed into a strike is
| evidenced by the fact that the
men affected have called for
! strike funds to enable them to
; carry on until other employ
I ment can be secured.
Geo. W. Nelson wrote from
Seattle that the Hyder Water,
Light and Power Co. had been
organized and fully financed
to put in a water, light and
power system for the town
next spring.
Bobby Smith, the black
smith, claimed the snow mush
ing record between Hyder and j
Stewart after making it from
Alex. Frazer’s to Bill Tooth’s j
in 33 minutes and 10 seconds.
Frances Hall, late of Daw- j
"on, is conducting the Hyder;
Bath House, having leased it
from Mrs. Rose Walker, who \
has gone to Vancouver.
Mrs. Hazel Lewis, who owns
cconsiderable property in Hy-1
der, let a contract for the con-'
struction of two buildings near j
Ihe Hyder Cigar Store.
Albert and Axe! Johnson and
Erick Erickson have built a
cabin in Hyder.
New display advertisements!
in this issue of the Miner were i
the Marks Restaurant and
Bakery, “a square deal and a |
square meal,’’operated by Mr. |
and Mrs. J. L. Campbell; the
Portland Bar, operated by [■
Theresa O’Donnel, and the Up
to Date store, operated by j
Edgar Harris.
The Miner editor requested |
the Outside public to refrain
from sending postoffice money j
orders to the paper for sub-jj
scriptions, as there is no money \
order branch in the Hyder i
postoffice. Checks look good
when we open our mail, the j
aiticle continues, ‘"but green- j
backs look better.
Historical Dates of the Week
Jan. 11. Alexander Hamilton I
born, 1757.
Jan. 12. John Hancock born,
1737.
Jan. 13. Mexican war opened.
1846.
Jan. 14. England and U. S. j
Peace, 1784.
Jan. 15 First successful loco
motive, 1831.
Jan. 16. Prohibition in effect,
1920.
Jan. 17. Benjamin Franklin j
born, 1706.
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Jtgbcr, Alaska
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