RADIO PROGRAM
Iv O M O
Owing to poor reception dur
ing earlier hours, ‘broadcasts
before 6:45 p. m. are omitted.]
Sunday, November 6
6:45 Shaeffer Review, NBC.
7:15 Fox Theatres Program.
7 :30 The Exquisite Hour.
7:45 Sunday at Seth Parker’s.
8:15 People’s Bank Program.
8 :45 P. S. P. & L. Program.
9:00 Union Oil Co. Progarm.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Crazy Crystal Quartet.
10:30 Bridge to Dreamland.
11:00 Silent.
Monday, November 7.
7 :00 Natl Radio Forum, NBC.
7:00 Demi Tasse Review,NBC
8:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Jones and Hare, NBC.
8:30 The Alaskans.
9:00 Gold Shield Symphony.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Vic Meyers’ Music.
11:15 Pacific on Parade, NBC.
11:30 Organ Concert, NBC.
12:00 Silent.
Tuesday, November 8.
7 :00 Lucky Strike Hour, NBC
8:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Memory Lane, NBC.
8:45 Phoenix Hosiery Pgm.
9:00 Fisher’s Blend Hour.
9:30 Blue Ribbon Orchestra.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Vic Meyers’ Music.
11:15 Pacific on Parade, NBC.
11:30 Organ Concert, NBC.
12:00 Silent.
Wednesday, November 9.
7:00 Corn Cob Pipe Club.
7:30 Fisher Mills Program.
7 :45 Spratt’s Dog Chat.
8 :00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Jones and Hare, NBC.
8:30 Wesson Team Mate3.
9 :00 The Music Masters, NBC
9:15 Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes, NBC.
9 :45 Agnew’s Orchestra.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Washington Hour.
11:15 Vic Meyers’ Music.
12:00 Silent
Thursday, November 10.
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 Vic Meyers’ Music.
11:15 Pacific on Parade, NBC.
11:30 Organ Concert, NBC.
12:00 Silent
Fiiday, November 11.
7:00 Fox Theatres Program.
7:15 Concert Ensemble, NBC.
7:30 Elgin Adventure Club.
7 :45 Soloist, NBC.
8:00 Amos ’n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Jones and Hare, NBC.
8:30 Gilmore Circus, NBC.
9:15 Thurston, the Magician.
9:30 Novelettes, NBC.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes.
10:15 Mozart Concert Hour.
11:15 Vic Meyers’ Music.
12:00 Silent
Saturday, November 12.
7 :00 Lucky Strike Hour, NBC
8:00 Amos 'n Andy, NBC.
8:15 Caswell Concert, NBC.
NEWS ITEMS OF 1776
Items from old newspapers
are of interest to many, and
here are a few from the Massa
chusetts Sun, published in Wor
cester on July 17, 1776, the
front page of which was devot
ed to the Declaration of Inde
pendence, then less than two
weeks old. A news letter from
New York said:
“On Wednesday last the
Declaration of Independence
was read at the head of each
brigade of the Continental
Army at or near New York,
and everywhere received with
loud huzzas and utmost deni
gration of joy. The same even
ing the equestrian statue of
George III was by the sons of
freedom laid prostrate in ithe
diit. The lead wherewith this
monument was made is ;to be
run into bullets to assimilate
with the brains of our adver
saries, who, to gain a pepper
corn, have lost an empire.”
A resolution of the House of
Representatives of Watertown
requested that people of that
colony donate their leaden win
dow weights for the making of
bullets.
Among the notices was one
stating that there were “con
siderable numbers of prisoners
in the town, who were willing
to go out to service if proper
persons were willing to hire
them.”
Delinquent subscribers were
a problem in those days, as
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Chamber
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
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8 :30 P. S. P. & L. Program.
9:00 Fisher Mills Program.
9:30 Spotlight Review, NBC.
11:00 Vic Meyers’ Music.
12:00 Silent
they have been ever since, it
appears from a card from the
publisher, who thanked those
readers who paid up, adding,
“He begs that such as have not
paid him would be so consider
ate as to think of the great dis
advantage it must be to him to
have so many small sums in dif
ferent hands, therefore would
now request that they pay
their respective balances,
which will greatly oblige their
humble servant, Isaiah Thom
as.”
After 156 years a good many
(publishers may still find Mr.
Thomas’s courteous suggest
ion quite applicable to present
conditions.
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Few Mines Have Produced
At Rate of Million a Month
Few indeed are the gold
mines in history that have pro
duced consistently at the rate
of $1,000,000 (about 48,400
ounces) per month, says Min
ing and Metallurgy. Goldfield
Consolidated, Nevada’s great
est bonanza, for a time in its
heyday approximated $1,000,
000 per month. Hollinger’s
best year was 1925, when pro
duction averaged $1,300,000
a month. Of the South Africa
Rand producers that have been
in this select group are Govern
ment Areas, New Modderron
tein, Randfontein, East Rand
Proprietory and Crown Mines.
The biggeat production on
I record was $22,880,000 by
Government Areas in 1930.
While crossing the high
mountain range between Ton
ina and Valdez in his plane a
few days ago, pilot Robert
Reeve at an altitude of 6,000
feet, struck a warm current
of air that sent the thermom
eter up to 50 degrees.
Hyder
Chamber of Commerce J
Incorporated
Regular Meeting Second J
Wednesday of the Month j
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WHY _
Region in Ocean Is Called
the “Doldrums”
When a person Is suffering from
low spirits or ineutnl depression lie
is said to he in the doldrums. The
phrase is synonymous with “In the
dumps." “Doldrums” Is an old Eng
lish word of uncertain derivation.
Some authorities suppose It to be re
lated in origin to “dull” and “dolt.”
“The doldrums” is the popular name
for a shifting oceanic zone lying near
the equator between the trade winds
and noted for its calms and light, baf
fling winds, which In the old days
sometimes prevented all progress of
sailing vessels for weeks. In that re
gion the sky is overcast much of the
time, the atmosphere is hot, humid and
oppressive, and the frequent rains nre
generally accompanied by thunder
storms. The trade winds are north
easterly in the northern hemisphere
and southeasterly in the southern. The
southeast trade wind blows over an
area extending from the equator to 25
degrees south, while the northeast
trade extends from about 10 degrees
to 30 degrees north. The equatorial
belt of low pressure between these
two winds is the region known as the
doldrums. Thus It will be seen that
tlie true doldrums extend from the
equator to about 10 degrees north and
do not include any part of the south
ern hemisphere. There Is, however, a
corresponding low pressure belt south
of I he equator In the Pacific. The dol
drums are a seasonal belt, shifting
from slightly north of the equator in
the northern winter, and slightly fur
ther north in the northern summer.
The trade winds blow a regular trade
or course toward the thermal equator,
roughly 30 degrees north and 30 de
grees south, hut they are deflected to
northeast and to southeast, respec
tively, by the rotation of the earth.
Why Demure Expression
Is Cause of Ridicule
To look “As if butter would not melt
In one’s mouth,” Is said usually con
temptuously of persons of excessively
demure appearance. The earliest rec
ord we have of the saying is its use
by \V. Palsgrave In 1530: “Ho maketh
ns though butler wolde not melte in
his mouthe.” And again in 1552, Bis
hop I.ntimer said In a sermon on the
Lord's Prayer: "These fellows can
speak so finely that a man would think
butter should scant melt In their
mouths." John lleywood, who flour
ished about 1505, wrote: “She look
eth as if butter would not melt In her
mouth”; while Dean Jonathan Swift
(1007-1745), wrote in his “Essay on
Polite Conversation”: "She looks as
if butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth."
Why Printer*’ "Chapel."
In England the word chapel was ap
plied to a printing office, also to a
meeting or association of Journeymen
• of a printing office for promoting and
enforcing order among themselves
and for settling disputes. These meet
ings were presided over by a “father
of the chapel.” The term Is said to
have originated In the fact that print
ing was first carried on In England by
Caxton in a chapel attached to or near
Westminster abbey. It was customary
at that time to do the work of print
ing in chapels attached to abbeys. R.
Holme, in 1688, said: “Every print
ing house is termed a chappel.”
Why Left Uninsured
The Capitol, White House and other
federal buildings are not insured be
cause the government owns so many
buildings that it has about the same
advantages ns a tire insurance com
pany would have in that respect. Most
of the public buildings are more or
less fireproof and the government finds
it less expensive to appropriate money
for replacements when needed rather
than to make the payments on insur
ance policies.
Why the Jog in Boundary
It was intended that the twenty-sev
enth meridian west from Washington
should form the western boundary of
the Dakotas and the northern part of
Nebraska, but tbe line was determined
from a point in the north and one in
the south, and it was found that there
was a total error of nearly a mile,
with the result that there is a jog in
the line.
Why Bullet “Wabble.”
Tba Deoartment of War says that a
ALASKA NOTES
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
All mining companies at
Nome operated on a full-time
basis and exports of gold dust
and 'bullion totaled $595,359
for the season.
William Schnabel, former
deputy U. S. marshal at Sitka
and Wrangell, died recently at
Caldwell, Idaho, following a
stroke of appoplexy.
An 11-p'oint buck deer weigh
ing 154 pounds was on display
in Ketchikan recently. The an
imal was shot on Annette Is
land, near Ketchikan.
Mickey Wells, Ketchikan
j prospector, shot at the head
and neck of a deer in the woods
below him. His bullet went
through the deer’s neck and
j struck Clyde Hannagen, who
i was carrying the animal, which
he had shot some time before.
The bullet went through Han
nagen’s arm, which had to be
amputated.
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The interior department has
asked governor Parks, superin.
i tendent Ike Taylor of the Alas
I ka Road Commission, and Pur
Ion H. Barndollar, examiner of
accounts of the Alaska Rail
| road, to report in Washington
] by November 16. It is desired
.0 have them there in connect
ion with appropriations for
; various departmental activi
ties.
W'hile nailing up a window
in the rear of a Ketchikan drug
store recently, Frank Kodatt
noticed a peculiar sound. On
| striking another blow, part of
; the wall caved in, revealing in
: side the wall two sets of silver
ware, 10 revolvers, numerous
lings and watches, stickpins,
| and a silver rosary cross. In
i vestigation revealed that a for
mer clerk in the store had
purchased the loot of a negro
burglar and had cached it in
| the wall.
bullet wabbles because no ounce naa
been made, or can be made, to be per
fectly balanced about tbe ails of spin.
Further, in shooting a hullet from a
rifle, there is always some deviation
of the axis of spin from the axis of
the bore. Still further, the bullet is a
gyroscope and acts like one.
Why Portrait Is Unfinished
The tradition is that the head of
Oilbert Stuart’s atheneum portrait of
Washington was left unfinished in or
der that the painter might retain It in
his studio as a nest egg from which to
make copies. After his death it was
sold by his family for $1,500 and given
to the Boston Atheneum.
Why “Roman Holiday"
.The t*cpresslon “to make a Roman
holiday” refers to the custom of the
Romans of celebrating victories or
other Important events by sports in
tlie arena, which often resulted In
many deaths and involved much
cruelty.
Why Cup Is Called “Mug”
In early days the drinking cup was
often made in the form of a face, and
was therefore called a mug, an old
term for face.