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All Alaska Edition, of the Cordovu
Times is on sale at Worth’s. A fine
souvenir to send home.
Everything sold at a reduced
prices this month at John Fanning’s
shoe store.-—ad.
Hand tinted Christmas greeting
rai ds and other choice kinds at the
TOTEM POLE.
CHURCH NOTICES
Lutheran Church of Petersburg,
SUNDAY SCHOOL at 10:30 a. m.
SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE at
11:30 a. m.
S. SYDNESS, Pastor.
Paator.
Presbyterian Church
Sunday morning services at
i 10:30 a.m. Aternoon services at
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Fine Watches, Clocks, Silverware,
Diamond Rings, and Everything to
be found in Jewelry store are here
awaiting your inspection—
Carl Jacobson
JEWELRY and CURIO STORE
PETERSBURG, - - ALASKA
FOR QUICK TAXI SERVICE CALL PHONE 49.
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DRS. STANDARD & STANDARD
PHYSICIAN And SURGEONS
Residence and Office Over Wheeler Drug Store
Dan E. Standard, M.D. Susie V. Standard, M.D.
General Practice Specialist: E* e. Ear, Nos*.& Throat
Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted
GREEN LANTERN
Ball Room
Rate—$5.00 Per Night
TINY TIDINGS, TERSE,
TIMELY AND TRUE
Five speeds are now possible in
new outboard marine engines.
Motor truck wheels are being
made of compressed rubber. They
dont need nay pneumatic tires.
in Europe they have gotten up
a Deisel engine that functions all
right in automobiles.
In the States new ice cream de
livery cars are fitted with electric
refrigerators, and they don't have
to carry ice
Six-sevenths of China’s more than
400.000,000 population is concen
trated on one-third of it3 area.
Mail airplanes are now fitted
wih a catching device that enables
them to pick up mail bags without,
stopping flight. It is a German
invention.
A hand spraying outfit for lacqu
ering furniture, automobiles and
house hold articles is a new get-up
that works well.
Alabama has a population of
2,526 000. During 1926 the num
ber of marriages were 11.92 pe/
1000 of population. Divorces. 1.3S
par 1000 of population.
irttOh Africa has taken away
ffom Peru, South America, its long
maintained lead as the world’s
greatest vanadium producing coun
try.
More than 60,000,000 miles of
wires are used in connecting the
18,000,000 or more telephones in
the United States.
There will be total eclipses of
the mcon, visible throughout North
America, on the night of June 3rd
and November 26th.
The shrimping fleet will cut loose
its moorings and begin the after
holiday season next Synday morn
ing. It doesn’t seem natural to
have those lead-colored boats tied
up so long. Outside of the holidays
themselves, the weather has been
such that it was practically imposs
ible to trawl anyway.
Jack Nicolay, a native in the
Nulato jail for fighting, made a
passable attempt at suicide recent
ly when he cut his throat from ear
to ear. The nurse at Nulato says
that he will likely recover.
Charles W. Hawkesworth was a
visitor at Metlakatla during the
holidays. He was a passenger on
the Admiral Rogerg along with Pat
Verney, of THE ALASKAN, when
that vessel sailed juBt before Christ
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Neil MacGregor has installed a
new drinking fountain in the bal
cony of the MacGregor playhouse.
So you w'on’t have to leave the up- j
per floor when you have a thirst
come on.
Did you see Coleen More at the
MacGregor the other day? You
missed it if you didn’t. Coleen is
certainly an artist in her art, and as
we look at it the best of the movie
actors playing before the films.
Those Alaska views that were run
off at the Variety the other day
were a treat. There were pictures
of things as they were, and natural.
All very good.
Rev. David Waggoner, on the
Princeton, stopped at Petersburg
for a short, time Tuesday morning
on his way to Wrangell. He wil!
return to Petersburg latter part of
the week.
Leaving on the Admiral Rogers
Thursday morning for Wrangell
was P. R. McGuire who has been
looking over his insurance business
in Petersburg for several days.
The Admiral Watson arrived at
the Citizen’s dock Thursady night
about 12 and left out. south bound,
at 2 Friday morning.
The snow is growing less and the
days are growing longev. This is
all very nice. We have had a whole
lot of winter already and we cai
readily put up with less of the
Polar stuff and with longer days.
But the bulk of January and al!
of February still loom large ahead
of us yet. Wonder what they’ll
do to us?
The new oil fuel tank for the
Haarberg Apartments, arriving ot>
the Lakina some time ago, was
moved in to the building Friday
morning on the Paul Owens truck
Miss Arness was an outgoing pas
senger on the Admiral Rogers
Thursday morning, for Ketchikan.
Ehring Strand was also an outgo
ing passenger on the same steamer
ticketed for Seattle.
W. R. Neville and Charles Jones
left Petersburg on the S. S. Admiral
Watson Saturday morning.
On December 26th Kiug Ben
jemin, of the House of David, died
at Benton Harbor, Michigan. Mem
hers of the House of David cult de
clare now that the death signifies
the swift coming of the end of the
world. It’s already here for the
Hon. King Benjemin.
A delivery of 800 pounds of
freight was made by an airplane
out of Fairbanks into the Koyakuk
district about Christinas time. It
was the first arrival of anything
from the outside this winter.
YULETIDE GREETING
NEW YEAR
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At
the closing
days of another
year Christmas brings
back with it the kindly
thoughts of friendship,
peace and good will; the
remembrances of pleasant business
relationships that have been our
privilege to enjoy. It has been our
aim to be of helpful service to each
one of our many friends, and as the
New Year dawns there comes to us
a more determined purpose to make
ourselves a real helping hand towards your
success in the years to come. May we express
here our deep appreciation of the business you
have given us? We hope that 1927 has been good
to you—that 1928 will be still better. Please accept our
very best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
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