Russians and Greeks in Alaska:
We like to call your attention that this is the proper time
to think of your old folks in the old country for the Christmas
Holidays.
You will avoid delays by sending your money now, as the mails
abroad are not as regular as during the times of peace.
Send your money orders thru this bank now; we guarantee
quick delivery.
We can also send your deposits with the Imperial Russian Sav
ings Bank, (Gosudarstvennaja Sberegatelnaja Kassa) at Petrograd
also with the National Bank of Greece at Athens.
We transmit your money at the lowest possible exchange rates.
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The Bank that Knows How Deposits over $450,000
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The Lucy has
done it
P
t
again:
AMICI TELLS
OF IDE ZEPELUN
RAIDS! LONDON
. LONDON, Oct. 10.—(By Mail)—It
took a man from Chicago to see the
way to distinction in London. His dis
| tinction is doubtful but nevertheless,
he is the only man in London afraid of
Zeppelin bombs or the only man who
isn’t a liar.
He never saw one in active or pas
sive mood, and when he heard them
’ recently his respect increased by sev
eral parasangs in one instantaneous
bound.
He has no desire to quarrel with 500
pounds of cordite and scrap iron. He
doesn’t even want to argue with it.
Hhe doesn’t want a darn thing to
do with a Zeppelin bomb!
When Field Marshall French issues
a communique late at night saying,
“Zeppelins raided East Coast areas to
night and were engaged by our anti
aircraft guns and aeroplanes,” the
gent from Buena ark takes an intense
interest in the location of subway sta
tions.
If the communique adds, “several
bombs were dropped without military
damage; the raid is progressing,” our
hero begins to feel canaries scamper
ing up and down his spine.
Lord French did issue one odf those
nonchalant statements a few nights
ago. The distinguished party sat at
his desk on the night trick, handling
news to New York and other points
west. He had never been through a
Zeppelin raid. He really wondered
what they really were like but of
course he wouldn’t insist on a demon
stration just for the sake of learning.
Oh, no; the Zeppelins needn’t bother
on his account.
The building is an old one with mas
sive doors and long catacomb halls in
which a footfall sounds like the report
of a gun.
The news ticker before him drolled
off routine news. Ho hum! It was a
dull night; if something would only
happen to make a story for the cable.
Even the ticker went silent. An
hour passed. Gee, it was dull. The
Chicagoan picked up that commun
ique. “ The raid is progressing.”
Suddenly the ticker had a spasm of
coughing; it sputtered and jiggled and
the type-roller made a few tentative
jabs at the tape, threatening to print
something.
Then it came.
“The special constables of the Lon
don district have been ordered to re
port to their stations at once,” said the
ticker.
The canaries got busy playing tag;
scampering with icy little feet up and
down a liberal length of vertebrae.
Over near the black-mouthed fire
place the corpulent cable operator doz
ed in a chair. Maybe he would like to
know about it; not that anyone want
ed comforting words from a veteran
of many raids but just—maybe he
would like to know. •
The man afraid of Zeppelin bombs
nudged him into wakefulness and
handed him the slip off the ticker.
“They’ll probably come to London
then,” he said sleepily. “They’re hell
—that’s what they are! Plain hell. I
have been in a lot of raids and once a
bomb dropped a block away from me.”
“ ’S that so ? What did it do to
you?” casually.
“Knocked me clean over. Those
bombs are strong; zz-ziz-snau-au-xx.”
He was asleep again.
Somewhere way down the long hall
a door slammed and the Zeppelin
rookie looked around. It was only a
door slamming. Pretty soon the slam
mer re-entered his room and the door
banged again.
Five minutes later a gun boomed.
There was no door about that. Like
the flowers of spring the Zeps were
here.
Splitting a crack in the atmosphere
the operator zipped down the hall and
tumbled down the stairs three at a
bound. The man afraid of Zeps made
the basement in fifteen minutes less
than nothing flat, but found the cable
operator there before him.
“I’m not afraid of those things but
it’s best to be downstairs where they
’re around."
Boom-boo-oom 1 Boom-boo-oom!
The party was getting very rough.
A young fellow came through the
basement corridor. He was so cold
in the night air that his teeth chatter
ed like castenets. He wasn’t afraid
either. \
The Zeppelins seemed to be keeping
away from the main stem of London
so the trio went into the street.
Out north the sky was afire and ev
erywhere stars were bursting a deaf
ening boom. A Zeppelin was framed
in the criscrossing light-shafts of half
a dofcen stations.
The booming died out. The Zeppel
in had disappeared and one had been
brought to earth.
And there is no contempt for the
bombs.
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M’Nally & Maitland
Lumber
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