ANCHORAGE DAILY TIMES
AND COOK INLET PIONEER.
ANCHORAGE PUBLISHING CO.
Anchorage, Alaska.
CHAS. E. HERRON, Publisher.
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Entered in the Anchorage Postofiice June 5, 1915, as second class matter
under the Act of March 3, 1873.
For President—CHARLES EVANS HUGHES.
For Delegate to Congress—JAMES WICKERSHAM.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1916.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
.1. W. Ward, vice-president of the Anchorage Publishing
company, lias been appointed manager of the Anchorage Daily
Times, assuming charge today. Mr. Ward is a newspaperman
of wide experience in Alaska, having been in tiie newspaper
business in the north continuously since 1899, with the excep
tion of two years when he was with the Seattle Daily Times and
the Seattle Sun.
“ WICKERSHAM NIGHT.”
Tonight, at the Alaska Labor Union temple, Delegate
James Wickersham will speak to the people of Anchorage. This
massive temple, the largest in Alaska, with a seating capacity'
for some two thousand people, should he filled to its utmost.
The delegate’s speech will he informing and interesting. He is
a forceful, logical speaker; knows what he wants to say and
how to say it. It will be worth while to attend this meeting, to
which all—irrespective of party affiliation—are most cordially
invited. The women of Anchorage are especially urged to at
tend. The women of Alaska have been granted the right of suf- |
frage. It is a right to which they were entitled. Now that tliev
may vote for delegate, they should hear what Judge Wicker
sham, who for four successive terms has represented the people i
of Alaska at the national capital, has to say.
Let us give the delegate the biggest audience that he has
ever addressed in Alaska. We can do it. He will appreciate
the courtesy and we can thus show our appreciation of his ef
forts in behalf of the big railway project—the project that
made Anchorage, and in the formative period of the town’s |
story, the present need for its continued prosperity.
ISN’T IT THE TRUTH?
Picturesque language is Employed by W. P. Benn, a former
resident of Fairbanks, who has moved to the states, to write
his friend, W. F. Whitely, also of the interior metropolis, how j
he longs for the nortliland. The experience of Mr. Benn is but
1 lie experience of hundreds of others who have departed from
Alaska to take up what they consider will be a permanent resi
dence in some state of perpetual sunshine and flowers. When
they depart, it is with the thought that they will never return
to this big, free land. But after residing in the states for a
while, things are not just as expected. They begin to yearn for
the nortliland again. The call of the wild is continually with
them, and in many cases, they respond to this persistent call
and return. We see every day on the streets of Anchorage, old
timers who have gone from Alaska, only to return amopg us.
There is something appealing about this vast domain; there is
something alluring; something that does not exist in any other
country on God’s green earth. What the call is cannot be well
defined. Ask any of the rich miners who have returned to the
states with enough of the world’s goods to insure them inde
pendence through life and who build themselves palatial homes
in some favored spot, and they will tell you that the happiest
days pf their lives were passed in Alaska or the Klondike, in a
humble log cabin, with bacon and beans the chief contents of
the larder.
After stating that he was homesick for the north, the old
timer says, regarding himself and his wife: “ I began to think
I would have to side-hobble the old girl to keep her from skip
ping the rope and starting for Fairbanks. She is homesick for
the north and I am cussing the day I ever left it.
“We have a truck farm, but it isn’t worth much. Friday
I picked forty pounds or nearly two bushels of string beans.
It took me four hours and it took the balance of the day to sell
them, and I received the munificent sum of $1.20 for my labor.
Wouldn’t that sour the milk oFftuman kindness in the best old
sourdough that ever lived? They’re a hide-bound lot on the
outside.
“ If things come all right next spring I may get enough
ahead to buy a ticket to Fairbanks, but if I don’t, it’s walk for 1
me.
“ Peaches and cream, sunshine and flowers may be 0. K.,
but give me the frozen north and a blueberry pie.”
That is a mighty fine tribute that Mr. J. L. McPherson,
manager of the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce, pays the Alaskan Engineering Commission and Lieut.
Mears, the commissioner in active charge of operations in this
division. And, Mr. McPherson, being a railway engineer by
profession, is in a position to know whereof he speaks. We
who live here are inclined to minimize the importance of the
.work in progress right at our very doors. We become used to
Ihe activities about us. Not so with our visitors. To them it is
displayed in all its bigness and is sure to create a favorable im
pression.
“The Store That Hm What You Want—When You WAnt It.**
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Loussac’s Daily Gossip
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5,
Vol. 1. No. 68. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 4th and l>
Preparedness seems to be the password nowadays—and yet there is a
good deal more of common sense in it than it appears to some. A Hot Water
Bottle does not seem to have very much to do with preparedness, neverthe
less it means just that:— Preparedness against a bad cold, against an at
tack of cramps, and many other ills. We sell guaranteed rubber goods only.
A young man with an elegant jag on (it did not happen in Anchorage)
asked a policeman where he could get a taxi to take him home. Said the cop:
“Next street to the right you’ll see two taxis. Take the first one—the other
won’t be there.
This is a good time of the year to take a tonic. If you feel tired, dhowsy,
if you have no appetite, if in general you feel somewhat ran down—take
Comp. Syrup of Hvpophosphites with Soda and Lime. * It tones up your sys
tem, enriches your blood and puts new vigor and life into you. It is not a
patent medicine. $1.00 per bottle.
We have a lot of bathroom supplies, like towel racks, glass and tooth
brush holders, bath brushes, wash cloths, and genuine Mediterranean sponges,
rubber sponges and Turkish towels. A good deal of comfort at a small price.
Well, a few more weeks and navigation will close for the next six months.
Now is the best time to send some souvenirs home and to >our friends. You
will undoubtedly find something suitable among our assortments of gifts. R.
Service’s poems, Alaska Albums, articles made from genuine Walras Ivory by
genuine Esquimaux are always appropriate and welcome.
In our last advertisement we spoke of selling Victor Phonographs on part
payment plan. The response to it was amazing. We have to triple our order
for phonographs and records. Who said that Americans are not musical ?
Did you leave your order for a Victrola?
To our out-of-town friends we say again that their orders will be taken
care of to the best of our ability.
A Webster Dictionary of 940 pages, well illustrated and bound in genuine
flexible Morocco leather, is a useful book that everyone should have on his
desk, or in his home. We have a limited number of copies of the dictionary.
Its regular price is $4.00. We sell it for $2.00. This is an opportunity to ben
efit through a mistake of the publishers. We ordered six and they sent us 60
copies. Rather than prepay return express charges they made us a special
price on the lot.
If you are looking for some good views of Alaska and Anchorage to send
home—-come to us. We have the largest assortment of All-Alaska views ever
collected under one roof, flach photo post card is a work of art. Get a col
lection for yourself.
Lyr White Pine and Tar Mentholated is still the most popular and effi- I
cient cough mixture. 50c and 35c per bottle.
If your hair is falling out, if it has dandruff, if your scalp itches, try a
bottle of our Quinine Hair Tonic. 65c and $1.25 per bottle. It does the wo('k.
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