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(Anchorage Central Market
J. TURNER Proprietor
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We are now prepared to take orders for fall delivery
Dried Dog Salmon,
Salmon Bellies
Salt Salmon,
Smoked Salmon,
Packed by McConahay & Co., Tyonek.
As supply is limited your early orders will be ap
eciated.
Evans & Frantzon Company
Painters and Decorators
We have on hand the largest stock of Wall Papers—a selec
tion thfct will please you. Our Paint stock is complete; House
Paint, Boat Paint, Shingle Stains, Roof Paint, Copper Paint,
Deck Paint . Our goods as well as our work the very best. Win
dow Shades all sizes. Linoleums in Printed and Ini®.id Patterns.
Balch & McDonald
General Contractors
FRAME CONSTRUCTION CONCRETE WORK
EXCAVATION GRADING
HOUSE MOVING
4th Ave. Bet D and E Anchorage
New Low Fares Effective Aug. 20
Through tickets from S. W. Alaskan ports to Minneapolis, St.
Paul, Chicago and all points East will be on sale via Seattle
and the “Milwaukee” Railway at the new low fares on and aft
er August 20th by the Alaska S S. Co., and the Pacific Alaska
Nav. Co. Full information from S. S. Agents at Anchorage or
A. E. HARRIS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Juneau.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway
North Side Lumber Co.
Carpenters, Attention:
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE WE HAVE ESTABLISH- |
ED A BRANCH YARD UPTOWN WHERE YOU |
CAN GET:
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Building Paper Doors
Roofing Windows
Amiwud Moulding
Dimension s4s
LEAVE YOUR ORDERS.
GEO. M. CAMPBELL
YARD: OLD TOWN
OFFICE: CORNER FOURTH AND F STREET
The Lang Stove, born in
Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Armco Rust
Resisting Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with
wood or coal.
Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Lang
Stove.
If he cannot supply you write us.
Our line is complete from the small
est camp stove to the largest hotel
range.'
Any sourdough will tell you about the
Lang Stove. They all know it.
F. S. LANG MFG. CO.
SEATTLE. WN.
High Tribute to
Inventive Genius
of Americans
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' (By FRANKLIN K. LANE)
Secretary of the Interior.
No American need feel a sense of
dismay at the scientific prowess of
Europe in the present war as an indi
cation that its science is superior to
ours. On the other hand, many of
the most important weapons and pro
cesses with which Europe is amazing
civilization are the products and de
velopments of American invention.
Take away from Europe today the
things that trace to an American
origin, and the war would be fought
along entirely different lines. Take
American inventions away from Eur
ope in time of peace, and European
civilization would go back for genera
tions.
The rapid fire funs, the armor tur
rets and other essential features of
the dreadnaught, the submarine, the
flying machine—these are a few of
the weapons of modern warfare sup
plied by American ingenuity. In our
Civil war we were the first to use fix
ed balloons for military observation.
The most remarkable new appliance
developed by the European war is
the Lewis gun, an American inven
tion. This weapon shoots 600 times a
minute without recoil, and yet it is so
light that a man can carry it. It is
used on aeroplanes.
War Would Challenge Inventive Skill.
There is no estimating what might
be produced by our inventors should
our country be plunged into war. Any
hostile nation would at once challenge
the inventive skill of the United
States which has lain practically dor
mant so far as devising engines of
war is concerned, since our Civil war.
If necessity spurred us, we would de
vise greater and more deadly weap
ons and explosives than the world ev
er Knew, and greater than Europe has
produced during the war, because we
have a resource of inventive genius
superior to that of any other people.
We know this because when challeng
ed by the competition of peace our in
ventors have produced more than
those of any other two or three na
tions.
According to a compilation of pat
ents in the United States patent of
fice of the world’s epoch-making in
ventions for the last 50 years, 35 are
American inventions; 14 are the in
ventions of the rest of the world.
The American scientist may not
have the plodding mind of the Ger
man which is content to experiment
tirelessly for years and years in de
veloping some abstruse process, but j
the American genius lies along me
chanical lines. Whatever the world
wants done in making science serve
human need, the American mind
finds some way to do it. The Am | i
can has more skill in applying science
and more curiosity of the sort that
breeds invention and discovery than
any other nationality. As a people
we look at things with a fresh mind
like that of Benjamin Franklin, whose
activities ranged from drawing light
ning on kite strings to starting uni
versities and developing modern pav
ing, street lighting and cleansing
systems.
Could Exist If Isolated.
As a result our inventiveness has
been at work supplying the deficien
cies revealed to us by the present
war. We are developing a dye in
! dustry. Our industry is becoming
complex; we are no longer content to
sell our vast resources as raw materi
als for other nations to perfect for
human use. We are now finished
manufacturers, and we are beginning
to utilize our by-products which form
erly went to waste. We have made
the start toward producing our own
supply of nitrogen and potash, taking
the nitrogen from the exhaustless air
and the potash from the fumes of our
smelters and kilns. With these addi
l tions, provided for us by our science,
we now produce every mineral we
, need—even tungsten. Our farms sup
ply what we can eat.
Thanks largely to our scientific at
tachment, we can now close every
port, stop all ingress and egress for
a thousand years and the United
States would not Jack a single thing
needed for sustaining life and indus
trv. No other nation can claim as
much.
Fairbanks’ official poundmaster is
in a peck of trouble. Some of the
owners of dogs which the poundmas
ter has attempted to gather fti, have
voiced their objections with their fists,
much to the detriment of the official,
and others have brought shotguns in
to play.
J. R. Grimes and R. H. Sales, two
well-known mining men of Butte,
Montana, arrived in Petersburg re
cently, en route to Windham bay to
inspect the mining property held by
the Alaska Bond and Investment Co.
with a view to its development on a
large scale. ,
“That Man
Logemann”
Record for Month of July:
1,000 Rolls of Film Developed
And 0,000 Prints.
WHY?
ALL WORK EXECUTED A
LITTLE BETTER THAN
SEEMS NECESSARY.
Prints 3c up
FILMS DEVELOPED 15c
4th and G Streets
ALASKA BUILDING.
Sanitary Market
The only cold storage plant in con
nection with market in Anchorage.
Home-made Sausages. Fruits. Veg
etables, Butter and Eggs, at whole
sale. Restaurants and roadhouses,
speclul attention.
tth Ave.. I!et_ H and I Sts.
E. E. KURTZ & CO.
Send 1’s Your Check
...ASSAYS...
Falkenburg & Laucks
Ore Testing and Milling
Gold and Silver $1.00
Copper . . - $1.50
Lead ... $1.00
Seattle, Wash.
95 Yesler Way.
“Analyze Anything."
Northern Transfer Co.
C. P. Pedersen. Mgr.
General TRANSFER Business
WOOD ICE COAL
Cor. 4th and D.
STRYE PHOTO STUDIO
(Next to Empress Theatre.)
PORTRAITS, ENLARGING,
FRAMES, KODAK
FINISHING.
Developing 13c. Prints Go up.
OPEN 9 A. M.-9 I>. M.
S’ -
C. HENNING,
T AILOR
Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Suits
Cleaned, Pressed and Repaired. 4th
Ave. and D St.
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® Blacksmithing General
;I Repair Work
1 Bob Small j
I; Horseshoeing a Specialty
Oxy-Acetylene Welding !
: Cor. C and Second Anchorage <:
V. A. SCHMITZ
OPTICIAN
OFFICE
Northern Drug Company. Empress
Block, Corner 11 and Fourth.
All Fresh
Most complete and up-to-date <:\ ;■
and cigarette and tobacco siock ia
Anchorage. Robarts’ Billiard and
Bowling Parlors, Business Cer.tei.
Post office opposite. 7-Sltf
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Men’s and Young Men’s Wear
The Home of Luggage of Quality
Oshkosh Wardrobe Trunks, $25 Up
Eastern Trips try Western People
ARE MADE WITH THE GREATEST COMFORT
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Great Northern R’y
To St. Paul, Chicago and the East
To Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis and the South
To Portland and California by Rail and Ocean
Steamships “Great Northern and “Northern Pacific”
Complete Information and Rates Prom
F. 1$. TRACY, Ala ska S- S. Co.
T. B. WATSON, Ad iliral Line.
A S. DAVTIUCK, Traveling f reight and Passenger Agent,
Room lk, Valentine Building, Juneau,
f J. Moore, City Passenger Agu Senond and Columbia. a:.ittle
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Johnson Tent Factory
Tents, Tarpaulins, Eunks, Mosquito Eed Nets and
Hat Veils, Blankets, Comforters, Pillows, Sheets, Pil
low Cases, Bed Springs, Mattresses, Brussel and Grass
Rugs, Window Shades, A Fine Line of Mirrors, Chairs
and Rockers.
HOUSE FURNISHINGS OF ALL KINDS
Johnson lent Factory
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BANKING BY MAIL
It makes no difference where you are located, you
can send us your gold dust or checks and we will place
them to your credit, acknowledging receipt and furnish
ing you with a check book so you can draw money when
needed; or, if you prefer, we will place the money on de
posit in our Savings Department where it will earn 4 per
cent interest.
We will be pleased to attend to any business you
wish transacted anywhere.
German-American Mercantile Bank
SEATTLE - - WASHINGTON.
Fine Job Printing at The Times Office