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THE CITY BAKERY
WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN FINE CAKES AND PASTRY
FOR
Parties and Receptions
Makers of the Famous ‘‘Cream Loaf” Bread
Sun “Maid” Raisin Bread—A Treat Indeed
Rye Bread Graham Bread
LUNCH ROOM—WHERE YOU GET THOSE EXCELLENT
LUNCHES
SAVE MONEY!
COME TO THE BARGAIN STORE
And see what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
I beds, mattresses and canvas goods of all kinds, tents and
! shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also
carry a full line of mirrors—plate glass and plain.
THE NORTHERN BLOCK
First Street
Copper River
and Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tuesdays
and Fridays
Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednes
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
The above schedule subject to change without
notice.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p- m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
''ip hour before departure of trains.
v^ALEB COTiSER W. E. BROWN
Superintendent Agent Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent
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Save food or go on short rations.
WANTED
HAIR SEAL PELTS
We pay high prices for hair
seal pelts. We want a big sup,
ply. QUICK! Send them right
to us. Our references, any
bank in Seattle.
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North Coast Tanning Co.
1138 West 46th St.
Seattle
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NOT CRIPPLED
CHICAGO, May 20—.The nation’s
industrial man power has not suf
fered as a result of the United States’
i first year in the world war, so far as
indicated in recent surveys of the gen
eral labor situation conducted by the
United States employment service and
the Illinois free employment bureau.
Except in certain skilled trades these
bureaus find there is no marked
shortage of labor, the chief problem
at present being distribution.
The labor turn-over so far this year
Las been greater than in previous
years. This is attributed to some ex
tent to unusual opportunities for in
dividual betterment offered by plants
working on war contracts.
On an average 100,000 persons are
obtaining employment through the
Chicago district office of the federal
bureau as c^.upared with a total of
495,000 during the last fiscal year.
This huge increase is accounted for
by the recent reorganization of the
bureau for service as the national ma
chinery for the mobilization and dis
tribution of the country’s labor. As
such it has handled the applications
of hundreds of thousands of workers
registering with the public service re
serve, including more than 260,000
mechanics for shipbuilding.
A system of daily surveys shows
the bureaus where the greatest short
ages or surpluses exist, and with this
information it is able to make eco
nomic distribution. Manufacturers
are being urged to use the govern
ment agency as far as possible in or
der to reduce the labor turn-over and
uneconomic competition between in
dustrials essential to the war.
At the state employment bureau
6,000 persons sought work in March,
and there, too, the demand is in
about equal balance with the supply,
except in a few trades. Positions
were found for nearly all the appli
cants.
The demand for women workers is
said to be about normal. Only in a
few isolated cases have they replaced
men called to the colors. A few
plants engaged on war contracts have
employed large numbers of women
without difficulty.
Many women teachers are said to
be reaching the school rooms for more
remunerative employment, and the
draft has drawn so heavily upon the
already scant supply of men teachers
that several states report the situa
tion alarming for next year. A sur
vey of thirty-seven states just com
pleted by the professional service di
vision of the federal bureau shows
that during the present school year
West Virginia was forced to close be-1
! tween 150 and 200 schools because
oi the scarcity of teachers. In Mon
tana and Wyoming about two dozen
schools were closed for the same rea
son, while New Hampshire, North Car
olina, Delaware, Mississippi, Alabama,
New Mexico, South Daknta, Wiscon
sin and Indiana report a marked
shortage. The bureau has 700 teach
ers’ applications and 600 vacancies
listed, but a large percentage of those
seeking positions, it is pointed out,
are not qualified for work in the de
partments where the greatest defi
ciency exists.
To cope with what is expected to
be an unprecedented labor shortage
later in the year, a new department
of the United States employment serv
ice has been organized to handle rail
road labor for the western regional
district. By order of Director Gen
eral McAdoo the railroads have abol
ished their labor bureaus and the gov
ernment agency will recruit their men
as well as direct the distribution. In
event of an acute shortage of work
ers in maintenance of way depart
ments, it is planned to suspend work
not absolutely necessary and send men
from these locations to points w'here
they are more urgently needed. A
great number of laborers are said to
have left the roads because of the
higher wages they can obtain in mines
or factories.
So far the farmers of the central
West and Northwest have had little
difficulty in finding enough help. Most
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but are being urged by employment
officials to accept more men from the
public service reserve, which consists
for the most part of students. In a
few western states the harvest labor
question is being taken up by com
munities, each community mobilizing
emergency workers to help near-by
farmers. Mobile forces of harvesters
are also being organized to begin
with the Kansas winter wheat harvest
and move northward through the Da
kotas and other northwestern states
where the wheat is ready for cutting
after the Kansas harvest is over.
These men, with the hands available
from the public service reserve, are
expected to furnish ample farm labor.
An innovation in the federal em
ployment bureau is a department or
ganized to aid crippled soldiers re
turning from the war. The commit
tee for the handicapped, a private or
ganization, has just been merged with
the service. It will list positions dis
abled men can fill and help them re
establish themselves in civil life.
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Quality talks. Smoke an El Rol
Tan Cigar and be convinced; they are
mild. tf
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Use less wheat and meat. Buy local
foods. Serve just enough. Use what
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Second-hand linoleum at Rawson’s
Bargain store. 7-tf
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Somewhere in the U. S. A.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE:
Business and residence prop
erty.
FOR RENT:
Six room house on Lake St
Hood building on Second St.
Office room in Adams’ building.
Several cabins.
FIRE and MARINE INSURANCE
FIDELITY and SURETY BONDS
CORDOVA ABSTRACT and
REALTY COMPANY
ROOM 1, ADAMS BUILDING.
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Where we can always find our
friends
Finest Billiard and Pool Ta
bles In Alaska
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BEST GRADES OF STAND
ARD BRANDS OF CIGARS
CORDOVA
MACHINE WORKS
E. R. GARNES, Prop.
Residence Shop
Phone 101-3. Phone 182
Machine Woik of all Kinds,
Blacksmlthing. General Repair
ing, HorBe Shoeing, Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
AUTOMOBILES
REPAIRED
Office and Shop: City Dock
Cordova, Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention.
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Osborne Bros.
1 Jewelers and
Opticians
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DRS. DAGGETT & BLYTH
Northern Hotel Building,
Cordova.
DENTISTRY
Houra 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Special Attention to
Prophylaxis and Pyorrhea.
PHONE 200
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
D. 8. Deputy Surveyor.
B0X 13 CORDOVA, ALA8KA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store*
Calls May be Left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova
General HoBplt&l (Oetrander Build
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Phones—Residence 116; office 1S2
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DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office: Over Blum, O’NelM’s Store
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SMITH & McCONAGHY
PLUMBERS AND STEAM FITTER^
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Cor. Front and B Street*
Office Open Evenings.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
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WILLIAM PALLISTER, M.D.
Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasses
fitted.
JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL
FRANK A. METCALF
Civil and Mining Engineer
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
Juneau Alaska
FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hotel
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