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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
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Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.'
I Cordova House
DOOLEY AND GREENIG ~
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guranteed
iiji Rates Reasonable
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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! J
COME TO THE BARGAIN STORE
And see what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
beds, mattresses and canvas goods of all kinds, tents and
I shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also I
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
\\ hart from 9 a. m. to 3 p- m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Dej>ot office
*oie hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER W. E. BROWN
Superintendent Agent Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent
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Do Your Best for the Red Cross
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THE
‘HORSESHOE’
POPULAR RECREA
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Where we can always find our
friends
Finest Billiard and Pool Ta
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BEST GRADES OF STAND
ARD BRANDS OF CIGARS
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The Red Dragon
CORDOVA, ALASKA
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Headquarters of Cordova
Chapter American Red Cross.
Club House founded in 1908
by Episcopal church. Open
from 1 p. m. to 10 p. m.
REV E. P. ZIEGLER
Supt.
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When Ordering Job Work Don’t
Think It Is Your Duty to Build Up
Concerns In the States. But Give
The People Who Are Paying
Wages and Spending Their Money
In Cordova a Chance to Live.
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“Over the Top”
By An American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR GUY EMPEY
Machine Gunner Serving In France
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(Copyright- 1917. by Arthur Guy Inpty)
8YNOPS18.
CHAPTER I—Fired by the new* of the
■Inking of the Lusitania by a German
submarine, Arthur Guy Empey, an Amerl
j can, leaves his office In Jersey City and
j goes to England where he enlists in the
i British army.
CHAPTER II—After a period of train
ing, Empey volunteers for Immediate serv
ice and soon finds himself In rest billets
"somewhere In France," where he first
makes the acquaintance of the ever-pres
ent “cooties."
CHAPTER III—Empey attends his first
church services at the front while a Ger
man Fokker circles over the congregation.
CHAPTER IV—Empey's command goes
Into the front-line trenches and Is under
fire for the first time.
CHAPTER V—Empey learns to adopt
the motto of the Brtish Tommy, “If you
are going to get It, you'll get It, so never
worry."
CHAPTER VI—Back In rest billets, Em
pey gets his first experience as a mess
orderly.
CHAPTER VII—Empey learns how the
British soldiers are fed.
CHAPTER VIII—Back in the front-line
trench. Empey sees his first friend of the
trenches "go West.”
CHAPTER IX—Empey makes his first
visit to a dugout In "Suicide Ditch.”
CHAPTER X—Empey learns what con
stitutes a "day’s work" in the front-line
trench.
CHAPTER XI—Empey goes "over the
top" for the first time In a charge on the
German trenches and la wounded by a
bayonet thrust.
CHAPTER XIII—Each Tommy gets
an official bath.
CHAPTER XIV—Empey helps dig
an advanced trench under German
fire.
CHAPTER XV—On "listening post”
in No Man’s Land.
CHAPTER XVI—Two artillerymen
“put one over" on Old Pepper, their
regimental commander.
CHAPTER XVII—Empey has nar
row escape while on patrol duty in No
Man s Land.
CHAPTER XVIII—Back in rest bit
lets Empey writes and stages a farce
comedy.
CHAPTER XIX—Soldiers have
many ways to amuse themselves
while “on their own.”
CHAPTER XX—Empey volunteers
for machine gun service and goes
back into the front-line trenches.
CAPTER XXI—Empey again goes
“over the top” in a charge which cost
his company seventeen killed and
thirty-one wounded.
CHAPTER XXII—Trick with a ma
chine gun silences one bothersome
Fritz.
CHAPTER XXIII—German attack,
preceded by gas wave, is repulsed.
CHAPTER XXIV—Empey is forced
to take part in an execution as a mem
ber of the firing squad.
CHAPTER XXV—British prepare
for the Big Push—the battle of the
CHAPTER XXVI—In a trench raid,
preceding the Big Push, Empey is des.
perately wounded and lies unconscious
in No Man's Land for thirty-six hours.
CHAPTER XXVII—After four
months in a British hospital, Empey
is discharged as “physically unfit for
further war service.”
The wound in my fhc.r bed almost
healed and I was a horrible-looking
sight—the left cheek twisted into a
knot, the eye pulled down, and my
mouth pointing in a north by north
west direction. I was very downheart
ed and could imagine myself during
the rest of my life being shunned by
all on account of the repulsive scar
Doctor Frost arranged for tne to go
to the Cambridge Military hospital at
ENLISTED MIN ENT1IN
WELL THEN CHE OF
CAM PLEWIS, Tacoma, April 29.—
Whenever a trainload of soldiers
leaves Camp Lewis with an Atlantic
port as the immediate destination,
there always is on board a Y. M. C. A.
secretary, one of the men from Camp
Lewis, who travels with the men for
several hours until he has arranged
for a sort of godfather supervision
over the men to cheer them on their
long trip.
Writing materials, magazines and!
games are distributed over the train :
and these are put in charge of one;
man in each car, who for the time
being represents the Y. M. C. A. The
association aims to maintain its in
fluence with the men from the mo-,
ment they enter camp, during the
tiaining period here and their voyage
over, and until they come back after
the war and are sent home.
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Madame Lydia, the paimtst, will t>e
found in the Currier & Mickelson
building on C. street. l«.tf (
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Do you know that the El ILol Tan j
Cigar is the largest-selling high-grade |
cigar in the United States?
Aldershot for a special operation to
try nml make the scar presentable.
I arrived at the hospital and got an
awful shock. The food was poor and
the discipline abnormally strict. No
patient was allowed to sit on his bed.
and smoking was permitted only at
certain designated hours. The face
specialist did nothing for me except
to look at the wound. I made appli
cation for a transfer back to Paignton,
offering to pay my transportation.
This offer was accepted, and after two
weeks- absence, once again I arrived
In Mnnsey ward, all hope gone.
The next day after my return Doc
tor Frost stopped at my bed and said:
"Well. Empey, if you want me to try
and see what I can do with that scar
I’ll do It, but you are taking an awful
chance.”
I answered: "Well, doctor, Steve
Rrodie took a chance; he hails from
New York and so do L”
Two days after the undertaker
squad carried me to the operating
room or “pictures," as we called them
because of the funny films we see un
der ether, and the operation was per
formed. It was a wonderful piece of
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The Author Just Before Leaving for
Home.
surgery and a marvelous success.
From now on that doctor can have my
shirt.
More than once some poor soldier
has been brought into the ward In a
dying condition, resulting from loss of
blood and exhaustion caused by his
long Jdurney from the trenches. After
an examination the doctor announces
that the only thing that will save hi in
is a transfusion of blood. Where is
the blood to come from? Be does not
have to wait long for an answer—sev
eral Tommies immediately volunteer
their blood for their mate. Three or
four are accepted; a blood test is
made, and next day the transfusion
takes place and there Is another pale
face la the wurd.
Whenever bone is needed for some
special operation, there are always
men willing to give some—a leg if |
necessary to save some mangled mate
from being crippled for life. More
than one man will go through life with
another faun's blood running through
his veins, or a piece of his rib or his
shinbone in his own anatomy. Some
times he never even knows the name of
his benefactor.
Tlie spirit of sacrifice is wonderful.
For all the suffering caused this war >
is a blessing to England—it has made !
new men of her sons ; has welded ail j
classes into one glorious whole.
And I can’t help saying that the doc
tors, sisters, and nurses In tire English
hospitals, are angels on earth. I love
them all and can never repay the care
and kindness shown to me. For the
rest of my life the Red Cross will be
to me the symbol of Faith, Hope and
Charity.
After four mouths in the hospital, I
went before an examining board and j
was discharged from the service of his !
Britannic majesty as “physically unfit J
for further war service.”
After my discharge I engaged pass- J
age on the American liner New York, j
and after a stormy trip across the At
lantic one momentous day. In the haze
of early dawn, I saw the statue of lib- j
erty looming over the port rail, and I
wondered if ever again I would go
“over the top with the best of luck j
and give them hell.”
And even then, though it may seem
strange, I was really sorry not to be
back in the trenches with my mates. I
War is not a pink tea, but in a worth- :
while cause like ours, mud, rats, coo- i
ties, shells, wounds, or death itself, are
fur outweighed by the deep sense of
sutisfiiction felt by the man who does
his bit.
There is one thing which my ex- i'
perienee taught me that might help the ,
boy who may have to go. It is this—
anticipation is fur worse than realiza
tion. In civil life a man stunds ltt uwe
>f the man above him, wonders how lie
could ever fill his job. When the time .
comes he rises to the occasion, is up '
tud at it, and is surprised to find how
illicit more easily titan he anticipated
te fills his responsibilities. It Is really
>o “out there.”
He has nerve for the hardships; the
nterest of the worst grips him ; he finds
•ellvf iu the fun and comradeship of
he trenches and wins that best sort of ,
nippiness that comes with duty well
loue.
THE END. j
NATION HAS NOBLE EXAMPLES
The brave French and English have
suffered as we have not known; they
have sacrificed as we have not been
called upon to do; and their stern for
titude is an example that cannot fail
to inspire the nation.
Thinking of our allies, and espe
cially of the noble French, who are
standing embattled to protect their
homes, it must be a far and dismal
day on which we Americans, who be
lieve we can sacrifice more for our
ideals than any other race, utter one
word of complaint on what we may
have to suffer or become discouraged
for a single second.
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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
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CORDOVA ABSTRACT and
REALTY COMPANY
ROOM 1, ADAMS BUILDING.
| Osborne Bros.
Jewelers and
Opticians
WATCH REPAIRING and
1 JEWELRY MADE TO ORDER
CORDOVA. ALASKA
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NOTICE
By order of the town council, all
ownerless and vicious dogs will be
removed from the street.
FRED BROTHERSON,
Chief of Police.
PROFESSIONAL
DRS. DAGGETT & BLYTH
Northern Hotel Building,
Cordova.
DENTISTRY
Hour* 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Special Attention to
Prophylaxis and Pyorrhea.
PHONE 200
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 13 CORDOVA, ALASKA
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 Hospital (Ostrander Bull*
ing-.
Phones—Residence 115; office 132
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Office: Over Blum, O’Neill’* Store
SMITH & McCONAGHY
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PLUMBERS AND STEAMFITTER*
Cor. Front and B Street*
Office Open Evenings.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
WILLIAM PALI.ISTER, M.D.
Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasse*
fitted. «.
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JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL
FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hotel
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CORDOVA
MACHINE WORKS
E. U. GARNES. Prop.
Residence Shop
Phone 101-3. Phone 182
Machine Wo: k of all Kinds,
Black8iuithing, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing. Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting.
HARMON MACHINERY
BUILDING
Cordova, Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention.