The Cordova Daily Times
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cominvA, alaska,Monday, may 7,1917.
ALASKA, THE WONDERLAND
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Disclaiming any intention to bestow undue praise or cast
bouquets, and being not largely concerned if they be bouquets
or otherwise so long as they fit well within the limits of truth
and justice, we rise to remark that this glorious Alaskan won
derland of ours was created by the gods to be Portuna’s favor
ite trysting place, and the home of her special wards.
To him of them whose thoughts dwell alone upon the ma
terial and transitory incidents of life she freely gives satiety ■
to his every essential want from her gold and game-infested
hills and dales, her food producing waters, her flower-covered,
berry-laden mountains and the quick-growing fertility of her
soil.
To him of those w hose mind turns to the entrancing magic
of music and poesy and the arts beautiful, she offers brooks
and rills and cataracts which sing unnumbered lays in every
tone from the tender cadence of a falling flower to the crashing
volume of a thousand thunders; her spectral crags and fairy
groves and shimmering lakes are the abiding place of every
muse and all the graces, and in unequalled brilliance of her
sunsets, and the ever shifting lights and shades of her land
scapes, he ma\ realize the ultimate earthly loveliness and
charm.
To him of them whose heart yearns to touch the psychic
altitudes of life, to dwell upon the whence and whither of the
soul, and the end and aim of man, the wide earth offers noth
ing that will compare with the remote fastnesses and unbroken
solitudes of Alaska, the wonderland.—Ex.
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TH5! DOMINION OF THE SEAS <’
Lloyd George, in his latest speech, declared that the United
States had, by its recent acts, earned a membership in the com
mission that will finally prepare the terms of peace. The United
States can hardly help to settle the differences between the Eu
ropean nations themselves, but it can insist that there shall lie
no future wars for conquest; and that each nation, no matter
how weak, shall he entitled to hold its territory against all such
encroachments.
To make this possible, there must be a reduction of stand
ing armies and a limitation placed on the tonnage of navies.
It will he difficult to make Great Britain and Germany agree to
this, but it will be idle to talk of a permanent peace unless this
shall be done; it will be so difficult, in fact that we look to see
one more trial of strength between the British and German na
shall be done; it will he so difficult, in fact that we look to see
vies before any peace proposition will be seriously discussed.
Those two fleets, save the one battle off Jutland, have
been watchimr each other for two and a half years, like impa
tient gladiators eager to try conclusions with each other. As
a last desperate expedient, we anticipate that some morning the
German fleet will come out into the open sea and make a furious
effort to break the “ribs” of steel” upon which England has
depended for safety since the great Armada was shattered 329
years ago, and Great Britain first sang: “Britannia Rules the
Wave”—and issued her edict that “any ship meeting with any
ships of war of the English commonwealth in the British seas
will strike their flags and lower their topsails, in such a man
ner as hath ever been at any time heretofore practiced under
any form of government. And later Macaulay wrote:
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“Night sank upon the dusky bench,
And on the purple sea,
Such night in England ne’er had been,
Nor e’er again shall be;
From Eddystone to Berwick bounds,
From Lynn to Berwick bay,
That time of slumber was as light
And busy as the day.
For swift to east and swift to west,
The ghostly war-flame spread,
High on St. Michael’s mount it shone,
It shone on Beaching Head.
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b ar on the deep the Spaniard saw
Along each southern shire,
Cape beyond cape in endless range
Those twinkling points of fire.”
I liey were ‘‘ribs of oak” then. Since, they have become
“ribs of steel,” and the haughtiness of that English flag fly
ing above them have become a sore humiliation to the nations
of Europe through centuries
\\ e do not believe that the Germans will permit the war to
close until they have made a final trial to break that ancient
prestige, and when in a peace convention there is an effort
made to place limitations upon that power, then both England
and Germany will protest.
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Draft in America will give the kaiser a cold.
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II the kaiser knew all about our gardening activities, he
would immediately put fertilizer on the contraband list.
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It’s a long lane that has no turning, even a sea lane, as
Germany with her U-boats will find out.
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Rationing seems a rational step for England in the present
emergency.
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Sentiment for war throughout the world gains in propor
tion to German losses.
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W ar is a business in which General Efficiency outranks all
commanders. s
MRS. V. P. ABBOTT
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
Aflndtor Hotel - • Cordova.
E F. MEDLEY.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
3oom 1
\dams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
WM. A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
U. 8. Mineral Surveyor,
U. 8. Deputy Surveyor.
30X 13. CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. W. H CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
3ITica over Cordova Drug Store
Calls may be left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence.
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHY8ICAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova
[Jeneral Hospital (Ostrander Huild
Inc).
Phones —Residence 115; office 122
DR. C. L. HALE
DENTIST
Specialty of
Porcelain, Inlay, Bridge Work
Office: Over Blum, O’Neill’s Store
DR. CHARLES DAGGETT
AND
DR. HOMER BLYTH
DENTAL OFFICES
Suite 1, Northern Hotel Block.
Phono 200. Cordova.
P. O. Box 186. Alaska
Hours: 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Evenings by Appointment.
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ROBERT SIMPSON
JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted. Lenses Ground.
HUBBELL & WALLER
Civil and Mining Engineers.
U. S. Mineral and Deputy Land Sur
veyors for Alaska.
1102 L. C. SMITH BLDG., SEATTLE.
PATENT SURVEYS
A. C. BALDWIN,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor.
VALDEZ.ALASKA
SMITH & McCONAGHY
PLUMBERS AND STEAMFITTERS.
Cor. Front and B Streets.
Jftice Open Evenings.
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Will
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Regular Patron
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Restaurant
Private Boxes
For
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B\ ?.ry ihin<* In Season
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Our SDecialtv
Sporting Goods
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J aat Supplies
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Agents i i. Regal and Gray Gas Engines
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A I . - t a: nt ( F the Newest and Prettiest
Creations in
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mai d i: pri; g outfit. Call and See them.
At ROLFI’S
; Howard o: Lund
Contractors and Builders
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PHONE 68.
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j Phone 107.
MEET ME AT
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POPULAR REX faTIC.N i’LACl
Where We raq vlwajw Find Our
Friends.
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Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
Hot and Cold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House
H. C. ROSS, Proprietor.
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guranteed
Rates Reasonable
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PACIPIC STEAMSHIP (2
ADMIRAL LINE
-SAILINGS
From Cordova
We.tbound Southbound
ADMIRAL WATSON ADMIRAL FARRAGUT
MAY 9 MAY 9
Sailings from Seattle—April 25, May 3, 11, 19, 28.
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Sailings From Seattle—Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays.
Steamers President, Governor, Admirals Schley and Dewey, Queen.
Through Ticket, to All Part, of the United States and Canada.
Right Reserved to Chance Schedule of Steamers Without Notice.
FOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY
W. A. NOURSE, Agent. Empress Building.
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\ © ALASKA
\ STEAMSHIP CO.
Faet and commodious ateamera sailing between Seattle, Ketch
ikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez. Seward
April 28. MARIPOSA . May 8
May 4.NORTHWESTERN.May 14
Sail from Cordova seven days later.
The freighters Cordova, l^atouche, Juneau, Valdez
and Eureka also make regular trips.
This company reserves the right to change schedule ot ateamera
without notice.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Baggage
or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour before
sailing time.
F. B. TRACY, S R. HEDGES,
General Agent Agent j
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FOR GENERAL TEAMING, BAGGAGE
TRANSFERRED, AUTO SERVICE,
GOAL, AND WOOD.
ALASKA TRANSFER
COMPANY
UNEXCELLED WAREHOUSE FACILITIES
For Storing and Insuring Baggage,
Mdse and Household Goods.
Office—EMPRESS BUILDING, CORDOVA-Phone 85
WHY NOT OWN YOUR OWN HOME?
Many families are Paying out from $200 to $500 in j§
| rent each year. Why not put that into a home of your j|
| own? |
Call on Geo. C. Hazelet, Trustee of the Townsite, and £
v.'
#ee if it can’t be arranged.
1 NORTHERN MEAT MARKET 1
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN jij
| Fresh Beef, Pork, Yeah Mutton 1
and Provisions
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X Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to order* from
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MINING CAMPS, ROADHOUSES AND
INTERIOR POINTS
„ SMITH & GLASBRENNER, Props. 1
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Manhattan Hotel
R. W. FERRELL, Prop.
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish and Tub
Baths.
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA.
PHONE 99
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When Ordering Job Work Don’t
Think It le Your Duty to Build Up
Concerns In the State*, But Qlv*
Th* People Who Are Paying
Wage* and Spending Their Money
In Cordova a Chance to Live.
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