Take a Victrola
on your camping trip
A Victrola is looned upon as a regular part of
a camping outfit nowadays.
It is always sure of a rousing welcome.
Its delightful music is one of the real joys of
camp life.
Whether you are gc'vp ramping or not, come in and get acquainted
with the V.ictrola. We'", p idly play any music you wish to hear.
Victrolas $15 to $1.50. Victors $10 to $100. Terms to suit your
convenience. * ^ ^ r ^ V V'
Northern Drug Co.
• CORDOVA
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New Patterns in Stock
PHONES 11 and 75
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| ^ care in handling table ^
I I "oe^eY,r“ 11 Work Called
r i us do this work for [. j r- i
^ you. Every piece will I Of QflU
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^ lessly ironed. We are V
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F. A. Jones, Proprietor
; First Avenue Below Alaskan Hotel
Fine Job Printing At The Times Office
ONCE WEALTH!
1 RUSSIANS ARE
: NOW INDIGENT
Vologda, Russia, May to (by
mail). If the entente allies will not
intervene, let the Gormans route, Is
| the altitude of the formerly wealthy
and middle classes of tin* people ol
Russia Most of them here would
frankly welcome foreign interven
lion.
This feeling has been the greatest
j obstacle in any attempt to bring the
j Russian internal political revolution
I out of the whirlpool of disorder, uc
| cording to information In the foreign
I embassies here.
Now that tin* peasants and work
j men arc having their innings, the
property classes are beginning to feel
; the pinch of denial and even of star
| ration experienced by the poorer
| classes in Russia for centuries. Tills
i is illustrated by the experience of the
j "bourgeois" family in whose home the
| Associated i'ress correspondent lives
| as “paying guest."
This family, once one of the wealth
lest in the Vologda government, ow ned
thousands of acres of timber land.
' several lumber mills, a dozen ships,
| two glass factories and more than
2,000 acres of arable land.
This Is what lias happened to these
holdings in the past two months:
The lumber land has been declared
a government monopoly and colitis
cated; likew ise the shipping The
glass factories and lumber mills have
been taken over and operated by the
workmen The peasants have taken
the land.
A few days ago the city govern
merit (Soviet) imposed a special tax
on the capitalistic class. The family
was assessed 50,000 rubles.
Prices for foodstuffs, when obtain
able, are enormous, even when (igured
at the present rate of international
M exchange which these Russians do
not get, because their money is old
j money, invested or made when the
I excnunge was two rumes to tne dol
lar. Compared with old standards.
I prices in Russia, where living wag
! cheap, the prices now arc almost till
1 believable.
| White flour can not be bought, ex
cept by stealth and in the tiniest
j quantities The black flour which all
use now makes the blackest of bread.
The poorest peasants formerly ate
! something similar The cost of this
flour formerly was the equivalent of
about 25 cents per pood (36 pounds).
At present in Vologda each person
is allowed live pounds of this Hour a
month—enough to permit about three
11 thin slices of bread per day But
more is procurable through irregular
channels. The correspondent's host
bought a pood yesterday frtr 150 ru
’ Ides Just three hundred times the old
j price.
j There is nothing else quite as bad
\ as this, but with meat, butter and all
other foodstuffs the prices are from
ten to fifty times the old amount.
: Everything is by card; that is. pur
chases are limited and city (Soviet)
{controlled: but it is quite possible, if
- one has enough money, to secure
11 larger quantities by stealth.
But the Soviet litis quite an effoc
I j live way of controlling this under
, handed trading the ''obusk.'' Obusk
■ is Russian for search. A dozen or so
| armed soldiers and Red (luards swoop
1 down now and then on the house the
j I correspondent occupies and mnfls
j cate the surplus supplies
When to these difficulties are added
] ! confiscation of bank account* of the
I wealth} t'amilie- their plight can be
|; Imagined.
SPIRIT OF THE SAMURAI
STILL PREVAILS IN JAPAN
TOKK). July in Kxpiating their
negligence in a manner which shows
that the old Samurai spirit still reigns
in Japan, two railroad gate tenders
at a grade crossing near Tokio com
mitted suicide when they learned that
through their carelessness a Japanese
I traveler had been run over and killed
by a train. The victim of the neci
I dent was a Japanese hanker who was
crossing the tracks 'in a jinrikishaj
w hen a freight train bore down and {
crushed him.
The two watchmen wero asleep.
When they realized what had hap
pened they notified the authorities and
then threw themselves on the track
before the next train. Several lead
lug officials attended the funeral of
the gatemon, and the obsequies were
marked with mack cereasoay.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Sealed proposals will he received
until* elevn o’clock a. in.. July 12,
1918. at the office of the Territorial
Hoard of Hoad Commissioners for the
Third Division of Alaska in Valdez.
\laska. at which time and place they
" ill he ptihlh ly opened for the grad
ing, elearing, and the construction of
three culverts on the Kyak lake road
Said proposals must he signed by
the bidder and accompanied by cash
or a certified < heck pri^able to the
< hainnan of the Divisional Commission
for live per cent of the amount hid,
which amount shall lie forfeited to the
Divisional Commission in case that the
bidder shall fail to enter into a con
tract according to the specifications
of said commission for such work, in
the event of his being awarded the
contract for the above work. The,
successful bidder will be required to
execute the general form of contract
of said commission for such work
within a period of ten days from the
acceptance of h:s bid by the said com-1
mission The successful bidder will
also be required to execute a bond .
payable to tlie chairman of the said]
commission for twenty (29) per cent
of the contract price, said bond to,
be acceptable to the commission.
The above work must be perform***!!
according to the standard spcciflca-!
lions and conditions on file at the of
fice of the Divisional Hoad Commis
sion at Valdez. Alaska, and at the;
\laskan hotel, Cordova, where a copy
of same with form of contract tuay he
i seen and proposals obtained and pro
: file examined.
Proposals must be signed by the
i bidder, inclosed in a plain sealed en
velope and addressed to the Terri
torial Board of Hoad Commissioners
for the Third Division. Valdez, Alaska,
and be plainly marked "Kyak I«ake
Hoad Proposal.”
The right is hereby reserved to re
ject any and all bids.
| Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 26th j
day of June, 1918
Divisional Commission of the Terri-1
torial Board of Hoad Commission-i
i
ers for the Third Division. Terri-1
tory of Alaska.
By JAMES K. WILSON,
| ::-ll Chairman of the Board.
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SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY
I hereby offer for sale 7,292 shares
j of the Cordova Mill A Lumber Com
j ;>any stock at 76 cent* per Bhare.
CHARLES .1 GOODALL.
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Madam Volva will give scientific!
card readings for a short timo only,;
from 7 p. m. until 10 p m , over
Hegg'g gtore.
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AREYOU
AWAKE
?
I
To the fact that the
CORDOVA
DAILY TIMES
has one of the largest
paid circulations of any
paper in Alaska?
By advertising in its
columns you are speak
ing to every resident of
Cordova and the Copper
River Valley.
IT PAYS TO
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Boxes And Tables Reserved For Private
_ Dinner Parties _
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
ft**!
I NORTHERN MEAT MARKET
£ Wholesale tind Retail Dealers in
X FRESH BEEF, PORK, VEAL, MUTTON AND PRO- v.
| VISIONS
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| Halibut and Other Fresh Fish of All Kinds Will Be Kept f
£ in Stock When Available
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an’ a durti sight better.’’
J Anyway, one man
can’t get no better
J tobacco ’n another
ef they both get
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