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Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
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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
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i COME TO THE BARGAIN STORE
i And see what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
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
• me hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER W. E. BROWN
Superintendent Agent Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent
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♦ Manufacturers and
* Bottlers
♦ Soda Water, all Flavors,
* Gingerale,
♦ Root Beer,
* Coco Cola.
♦ Mail Orders Given Prompt
* Attention.
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Save food or go on short rations
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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.
North Coast Tanning- Co.
1138 West 46th St.
Seattle
GERMANS REPORT GIRLS
FOR HEAVIEST OF LABOR
IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY
(By Henry Wood, United Press Cor
respondent)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES,
April 2 (by mail).—The latest grip
of Germany’s iron hand on Alsace
Lorrane is to force the women and
girls who still remain there to aban
don their homes and perform manual
labor in the war zone. The system
of deportation and virtual slavery is
the same as that inaugurated by Von
Bissing in Belgium and northern
France.
According to letters which have just
reached France from the two stricken
provinces, many of these women and
girls are now being obliged to dig j
both trenches and tunnels.
Despite the rigid surveillance which
the Germans exercise over the inhab
itants ol' Alsace-Ijorraine, the latter
still find means of getting letters to
France, usually by way of Switzerland,
which give vivid descriptions of the
regime which the Germans are now
imposing there.
One of these letters from Essy-les
Nancy which succeeded in getting
through to Oucy, in Switzerland,
reads:
“In certain villages the young girls
are employed in digging trenches and
tunnels until we are forced to wonder j
how' these unfortunate ones can keep
up their strength——
Another letter w’hich got through
to Epinal deals more at length with
the manner in which the Germans are
practically enslaving the girls and
women of Alsace-Lorraine. This let
. _j
“In Alsace the Boches have inaugu
rated the deportation of numerous
women and young girls into the mili
tary zone on the French front, where
they are forced to work. The news
papers do not speak about this, but
merely reprint the response given by
the German government to Deputy
Hauss. The government stated that
in the female personnel there are only
8 per cent of the young girls who are
under 17 years of age. Among these
there are some who volunteered.
(Quite naturally, because many fac
tories are closed, and in order not to
starve to death one is forced to ac
cept whatever presents itself, to say
nothing of the other means of persua
sion that the Boches have at their dis
posal.)
“The government continued its re
ply by saying that all young girls un
der 17 are now to be sent back to
their families; first those who are
now working against their will, and
later all the rest, as fast as circum
stances will permit.
“It has now been decided to grant
leaves ot absence to soldiers from Al
sace-Lorraine, the same as to cr.iers:
Therefore they have not had any up
to-date?
“The foreclosure of French prop
erties continues on every hand. The
Chateau de la Robertson, near Stras
bourg, belonging to the Des Bussieres
family, has been sold to a Boche emi
grant for a million and a half marks.
"At Mulhouse and Riedishen there
is a shortage of coal. At Mulhouse
several schools have been closed and
the classes in the others doubled in
order to save coal. At Haisingue and
in all the other villages the Boches
are tearing up the floors and demol
ishing everything.
“To speak French, and especially to
a French prisoner, entails always a
fine of 20 to 30 marks.
“Leather is becoming scarcer and
scarcer, but the dealers in it are do
ing a great business. The leather |
factory of Adler & Oppenhiemel ac,
Strassbourg had its prolits increased j
the first year of the war 784 per cent; !
the second year, 1,213 per cent.
I'P until 1913 Krupp had never|
employed a single woman. On De-!
eember 51, 1915, they were employing
10,938. According to the "Mulhauser
tagblatt, this number has now’ been
quadrupled.
"To tranquillize the population, the
newspapers state that the Americans
will only be able to send to France
several hundred or possibly several
thousand soldiers who will succeed
in escaping the submarines; All the
others, they assert, will be sunk.”
Another letter, from a priest, an
nounces that the entire population of
Alsace-Lorraine between 17 and 60
years of age has been ordered mobil
ized for civilian work. Priests are
included.
Still other letters declare that cloth
of all kinds has become so scarce that
it is not to be found, and leather is
likewise disappearing.
“At Strassbourg,” the letter contin
ues, “both men and women are fo be
seen going about barefooted, many
not even having wooden soles with
their paper thongs.”
Other letters state that in the two
provinces, as elsewhere in Germany,
the bulk of the wearing apparel is
now made out of the paper substitute
for cloth which has been devised in
Germany since the beginning of the
war.
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NATION NEEDS SPORT
TO MAINTAIN SPIRIT
(Written by Governor John K. Tener
for the United Press)
Now that spring-like weather and
the warm days are upon us the call
of the baseball field seems stronger
than ever. Especially is this true
among our soldiers and sailors, as
they may be encamped on this side
of the Atlantic or in France.
Whenever and wherever the Ameri
can youth finds the opportunity he
yields to the desire to get into the
open with ball and bat and indulge
in the game of baseball, of which he
is so fond.
While our minds must, by reason of
the very nature of the situation, be;
constantly-filled with thoughts of war, |
we realize that while our best efforts ■
are given to our country's service we j
mut keep our minds and bodies in
such shape as to make those efforts
the most effective.
A feeling of depression and fear will
never win against good cheer, good
health and good work.
The administration, headed by the
President himself, has approved the
continuance of outdoor sports through
out the war. Those colleges which
abandoned baseball and football last
year have put their athletics again
into full swing, while the Red Cross
has found that next in importance to
food and munitions our men in France
require baseball and other athletic,
paraphernalia, that they may indulge
in their sports and thus keep up the
physical fitness and spirit of the army.
Baseball is a war game. There is
no blot on its banner. It has given
its fair share on service and is pre
pared to give more.
NOT HINT CHIOS
RESIDE 10 ST. LOUIS
ST. LOUIS, May 3.->-St. Louis has
a smaller percentage of German-horn
residents than many other large cities
of the United States, despite prevail
ing opinion to the contrary, according
to statistics compiled by the Cham- j
ber of Commerce.
Instead of “the most German city” j
n America, the Chamber of Commerce I
trails it “the most American city in -
ihe country.”
According to the figures St. Louis
'oreign-born comprise only 18 per cent
>f the Population, as compared with
J3 per cent in Detroit; 34 .in Cleve
and, 35 In Chicago and 35 in Boston.
The percentage of German-born in
3t. Louis is 6.9; Chicago, 8; Cleveland,
’: Detroit, 8; Milwaukee, 17; Buffalo,
10, and Cincinnati, 7.
MEET ME AT
THE
‘HORSESHOE’
POPULAR RECREA
TION PLACE
Where we can always find our
friends
Finest Billiard and Pool Ta
bles in Alaska
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,
Blacksmithlng, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing, Oxy-Acely
lene Welding and Cutting.
HARMON MACHINERY
BUILDING
Cordova, Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention.
1 Osborne Bros.
Jewelers and
Opticians
| WATCH REPAIRING and
JEWELRY MADE TO ORDER
CORDOVA, ALASKA
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When Ordering Job Work Don’t
j Think It Is Your Duty to Build Up
Concerns In the States, But Give
| The People Who Are Paying
] Wages and Spending Their Money j
| In Cordova a Chance to Live.
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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 j,
DRS. DAGGETT & BLYTH
Northern Hotel Culldlng,
Cordova.
DENTISTRY
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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'
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Office over Cordova Drug Store,
Calls May be Left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. C 0 V N CIL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova
General Hospital (Ostrander Build
ing-.
Phones—Residence 115; office 132
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DR. C.L. HALE
DENTIST
Office: Over Blum, O’Neill’s Store
SMITH & McCONAGHY
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PLUMBERS AND STEAMFITTER*
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Cor. Front and B Streets
Office Open Evenings.
E. F. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Lav*.
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; glasses
fitted.
JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL
FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hotel
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