EVERY-DAY BATHROOM
NEEDS
Your Rexall Store has made particular effort
supply you with every need to add to the com
fort and pleasure of your bath.
. SOAPS, BRUSHES, SPONGES, WASH
CLOTHS, TALCUMS, ETC.
KLENZO MASSAGE BATH
SPRAY
Is delightfully invigorating for daily use.
It aids free circulation of the blood and pro
motes vigorous health.
We recommend it as absolutely the best Bath
Spray ever made.
Cordova Drug Co.
The jft&xaJliL Store \
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CITY BAKERY LUNCH ROOM
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Special Carefully-Prepared Lunch served from 11:30 a. m. Our Fine
French Rolls with every meal
Big Variety of Pastries and Cakes, Always Fresh
Sanitary Machinery of Latest Model, Patent Brick Oven. Best Ma
terials used by Expert Workm «. jroducing our Famous Cream Loaf
I Best Coffee in Town
French Bread Rye Bread
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SHORT STORIES
ABOUT ALASKA
The city of Wrangell finished the
fiscal year with something over five
thousand dollars in the treasury.
According to the Ketchikan Chron
icle, bluebirds—certain harbingers of
spring—have arrived at that place.
Ketchikan bachelors at the first hint
of sunshine in their town this spring
challenged the world to play baseball.
High officials of the New England
Fish Coihpany were recently at Ketchi
kan making plans for the extension of
their plant there.
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Antone Eide, foreman for the Alaska
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l'rr'ad commission, has arrived at
Petersburg and is hiring men and get
ting ready ot start work on the Peters
burg-Scow Bay road.
The steamship Spokane, while at
tempting to make a landing at th€
Fishermen’s Union dock at Peters
burg, bumped and caused damage tc
the amount of $500.
H. R. Chilberg, manager of the Salt
chuck mine, near Ketchikan, narrowlj
escaped faeath at the mine recently
when a falling rock hit a wheel thai
threw the rock and narrowly misseci
his head. It broke his shoulder.
W. J. Maakestad, for the past three
years pastor of the Lutheran churcl
at Petersburg, is leaving that place, ac
companied by his wife. Mr. Maake
stad, besides being a preacher, has
been city clerk for the past year.
C. H. Robinson was recently namec
city engineer at Ketchikan at an an
nual salary of $3,600. He is a Ketchi
kan man, in the lighthouse service al
the present time, but* will resign tc
devote his time to his new position.
The shingle mill and the town saw
mill were united in the marriage o1
Nicholas Nussbaumer and Miss Marie
bride’s father owns the shingle mil
McKinney at Wrangell recently. The
there and the groom works in the
sawmill.
According to the Petersburg Report
the pulp and paper mill that is to be
erected at Thomas Bay, fifteen miles
from that place, will cost at least frwc
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million dollars to erect, and will em
ploy about two thousand men wher
completed.
The Americ, Hogue & Tveten’s hi?
mail boat of Petersburg, has startec
on her summer schedule, making calls
at Kake, Tyee, Baranof, Red Bluff, Pori
Walter, Port Conclusion, Port ArnJ
strong, Pillar Bay, Washington Baj
and Saginaw.
The Unuk and Chickimun rivers are
to be prospected this season. These
streams are in extreme Southeaster!
Alaska, and have never been thor
oughly prospected, although good in
dications of mineral have been founc
near both of them.
Barney WTatson, claims agent for the
Pacific Steamship Company, better
kyown as the Admiral line, has been
promoted to the position of chief as
sistant to General Manager Flye, and
will be stationed in San Francisco.
Mr. Watson has just returned from an
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extended trip to South and Central
America, in the interests of the big
transportation company. For Years
Mr. Watson was the agent of the
steamship lines in Nome. Later he
went to Anchorage as agent for the
Admiral line.
BIG ATTRACTION j
AT EMPRESS TONIGHT!
The entire New York fire depart
ment turning out on a “general call,”
and the most spectacular fire scenes
ever filmed, are features of the pic
ture showing tonight, entitled “The
Still Alarm.” Action, intrigue and
mystery, temptation and defeat, and,
for climax, the wild race of the en
gines and a desperate fight with
death.
j And then, the very best two-reel
! comedy that “Fatty” Arbuckle has
made, “The Desert Hero.” It’s full of
new punches and unexpected fun. It’s
>2,000 solid feet of laughs, and after
i seeing it tonight you will be coming
. | back tomorrow night for fear you may
1 have overlooked some of the surpris
ing stunts that Fatty pulls. You’d
think him rather soft to look at him,
wouldn’t you? Well, he’s not! He’s
the toughest, hardest, roughest West
ern cuss that ever lived. He eats ’em
alive!—breaks rocks with hia teeth,
he’s so ornery. But oh, boy! when
that Salvation lass shows up!
Tonight and Saturday at the Em
, press.
SMOKING PROHIBITED
AT ORPHEUM THEATER
RAN FRANCTSCO, April 28 (by As
sociated Press).—Smoking at the
Orpheum vaudeville theater here has
been prohibited and the custom of al
lowing pioneer patrons of the theater
to reserve the same seats by the year
has beeiTabatidt-ned.
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SMALL NEVADA TOWN
HAS RECORD FOR AUTOS
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FERNLrEY, Nevada, April 28 (by
Associated Press).—With only sixty
’ families, Fernley, a farming commun
ity, boasts sixty-three automobiles,
sod residents toll of this as a record
unequaled by any western town.
MARTIN KNOCKS OUT
MILWAUKEE FAVORITE
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April 29 (by
Associated Press),—Bob Martin, cham
pion of the American expeditionary
forces, knocked out Ted Jamieson of
! | Milwaukee in the sixth round last
night.
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NOTICE TO FIREMEN
No. 1 chemical has been placed in
C-street station.
! H. W. NETTLETON, Fire Chief.
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A melodrama full of action, intrigue and mys
tery. Stirring scene of a spectacular fire—the
wild race of the engines and the fight with
death
AND
FATTY ARBUCKLE
In the Funniest of All His Hits
“Desert Hero” j
^Manhattan Hotel j
LOUISE DEJONGHE, Prop.
Electric Lighted. Hot Water. Turkish *wd Tub
Baths. i r
OPPOSITE CORDOVA GRILL, CORDOVA, ALASKA. *
PHONE 99 I
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Cordova Fish &
Cold Storage Co.
DEALERS IN ALL KIND8 OF
Fresh and Salted Fish
Clams and Crabs
CORDOVA, ALASKA
LAUNCHES
PIONEER AND SWAN
Wm. J. Crooker, Owner and Master
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REGULAR TRIPS TO KATALLA
FREIGHTING AND TOWING
To All Parts of the Sound
Phone 57—2 Rings
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I OVER 5.000 MILES OF ALASKA’S WESTER** COAST LINE HAS BEEN PRONOUNCED HIGH GRADE OIL LAND BY |
I GOVERNMENT GEOLOGISTS. MUCH OF IT IS PROVEN GROUND. IT IS YOURS FOR HE COST OF STAKING g.
| „ AND DRILLING A SHALLOW HOLE. WILL YOU GET YOURS? |
I ■ ' WE ARE ALASKA AGENTS FOR HEAVY ( |
“Star” CHI Well Drilling Machinery
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CORDOVA, ALASKA
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