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Americans
Do your bit
Eat Corn meal musk*
Oatmeal- Corn flake s
Hominy and rice witk
mill^ Eat no wheat cereals.
1 Leave nothing on your plate.
UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION
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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SAVE MONEY!
pome BARGAIN STORE
I And see what we have in the line of workmen’s clothing,
1 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
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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
one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER W. E. BROWN
Superintendent Agent Cordova.Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent
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— Howard and Hamilton Watches »
Railroad Grade and Best Timepieces Made
Alarm Clocks from $1.75 to $4.00
Snow Glasses, in Smoked and Amber, from 50c to $1.50
PAUL BLOEDHORN
PHONE 43 JEWELER AND WATCHMAKER
LONDON, May 20 (by mail).—Con
scription of women soon will start 5
zigzagging its way through the House
of Commons. Sir William Bull’s bill
appears to be too coarse for success.
It it ever becomes a law the changes
will be so great that the author will
not recognize it.
The bill may go on and suffer de
feat. Or it may be tabled after it has j
served the purpose of permitting dis
cussion of the complicated problem
of forcing Tommy’s shrinking sisters
to put on khaki or blue and do their
bit.
The Bull bill cannot succeed unless
the government lowers the minimum
voting age for women. It proposes
conscription of women between 18 and
31, while the suffrage law doesn’t per
mit women to vote until they are 30
years old. Thus more than ninety per
cent of the eligibles for conscription
have Absolutely no voice in the govern
ment.
There are many quiet ways of ditch
ing impractical legislation .in the
house of commons. Sir William will
have accomplished one big purpose
if he merely starts the idea running
through the heads of the cabinet mem.
bers. It will be up to them to make
the compensating concessions in suf
frage, and perhaps to introduce a
women's conscription bill of their own
when the showdown comes on British
manpower.
There are about 2,000,000 women be
tween 18 and 40 without families or
households who have never engaged
seriously in war work. They are vir
tually idle except that some spend a
few hours each week in light canteen
work for the soldiers.
Could Release Men
By working full time at farming,
munitioning or clerking it is estimated
that they could release half a million
able young men, many of whom could
be developed into infantry troops.
This addition to the army would in
turn postpone the day when 500,000
elderly civilians would be called up
under the recently enacted manpower
law.
There are thousands of young wo
men in civil life who are earning good
wages as stenographers and office
clerks, factory hands, store clerks
and transport workers, each one of
whom has released a fit man for the
army. Most of these women have
been at work for a year or two, hav
ing first been specially trained for
their new jobs. They would have to
receive special consideration, because
they could not be expected to give
up those jobs with their present high
wages to accept nominal wages on an
equal footing with the unskilled “slack
erettes” of a feminine conscription.
The Waac’s and the Wren’s—the
latter organization being the women’s
naval auxllliary arm—would be wel
come conscript recruits for the val
uable work they are carrying on both
in England and behind the lines in
France. A great many other con
scripts could be employed in saving
small business houses from ruin due
to the calling up of the proprietors
who have been carrying on alone for
the past two yeft*s.
A Place for Women
The one-man business house has
been one of the tenderest cases with
which the tribunals have had to deal
in their daily hearings on pleas for
exemptions. The despairing business
man usually faces complete ruin af
ter he has been called up. He some
times succeeds in finding a buyer
for his store—usually at a sacrifice
—but more often he is forced to sell
out stock and fixtures at a loss, close
up the place and face the prospect of
beginning all over again late in life
after the war if he is fortunate enough
to come back.
If the womoa conscxipts could 3ave
such firms from loss the gain would
compensate for the trouble of build
ing up a conscription machine.
In any case there is no likelihood
of mothers with children being called j
up. Their contribution to the national j
cause is apparent.
These Work Bravely
More than a million other women
have been working hard and steadily,
the majority of them at least five
full days a week, for two years or
more without pay. They include the
women and girls of comfortable cir
cumstances who wash dishes, cook,
answer telephone calls and do the hun
dred and one odd jobs found around
a hospital. They are to be found in
every canteen and soldiers’ lodging
house, in the munition making areas
and even on railway platforms, direct
ing columns of-traveling troops from
train to train. It would be of no ben
efit either to them or to the govern,
ment to bring these women under con
scription, especially as thousands of
them hold as many as three of those
unpaid jobs apiece.
The suffrage issue is one that the
government surely must face again if
conscription of women should be un
dertaken. This might not be diffi
cult, as the opposition to extending
suffrage to the younger women could
not stand up very long against the
brave and efficient record of the
young women who already are releas
ing many battalions of soldiers for the
trenches.
ESCAPED FfllSONEH TEEL!
OF GEHIWLlirS FLIGHT
TOULON, France, June 27.—Busi
ness, in the peace-time sense of the
word, virtually is dead in Germany,
asserts Sergeant Vuillemet, who with
several comrades recently escaped
from a prisoner of war camp in Ger
many and reached France, and who is
on a visit to his father here.
According to his story, countless
stores in Germany were closed and
empty and everything that is being
manufactured is for war purposes i
and for the state.
The meat ration, he said, was 250
grams, one-half pound, per week, toj
which was added one-tenth of a pound 1
of grease or fat. Sugar and coffee
were only dimly remembered luxuries.
The beer was virtually undrinkable
and the leople were living on potatoes
and Ijeets. The bread is said to be
indigestible.
Leather has almost entirely disap
peared, and the soldiers at home and
many civilians wore wooden-soled
shoes almost exclusively. Soldiers at
home on furloughs were no longer
permitted to spend all their time
with their families or friends but must
work pari of the time in the factories.
RICHARD ALDRICH
Richard Aldrich^ well-known musi- \
cal critic of the New York Times, has |
been commissioned a captain in the !
United States army. His work is of a
kind which the war department does
not advertise, but is illustrative of the
fact that the arts and letters are con
tributing men who are helping the j
conduct of the war in unusual ways.
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The J. H. Long Packing Company
has completed construction of a sal
mon cannery at Juneau.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE:
Choice business and resi- j
dence property.
FOR RENT
Furnished and unfurnished
apartments and cottages.
INSURANCE
Fire and marine, life and ac- j
cident.
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BONDS
Fidelity and surety.
CORDOVA ABSTRACT and
REALTY COMPANY
ROOM 1, ADAMS BUILDING.
MEET ME AT
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‘HORSESHOE’
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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. GARNE8, Prop.
Residence Shop
Phone 1014. Phone 182
Machine Woifc of all Kinds,
Blacksmlthlng, General Repair
ing, Horse Shoeing, Oxy-Acety
lene Welding and Cutting. '
AUTOMOBILES
REPAIRED
Office and Shop: City Dock
Cordova, Alaska.
Out of Town Jobs Given Strict
Attention.
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| Osborne Bros. |
Jewelers and
Opticians
| WATCH REPAIRING and |
| JEWELRY MADE TO ORDER |
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When Ordering Job Work Don’t
Think It le Your Duty to Build Up
Concerne In the Statee, But Give
The People Who Are Paying
Wagea and Spending Their Money
In Cordova a Chance to Live.
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DRS. DAGGETT & BLYTH
Northern Hotel Building, ^
Cordova.
DENTISTRY
Hours 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Special Attention to
Prophylaxis and Pyorrhea.
PHONE 200
WM, A. HESSE
Mining Engineer,
D. 8. Mineral Surveyor,
U. 8. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 1* CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and 8URGEON
Office over Cordova Drug store*
Calls May be Left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN AND 8URQEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova
General Hospital (Oetrander Bnlld
lng-.
Phones--Resldence 116; office 1M
DR. C. L. HALE
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D E N T I 8 T
Office: Over Blum, O’Neill’s Store
SMITH & McCONAGHY
PLUMBERS AND STEAM FITTERS
Cor. Front and B Streets
Office Open Evenings.
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| E. T. MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Lavs.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
WILLIAM PALLISTER, MJX,
Specialist In the treatment ol
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasses
fitted.
'JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL
FRANK A. METCALF
Civil and Mining Engineer
U. S. Mineral Surveyor
Juneau Alaska
FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hotel
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| FRESH BEEF, PORK, VEAL, MUTTON AND PRO- I
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Particular Attention and Prompt Service Given to Ordera from
Mining Camps, Roadhouses and Interior Points
| Halibut and Other Fresh Fish of All Kinds Will Be Kept |
I: in Stock When Available a
SMITH £ GLASSBRENNER, Props.
Sixty Steam Heated Rooms Eletric Lighted
Hot and Gold Water in Every Room
With or Without Bath.
Cordova House!
DOOLEY AND GREENIG I
Headquarters for Railroad and Mining Men
Satisfaction Guranteed
Rates Reasonable