Application made , April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for enzry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
“WHERE RAIL AND RIVER MEET”
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FOR THIS WE PAY TAXES.
Inasmuch as the Federal Govern
ment apparently has mere print pa
per than it knows how to use and
more persons on its payroll than it
can otherwise employ, the depart
ment of agriculture has just issued
a “bulletin” covering 32 pages on
“Selection and Care of Clothing,”
says the Cordova Times.
Among the illuminating excerpts
taken frbm the bulletin, the Cor
dova paper finds that “clothing
should always be comfortable and
healthful; it must protect the body
from cold, heat, moisture, rough
surfaces, according to need”; also
that it •‘should be in harmony with
or improve the lines of the figure.”
Turning over a page of the bul
letin, we learn that “generally, lit
tle can be done to undergarments
except to patch or darn worn places, j
to sew on buttons, or perhaps to \
rework frayed buttonholes.” And
that valuable advice is followed by
the even more practical suggestion
that “women’s dresses may often be
freshened and made to look new
simply by cleansing,” etc., and
“men’s hats may be freshened by
reblocking and renewing the rib
bon.”
from every page of the bulletin.
Hampered by lack of paper, we feel
impelled to skip a few pages to
present the following admonition
deemed by the department essential
to our prosperity and happiness:
“Socks and stockings may be of
cotton, wool or silk, and should be
long enough not to cramp the toes."
This is all very wonderful and
highly informative, declares the Cor
dova editor. No doubt it will be
read with avid interest by everyone.
It is a trifle disappointing, however,
that the department’s high-priced ex
perts do not go on to tell us when
to “put ’em on” in the fall and
when to “take ’em off” in the
spring; when to allow the kids to
go barefoot; what to do with collars
whose edges have become frayed:
how to darn holes in socks, and a
lot of other vital information that
no house-wife, of course, knows. All
of these important secrets repose i.i
the recesses of the agricultural de
partment. On behalf of our rea'ders
we thank the new secretary of ag
riculture, Mr. Meredith, for unlock
ing the doors to so many of these
tremendously important secrets. Per
haps in his next effusion we shall
be favored with this other data.
And that is how a part of the
taxpayer’s money is being used!
A GOOD CUSTOMER.
Canada's population in 1918 was
estimated at slightly more than
8,500,000.
On that basis, says the Seattle
Times, its imports from the United
States during the fiscal year ended
April 31 averaged very nearly $100
for every man, woman, and child in
the Dominion.
There probably is no other coun
try on the globe which purchases so
large an amount, per capita, from
this country, and there are few
which buy more, the Dominion’s
purchases during the past fiscal year
aggregating $802,000,000.
The exchange situation weighed
against this commerce. Canada had
to pay a stitfer price than it would
have paid had conditions been nor
mal. Nevertheless, it spent $55,
000,000 more for American goods
than it did in the previous fiscal
year.
Likewise—and this is .mportant—
Canadian exports to the United
States, which reached the imposing
figure of $461,000,000, also regis
tered a handsome increase.
A suggestion as to the trade pros
pects of the current year is afforded
by the report of the Dominion bu
reau of statistics, which announces
that the proportion of fall wheat
killed by frost this year was the
smallest on record.
ANOMALIES OF THE HIGHER
COST OF LIVING.
The department of labor statistics
showing how the cost of living in
fourteen industrial centers has virtu
ally doubled in five years reveal
curious contrasts. New York loses
its popular reputation as the dear
est of American cities to Detroit,
where the increase has been 107.87
percent, as against 103.81 for New
York. Swollen manufacturing pros
perity and Ford wages, suggests the
New York World, may help to ex
plain the difference. But why is
Norfolk ahead of the metropolis
with an increase of 106.98 percent?
And why has the increase amounted
to only 95.05 percent in Cleveland,
a city in the same geographical and
industrial zone as Detroit?
The distinction of being the most
expensive community is not one to
quarrel over, and it is clear that
local conditions of food transporta
tion, rent, etc., must affect the gen
eral average of higher prices. The
figures for Portland, Me.; Boston,
Philadelphia, and Baltimore indicate
that the East, with the exception of
New York, has suffered less than
other sections.
The most striking rise has been in
clothing (219.66 percent) and in
furniture and furnishings (172.92
percent), which compare with in
creases of 23.39 percent in rent and
50.63 percent in fuel and light.
Here again certain surprising anom
alies are disclosed. Why, for ex
ample, should the cost of women’s
clothing have risen 234.97 percent
while the cost of men’s clothes rose
201.26 percent? From the tenor of
masculine complaints it might have
been inferred that men .w'ere the
main sufferers. The less vociferous
protests of womenfolk possibly point
to a philosophical endurance of high
prices of clothing born of long ex
perience.
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LINDEBERG PREDICTS
FUTURE FOR REINDEER
Jafet Lindeberg, prominent Nome
mining man, expects to see the rein
deer business develop in Alaska un
til it exceeds the fisheries. Linde
berg was in Seattle recently and
declared that the value of reindeer
meat exports from Alaska in a few
years will amount -to millions of
Hon. Dan Sutherland
Candidate for Delegate to Congress
Hon. E. B. Collins
Candidate for Senator
will address the citizens of Nenana on the
issues of the campaign, on
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 29
AT THE COLISEUM
STARTING AT 8:30
EVERYBODY I INVITED
Under the Auspices of the Nenana Republican Club.
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COMING
GREAT DRAMATIC
TRIUMPH
ENLIGHTEN
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DAUGHTERS
Written and Produced by
IVAN ABRAMSON
ALL-STAR CAST
COLISEUM
JULY 3
First Showing in Alaska
Direct from Park Theater,
New York.
A STIRRING PRODUCTION
WITH A MORAL
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dollars and that Alaska would con
trol the buckskin market of the
world from the reindeer hides.
Lindeberg entered the reindeer
raising project on a large scale two
years ago. These holdings are be
ing rapidly increased until today the
Lindeberg interests control the larg
est holdings on Seward peninsula.
Incidentally, the same care is being
exercised in protecting the breed
and caring for the animals which
characterizes all well’condueted stock
farms in the States.
Sheldon Jackson, head of the
Board of Home Missions for Alaska,
induced the Government to bring
reindeer to Seward peninsula early
in the ’90s. These herds were han
dled by Lapland herders until they
could be handled bv the natives
These natives are now being sup
planted by well educated Americar
,-white herders who have come frorr
agricultural and other colleges
These new men have made a carefu
study' of “hoof-rot” and other form;
of disease which in the past have
caused losses among the herds.
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i THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
May have what you a~e looking for
SECOND-HAND GOODS BOUGH!
AND SOLD.
NORTH OF NENANA HOUSE;
WATCHES
JEWELRY
Watch Repairing
DESIGNING AND NATIVE
JEWELRY A SPECIALTY
WM. TAYLOR
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FOR RENT — Furnished or unfur- i
nished, entire door over the Good
Clothes Store, consisting of six j
looms and large patch; all mod-;
ern conveniences. Private on-!
trance. Apply on premies Lip- i
man Simson.
PHONOGRAPHS wanted at
son’s Department Store.
Sim
FOUN'D—Leather watch fob with
locket. Owner can have same by
calling at The News office.
BUNCH OF SEVEN KEYS found.
Owner can recover by calling at
News office and paying for adv.
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BARN FOR RENT—Second and E.
Three double stalls. Pump in
barn. Inquire at News.
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THE DWYER HOME FOR SALE.
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A shipment of typewriter paper, j
of the standard American brand,
has just been unpacked at The News
office, where it is on sale by the
j box or in any other quantity desired.
(The sizes include both legal and
j letter and the weights range from
the lightest to heavy.
The paper was bought right and
is being sold at a close margin of
profit.
The News also has unprinted en
velopes for sale by the box and by
the package-—all sizes, from baroni
al to legal, white and colored, and
;bond and wove.
A company with unlimited capital
behind it is planning to open a
chain of hotels in the main cities of
> Alaska from Ketchikan to Anchor
*age. Parties in Juneau, Ketchikan,
land Cordova have been approached
ion the proposition. These hotels
iwill make a business of catering to
the tourist trade
Twelve cases of smallpox are re
ported to have developed recently
; at Cordova.
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MEETS AT MOOSE HALL
Fourth and B Streets
Fourth Monday of Month
At 8:00 P. M.
ALEX FOWLER, ALF EKELAND,
Secretary Dictator.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
NOTICE
Passengers are required to pur
chase tickets before entering trains.
Tickets can be purchased from
the station agent, whose office is in
the employment office, on the ground
floor of the General Office Building,
Alaskan Engineering Commission, or
at North Nenana.
Tickets will be on sale at ,ny
time during office hours, and can be
purchased in sufficient time before
the departure of the trains.
Regular trains for the south leave
the foot of A street on Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 8 a. m. ^
The following change of schedule
between Nortn Nenana and Fair
banks is effective June 1, subject to
change without notice:
Leave Fairbanks at 8:00 a. m ;
arrive North Nenana, 12:30 p. m.
Leave North Nenana, 2:00 p. m.;
arrive Fairbanks, G:30 p. m.
A ferry will be run between Ne
nana and North Nenana to connect j
with Fairbanks trains. Passengers
for Fairbanks should purchase tick
ets in Nenana before crossing the
I ferry.
Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
During the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North an'd are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our^excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUNEAU, ALASKA