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Phone 84 Front Between C and^D
Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
PRICES REASONABLE
LOUIS JOHNSON, Prop.
r.s. McDonald
CONVEYANCING
GENERAL BROKERAGE
NOTARIAL WORK
LIFE INSURANCE
Local Agent of
Whitely-Woodward Company
Home Insurance Co., New York
National Fire, of Hartford
Hartford Fire Insurance Co.
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Co.
Law Union and Rock, London
Look Them Up In Best’s
Union Insurance Society, London
JTenana—The Gateway to McKinloy
National Park.
NOTICE.
Townsite Manager Joseph having
returned from Fairbanks, wishes to
announce that all payments of
assessments, etc, can now be made
at the townsite office.
A BARGAIN
FOR SALE—One room frame cabin,
lot 50x140. Nothing to pay on
lot; cabin 12x15, partly furnished.
Back of Rust House; $135. Ap
ply Ed Dowling, at Fowler &
Morris.
Henana, Where Rail* and River* Meet
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In a telegram received recently
from Anchorage from James Noble,
who with Dave Fairburn and Fred
Joyce left Nenana on the morning
of December 20, the news of the
arrival of the party at Anchorage
end of steel on December 30th is
contained.
The men reached the end of steel
near Nenana Crossing on the even
ing of December 20th and left im
mediately for the Lignite roadhouse
where they spent the night.
They commenced their mush to
the coast on the morning of the 21st
from Lignite roadhouse, and accord
ing to the telegram referred to
found the trail to be poor all the
way from Lignite to Moreno’s road
house at Riley creek, a distance of
approximately 18 miles. This was
due to the fact that there was little
or no snow on the trail between
these points.
From Riley creek to Jack river,
which is approximately 20 miles,
Jim Noble, the sender of the tele
gram. described the trail as fair;
and for a distance of approximately
70 miles from the Cantwell river to
the roadhouse on Indian river, the
party experienced heavy going. The
roadhouse at Indian river is within
fifty miles of Talkeetna, which is
the end of steel on the coast division.
The party finally reached the end of
steel on December 30th, nine days
after leaving the Lignite roadhouse.
Ifeunna, Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
LOS ANGELES.—Nearly all avi
ators and radio operators possess
musical ability and were born early
in the life of their mother parent.
Expert mathematicians never be
come prood musicians. Only 12 per
cent of the men who graduate from
college have low pitched voices.
These were among the recently an
nounced discoveries of Theophilus
Fitz, of this city, as the result of
twelve years of research, during
which over eighteen thousand tests
were made in high schools here and
in New York and in colleges and
musical conservatories in many parts
of the country.
Other facts revealed by his stud
ies, he said, were that the appre
ciation of rythm and rythmic sound
was more developed in children
born of young mothers than those
of mothers of middle age; that dra
matic ability was also the result
of early motherHood, that men who
have high or mediom high voices
were inclined toward the professions
and arts, and, that during the past
100 years more babies were born
who developed soprano or tenor
voices than of the contralto or bass
type.
In his studies, Mr. Fitz undertook
to demonstrate a theory that the
quality, quantity and compass of the
human voice and the musical apti
tude of an individual could be de
finitely determined during the years
of adolescence. His theory, he said,
was amply supported by the numer
ous tests he had made.
His diagnosis of the musical apti
tude of a pupil, he said, required
no test of the voice; the examina
tion consisting of a series of ques
tions and a few measurements to de
termine the extent of the reason
ance cavities o fthe head. One
series of questions related to phy
sical characteristics, another to edu
cational attainments and others
temperamental traits. One of the
questions asked was “Are you a
twin?” Mr. Fitz said he had dis
covered early in his experiments
that a diagnosis of the musical
aptitude of a twin was impossible.
OLD PAPERS FOR SALE—
aitu
POOREST TRIBE;
PLENTY TO EAT;
Wind swept Attu Island, a bit of;
Alaska at the top of the Aleutian!
string, farther west than any other J
part of North America, is the home |
of a tribe of about 100 Aleut In-j
dians, said to be the poorest people, j
financially, on earth.
Nature, however, provides these I
far away Indians a living. From
Attu and the nearby islands and
from the surrounding waters they get
eggs, fish, geese, seals, occasionally
a walrus, berries, and lately, blue
fox.
From the far South Pacific, the
Japan current, it is said, bringsfuel.
Driftwood thought to be from the
Philippine Islands, Hawaii and other
southern lands is scattered along
Attu’s beaches. No trees grow on
the island.
For clothes the natives use goods
brought from the Outside world by
occasional traders. Those lacking
in the cloth of the whites make their
garments from the grass and skins.
Like the Indian tribes of old, a
native chief leads these Aleuts and
acts as their head in all matters
trading, hunting, fishing, as well
as in the councils of the tribe, and
in the Russian church services to
which the natives still adhere.
Russians first settled on the island
in 1747, when they sailed west of
the Commodore Islands off Kam
chatka and established an important
trading post on Attu. The Russians
planted herds of cattle and goats
but in a few years both the Rus
sians and their stock left for other
parts.
A prospector recently sent out a
sample of ore from Nome, wet tests
convincing him by the reaction that
the ores contained platinum. He
asked the assayers to wire in actual
gold contents and if any platinum
later to write by mail. He received
$18 and a wire “some platinum,”
which sent a thrill through him and
he is now anxiously awaiting the
arrival of the assay sheet.
Douglas, with only one physician
to attend to the sick, escaped the
“flu” epidemic without a death.
COONEY MOTEL
Not Better Than the Best,
But Better than the Rest.”
NENANA ..... ALASKA
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OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
WEEKY FORCE REPORT
1*or the week ending December!
2b, 1!>18, there were 487 employes |
on the pay rolls of the Alaskan I
Engineering commission, 106 sta-i
tionmen or contractors and 20 sta-i
tionmen laborers.
Of (lie contractors, 82 stationmen i
and 2!) stationmen laborers were
employed on the main line south
o ftown; 21 stationmen on the Ne-;
nana end and .'! on the Fairbanks'
end of the branch line to Fairbanks.
The Commission forces were
divided as follows:
Camp 1. general
Camp 1, electric
Camp 1, corral
Camp 1, construction
Camp 1, store
Hospital
Townsite
. 53
21
8
62
32
12
Surfacing camp
Surfacing camp, corral
Tracklaying camp
Section No. 1
Section No. 4
Camp 373
Camp 415
Clear creek (Brown hoist)
Inventory No. 2
Quarantine Station No. 1
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67 i
23
15
3
Nenana total
Fairbanks office
Tanana Valley R. R.
Camp No. 454
Fairbanks total
Total for Division
445
41
12 |
26
42
487
on’t Leave
ALASKA
Men wanting employment can
obtain work at good wages at
Juneau, Kennecott and Latouche.
If you go out you will only
come back “Busted** in the spring
TAKE EMPLOYMENT FOR THE
WINTER.
Two hundred men wanted at
Juneau and vicinity; one hundred
and fifty at Latouche and
Kennecott.
ALASKA PUBLICITY
BUREAU
Juneau Alailca.
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Skof House
CLEAN WARM ROOMS
Mrs Norman Campbell
COLISEUM
SPLENDID EDUCATIONAL AND COMEDY PROGRAM
FOR THE KIDS TONIGHT
Hearst Pathe News - Pictorial News
THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR EYES
LUBIN OFFERS
“In the Hour of Disaster”
By Romaine Fielding
IN THREE WONDERFUL ACTS FILLED WITH THRILLS
AND ROMANCE
A wonderful tcene is shown in this picture of a head-on collision
of two trains running at a terrific speed.
Paramount=Bray Animated Cartoon
ENTITLED
“In Lunyland”
By Leighton Budd
ADMISSION 25c RESERVED SEATS 50c
THE SHOW STARTS AT EIGHT O’CLOCK
Don t Fai Ito see ’’Joan the Woman” tomorrow night* A pic
ture true to history. If in doubt, ask those who saw it This is
positively the last time it will be shown in Nenana.