I TAVERN CAFE
AND BAKERY
The Resort of the Epicure
FRUIT AND FANCY CAKES
FOR THE HOLIDAYS
WM. RODIGKEIT
Proprietor
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Phone 84
Front Between C and D
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Johnson’s Store
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
LOUIS JOHNSON, Prop.
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PRICES REASONABLE
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
Cook Them Up In Best’s
Union Insurance Society, London
Nenana—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.
Nenana, Where Ball* and Biver* Meet
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MEDICAL CORPS
WELL ORGANIZED
10 AID INJURED
NEW YORK.—November’s swing:
of the pendulum of history from
war to peace, which reversed the
eastward flow of America’s fighting
millions—-the greatest trans-oceanic
troop movement ever known—
brought the American people face
to face with the tragedy of the
casualty lists.
General Pershing’s announcement
that more than 58,000 of the Expe
ditionary Forces had given their
lives in the nation’s cause and that
14,000 others, exclusive of prisoners
were missing, created a profound
impression, but the human touch
of almost 100,000 wounded, 16,000
of whom already have been re
turned in various stages of helpless
ness to their native shores, promises
to give the country its first real
appreciation of the sacrifices of its
sons who followed the flag on for
eign soil.
The method of their debarkation
denies to the homecoming wounded
the popular honors paid their com
rades in full health. But the war
department, operating along lines
intended to give the lie to the pro
jverbial “ingratitude of Govern
| ment,” has arranged for medical,
| recreational and educational atten
| tion whose aim is to restore these
maimed heroes, as fully as possible,
to physical comfort and financial
independence.
From the day of their arrival at
i New York or Newport News, the
! ports of debarkation, to their re
| entrance into civilian lift, a host
j of Good Samaritans army doctors,
! nurses and orderlies and workers
of the American Red Cross—will
minister to these sufferers from a
i rumiess enemy s engines ot war.
j Harbor hospital boats, debarkation
hospitals, hospital trains and gen
eral hospitals for reconstruction or
convalescence form a chain of serv
ice linking the westward bound
fleets of transports with the homes
of the wounded. And in this serv
ice the medical debarkation corps,
suddenly thrust into the foreground
of publicity by the collapse of the
Central Powers, plays an important
and picturesque part.
I The end of the war found the
port medical authorities prepared
to shoulder the heavy burden laid
upon them. During nineteen months
j of American participation in the
j conflict they had maintained an
I embarkation hospital service, treat
I ing the comparatively rare cases
I of illness among troops ready to
j go overseas. When American forces
j entered the trenches small groups
.of wounded, evacuated from hospi
tals in France, began to filter thru
the service on this side of the At
lantic. With this experence accen
tuated by the lessons of the Allied
governments in repatriating their
wounded, the debarkation system
was put in readiness for the re
ception of injured men at the rate
of 10,00 to 15,000 a month.
During the war and a five weeks’
period following the signing of the
j armistice, approximately 11,500
I wounded had been received at New
j York and 4,500 at Newport News.
And the authorities were prepared,
on official advices from Washington,
to handle 50,000 cases in the next
four months.
The army embarkation service at
New York, which sent three-fourths
of the nation’s 2,000,000 men over
seas, is expected to debark a major
ity of the returning forces, and the
westward flow of wounded also will
be directed here, with some diver
sion to Newport News and possibly
later on, to Boston. To carry on
the work at this port the medical
department has a personnel of 7,306
—greater than the entire army
medical corps when the United
States entered the war. On this
staff, headed by Colonel J. M. Ken
nedy, veteran of twenty-five years’
service as an army surgeon, 950
are medical officers, 983 nurses,
men and women, 5,184 enlisted men
and 189 civilian employes.
The operating facilities include
eight debarkation hospitals with an
aggregate of capacity of 10,900
beds; two base hospitals at Colum-1
bia University for cases too seriousI
to be moved to interior institutons,
fve harbor hospital boats with 300
beds each, seventy-five ambulances,
with fifty additional held in reserve
by the Red Cross, and four hospi
tal trains each accommodating up- [
wards of 200 patients.
The base hospitals are at Camps,
Merritt and Mills, former embarka-:
tion, now debarkation cantonments'
for the overseas army. The de- i
barkation hospitals are strategically |
located on or near the harbor front. '
The port medical authorities, re- i
sponsible for soldier patients from1
the time of their arrival from Eu
rope to their delivery at general
hospitals nearest their home com
munities, aim to clear their charges
from the debarkation hospitals with
in a week. The work begins at the
port quarantine station. Here medi-1
cal officers board incoming trans-j
ports and assist the doctors aboard j
in preparing the men for landing, j
In practically all cases the wounded j
are taken directly from the shipj
to the harbor hospital boat, which;
conveys them to a pier near one *
of the debarkation hospitals, where
ambulances are in waiting.
While the men get their “shore!
bearings” their cases are studied
and assignments made to recon
struction hospitals.
The next process is the attach-.
meat of a medical laison officer to I
the group he is to conduct to an
interior station. When he has be-1
come familiar with his charges he
applies for a hospital car or train,
according to the size of his party,
and for an escort of doctors, nurses
and orderlies. If a train is assign
ed, the journey, even across the
continent, is simple, but if the
wounded till only one car, which
must be attache*? to regular trains,
the feeding problem becomes acute.
Here the Red Cross lends its aid,
aranging by telegraph with its aux
iliaries along the way for meals
for the travelers at points where
neither dining car service nor sta- j
tion restaurants are available.
rile hospital trains, equipped j
with specially constructed Pullman
sleeping and kitchen cars, have ac
commodations both for “walking
cases” and for men so severely in
jured that they must remain abed
both day and night. In anticipation
of their use on an extensive scale, i
fifty officers and 200 men are in
training here, and a smaller com- j
COONEY MOTEL
Not Better Than the Best,
But Better than the Rest
NENANA ..... ALASKA
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HOME COOKING OUR SPECIALTY
NEXT DOOR TO CASCADE LAUNDRY
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OPEN DA Y AND NIGHT
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pany at Newport News, as escort!
detachments.
KNIIIING CLUB !
MEEIS THURSDAY
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Resuming their activities after a
brief spell of holidaying, the Ne
nana Knitting club announce that
a meetng of the club will be held
next Thursday afternoon.
The meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. It. G. Southworth,!
near the News building, on First
and B streets, and all members are
cordially invited to attend.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE !
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Sunday school! will be held in
the old commissioner’s office build
ing. opposite the postoffice, Sunday!
at. 1 p. m.
The regular service will be held j
at the same place at two o’clock.
The subject will be “God.”
SUdon-Gibson Stage Line
Carrying U. S. Mails
For CHITINA and WA POINTS
Every Tuesday Morning
Special Auto for parties of four
or more any time.
C. Ha**ry Woodward, agent
Fairbanks i
sn’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 Alaska.
Skoi House
CLEAN WARM ROOMS
Mrs Norman Campbell
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COLISEUM
EXCEPTIONAL STRONG LASKY FEATURE FOR PROGRAM
TONIGHT
JESSE L. LASKY PRESENTS
THE EXQUISITE OPERATIC STAR, GERALDINE FARRAR
With An All Star Cast, in Cecil B. DcMillrs' Cinema Masterpiece
“JOAN THE WOMAN”
IN TWELVE WONDERFUL ACTS
If you failed to see this picture, which was shown on New
Years, don’t miss it tonight, as this will be the last time it will be
shown in Nenana. This picture has been pronounced by those
who saw it, to be even greater than “The Birth of a Nation” or
“Intolerance”—enough said.
MUSIC—VIOLIN, PIANO AND DRUMS
Overture— Selection “Joan of Arc”, song by Mrs. Leon Kellum.
with Coliseum orchestra and Katherine Sholseth, piano accom
GENERAL ADMISSION ONE DOLLAR
Reserved Seats $1.25