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STRICTLY SANITARY BATHS
ATTRACTIVE LOBBY
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COONEY HOTEL
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HOUSE or COMFORT FOR ALL
DOG KENNELS NENANA, ALASKA
COLORADO SCHOOLBOYS
AGAIN HELP FARMERS
DENVER.—Colorado high school
hoys again this summer are going
to give the farmer a lift and help
him harvest his crops during the
"immer vacation. Already enlist
ments are being received for the
boys’ working reserve, which per
formed valuable work for the farm
ers in the summer months during
the war, when so many men from
the farms were in military or naval
service.
“The busy boy will become the
banner citizen,” said L. Stimson, in
charge of enlistments for the work
ing reserve. “The finest thing that
can happen to a boy is to learn
something about farming. He whi
be better equipped for ail other
lines of business if he has training
on a farm.”
The farmers are said to be well
pleased with the success of the plan
last year and are eager to employ
the schoolboys again this summer.
Parents, too, have been found will
ing, for spending the summer vaca
tion in hard work on the farm
mean^ better health when the boys
come home to school in the fall.
Miss Constance Peterson, who
came to Nenana several days ago
to accept a position with the Alas
kan Engineering commission, has
been assigned to a desk in the main
.office of the general storekeeper.
Electrical Goods
Stoves and Ranges
Water Pipes and
Fittings
Bath Fixtures
Sheet Metal Work of All Kinds
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
Nothing Succeeds
Like Success
Our Goods are Right. Our Prices are
Right
Watch and Jewelry Repairing, Engraving
MICLES APPEAR
IN GERMAN PRESS
I
COBLENZ. — Considerable anti- i
American propaganada is being pub
lished in German newspapers by
German newspapermen who have
visited the Rhine zone occupied by.
the American army. Some of their j
writings set forth what purports to ,
be their own opinions of the con-,
duct of the Americans or the feel
ings of the Germans in the occu-;
pied territory.
The writings of one German in a j
Leipzig newspapers have afforded
amusement to the American intelli-1
gence officers, though he wrote j
with the evident intention to putj
Americans in a bad light before the j
German civilians.
“On aecotdfc of the sundry an- j
noying acts of the authorities,” he
writes, “the population is not at all
satisfied with the American occu-1
pation and is loud in its abuse of
these molestations, though, to be
sure, this is all kept within closed
walls. Nobody dares to make any!
criticism in public since recent
heavy sentences were imposed on
those guilty of careless rumors.”
Civilian visitors from unoccupied
Germany expect to find great stocks
of food in all stores, many coming
to the occupied area with the hope'
of securing supplies for themselves
and taking some back with them.
This is not allowed. Regarding food
the writer in the Leipzig news
paper says:
"There have been all kinds of
stories in Leipzig recently about
the marvellous things one can pur
chase in the American occupied ter
ritory. It was related that Ameri
can stores had been established
where all kinds of food was sold
at unbelievably low prices. That
is all very true—but the German
inhabitants are permitted only to
look at all these beautiful articles.
They can buy nothing. Everything
is for the troops only. And only
to be gazed at by the Germans are
the doughnuts, the savory odors of
which fill the city of Coblenz, and
which are baked from early morn
ing until late at night by the Amer
ican soldiers in no less than twenty
great bakeries.”
The writer also touches on the
work of the military police, saying:
“A \ery unpleasant institution in
Coblenz is the spy system. Posses
sion of American property is for
bidden. Whoever buys from Ameri
can soldiers cigarettes, food, shoes
and clothing and is caught with
the goods is punished with a drastic
fine or prison sentence.”
Summarizing, after writing sev
eral columns, the writer says in
conclusion:
“Disregarding the arrogant be
havior of the conqueror, the Ameri
cans in Coblenz and the bridgehead
on the right of the Rhine conduct
themselves in a very proper man
ner. Of course, there are cases of
disturbances by soldiers now and
then, but if an American soldier
tries to assault a German and a
military policeman is near enough
to arrest the soldier, one may rest
assured that the military court will
punish the American accordingly.
“All in all, judgment of the Amer
icans may be summed up thus:
They do not in reality behave worse
than would any other army of oc
cupation, although the soldiers an
noy it in many respects. And that
is a desirable state of affairs.
Thereby the idea of separation,
which has already made considerable
progress here and there in the
Rhineland, will lose more and more
of its supporters, and it will be
easier for the people of the Rhine
lands to remain a part of the em
pire.”
Pete Rettig, who arrived from
the Outside several days ago, has
accepted an offer to represent the
Farmers bank at Brooks during the
remainder of the season, and will
leave Fairbanks for the Tolovar.a
in a day or two.
Trench No. 1, Sons of Democ
racy', composed of veterans of the
late war, has been organized at
1 Ketchikan. ,
JOHN KELLY TO
Johnny Kelly, of the Northern
Commercial company staff at Fair
banks, and Miss Florence Smith,
one of the teachers in the Fairbanks 1
school, will be united in the bonds
of holy matrimony by Rev. If. H.
Lumpkin, at the Fairbanks epis
copal church, at 8:30 o’clock on
Saturday evening. Invitations have
been received by their many friends
for the occasion.
A reception will be held, follow
ing the ceremony, at the St. George
home on upper Cushman street,
from 9:30 to 11 p. m.
BOIL YOUR DRINKING WATER!
PHONE MESSAGES
ACROSS ATLANTIC
ARE NOW POSSIBLE
SAX FRAXCISCO, Cal.—A man’s
voice can be made as loud as the
cannon’s roar; it can be heard two
or twenty miles. The ticking of a
watch can be amplified until it
sounds like breakers on an ocean
cliff.
“It’s no trick at ail to magnify
sound four or five million times, or
indefinitely,” said Tom Lambert, a
wireless telephone engineer. “All
that is needful is to connect a num
ber of vacuum valves in multiple
with a wireless receiving set, and
thb thing is done. At the first re
ceiving contact a voice will be nor
mal. Cut in one vacuum valve and
it is raised seven times; thereafter
it squares itself seven times seven
to forty-nine for the next vacuum
valve, and 49 times 49 for the next,
and so on.
i “I mean volume of sound, not
power of transmission,” explained
' Lambert. “In a test recently, a
phonograph was connected with an
amplifier at midnight, and we were
lifting it up gradually to supply all
San Francisco with song and amuse
ment, when the police urged us to
, desist.
“In the stadium at Golden Gate
: park the ticking of a watch was
made audible all over the grand
stand while an athletic meet was in
progress. Captain Robert \V. A.
Brewer, an experimenter, moved off
2,000 feet and spoke quietly to his
dog, and the dog couldn’t be held.
A wireless station which I am not
permitted to name recently received
! a telephoned message from Europe,
and through its amplifier startled
! duck hunters in the marshes eight
miles away.”
Mr. Lambert exhibited one of the
vacuum valves. Its exterior re
sembled an ordinary 16-candle elec
j trie light bulb. Through the glass,
however, could be seen electric
winding that was dissimilar. Around
a filament was wound convolutions
of wire called “grid.” Above the
grid was an encircling metalic plate.
The current, it was explained,
'passed through each in the order
described. The incoming wireless
♦signals travel down the aerial wire
J to the tuning set and then to the
! vacuum valve, which is a “de
tector,” or receiver.
! For practical purposes, the vacuum
valve has its use as in warships,
where the wireless telephone speaks
'its message through a horn to sev
eral officers, instead of to one using
earpieces. It can be availed of to
address audiences.
The wireless telephone is wonder
fully extending the field developed
by the wireless telegraph. Any
wireless telegraph receiving set is
equally good for receiving tele
phoned messages. The transmitting
instruments, of course, are different.
Every airplane possessed by Uncle
Sam and all United Slates warships
are equipped with wireless telephone
apparatus. These sets on warships
are efficient at least twenty miles.
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Frank Cleary, for some time past
a member of the clerical staff of
the stores department of the A. E.
C., has severed his connection with
the Commission.
The members of the younger set
will be entertained tonight by Mrs.
Larry O'Keefe, in honor of Miss
Beatrice Belling, of Fairbanks.
Mrs. Oie and Mrs. Clausen, who
went to Fairbanks recently to take
charge of the Gus Conradt mess,
returned to Nenana yesterday on
the Peerless.
Joe Fisher, local manager of the
Fairbanks Clothing company, came
home yesterday from a brief busi
ness trip to the upper town.
Andy Harkeom. of the Commis
sion store department, is a patient
at the government hospital, having
been compelled to seek medical re
lief on Sunday.
Wenana—The Gateway to McXinley
Ifati>nal Park.
'star vagrant insists
ON HAVING OWN CELL
SAN RAFAEL, Cal.—Because he
found some other man occupying his
favorite cell in the county jail here,
the feelings of John Mahoney were
lacerated and he made an appeal
to the judge. No one disputes the
title of Mahoney as the star vagrant
i of Marin county, and he now is
serving his thirty-second term. Or
i ders were issued vacating cell No.
: 1, so Mahoney could occupy his fa
; vorite apartment.
The Ketchikan postoffice has
shown a gain in practically everv
, branch this year over last. In April
this year the sale of money orders
i increased $4,000 over last year, the
sale of stamps was $170 greater
and the number of mail sacks hand
led increased 108.
Perk Up! Have Pep!
Brinjr in your suits and have
them pressed and cleaned; your hats
'likewise. Be ready for the Fourth
and what comes after.
MRS. DORSAY’S IS THE PLACE
Tailor Shop at Third and A
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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 and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the \ ukon 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
B 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.
JUINEAU, ALASKA
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THE CHARMING SCREEN STAR
Blanche Sweet
THE
THOUSAND
DOLLAR
HUSBAND
From the Story By Margaret Turnbull.
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HUMOR, AND ROMANCE.
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