THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Xenana, Alaska
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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THE WORLD SERIES
The world series, the classic of
American baseball, which terminated
today with a victory for the Boston
Americans, was staged fully a month
earlier than has been the custom
heretofore, during the thirty years
of post-season contests. The ini
tial series, which was held in 1884,
was not begun until October 23,
which is the latest date ever selected
for the playing of such a series.
Another coincidence is the fact that
the last series played before the
National commission assumed con
trol was also started at an earlier
date than any other before or since,
with the single exception of the
series concluded today.
During the period between 1884
and 1897 the opening date of the
big series fluctuated all the way
from the first days of October to
well past the middle of the month.
During the years when the National
League and the American Associa-!
tion clubs competed, the initial i
game? were usually played on a date
ranging between October 10 and 18. j
Later when the National ar.d Ameri
can teams took up the series con
test, the earlier days of the month
were more popular.
Under the control of the National
Commission the date of the first
game from year to year varied from
October 6 to as late as October 17.
The series of last year began on
October 6. which was the earliest
date ever selected for the play un
der the direction of the interleague
tribunal. For the period between
1884 and 1917 covering some twen
ty-six world series, the average dace
works out as October 10, which is
some thirty-odd days later than the
start of the series this season.
The present series is the fourth
in which the Boston American club
has participated and in all of them
carried off the honors. The club
has the additional honor of having
won the American league pennant
in 1904, but a series of post-season
games were not plaved that year.
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FOOD CONTROL
“Food control is bound to be a
disasterous failure, unless every man
and woman realizes the importance
of self-control in matters of food.
“Nothing can be substituted for
the rich experience of the house
wife; and if she will but apply her
experience and her knowledge of
the task of economizing, of utilizing
every proper substitute, of pre
serving and conserving useful things
which now go to waste, the total
saving will be immeasurable.
“Fighters cannot fight without
food, and the civilians of America
Britain and France and Italy, who
support soldiers and sailors cannot
do without fooJ To make food win
the war, it must be abundantly pro
duced, economically manufactured,
evenly distributed, and carefully
conserved. Food forms blood, tissues,
bone; it repairs waste, furnishes en
ergy for all kinds of work; it keeps
us warm; it regulates the body pro
cesses.”
THIS IS A GOOD ONE
Many remarkable stories have
their origin in the Northland. Old
timers will recall the alleged dis
covery of the Ark- which Casey
Moran and Artist Buel resurrected
in the Koyukuk region, beyond the
Arctic. It was a good story and
was well put over.
Less romatic and somewhat more
plausible was the story circulated
several years later, during a par
ticularly mild winter, that a sudden
shifting of the Japanese current had
put an end to cold weather in the
Northland. The phenomenum was
celebrated at Dawson with a big
midwinter open air party, at which
straw hats and summer dresses were
very much in evidence, and the
story was given the widest publicity
throughout the Outside world.
And now comes the report from
Dawson, that forest fires near the
Arctic Circle, to the north of the
famous old town, caused an unusual
rise in the mercury during the past
summer, thermometers at Dawson
having registered eighty-five de
grees in the shade for a period of
several days. This story, like the
others, is now making the rounds
of the press, and doubtless has
found many willing believers.
JAP AVIATORS READY
TOKIO.—Japan is planning to
send about twenty aviators to the
Italian front.
Iceland, too far north to raise
wheat, is preparing to make her
self independent of grain ships by
converting part of her potato crop
into flour.
JUST RECEIVED
ALL THE LATEST
June July August
VICTOR
PHONOGRAPH RECORDS
ALL THE LATEST POPULAR SONG HITS
SIMSON’S
ANCHORAGE Ml
HB PLANT FOR
MAKING BRICKS
STRAW IX ANCHORAGE.
i ANCHORAGE—What promises to
; be a large and profitable industry
in Anchorage is the making of
bricks. Two hundred thousand
bricks last year and this year, have
! been baked in a kiln in a small
■ yard immediately south of the city
and on the line of the government
. railroad. Their use, to the present
I time, has been merely local and has
• been limited to the erction of fire
places and chimneys However,
| next season. Anchorage bricks, if
j afforded a sufficiently low freight
rate on steamships, are expected
' to enter the commercial markets of
other Alaskan coast towns and even
of cities in the Pacific Northwest
I states.
The Anchorage bricks are made
of a glacial, blue clay which abounds
! it is said, in extensive beds through
| out the Cook Inlet region The
• clay excels as material not only for
bricks, but also for sewer tile and
common earthenware, such as jugs
: and crocks. Even when not put
I through the baking process, the
| clay is declared to make an adobe,
or soft, brick of superior quality.
It mixes, works up and dries out
in the most desirable way without
the addition of any foreign sub
stance. In this respect, it excels
the Biblically famed brick clay de
posits of Egypt
The Egyptian clay seemingly is
is0 deficient in quality that it re
j quires an admixture of straw, for
Moses records that on one occasion
l hen Pharaoh wished to persecute
the Ishaelites by laying upon them
an exceptional burden he com
pelled them to make bricks without
straw. Over this task, almost im
possible of accomplishment because
of the inferiority of the clay, the
Israelites emitted such loud and
bitter complaint that it has rever
berated ever since through the corri
dors of time.
With the Anchorage clay, a work
er needs no straw nor anything else
to make perfect brick. Indeed, if
he were caught putting straw into
the brick he forthwith would be
fired off the job.
Charles J. Young, who owns and
operates the Anchorage brick yard,
came here two years ago from San
Diego, Cal., where he managed what
is reputed to be the largest brick
yard on the Pacific coast. He in
tended to engage in the coal min
ing industry in neighboring fields
but the occurrence of excellent clay
deposits, the insistent local demand
for bricks and the opportunity of
developing markets elsewhere in
Alaska and in the States for An
chorage bricks induced him again
to take up the brickmaker’s trade.
HOW COULD IT?
Says an Exchange:—“An election
is being held in N’enana today for
the purpose of electing an advisory
board composed of five members,
two to be appointed by the Com
mercial club, two by the labor union
and the fifth to be selected by
these four. They will act in town
site matters.
If you have saved a slice a day.
eat cornbread and save a loaf.
TIN HAT SAVES
AIR CAN FROM
GERMAN BULLET
PARIS.—The case of one Ameri
can Marine who went through a
hail of shrapnel and machin gun
fire at Cantigny and is now con
valescing from the wound in the
great American military hospital at
Xeuilly, in the Paris suburbs, seems
to have demonstrated that the
American field helmet, commonly
called by soldiers the “tin hat” is
a thoroughly reliable article wnen
put to the supreme test.
This marine owed his life to his
“tin hat”, and the peculiar qualities
of its steel in giving slightly without
shattering. In the midst of the
action he went down with a ball
striking the top of the helmet and
pressing down to the skull. He
was brought back, along with the'
helmet which showed a deep indent
ation about the size of half a base- ;
br 11 It was this indentation which
had pressed down to the scalp, mak- j
ing a wound which required tre- i
paning. But there it stopped, and
the metal of the tin hat after giving
to the missel until its force was
spent, had stopped it in its deadly
flight straight toward the brain.
The trepaning operation was only
slight and the marine was well on
the way to recovery.
The indented helmet was pre
served, not as a souvenir, but to be
forwarded to the ordnance experts
at Washington to show them the
good qualities of their helmets. It
is said that a hard and brittle steel,;
which would have resisted without1
giving would have been shattered to j
bits by the impact and the ball j
would have gone straight through ]
the brain.
In an adjoining ward a stalwart
young marine who had been in the
same Cantigny fight stood at at- j
tention with no apparent sign of j
wound But the surgeon, feeling
the boy’s throat, nodded approvingly
and then remarked that this was
one of the most remarkable cases
that had ever come under his ob
servation, and probably the only
case of the kind on record. A bullet*
had struck the soldier in the left,
side of the neck and had gone:
through to the gullet, where it stop- j
ped. and had then descended or been
swallowed into the stomach.
An X-ray examination clearly j
showed the ball in the intestines. j
But instead of removing it by an j
operation the surgeon decided to j
await the course of nature and see,
if the soldier would digest the rifle
ball. And this he did. One of the
surgeons remarked that the chances
of such a thing happening were less!
than one in a million, but a col
league added that the chances were
far less than that as he could not
recall any like case in the whole j
range of military surgery.
Many of the French poilus under)
wac in me warus oi
the Daughters of the American Con- i
federacy, with the beds marked j
with the names of the well-known i
Southern figures, such as Stonewall i
Jackson, Senator Zebulon Vance, |
General Joseph Wheeler of Alabama. '■
When the big dietary kitchen was
inspected later there was a savory
smell of American dishes and daint
ies being prepared for the wounded
men, and one of the surgeons cheer
ed the cooks with the remark: ,
our dishes do more good than
all our medicines.” And this is ,
literally true, for these American
wounded do not want foreign foods
but long for the simple old-fash
ioned dishes of home, like boiled
custard, malted milk, egg-nog and
bread and milk. So that, even in
food the American cooks are doing!
their share, and down to the last de-1
tail the Americanism of the big j
military hospital is proving a bless-!
ing to the American maimed and j
wounded who have come back from
the front.
Wheat is still short and sugar is
shorter, but nobody is worried— |
these hammer blows only harden
American mettle. j
ANCHORAGE FI
IS CALLED OFF
ANCHORAGE—Xo industrial nor
agricultural fair will be held in
Anchorage during the period of the
war. This is the unanimous deci
sion of stockholders and officers of
the Alaska Fair Association, which
had charge of last year’s exposition
and which was formed for the pur
pose of directing annual exhibitions
here
While no fair will be held during
the war, the association will main
tain its organization so as to be
ready to resume its activities after
the conclusion of peace.
The officers and stockholders at
their recent meeting decided on the
immediate purchase from the Land
and Industrial department of the
Alaskan Engineering commission of
a site for a fair grounds, and order
ed the appropriation of §275 from
the association's treasury to defray
the purchase price. The site, which
is on the southern boundary of An
chorage, contains sixty-five acres.
WANT ADS
B——I
LOST—Ticket 178, on Xoeller prop
erty. Finder please return to
News office. 9-13
LOR SALE—Steamer trunks, trav
eling bags, suit cases A large
variety to choose from. Simson’s.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Business lot at
Third and Market; also shot gun.
Inquire Mrs. Lavin. 9-12
FOR SALE, CHEAP—Large tank
heater and pipe drum; flush toilet,
good as new; also sink. Inquire
! Simson’s.
FOR SALE.—Mrs. W. F. Lyons is
leaving for the Outside soon an 1
offers shop, fixtures and business
in cleaning and pressing clothes,
for sale. No reasonable offer re
fused Shop is on A street, near
blacksmith shop.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
| FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN—Sew
ing machine, phonograph, launch
Bunny, with 2t& h. p. Ferro en
gine, shot gun, rifle, etc. Inquire
of J. A. Slippern.
FOR SALE—Beaver Board, in plain
and oak finish. Doors and win
dows, sash stock and mouldings
Inquire Simson’s.
FOR RENT—Upstairs residence,
four rooms furnished. See Slippern
FOR SALE—Small heater. Cheap.
Inquire News office.
the German government a problem
filled with peculiar difficulties.
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