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NEW GOODS ARRIVE
Choice Fresh Groceries
BEST IN THE MARKET
MEN’S WINTER WEARABLES
Heavy Woolen Sweaters, Overshirts
and Socks
BEST RUBBER PACS-ALL SIZES
JOHNSON’S STORE Front Street
“A Home Away from Home"
COONEY MOTEL
MOST ATTRACTIVE LOBBY IN INTERIOR ALASKA.
SANITARY BATHS STEAM HEAT ELECTRIC LIGHTS
LARGE ROOMY DOG BARN IN CONNECTION, WITH
HEAT AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
MR. AND MRS. M. J. COONEY
Owners and Manager*.
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E. H. OSBORNE VAUDIN
Arbitrator Conveyancer
Money to Loan Notary Publi
Conner A and 3rd Street*.
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE j
HOME, BUT
The Montana j
IS NEAREST IN ROOMING j
HOUSES.
MRS. BERT JOHNSON
Proprietress j
SINGLETON’S
ROADHOUSE and STORE
Outfit* for Proapector*, Trapper*
a and Hunter*.
Goods Delivered to All Points in
Lignite District.
FIRST-CLASS ROADHOUSE
ACCOMMODATIONS
L. C. ISABEL
BARBER
SOUTHERN HOTEL
BUILDING
New Rifles just received by Ai
derson Bros. & Nerland
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Sitka is showing great activit
-: the past few months, many change
t; being made in business firms. Tb
11 Pyramid Packing company put u
SI 27,000
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cases.
1 i Sec J. A. Slippern for new rate
i • en subscriptions and renewals of a
* leading magazines and periodical:
| Club rates on application.
| Horlick’t Malted Milk. Fowler ^
5 Morris.
;i6RACE (Presbyterian) GHURGI
11:45—The children's hour.
The evening subject will be
i "The Status of Women."
Special music
Music begins at 7:15 Lecture 7:3
Everybody Welcome
REV. ROBT.
JOSEPH DIVEN
D. D.
MINISTER
j CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Sunday school will be held i
the old commissioner’s office build
ing, opposite the postoffice, Sunda
at 1 p. m.
The regular service will be hel
at the same place at two o’clocl
!Subject: “Everlasting Punishment.’
J|| NENANA HOUSE
Just Gome in and Sit Down and Look Out.
| MRS. A. B. EASTERLY, Proprietress
BLANKEIELD EXPRESS
Clean Dry Wood for Sale Hauling of All Kinds
OFFICE AT THE TERMINAL RESIDENCE PHONE
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| Miners and Prospectors!
( NOTICE OF CHANGE OF RECORDING PRECINCTS
) § Accord ng to-a recently issued Court Order by
= Judge Che E. Bunnell, the Nenana Mining ar.d Re
= cording Diiriet h"s been enlarged to take in the Bon
r nifield and Totatlanika Districts. I
Miners and Prospectors of these districts will be
= enabled by this change to do their recording and
5 transact other business at Nenana, which is within
a = easy reach of their mining activities.
1 NENANA COMMERCIAL CLUB.
S R. S. McDonald, President. R. J. Diven, Secretary.
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, COAS[ ARRIVAL
Among the recent arrivals at Val
dez from the States was H. Row
bottom, who has for some time past
been connected with the signal
corps. Rowbottom has just returned
to Alaska from duty overseas, and
his descriptions of present condi
tions in England are more than in
teresting. While over there he vis
ited his home in the southern part
of Wales; to reach home, however,
he had to trudge much of the way
with a pack on his back, as the
• railroads were tied up by a strike.
S In England. Mr. Rowbottom says.
I I the conditions are alarming indeed.
There are hundreds of thousands of
men and women out of work, and
on every hand one may see the dis
astrous effects of the war in men.
crippled beyond repair, and in the
high nervous tension and craving
for excitement that characterizes ev
5 eryone there. One of the most pa
! thetic and dangerous phases of the
j industrial condition is the closing
■ down of those factories brought into
_ operation by the war. and thus
throwing out of work thousands of
girls dependent on themselves, and
f yet without the means of earning
s a proper livelihood. The recent
e closing of a single munitions factory
p in London turned about 30,000 of
these girls out of work, and the
same thing is happening all over the
s country. Coupled with this deplor
' able labor condition is a shortage
!* of food. Many things cannot be
got at all, and what can be obtained
is rationed out to the people, and
^ prices are correspondingly high.
In London alone there are thirty
thousand blind men wandering
| around the streets, often three walk
ing abreast as an added protection.
In the same city there are two hun
dred and fifty thousand totally dis
abled men, unable to work if they
could get it; besides hundreds of
thousands of girls out of employ
ment. Because of the scarcity of
men and the necessity of getting a
living somehow, these girls have
been forced to take the reins in
their own hands and make pro
posals of marriage to men.
Wages in England have gone up
3 100 percent, while food prices are
200 and 300 percent higher than
formerly. And the most surprising
part of it all is the mental attitude
of the people; a reaction from the
strain of the heavy war work has
. set in and their are restlessly seek
ing excitement. They spend their '
j money recklessly and extravagantly
. —anything to have a good time and
satisfy shattered nerves. At a re
11 cent auction sale in London a sec
' !
ond-hand Ford automobile was soldi
for SI.500, yet the same city holds I
a multitude of people on the verge,
of starvation. During the police- .
men’s strike the people in one par'.
of the city broke into the shops and :
■ ransacked everything. Heads that
never before had known any other
covering but a shawl came forth in
LET THE NEWS DO IT
Send in the names of friends in the
States you would have know about
Alaska, and let us mail copies of the
Development Number to them. Ten
copies mailed for $1.50.
the latest millinery; feet were clad
in shoes that didn't fit and were not
mated. The fit of anything mat
tered little, for they were dolled
up and out on dress parade.
The saloons in London are open
from 12 till 2 in the afternoon, and
again from 6 till 10 in the evening.
And while open they are absolutely
packed; men and women are arrang
ed around the bars in tiers. Cigar
ettes are forbidden by law to be
sold after 8 o’clock at night. The
women seem to smoke even more
than the men. and this is not due to
any moral depravity, but to the cry
for narcotics by nerves shattered by
the strain and worry of war and
the constant fear of air raids over
the city.
Mr. Rowbottom says that there
are no more big hotels in London,
for they have all been turned into
hospitals and stations to carry on
government work. Money has great
ly depreciated; the English pound is
now worth about S4.13 instead of
the usual value of $4.65. France
does not seem to be as badly off as
England; food is more plentiful and
prices are not so extravagant
Mr. Rowbottom is well known to
Alaskans, but what is not so weil
known is the fact that he has re
ceived from the government a spe
cial badge of distinction for bravery.
Fur Coats, Robes and Caps Reno
vated or made. Cleaning and press
ing Suits a Specialty.
D’ORSAY’S TAILOR SHOP,
Third and A Streets.
Flashlights and fresh batteries just
received. All sizes. Anderson Bros.
4 Nerland.
See J. A. Slippem for new rates
on subscriptions and renewals of all
leading magazines and periodicals.
Club rates on application.
NOTHING SUCCEEDS
LIKE SUCCESS
OUR GOODS ARE RIGHT.
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT.
WATCH AND JEWELRY
REPAIRING. ENGRAVING
WM. TAYLOR
SKOF HOUSE
That’s the Place
GOOD BARN FOR HORSES
IN CONNECTION.
Second and Market Sts.
MRS. JAMES LAVIN
ARCTIC BATH HOUSE
stands alone in par-excellence of
service and sanita**y convenience.
Turkish. Steam. Shower
or Plain Baths, at
MODERATE RATES.
Rooms for Dressing and Resting
in Connection. Also Rooms for
Rent, Transient or Permanent.
Mr. and Mrs. Heimburger
Proprietors.
Electrical Goods
Stoves and Ranges
Water Pipes and
Fittings
Bath Fixtures
Sheet Metal Work of All Kinds
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
We Strive to Please
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EVERYTHING THE BEST
Tavern Cafe and Bakery
WM. RODIGKEIT
Proprietor
BIDS WANTED.
Sealed bids will be received un
til Saturday night for moving the
Belmont building from its present
location to the lot adjoining the
Cooney Hotel.
11-1 MRS. M. -J. COONEY.
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Any person who buys or receives
clothing, or any other Government
property from any member of Com
pany G Detachment. 21st infantry,
will be prosecuted to the full ex
tent of the law. The regulations
governing such traffic are severe,
and include fine or imprisonment, or
both.
B. F. MOULDER.
First Sergt. Co. G.
Approved: 21st Infantry.
FRED'K D. BROWNE,
Engineer in Charge,
A. E. C.
Xenana, Oct. 24, 1919.
fO ALL CONCERNED:
Dr, J, R. 80WEN
DENTIST
Prices Most Reasonable
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tanda-d toilet soaps. Fowler Sc
dorris.
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