SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
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SIGNIFICANT SIGNS.
Since the first of the year there have
been twenty significant and important
developments in business, according
to B. C. Forbes, widely known author
ity on business. ,in Forbes’ Magazine.
Mr. Forbes fakes accounting of con
ditions and points out obvious tenden
cies which should influence the imme
diate future.
The summary is of such moment
that it is worth reproducing.
These are the most significant and
important developments thus far this
year:
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1. Employment has increased rath
er than decreased notwithstanding the
wintry weather.
2. The upward movement in the
general price level shows signs of
halting.
3. Money rates, after their year
end firmness, have weakened.
4. Despite the exportation of some !
$150,000,000 of gold, the banking posi
tion has been gaining in strength, and j
all the talk of an immediate rise of :
official rediscount rates has died down. '
5. Grain prices have had a phe
nomenal rise, due mainly to export de
mand caused by an abnormal shortage
of foreign wheat.
6. Railroad traffic during the first
month of the year exceeded that of
any other January.
7. The latest railroad earnings
show very marked improvement.
8. Bank clearings are of record
breaking volume.
9. Transactions on the New York
Exchange in January ran beyond any
other month in the country’s history, (
and the price level, after irregular
fluctuations, closed the month near
the peak for the current movements.
10. New security offerings, aggre
gating more than §500,000,000 in the
first thirty days of the year, have been
readily absorbed.
11. The steel industry has continu
ed to increase production until it is
now approaching the country’s enor
mously increased maximum capacity,
with prices tending upward.
12. The very important textile in
dustry is showing betterments after
its long period of inactivity. New En
gland and the South both share in the
call for goods.
12.. Building operations continue
on a huge scale with a keener demand
for lumber and certain other mate
rials.
14. The automobile industry has
cleaned house and will not enter into
Spring months with large stocks of
cars on hand.
15. Retail business is holding up
well, with very notable expansion in
sales by leading mail-order houses,
and chain-store systems, thanks partly
to the greater purchasing power of va
rious agricultural states.
1G. Utility companies, as a whole,
are reporting better earnings and a
widening market among customers for
new securities.
17. Genuine progress is being made
in effecting consolidations notably in
the railroad and utility fields.
18. No fewer than seventy compa
nies took cheerful dividend action dur
ing January, a total once exceeded
since February of last year.
19. Improvements in the European
outlook is reflected by marked pro
gress in sterling towards the gold
level.
20. The domestic political outlook
has continued reassuring.
OBSERVANCE OF LENT
The Lenten season, which is observ
ed by the Roman and Greek Catholic
churches, as well as in some degree
by the Church of England, the Protes
tant Episcopal church and others, be
gan on Ash Wednesday, February 25,
and will continue until Easter Sunday,
April 12, a period of forty days, not
counting Sundays.
In the early years of the Christian
era the fast of Lent "was observed for
varying periods by some only one or
two days, and by others for a longer
time, according to the writings of Ire
naeus, Greek bishop of Lyons, in the
second century.
Pope Leo 1, in the fourth century,
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recommended a fast of forty days as
having apostolic authority. This pe
riod was taken to commemorate the j
forty days’ fast of Moses, of Elijah,
and especially that of Christ.
Theoretically, at least, the faithful
abstain from food or meat on fast
days, and worldly amusements, secu
lar celebrations, and marriages are
avoided during Lent.
The duty of fasting is modified with
respect to laboring people, children
and women, under certain conditions,
but increased diligence in works of
charity is enjoined upon all, as well 1
as extraordinary attention to all reli- j
gious observances throughout this pe- ;
riod.
An optimist is one who believes the
next legislature may do better.
We suspect the plan to put silver
dollars into circulation is backed by
the suspender trust.
Two Texas girls who have been !
missing for several years have been
discovered living on a farm. WThat
are modern girls coming to?
Most of the advice to stay on the
farm is written on typewriters in city
offices.
There has been some dispute about
the trade of Nurmi, the speedy Finn,
but we’ll bet he isn’t a plumber.
Despite President Coolidges econo
my program we notice he signed the
bill raising the pay of congressmen
from $7,500 to $10,000 per year. What :
an opportunity this would have been
to have started his program.
All signs indicate an early spring:
The seal herd is six weeks earlier
than usual, Gus Borgen is back with
us, and our wives are honing for new
bonnets.
Has the lion and lamb gone to pas
ture together? Not one single candi
date has filed for city offices.
Gateway want-ads bring results.
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! LIBERTY THEATRE I
j Tonight: Two Shows, 7:00 and 8:45 a
| NORMA TALMAGE |
In the great crook story,
Law
From the famous book of the same name. It . jg
will hold your interest every minute of the
eight reels. ' jg
LEW CODY |
has the villain’s part, and the balance of the
cast was specially selected. A thrilling §g
melodrama full of action and tense scenes |g
AND A PATHE NEWS jjj
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entertaihed. =
—SUNDAY ONLY—
Douglas McLean in a galloping western
comedy-drama feature, “Sunshine Trail/'
a two-reel comedy, “Boys to Board," and a
fine Pathe Review. There will be a violin
solo at the first show. j|
FORTY THREE TRAINS USED
CARRY MOURNERS FUNERALS
BERLIN, Mar. 7.—Forty-three extra
trains were necessary to carry the
mounters to Heidelberg, from all parts
of Germany, to the funeral of Presi
dent Ebert, held here Thursday. From
the appearance of the mourners and
the thousands that packed the streets,
the Monarchists will have a slim op
portunity to place the Crown Prince
on the throne of Germany, as the peo
ple plainly showed their sorrow at
the loss to Germany by the death of
Ebert.
BRITAIN RECOGNIZES PACT
PROPOSED BY GERMANS
FOR SECURITY OF EUROPE
LONDON, Mar. 6.—Chamberlain in
his speech here last night gave cor
dial reception to the German propos
als for a pact of security for Eu
rope. Although no details were dis
closed, it is said the German propos
als might be the “starting point of
a real recovery, of the European sit
uation.”
LOSE TO U. S. GOVERNMENT
SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION
RICHMOND, Va., Mar. 6.—Federal
Judge Windell handed down a decis
ton today giving the Federal govern
ment a judgment of $11,571,85%
against the Virginia Shipbuilding Cor
poration. This ease is an outgrowth
of four years’ legal battle of this
corporation which was headed with
Morse.
GUARANTEED SAFETY
MEXICO CITY, Mar. 6.—After rep
resentations had been made to the
foreign office by the Sheffield gov
ernment, it wras decided to furnish
the camp with a guarantee of per
sonal safety and the manifesting of
the desire to cooperate with the em
bassy to settle the problems affect
ing the Exenans ranch.
NEW YORK, Mar. 7.—A large fire
swept the great British ammunition
arsenal at Woolwich last night com
pletely gutting the premises. Dam
ages were estimated at several mil
lion pounds sterling.
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