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SEWARD, ALASKA
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SPEEDING UP THL NEWSPAPER |
In directing that in-ginmng today, j
newspapers of the com- ry be given!
(lie status ot first-class mail, Postmas
ter General Harry Now says the new;
program not only mean much to ihoi
public but that it is one of the most I
important and most far-reaching steps!
taken in the histoij of ihe federal
postoffice department.
He might have ad 1 d that it is j
worthwhile recognition of the import j
ance ot the daily newspaper iii the1
life of flie American people.
The essence of the order n*w in ef-i
•ect is that newspape. , shall no' be
mix d with parcel post matter at any I
l-oini in their dispatch from the of
flce of tIle Publisher until their deliv-l
eJy t0 the subscriber. Papers shall
be handled by themselves and kept
m constant transit and shall not be
sent to railroad terminals to be re-1
worked. This means that if there is
onh half a sack of newspapers it shall
be handled in the same manner as let
ter mail and rushed through to its des- i
tination, and that other mail shall not
be mixed with it.
The day is past when the subscrib
er is willing to wait several davs for
his newspaper. He wants the news
*hile it is tresh. The essence of the
daily newspaper is its “news”—and it I
is to the credit of the postoffice de
partment that it is co-operating with
the publishers to deliver the news
w’hile it is news.
No medium purveys so much infor
mation dealing with almost every con
ceivable subject as the daily newspa
per. The press, one of the outstand
ing and most beneficial institutions
of the age, is the greatest modern edu
cator. Few homes in the land are i
without the daily newspaper and the
number of persons who scan the daily
visitor from cover to cover is sur
prisingly large, notwithstanding that
the twentieth century citizen frequent
ly is referred to as a headline reader.
It is an unfailing medium between the
merchant and the home; it is the ve
hicle that daily carries the report of
the local and world events to tens of
millions of people; it is the only print
ed matter read daily by millions of
men and women throughout the coun
try.
Liberty
TONIGHT
CONRAD NAGEL
and
BEBE DANIELS
n a reautifulh staged p'ay
an eight-reel superfeature
SOMETHING EXTRA GOOD
A one-reel Comedy
“TRY, TRY, AGAIN”
and a
PATHE NEWS
Theatre
Elevation of the newspaper to the
first-class status by the postal de
partment therefore is not merely a
concession to the newspaper publish
ers. That is but a secondary consid-1
eration. The real explanation is that !
the department has taken this means I
of giving better service to 100 OoO.OOu j
American citizens who want it.
A NATIONWIDE “TAX POLL”
ON MELLON PLAN
Polls are by no means conclusivve j
but they point the way. Now the Lit
erary Digest is taking the most com
prehensive referendum of its kind ev- i
er undertaken. It is mailing 15,000,-i
000 ballots to people throughout the I
United States to get an expression !
of public sentiment for or against the
Mellon tax revision program. There
were approximately 27,000,000 ballots
cast at the last presidential election.
The Digest plans to reach more than
half this number. What it learns j
from the nationwide poll will not be;
without interest, not merely to the
country, but to congress. Congress
men who are freezing their ears to
the ground, we suspect, are likely to
hear a rather ominous rumbling from
the hills and the prairies that will re
mind some of them of a buffalo stam-j
pede. when the returns begin to come
in. Some of them have been trying j
to play politics with the tax question
in the hope of taking from the presi
dent and the secretary of the treasury
credit for framing and presenting a
tax revision program that won instant
popularity throughout the country, j
The Digest’s poll is likely to send
them in the general direction of the j
cyclone cellar.
SUCKER SEASON
(Ketchikan Chronicle)
The Sucker Season is on. The boys
selling calendars are intown, and oth
ers will follow within the next few
wTeeks. Now is your opportunity, they
tell you, to advertise your business via
the calendar route.
Did you ever stop to think what be
comes of the average calendar of
ninety per cent of all calendars? If
you did oot, think it over belore pur
chasing.
More than ninety per cent of all
calendars are thrown into WkStC\bas' ;
kets, cut up by girls to use the pic-;
tures without consideration for the
card announcing whose calendar it is,
or the picture and the other part, all
but the actual enumeration of the
days of the month. Almost any other
kind of advertising in the world has
proven to be more productive of re
sults than calendar advertising.
Also, one always notes that the cal
endar salesmen come along in Jan
uary 1924 for calendars to be used in
1925. That is worthy of note also. It
is easier to sell anybody anything for
delivery next year than lor immediate
delivery. One naturally does not wor
ry about the cost. When you are ap
proached to buy calendars, ask your
self this question: “Would I buy now
if I had to pay in advance?”
Put your canendar money into win
dow display, circular letters, pamph
lets, better lettering on your windows,
newspaper advertising, almost any
thing but into calendars. They are
99 44-100 pure bunk. The money goes
to Cincinnati or Oshkosh or some oth
er place thousands of miles away and
you‘11 never see a dollar of it blow
back. It gives you about as much re
turn on your investment as would the
stock of the fake salesmen who come
to Alaska every once in a while to
get some easy money for everything
from balloons to automobiles.
Think it over!
BEAVER MERCHANT
TELLS OF YUKON
Frank Yasuda, Beaver trader, Oscar
Sax, Max Drews and T. Newsman left
Fairbanks recently for Beaver by way
of Olnes. The members of the party
with the exception of Mr. Drews,
came to that district from the Yukon
a few days ago and are now returning
home.
Mr. Yasuda, who is a pioneer of
the Yukon district, reports that min
ing in the Chandalar, of which
Beaver is the supply center, is about
the same this year as it was last
year. At number of outfits are work
ing, including Fred Smith on I,ittle
Squaw, wno has a few men em
ployed, Tim Puckley Jack Keating
and Jack Carroll, who are pros
pecting on the East Fork and O. J.
Nicholson, on Big creek who is pre
paring for drifting next summer and
is at present engaged in hauling fuel
by tractor. About forty people In all
are engaged in mining in the Chanda
lar.
There is a marked scarcity of game
in the Chandalar district this year, re
ports Mr. Yasuda, a ocndition that
has not existed in the last ten years.
The last caribou were seen in Septem
ber, and since then there has been
practically no hunting.
The fur catch will be better this
year than last, believes the trader,
who says lynx and mink are quite
plentiful while an increasing num
ber of foxes have been taken.
Mr. Yasuda reports that Patsy Wy
ant, who passed through Fairbanks
recently on his way to the Arctic,
had reached Beaver before he left
for Fairbanks, and that Mr. Wyant
was still at the post when he left. He
intended to proceed northward after
a rest of four or five days.
CHEMICALS WILL PRESERVE
YOUTH SAYS DR. MAYO
ST LOUIS, Feb. 12..—Aging persons
eager to be young again, will find re
juvenated youth, not leaping from
bough to tree top in the glands of
monkeys, but in a bottle in the bath
room medicine shelf, according to Dr.
Charles M. Mayo, noted surgeon of
Rochester, Minn
He revealed this while attending a
meeting here of the American College
of Physicians and Surgeons, of which
he is president-elect.
Dr. Mayo said it was entirely prob
able that in the future people would
be kept ‘young’ until death by arti
ficial chemical means, rather than by
transplantation of glands.
“Discoveries recently made ” the
surgeon said, “and experiments not
completed entirely, show that thyroid
substance may be developed within
the human being by internal chemical
processes. Certain elements taken
into the system will form new thyroid
glands.
“The time is coming when science
will enable all to remain ‘young’ in the
sense of physical condition of their
bodies, despite ages now considered
enough to warrant use of the word
‘old’.”
WANTED—Ten thousand men with
long hair and whiskers to call at the
O. K. Barber Shop. tf
APPLICATION FOR PERMIT
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office, Anchorage (for
merly Juneau), Alaska.
January 31, 1924.
Notice ig Hereby Given that John
H. Costello for himself and as trus
tee for Edward W. Hoffman, Thomas
A. Costello, John H. Costello, Jr.,
William 0. Brunskill, John Brunskill,
Wm. 0. Stevens and Percival Bruns
Idll, has applied for oil an.d gas pros
pecting permits under section 22 of
the act of February 25, 1920. (41 j
jtut.j 437) for the following described j
lands:
Serial 04713
Rex Oil Claims Noa. 1,4, 5, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, described as an area commenc
ing at corner No. 1, of said Claim No.
1 from which the northeast comer
Sec. 1, T. 29 S., R. 41 W., S. M.. bears
north 14 deg. 34 min. 44 sec. west,
15,162.28 ft. distant; thence from said
corner No. 1, S. 41 deg. 00 min. W.,
7920 ft., thence S. 49 deg. 00 min. east,
10,560 feet.; thence north 41 deg.
00 min. east, 2640 ft.; thence north
49 deg. 00 min. west, 5280 ft.; thence
north 41 deg. 00 min. east, 5280 ft.;
whence north 49 deg. 00 min. west,
5280 ft. to the place of beginning.
Containing 1280 acres situate in the
Kodiak Recording District, Alaska and
on Rex Creek, a tributary of Dry
Bay. on the Alaska Peninsula.
Serial 04855
Bear Creek Oil Claims Nos. 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 23 and 24, described as an
area commencing at a point of said
Claim No. 23 known as Comer No. 4
from which the northeast corner
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M.,
bears south 88 deg. 46 min. 59 sec.
W., 18,657.70 feet distant; thence from
said Comer No. 4 of Claim No. 23,
south 46 deg. 45 min. E., 5284 ft.;
thence south 49 deg. 00 min. E., 10,560
ft.; thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E.,
3960 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00 min.
W., 10,560 ft.; thence south 41 deg.
00 min. W., 1320 ft.; thence north 46
deg. 45 min. W., 5284 ft.; thence
south 41 deg. 00 min. W.. 2640 ft. to
the place of beginning, said area em
bracing 1280 acres and being situa
ted in Kodiak Recording District,
Alaska, and on Bear Creek, a tribu
tary of Lake Becharof on the Alaska
Peninsula.
Serial 04856
Salmon Creek Oil Claims Nos. 4, 5,
6. 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, described as an
area commencing at a corner known
as Corner No. 3 of said Claim No. 13
from which the southeast comer
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M.,
bears north 71 deg. 9 min. 45 sec.
W., 11,173.03 ft. distant; thence from
said Coiner No. 3 south 37 deg. 15
min. E., 5393 ft.; thence south 49
deg. 00 min. E., 10,560 ft.; thense
north 41 deg. 00 min. E., 2640 ft.;
thence north 49 deg. 00 min. W., 5280
ft.; thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E.
1320 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00 min.
W., 5280 ft.; thence north 37 deg. 15
min. W., 5393 ft.; thence south 41
deg. 00 min. W., 3960 ft. to the place
cf beginning, said area embracing
1280 acres and being situated in Ko
diak Recording District, Alaska, and
on Salmon Creek, a tributary of Lake
Becharof on the Alaska Peninsula.
Serial 04857
Bear Creek Oil Claims Nos. 9, 10,
'1. 12, 13 16, 21 and 22 described as
an area commencing at a point known
as Corner No. 4 of the said Claim No.
!1 from which the northeast corner
Sec. 36, T. 29 S., R. 42 W., S. M.,
bears north 84 deg. 36 min. 40 sec.
west, 16,996.61 feet distant; thence
from said corner No. 4 south 46 deg.
45 min. E., 5284 ft.; thence south 41
deg. 00 min. W., 2640 ft.; thence
.-'Ll th 49 deg. 00 min. E., 5280 ft.;
thence north 41 deg. 00 min. E., 2640
ft.; thence south 49 deg. 00 min. E.,
5280 fV, thence north 41 deg. 00 min.
E., 2640 ft.; thence north 49 deg. 00
min. W. 10.560 ft.; thence north 46
den. 45 min. W., 5284 ft.; thence south
41 deg. 00 min. W.. 2640 ft., to the
,M;ce of beginning, said area embrac
ing 1280 acres and situated in the Ko
diak Recording District, Alaska, and
on Bear Creek, a tributary of Lake
>e'4 arof on the Alaska Peninsula.
Any and all persons having adverse
or conflicting claims to said land are
hereby notified that a full statement
under oath of such claim, should be
filed in this office showing a superior
right to a permit or lease under said
act, or valid existing adverse or con
flicting claim to the land, or the min
erals or oil therein umkjr the public
land laws on or before March 12, 1924,
otherwise, such claims may be disre
garded in granting the permits or
leases applied for.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Register.
First publication Feb. 5, 1924
Last publication March 11, 1924
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