REAPING GRAIN, MATANUSKA
TENNESSEE BOATMAN GATHERS
MANY ARCHAELOGICAL RELICS
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 17 (/P)—
H. L. Johnson, retired steamboat cap
tain, thinks Tennessee can not be
beaten by any other state in the pro
duction of valuable archaelogical
specimens.
As archaeologist and historian dur
ing 60 years, he has assembled a vast
collection of specimens from the In
dian mounds and former abodes of the
forgotten stone grave race.
While on the river Capt. Johnson
constructed a boat 74 feet long in
which he traveled and installed a mu
seum which aroused interest of the
natives and enabled him to add valu
able articles.
Thirteen much-hunted ceremonial
dishes of fine quartz, all of which save
one he found in Tennessee, are in his
possession.
“Relics which we are unable to
identify we call ceremonials,” he ex
plained.
A valuable specimen of the collec
tion is a ibrdstone ornament with
pearl eyes, one of the six known to
be in existence. A charm he recovered
was fashioned to set in the fields by
the Indians to contain grain as an
omen to the gods to bring good crops.
Specimens of arrowheads and spear
heads, some with the famous curved
points, beautiful ornaments of rose
colored quartz, pre-historic tools, im
ages, carved shells, beads and many
other valuable specimens ( recovered
from mounds ^nd 'graves also are
included in the collection.
“I have seventy-five cents ‘less than
a million,' am providing for my wife
first, then myself and the rest I am
investing in my collection,” Captain
Johnson said. “The children ought to
be able to make a living for them
selves.
A cat and three kittens were found
in a car of furniture shipped from
Grand Rapids to New York.
Robbers threw pepper into the
eyes of a bank messenger in Rome
and escaped with his bag of gold.
TALK TO PRETTY GfRLS IS
ONE WAY TO LIVE LONG
OXFORD, Eng., Dec. 17 (£>)—Listen
to music, look at beautiful things, chat
with friends, wear your best clothes,
and talk all you can to pretty girls, if
you wish to live for many years.
This is the advice given by Profes
sor Friar Bacon, of Oxford, where the
average age of the heads of all the
colleges has reached 70 years.
Among the educators a conclusion
prevails, however, that longevity is
an accident rather than an achieve
ment.
THE PALACE
John Mattich, Prop.
POOL, SOFT DRINKS AND
CIGARS
Furnished Rooms
Phone Main 55
CHRIS’ PLACE
Cigars and Tobaccos
Soft Drinks and Candies
CARD TABLES
Phone Madison 54
CHRIST LARSEN, Prop.
Next Door to Liberty Theatre
For permanence, for ultimate heirlooms,
there is nothing like jewelry that is so ab
solutely satisfying. Here are the sort of
gifts that will be with the recipient thru
an entire lifetime—always cherished, al
ways desired.
Diamond Rings as Low
as $25.00
WRIST WATCHES
Dependable and Guaranteed Timekeepers
Plain White Gold—also with Diamonds
in Case.
GENT’S POCKET WATCHES
In the many popular makes
HOWARD, HAMILTON, WALTHAM
ELGIN AND ILLINOIS
SPANISH QUEEN MINGLES
WITH LONDON CROWDS
LONDON, Dec. 17 (£>)—When Queen
Victoria Eugenie of Spain comes to
London to do her shopping she thinks
nothing of taking a taxi and being i
hustled to Kensignton Palace with
her arms full of bundles.
Princess Ena of Battenburg, as she
is known here, combats a tendency to
plumpness by taking vigorous exer
cise, and on her fall shopping tour she
i bought many sport clothes.
On one occasion she accompanied
Queen Mary of England and Queen
! Maud of Norway on a shopping trip,
but the tour had been pre-arranged so
carefully that few persons in the busy
centers were aware that three queens
of as many countries were in their
midst.
COLD RECEPTION NOW READY
FOR YANKEE HOBO IN MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 17 OP)—'The
I Yankee hobo who swings south to
| Mexico City when chill winds begin
| to sweep the States will be out of j
i luck this winter.
A police order has been issued to i
i
roound up all “foreign vagabonds” and ,
deport those who cannot show why
they are engaged in an honest and
industrious life in Mexico.
In the past Mexico City has at some
seasons been a sort of paradise for
!
: tramps and .panhandlers from north
of the Rio Grande. On warm, sunny j
days many could be found sprawled ;
upon the park benches, sauntering1
along the paint-lined paths—and i
pouncing upon every passing Ameri
can who appeared to be a good pros
pect for a touch.
FAT WOMEN HAVE SMALLER
FEET THAN SLIMMER SISTERS
CHICAGO, Dec. 17 (/P)—1There is a j
saying that fat women may always ex- j
pect consolation. The latest is that I
they have smaller feet than their
slimmer sisters, who take great pricle
in boylike figures.
George M. Spangler, who is arrang
ing the national convention of Retail
Shoe Dealers here January 7-9, is re
sponsible for the statement.
“Fat people are usually small boned
and large boned people have more
area over which to spread their flesh
and do not show ebesity.”
All the golfing, health walking and
other forms of exercise in which the
modern woman is indulging has not I
enlarged her feet but has made them
smaller and muscular, the shoe man I
observed.
A deserted baby girl about eighteen
months old was found in a Chicago
movie theater.
An owl killed and carried away i
a cat owned by Conrad Portman of j
Davenport, la.
SEATTLE, Dec. 18 (,/P)—The sea
son’s first receipts of Alaskan ruta
bagas were featured in local markets ■
yesterday. Them freedom from sofe ;
spots and fibrous gi*owth was a char- >
acteristic of the crop.
< j
Smokers’ sets and fine merschaum
pipes with genuine amber stems—
$8 and up—Alaska Shop. tf.
OGLE’S GARAGE
GASOLINE AND
WARM STORAGE
EXPERT MECHANICS
Phone Mad. 66.
Miss Margaret Sharp, formerly a
policewomen of Oxford, Eng., has
become a Unitarian minister.
Joseph Williams, a blind St. Louis
beggar, died leaving more than $15,
000 hidden about his home.
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Or. J. A. Baughman
Physician and Surgeon
CHRONIC DISEASES A SPECIALTY
Phone Madison 90. Seward, Alaska
W. D. Coppernoll
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW *
Will Practice in All Courts of the
Territory
SEWARD, ALASKA
SEE
Curtis R. M or ford
FOR FIRE INSURANCE
Dr. A. R. Roberts
DENTIST
Dental and General
X-RAY WORK
New Tecklenberg Bldg.
Phone Mad. 108 - - - Seward, Alaska
Aaron E. Rucker
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Office in Benson Building
PHONE MADISON 114
Hugh Dougherty
REAL ESTATE AND FIRE
INSURANCE
AGENT FOR
Equitable Life Assurance
Society
TELEPHONES
Bus. Adams 152 Res., Madison 58
Gas Launch
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PARTIES CARRIED DOWN
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Ice Cream
MADE DAILY
HIGH GRADE ;
Candies "
FRAMED PICTURES, CURIOS
AND PHOTOGRAPHS
SYLVIA’S
Phone Adams 128