SEWARD DAILY GATEWAY
OF SEWARD, ALASKA
Established, August 19, 1904
Published daily except Sunday by
Gateway Publishing Co.
Entered in the postoffice at Seward,
Alaska, as second-class mail matter.
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NEWS GETTING STALE
It has long been recognized that
the news value of an occurrence de
pends mainly upon its unusual fea
tures, as wras illustrated by the well
known remark attributed to a fam
ous New' York editor, wrho instructed
his staff thus:
“If a dog bites a man, it is not
news. If a man bites a dog, it is
news.”
Or we may add if it rains down in
Florida it is not naws, but if it snows
down there it is newrs.
Measured by this standard, most
of the current offerings of the daily
press are not news. Accounts of
crime are getting st .e Rep a
crime are getting stale. Reports of
murders, robberies, automobile acci
dents, rum-running, bribery, graft
and the like are too commonplace to
excite any particular interest.
Stories of state and municipal
scandals in connection wTith the hand
ling of public funds, or pertaining to
lawr enforcement, are a part of the
daily routine. Just now, among
others of a similar character, a move
ment is on foot to impeach the mayor
of Seattle, on the charge that he per
mits vice and crime to exist in that
city, but there is nothing very excit
ing about that.
If some enterprising reporter could
find a city of any size where vice and
crime are not rampant, and write it
up in good styyle, lie would score the
greatest newspaper beat of the year. s
PRIZE LIST FOR 1
FIREMEN’S HOP
TOMORROW NITE
LENGTHY LIST OF PRACTICAL
GIFTS DONATED BY LOCAL
CITIZENS AND FIRMS
The majority of the prizes which '
will be awarded to masqueraders and i
dancers tomorrow night at the Fire
men’s Annual Masque Ball have been
procured from local business houses
and citizens and are now on display
in the Urbach clothing store window.
Quite a number of others are to be
picked up yet. The list donated thus
far is published below; the remainder
will appear in tomorrow’s issue of
The Gateway.
S. M. Graff. Hedlight heater for the
home or office.
Cal M. Brosius, electric soldering
iron.
Ellsworths, totem pole candle stick.
Urbach’s, leather dressing case.
Brown & Hawkins, pair gentlemen’s
Florsheim Shoes.
Sylvias, basket of candy.
Alaska Transfer Co., check for $5.
L. V. Ray, check for $5.
J. L. Graef, electric percolator.
Seward Drug, bottle perfume.
The Northern, box of cigars.
City Express, §5 cash.
J. J. Jordon, cleaning and pressing
of one suit.
Marathon Cafe, $5 meal ticket.
Fred Miller, $2.50 cash or a trip
around the Horn.
Seward Grill, meal for four persons.
O. K. Barbershop $2.50.
Palace Cigar Store, box cigars.
Commercial Cafe, meals for three.
Christ Larsen, box of cigars.
C. Henning, cleaning and pressing
one suit.
Seward News, box cigars.
Seward Bakery, one cake.
Mrs. Stotko, three bottles Aeromaid
John A. Nelson, $1 cash.
P. C. McMullen, $5 box groceries.
Frye Bruhn Co., one ham.
Fisher’s Cafe, one cake.
Carstens’ Pkg. Co., slab of bacon.
Oscar Dahl, $10 cash.
Seward Laundry, $5 cash.
Amanda’s Laundry, $1 cash.
Joe Hofman, $1 cash.
J. H. Flickinger, $1 cash.
Chas. Lechner, inner tube and auto
mirror.
Pioneer Club, box cigars.
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FRESH VEGETABLES
received on every boat
Fancy and Staple
GROCERIES
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ;
No orders too large or too small
Mail orders promptly attended to
BEST STOCKS IN ALASKA
SEWARD TRADING COMPANY
TELEPHONE MAIN 135
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SEWARD NEWS COMPANY
GEORGE PHELPS, Proprietor
BOOKSELLERS STATIONERS NEWS DEALERS
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Mrs. J. R. Ratliff, marcel shampoo
md rewave.
Seward Leather Works, $3.50 in re
>air work.
Malloy’s Transfer, 5 sacks coal.
Van Gilder Hotel, $5 cash.
Seward Trading Co., box apples.
Wm. DeWitt, $1 cash.
Bank of Seward, $5 cash.
Liberty Theatre, free admission
tor one person <for one week.
Flowers’ Grocery, five pound can of
nince meat.
Seward Club, carton cigarettes.
Seward Dairy, quart whipping cream
Daily Gateway, one year’s subscrip
:ion to Weekly Gateway for one year
sent to any address.
A London dispatch declares that
Arthur Noble’s racing car ran off the
Brooklands track, turned over twice,
righted itself and got back on the
track without injuring Noble.
Michael Goldsmith, a cnicago drum
mer boasted to his wife that he had
a girl in 60 towns, so she secured a
divorce.
Horace Fisher of Oxford, Eng., was
struck so hard by a flying partridge
that one of his ribs was broken.
WOMEN WORKERS
SUPPORT MANY
FAMILIES IN U. S.
GOVERNMENT SURVEY MADE IN
THE MAJOR—EMPLOYING
INDUSTRIES COUNTRY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 29. —
An interesting study on the family
status of wage-earning women is re
ported in the Annual Report of the
Secretary of Labor, James J. Davis,
to Congress which has just been
made pu'blic. The resume of the
work of the Women’s Bureau of the
Department of Labor states that “a
report "which will soon be in press
is that on the study made by the
students in_the economic department
at the Bryn Maur summer school
for women workers in industry dur
ing the summer of 1924. The report
consists of the analysis of question
naires filled out by a group of 101
(women between the ages of 21 and
36 who were studying at the school.
“The information secured "was bas
ed on the personal experiences of the
workers, the main object being to
discover to what extent their eco
nomic position was detremined by
their relation to the variousfly con
stituted household groups to which
they belonged or contributed. The
data compiled concerned only the
year ended June 1, 1924. The wo
men studied were workers in the
major women-employing industries
of the country.
“It is evident that, in regard to the
workers at the Bryn Mawr summer
school, who, it must ‘be pointed out,
were not representative of the hard
est-pressed workers, the burden of
family support constituted so large
a proportion of their actual earnings
that it determined the economic po
sition of the worker in a very im
portant way. For nearly one-fifth
of the workers the burden included
the support of one or more total de
pendents. Even the workers who
boarded away from home stiill con
tributed to family support in about
The Alaska Railroad
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TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
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to spend
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By
Having Old Shoes
Repaired
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LIBERTY THEATER
ONE SHOW TONIGHT—8 SHARP
Zane Grey’s
GREAT STORY OF THE BUFFALO
AGE
The Thundering
Herd
The only rival of
“THE COVERED WAGON”
An authentic tale of the slaughter of Buffalo
that roamed the plains in 1860 to the number
of 8,000,000.
All the Buffalo in the country were gathered in
one great herd to play in this picture, and the
few pioneers of those days as it is a perfect
representation.
A WONDERFUL STORY IN A
WONDERFUL SETTING
Full of action and thrills—the actors risking
their lives mapy times in making this feature.
JACK HOLT LOIS WILSON
NOAH BEERY RAYMOND HATTON
ARE THE STARS
AND A PATHE NEWS
NOTE: PRICES ON THIS FEATURE WILL BE 50c and 25c
AT THE LIBERTY THEATRE
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half the cases. At least a half of
all the women had the problem of
! family support to some degree, in
view of the more than two-fifths
whose earnings definitely contribut
ed to the support of total or partial
dependents and in view of others
w'hose contribution to the family in
come probably exceeded the cost of
their own maintenance. Their obli
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gations had to be met from wages
that were not, except in a few cases,
at high rates, and from earnings that
were frequently interrupted by peri
ods of unemployment. Therefore,
it is reasonable to assume that the
share in family support of women
workers in general is probably an
even heavier burden than that car
ried by the group studied.”
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In extending the Season's Greeting to all its
friends and patrons, The Alaska Railroad takes oc
casion to announce a
.. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEARS .
EXCURSION FARE
of one and one-third the regular one-way fare, for
round trip, between all stations. Reduced rate tick
ets may be purchased at all agency stations Decem
ber 21st, 1925 to January 1st, 1926, inclusive; final
return limit January 5th, 1926. Passengers board
ing trains at non-agency stations may avail them
selves of this Special Excursion Rate by purchasing
reduced rate tickets at first agency stations.
It is the sincere wish of The Alaska Railroad
that the year 1926 will be most progressive and pros
perous for all Alaskan activities, and towards the
accomplishment of this purpose The Alaska Rail
road will continue to lend its earnest and whole
hearted cooperation at all times.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The Alaska Railroad
(McKinley Park Route)
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