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This Bank Has been in
Business Twenty Years
THE MANAGEMENT of this institution
is in full accord with modern ideas.
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN KNOWN as the
bank that renders its customers the kind of
service required for their best interests.
BE ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS, and have
the advantage of the kind of a bank you
would like to deal with.
Bank of Seward
SEWARD, ALASKA
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LIGHT AS A FEATHER,
DRY IN ALL KINDS OF WEATHER
Balloon Silk, all colors,
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other kinds at $6.50 up
Urbach’s
“CASH IS KING”
Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
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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
Prompt Delivery s
| Group of Interesting
Facts About Phone
More than half of the stockholders
of the American Telephone & Tele
graph company are women,
jj Between 600,000 and 700,000 new
poles are required annually to carry
the wires of the Bell System. 0
The Saturday Evening Post and the
Literary Digest have a nationwide
circulation. But for every two sub
scribers to these great weekly papers
there are five subscribers to the tele
! phone.
The telephone directories printed
by the Bell System require 30,000 tons
of paper each year.
During the year 1924 there were
over twenty one and a half billion
telephone conversations in the United
States.
i It is estimated that during 1924
1 the Bell telephone lines in Michigan
alone transmitted a total of over 15
million toll conversations, an increase
of 22.4 over 1923.
Over 8,400,000 American families
have telephones in their homes.
More than 5,200,000 telephone calls
t are made every twenty-four hours in
[ the state of Illinois.
There are 2,296 telephone instru
ments in the Hotel Pennsylvania in
New York City, averaging more than
« 210,000 calls a month.
PAVILION OF FRENCH COLONIAL
WOODS FEATURE AT ART SHOW
HAVRE, Aug. 13. (IP)—Havre wood
importers and carpenters have pro
vided one of the most interesting ex
hibits of the Decorative Arts Ex
position. At the request of the min
ister of colonies they have built a
pavilion fashioned entirely out of
French colonial woods.
The various woods contained in
the pavilion came from the Ivory
Coast, Indo-China, Siam, the Congo,
French Guiana, Southern Gabon and
Madagascar.
Skilled workmen, mostly graduates
of the Havre technical school were
selected to build the pavilion.
EUROPEAN BEGGAR MAKES
APPEALS IN 10 LANGUAGES
VIENNA, Aug. 13. (/P)— Rudolf
Hruby, known as the “king of beg
gars,” has learned to ask for alms in
ten languages and whep arraigned
in court recently for fighting with a
brother beggar he said, “I would
rather ern my bread honestly by
begining that become a burglar.
Hruby has made all European his
hunting ground and, somehow', has
been able to solve the obnoxious pass
port problem. Although he has gone
from one country to another at his
pleasure lie never has carried the
official document wThich most inter
national travelers are obliged to
have.
Notice of Raise
30 Years Late
EDMONTON, Alta., Aug. 13. (£>)—
Notification that he had been grant
ed a substantial advance in salary
failed to arouse Sheriff Peter Gunn
of Edmonton to any unusual pitch
of enthusiasm. Not that he did not
appreciate the liberality of his em
ployer but rather to the fact that he
will never reap the fruit of the “in
crease.”
The notice of his salary raise came
to the sheriff in a letter from the
north country written nearly 30
years ago. By some trick of fate
the letter had gone astray.
It wras dated January 6, 1896, and
was written by Ewen MacDonald, at
that time manager of the Peace Riv
er district for the Hudson’s Bay com
pany. Gunn, then comparatively
young, was employed at the com
pany’s post at Lesser Slave lake.
The hardy Scotchman, MacDonald,
long since dead, informs Mr. Gunn
in the letter that his “services have
been highly satisfactory” and that
as a result, he has been awarded a
“magnificent” increase in English
pounds sterling. Just how much
the "magnificent” increase amounted
to Mr. Gunn declined to divulge but
it caused the sheriff to chuckle.
Jeannie Drurier of Paris swore at
a policeman and had to walk to the
station as no cab could take her. She
weighed 494 pounds.
“Smile with Nile” Saturday night.
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Men’s and Boys’ Trousers
GET A PAIR NOW, WIDE SELECTION
TO CHOOSE FROM
MEN’S ALL WOOL TROUSERS, Serges and
Worsteds, at- per pair - - - $6.00 to $9.00
MEN’S HEAVY WOOL PANTS,
Per pair.$6.00 to $9.00
MEN’S HEAVY CORDUROY PANTS, made to
stand hard wear- per pair - - - $6.00
BOY’S CORDUROY PANTS, double seat and
knee, just the thing for school days, pair $3.50
Just received- a large shipment of Riding
Breeches, including whip cords, serges, wool
and corduroy- lace or button leg, priced
very low.
BROWN & HAWKINS
CORPORATION
“QUALITY FIRST”
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THE SINS OF A GREAT RACE
Old stock Americans, reflecting on
the virtues of their Nordic forebears,
often find themselves badly depress
ed by the behavioristic inferiorites
of the new stock Americans. Well,
they have a right to feel this when,
one considers this document
from a Massachusetts court during
the month of May, 1658:
James Standish, fined for being sus
pected of being drunk.
Henry Walton fined for saying he
would as soon hear a dog bark as to
hear Rev. Cobball preach.
Thomas Gray, of Marblehead, to be
whipped for being overseen in drink.
John Russell whipped for beating
his wife.
Philip Crumwell fined for not liv
ing with his wife.
Wm. Claus whipped for spying on
his master and reporting what he
saw.
Mrs. Griffith fined for swearing.
Robert Edwards fined for wearing
lace air'd gold sleeve buttons.
Sarah Paridge fined for wearing a
silk hood.
Sarah Collins fined for calling her
husband a “pot-gutted devil.”
Robert Pike fined for living here
with his wife in England. Ordered to
go to her.
Charles Phillips fined for being
drunk three times in two days.—Ex.
BASEBALL
American *’
Boston 7, Detroit 2.
Philadelphia 9, St. Louis 2. ’
Washington, Cleveland, rain.
New York 2, Chicago 0.
National v
Cincinnati 1, Brooklyn 5.
New York 3, Pittsburgh 5.
St. Louis 9, Philadelphia 2. f
Coast )
Seattle 2, Vernon 12.
San Francisco 17, Salt Lake 7. ,
Los Angeles 7, Sacramento 4. /
Portland 3-3, Oakland 2-2.
Vernon Bliss of Gotebo, Oklahoma,
who broke two bones in his neck in
a dive into shallow water, is out of
the hospital.
When Lewis Humphrey of Minneap
olis jokingly told his dog to “get”
Miss Mary Adler, she was bitten
twice and was awarded $500 dam
ages by a jury.
All buildings in La Paz, Chile, are
painted yellow for the national cen
tennial celebration being held there.
“Smile With Nile” Saturday night.
This Is the Place
Under New Management
The MARATHON CAFE
ALL that's good and whole
some, prepared correct
ly and appetizingly will be
found daily on our menu.
REGULAR DINNER SERVED, SHORT ORDERS
Extra Special Dinners Served on Sundays.
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