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First Christmas
In Arctic Alaska
The first Christmas dinner by
prospectors in arctic Alaska is re
ported to have been on the Kobuk
River in 1898, according to a diary
published in 1901.
A group of 21 prospectors ar
I rived at Kotzebue aboard a small
sailing ship built in Japan. They
had sailed from Long Beach, Calif,
to hunt for gold.
Near their camp was the first
Friends Mission, established in
1896 by Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Sams and a nurse, Miss Hunnicut.
They built a table 20 feet long
of local cut lumber and used
miners candles in homemade
holders.
They dined on roasted brown
bear and “outside of this valley of
the. Kobuk River you will not eat
“pate deoisson de liver (pie of fish
liver); or white touste bake and
kukluk roast."
Then they opened their Christ
mas packages which had traveled
with them on their ship, “Penel
ope,” from California many
months ago.
Christmas Death Toll
Last year the Christmas holiday
death toll was the worst on record.
In that four-day weekend—Sat
urday through Tuesday midnight
(Christmas)—there were 883 acci
dental deaths. Of these,‘705 died
in auto accidents, 54 in fires, 124
I in other accidents.
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Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon
JIM WALSH, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
B Lillie Lewie
Werthy Metres
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
t and 3rd Mondays
lNVIL lodge
No. 140
Raht K. Lewis. W.M.
(one Lewis, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each menth
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