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We have the largest and most complete
line of Nugget and Ivory Jewlery ever
shown in Valdez.
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A New Assortment of:
Hand Painted China, Smoker Sets, Game
Sets, Pyrolin Ivory.
A Large Assortment of:
Christmas Cards and Holders, etc.
T - O - Y - S
Simple Facts Are
Sometimes very important
facts. Knowing the simple
fact that
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Ls healthful the housewife ev
erywhere has a netv world of
opportunity opened up. The
many dainty things of flour
and eggs may be made more
quickly and more accurately
with this good baking powder.
2&t lb.
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AIRSHIP CIRCLES ABOVE
WASHINGTON MONUMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 29—
O. D. Blakely, of Franklin, Pa., con
gressman elect, made an “.croplane
flight in his own machine from Phil
adelphia to Washington and circled
the Washington monument several
times.
Blakely declares that he is the first
congressman to arrive from his home
to Washington City through the air,
and that before many years, all of
the members may be flying to the na
tional capital.
PARALYSES GERMS
IN MOTHER’S MILK
SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 29.—
At a meeting of the Spokane Coun
try Medical society, Dr. Earl Current
told the society that infantile para
lysis is caused by the fungus growth
on raw fruits or vegetables either
eaten by children or communicated
to an infant nursing from a mother
who has previously eaten such raw
foods. He described the experiments
that he had conducted since last
June.
The largest duck farm in the world
is situated on Long island. More than
124,000 ducks are raised for the mar
ket each year. The eggs are gathered
at the rate of 1,000 a day and hatch
ed in incubators.—Science Monthly
TURKS AGAIN CONTROL
GOVERNMENT OF TRIPOLI
BERLIN, Nov. 29.—Advices re
ceived here today state that the Ital
ian troops in Tripoli have suffered a
severe defeat at the hands of the
Arabs and that the Turkish adminis
tration in that country has been re
established.
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KARL ARMGAARD GRAVES’
HEARING SET FOR DEC. (I
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28.—
The preliminary hearing of Karl
Armgaard Graves, self-styled inter
national spy, charged with attempt
ing to extort $3,000 from the Count
ess von Bernstorlf, wife of the Ger
man Ambassador, has been postponed
WAGE INCREASE GIVEN
BY STEEL MEN
NEW YORK, Nov. 29—The United
States Steel corporation yesterday
announced an increase of ten per cent
wages. This will affect 200,000 em
ployes and add $20,000,000 to the
payroll.
On May 10, 1872, what Is said to
be the largest piece of gold ever tak
en from the ground was mined from i
a claim, in New South Wales; Austra;
lia. It was four feet nine inches
high, three feet two inches wide, four
inches thick on an average, and
weighed 540 pounds. The value of
the metal was about $140,000, but
it sold at a much higher rate as a cur
iosity.
Temperature Rising.
While only two places, Beaver Data
and Wortman, report temperatures
higher than zero, there has been a
decided rise in temperature at all
points along the government road
since yesterday morning's report. To
day 12 below zero is the coldest
| weather reported, and from that up
jto zero at McCarthy. One degree
[below zero is reported at Fairbanks,
i while yesterday morning the ther
mometer registered 15 below in that
city.
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No Paper Tomorrow.
Thanksgiving day will be observed
by the Prospector force and as a con
sequence there will be no issue of the
paper tomorrow.
George Mead is moving from his
jbome on McKinley street into the
, house recently occupied by Jack Ing
ram. Mr. and Mrs. Ingram are spend
ing the winter in the States.
TEUTONS ADVANCE
ON THE CAPITAL
GLOBING IN ON RUMANIANS
Germans and Austrians Now on Both
Sides of Bucharest and Are Press
ing Forward—Rumanians in I’rc
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carious Position.
BERLIN, Nov. 29.—The war office
today issued a bulletin stating that
the Teutons have captured the Ru
manian town of Gurgevo, on the Dan
ube, due south of Bucharest, and are
now within thirty-seven miles of the
capital. On the north Falkenhayn’s
forces have occupied the valleys of
the Curtea, Dearges and Areguchu
rivers, about fifty miles northwest, of.
Bucharest, and are driving towari,
the capital, tightening the semi-cir
cle about the Rumanians.
ILES SELLS OOT
ELECTRIC PLANT
CONSIDERATION IS *100,000.00
Announced Today In Seattle that the
Prince William Sound light, Pow
er & Telephone Company Had Ab
sorbed Rival Plant.
SEATTLE, Nov. 29.—It was an
nounced here today that the Prince
William Sound Light, Power & Tele
phone Company, a Seattle Corpora
tion operating at Valdez, Alaska, had
purchased the lies Hydro-Electric
plant at Solomon Gulch, near Valdez,
for the sum of $100,000. Alfred B.
lies, the principal owner of the lies
plant, has been in this city for several
days completing the negotiations, and
has left for the East.
AMERICAN BANK IS
ESTABLISHED IN ITALy
NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—The Na
tional City Bank of New York has
opened a branch bank in Genoa, Italy,
with a capital of $1,235,000. This is
said to be the first American nation'll
bank to operate in’ Europe.
At’TO STAGE IN RIVER;
NINE ARE DROWNED
VANCOUVER. B. C., Nov. 11
Eight and possibly nine persons weie
drowned in the North Arm of the Fr i
ser river tonight when the Vancoi:
ver-Ladner stage plunged through an
open draw in the bridge joining the
mainland with Lulu island into the
river. Two men and a little girl were
rescued, and the bo<jy of another.gifll
has been recovered. The police are
still working with grappling irons i'-.
the hope of finding others.'
Rebekahs to Give Dinner.
The Rebekah lodge will give a
Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow aft 2 -
noon at 4 o’clock, in Odd Fellow’s
Hall to the members of the order and
their families.
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When a man asks you to tell him
your candid opinion of him, he will
want to light if you don’t tell him
what a line fellow he is.
The stores will be closed tomorrow
all day, but will remain open until a
late hour this evening to enable pu^
chasers to provide for their Thankjs?
giving dinners.
We know a man who doesn’t think
that his wife talks too much, but he
has only been married four days.
The worst thing about putting i:
off until tomorrow is that tomorrow
never comes.
Many things improve from con
stant use, but a bad temper is not one
of them.
Jeff Devinney came up from the
Three in One property last evening,
and returned again this morning.
Porter King was one of the * lucky
ones who hunted the elusive ptarmi
gan yesterday. He 1 returned lak
evening with seven.
FOR RENT—Three-room house,
Sherman street, famished, ready. t6
move in, rent moderate, man and
wife preferred; apply Mrs. A. C.
Dowling, Sherman street. tf
,New Heaters from 612.60 ap.
Wood Stoves, Pipe, Cooking Utensils
sad Wash Boards at Rudolph’s. tf
Daily Weather Report.
Valdez. Not. 28. 1916.
Barometric pressure .29.410
Temperature 7 p. m.16
Maximum temperature .21
Minimum temperature . 9
Mdan temperature .15
Remarks—Clear. 6 mile gale, nortn
tast. 'Five inches of snow on the
ground.
—Myrtle F. Billings, Obs.
Interior Trail Conditions.
Valdez, Alaska, Nov. 29. 1916.
Fairbanks, —1, 1 inch of sno.v;
cloudy, calm, mail south 8 a. m.
Salcha, —10, 1 inch of snov;
snowing, trail fair; Mooie arrive.]
11:30 a. m. and departed north 7 a.
in.
Richardson, —8, cloudy, light
wind, trail good.
McCarty, zero. 1 inch of snow;
cloudy, light wind, trail good.
Donnelly; operator.on line trouble.
McCallum, —12, 6 inches snow;
cloudy, light wind, trail fair, stage
north and south 3 p. m.
Paxson, —10, 6 inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair, mail north
And south out 6 a. m.
* Hogan, —4, 6 inches " of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair; Sourdough
stage leaves south 3 passengers.
Gulkana, —3, 4 Inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair, stage north
6 a. m.
Copper Center, —3, 4 inches of
enow; cloudy, calm, trail fair; no
travel.
Tonsina, —5, 7 inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Telkhell, —4, 8 Inches of snow;
cloudy, snowing, trail drifted.
Beaver Dam, 1, 12 inches of snow;
I cloudy, calm, trail good; Davis and
Rowbottom arrived 2:20 p. m. Jep
son south 9 a. m. yesterday.
Summit, —6, 40 inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good, drifted
south; Jepson south 7:30 a. m. with
uog team.
Wortman’s, 10, 4 inches of snow;
cloudy, snowing, calm, trail fair.
UNION SERVICES AT
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Thanksgiving Day, November 30,
1916, at 11 a. m., there will be the
service of the Morning Prayer, with
the special Thanksgiving service and
sermon. The sermon will be given by
the Rev. R. D. Nichols, pastor of the
Congregational church. Everybody
welcome.
REV. GEORGE JOHN ZINN,
Rector Episcopal Church.
Christian Science Society.
Pioneer Hall.
Thanksgiving services will be held
tomorrow at 11 a. m.
Catholic Church Services.
Mass and Benediction at 8:30 a. m.
REV. A. FLETCHER, S. J.
STUDENT’S BODY FOUND
WRAPPED IN DEATH ROBE
BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 15.—Ev
erett Gilbert Morgan of Oakland, a
junior student at the University of
California, was found dead in his bed.
his naked body wrapped in a bath
robe laced With a network of copper
wire and the wire connected with the
current from an electric lighting fix
ture.
Morgan had been suffering from
rheumatism and it was believed that
be contrived what proved to be his
death robe in an effort to cure him
celf. The coronor found that be net
his death from electrocution.
Would Expand Navy Yard.
SEATTLE, Nov. 28.—Commander
E. Coontz, of the Puget Sound navy
yard, at a meeting last night of the
Bremerton Commercial club, which
was attended by members of the Bre
merton city council, asked the co-op
eration of Bremerton citizens in ac
quiring a part of the business dis
trict for the expansion of the navy
yard. The Commercial club appoint
ed a committee to urge property own
ers not to ask exorbitant prices for
desired land and the councilmen
voted to vacate all streets and alleys
in any property wanted by the gov
ernment. The property to be acquir
ed is occupied mostly by old wooden
buildings. It is understood that the
government desires the land for use
in erecting buildings for building
ways for battleship construction.
Any elderly woman can tell you
that a lack of wrinkles on the face
shows weakness of character.
TURKEY DINNER at the The Ar
cade tomorrow. Big dinner. $1.00.
Home-made Mince Pies at the Ar
cade. tf
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TaMee Drug j&ompany has a fine
line of School Stationery. tf
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Just recelveSpg freah line ef Haas
Candles, the kind you like, at Levy A
Hess.’ tf
Try the Cottage Dialog Boom fair
good kome-oooked meals. Mrs. M.
Hacker. Phone 181. tf
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
Resources $250,000.
WE DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
DRAFTS BOUGHT AND SOLD ON ANY PART
OF THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE.
Safe Deposit Boxes For Rent.
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ALASKA INVESTMENT CO.
Real Estate, Insurance, Mining Stocks
Asia, for EQUITABLE Life Ins.
Public iS^SX Reed Bid,. Phone. 196
Where Can I Meet You?
LEVY & ROSS’
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CANDIES
Cigars and Tobacco
BILLIARDS
Phone S4
Valdez Dock Co. phone no. i
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office, foot of Wall street
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HOME NEEDS
A Combination of Simplicity, Durability
and Efficiency at a price within the
reach of every electric light user.
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CLEANER
AND
PUMP
THAT
MEANS
SERVICE
Prince William Sound Water,
Power, Light Sc Tele. Co.
EMBARGO IS ASKED
BY THE GROCERS
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. ?$.—Ad
vances ranging In price from 10 to
tO per cent in staple groceries are
:o be put into effect here within a
month, said Frank B. Connolly, sec
retary of the Retail Grocer’s assqci-.
Ifon, today. Connolly said the gro
:era have reached a point that it
means financial ruin to hold to the
)ld figures.
The association announces that it
will take Immediate steps toward the
organisation of co-operative baker
ies to keep dbwn the price of bread.
It will also ask congress to place an
embargo upon the exportation of
wheat, flour, sugar, canned corn and
canned tomatoes, a resolution having
been adopted last night.
Sharing interest with the decisions
of the grocers is also an investiga
tion of the department of Justice
into the eause of advancing prices.
Prosper tor ads bring results.