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Pubttihed Daily Except Sunday by The Seward Gateway Publishing Co.
BERNARD M. STONE President.
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SEW ARD, VLASKA. S.V1TRDAY. J1 L\ 22. 1010.
Will a little shop talk be permitted? May a news
paper speak of newspapers once more briefly to bring be
fore its people some little facts which newspapers wish
all readers would know?
Some days ago a man said a paper should publish
everything because “it is supported by the public," even
to the advertising for nothing some business which re
fuses to spend a nickel for advertising. Ibis statement
was made hastily, no doubt, and without giving full
thought. A newspaper is supported by the public only in
the same respect as any other business is supported by
the public, and it is not a charitable institution. The
great difference is that, wonderful to say, a newspaper is
more like a church than other commercial undertakings,
at least in one respect—no one is forced by circumstances
to pay for its upkeep. You must buy groceries or go
hungry, drygoods or go naked but you can struggle along
without an advertisement or without buying a paper of
vour own. If there is anv charity involved in the printing
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of a newspaper, may it be respectfully said, the charity is
given by the paper itself to the hundreds and thousands
of people who read it and learn from it the news of the
world without paying for it. Please do not hastily con
clude from this that a paper does not want non-subscrib
ers to read it. It does.
A newspaper might also he compared to a show. A
town could struggle along without a show house, but the
population of any good town would never consent to re
main without a paper or a show. The great difference is
that all must pay for the show. Another difference is that
a newspaper advertises the town in which it is published,
and the town’s prospects. You, business man, who put a
display ad. in your local paper are only helping the paper
to issue a bigger display ad. about the town and locality
with which your fortunes are bound up. The greater
your ad. the greater will be the advertising which the pap
er can afford to give your city. It may be sometimes that
your advertisement does not bring direct results, although
there is no advertising that does not bring some results,
but, remember, that it is only the advertising that enables
a newspaper to supply your community with the news of
the day. It seems as if the great trouble with newspapers
is that they have not hit on some plan whereby people
would pay just exactly for what they get. Papers should
j probably charge a greater subscription rate and not be
compelled so much to depend on advertisements. There
would then be the direct sale and the direct purchase of a
certain commodity at a certain price, just as in the case of
potatoes or turnips. There would be nothing indefinite
then about the value received, and there would be none of
the thoughtless statements about a paper being “support
ed by the public.”_ ‘_'_
THIS MODERN ADAM M W
discover SIX EVES
IN HIS EDEN TODAY
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
NEW YORK. July 15.—Six modern
Eves of unknown identity are de
termined to accompany the modern
Adam, Joe Knowles, when he leaves
Ids palatial apartment here today to
plunge, mule, into the woods of the
Adironack hills on another of bis
famous back to nature jnmbourees.
Knowles lives tins way a month a
year. When lie goes in the only thing
wrapt about him is bis expression
When he comes out he is well fed on
fruits, nuts and herbs and clad in a
deerskin suit.
Knowles didn’t want the women
with him so he chose one of them,
Mrs. Emily Davis, whose husband was j
killed in the lighting in Northern;
Eranee recently and who is an ex
perience*! woodsman, to take charge of
the six Eves after he has chosen a
camp for them and left preliminary
instructions in the art of finding
edible roots and how to make snares,
traps and fish nets of grasses and,
fibre. This corsetless, unhairpinnod
and non mirrored sextette of Eves
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will live for a month in the secret
camp in the Adironacks, then
Knowles will go back to get them.
WOMEN NAVVIES BARRED
FROM NAVAL MILITIA
C RUSE AND WAR GAMES
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
WASHINGTON,, July 15.—Women
are barred from the naval Militia and
Motor Boat Reserve cruise and man
ouvres scheduled to begin today
among the naval militia of nineteen
states under the direction of the Navy
department. The cruise will last until
July 20th.
The original plan was to have t'
battleships Maine, New Jersey,
Kentucky receive the New York and
New Jersey naval militia at New
York, cruising to sea and to Block
Island Sound and back; while the
battleships Kearsarge and Virginia
were to go to Boston to receive the
militia from Massachussetts,, Con
necticut, Maine and Rhode Island;;
while the battleships Alabama, Il
linois and Rhode Island at Philadel
phia received the militia of Illinois,
Maryland, District of Columbia,'
Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Caro
lina, Minnesota, Missouri and Ohio,
and the battleship Louisiana at
Hampton Roads received the militia
of Virginia, Florida, Lousiana, North
Carolina and Texas. But since the
Mexican situation has become acute,
other ships may be used for the
,
cruise.
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DIDN’T KNOW ONE MAN
COULD TALK SO MUCH!
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
LORAIN, 0., July 14.—In celebra
tion of his twenty-five years as a bar
ber, Theodore Curtis today hauled out
and exhibited records to prove that he
has shaved 243,960 men, including
Presidents McKinley, Roosevelt and
Taft, Senators Hanna, Quay, Bever
idge and Ben Tillman; Doc Cook, Buf
falo Bill, Jess Willard, Tod Sloan and
Harry Thaw. He has cut enough hair
to make eleven mattresses and to pad
43,562 crutches. He would like to add i
Charles E„ Hughes to his list. When !
a friend heard that Curtis had shave*
so many, he remarked that he didn’t
see how one man could talk so much.
FOR RENT
3-room house, Laubner addition.
Enquire yellow house, 3rd ave. 7-21-3
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sundays: Communion Mass at 8:39
a. m.
Mass and Sermon at 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school after Mass.
Rosary, Instruction and Benediction
at 7:30 p. m.
Weekdays: Daily Mass at 7:30 a.
m.
RUBBER BOOTS
(iood ones, too BULL’S RYE BRAND all sizes, hip
length; heavy soles,
To Close $6.00 pair To Close
If you can use a pair, better get them now
COTTER’S
The place where men outfit *
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STANDARD ROAD OF THE WEST
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SUPERIOR SERVICE
between SEATTLE and tin* chief cities of the
EAST AND SOUTH
LIMITKD TRAIN'S MF.ALand SLKKIMNH ACCOMMODATION’S
SKCOND TO N'ONK THRO0OH CARS UNDKR AUTOMATIC
KLKCTRIC "SAFKTY" SHINAL PROTKCTION ull tin* way to
CHICACO, DENVER AND KANSAS CITY
LOW ROUND TRIP FARES SEATTLE TO CHICAGO, NEW YORK
and main points of the East
in effect until September 30
PLAN YOUR TRIP NOW
Ask Alaska S. S. Co. or 1*. A. N. agents. SEWARD.
ALASKA, for folders and information, or write
H. A. LAWRENCE
traveling freight and passenger agent.
1\ (). Hox 108, 111 Seward Street
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PACIFIC
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HOTEL OVERLAM I
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Rest Rates : : Rest Treatment
i*est Accommodations
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MILK STATIONS AT BOTH BUTCHER SHOPS
Rainier Buffet
THE BEST IN EVERYTHING
WINES LIQUORS CIGARS
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Selected from practically every block in the Townsite of
SEWARD, ALASKA
RESERVE PRICES FOR RESIDENCE LOTS
$250 TO $750
TERMS
10 per cent. CASH
RESERVE PRICES FOR BUSINESS LOTS
$800 TO $2,000
TEN PER CENT IN THIRTY DAYS—Balance in one, two, three and four years at seven per cent
In compl ance with many urgent requests, *200 lots, a part of the
holdings of Frank' L and John K. Ballaine, will be offered at public
auction in the A. B. Hull, Seward. Alaska, Tuesday, July *23.
For this occasion the reserve prices have been made so low and the
terms so exceptionally easy that it is safe to say that a like opportunity
to buy lots in the original townsite of Seward may never occur again.
SEWARD
As the terminus of the Government Railroad and distributing center for
the whole interior of Alaska, is bound to have a phenomenal growth. It
will become, a> Frank Carpenter so aptly put it, “The New York of
Alaska.*’ and when the railroad is completed to the coal fields and to the
Tanana River, then4 is not a lot in the entire townsite but which will be
worth from double to ten times its present value. Nature has given to
Seward the finest harbor on earth and an ideal townsite on which will be
built a metropolis which will occupy the same position in relation to this
great northern empire that Seattle does to tin4 Bacilic northwest, or New
York to tin4 whole country.
SEWARD
In addition to being the ocean terminal of the great Government Railroad,
will become an important naval station for the U. S. fleet in the North
Pacific and the principal base fbr its coal supply. It will be visited yearly
by thousands of tourists, who will come to view the scenic beauties of the
Kenai Peninsula or travel over the railroad to the Yukon. Sportsmen
will soon recognize it as the starting point for the best hunting and fishing
to be found on the North American continent. The wholesale houses of
Seattle and San Francisco will shortly establish branches in Seward. It
will become headquarters for the fishing interests of the North Pacific,
and smelters, pulp mills and other industries will spring up like magic.
Thousands of acres of land in the Resurrection valley and on the Kenai
Peninsula will be cleared and cultivated, and permanent agricultural com
munities will be developed. Every new town from Anchorage to Fair
banks and every mining center along the railroad or on the ^ ukon or its
branches will pay tribute to Seward. Look the whole country over and
you cannot find a solitary exception to the rule that where a trunk line
railroad terminates at a good all the year round harbor, there you will find
the metropolis of that section. In short, the future of Seward is so bright
that its development fjom now on will exceed our wildest dreams. The
lots that sell today for a few hundred dollars will within three years sell
for as many thousands.
DON’T FAIL TO BUY ONE OR MORE OF THESE LOTS
We might add that a lot in Prince Rupert which brought $2900 at the HILL PARi ICULALS FRANK L. BALLAINE, Seward
auction sale in Vancouver was sold two years later for $00,000. ’ (
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