Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD, ALASKA Established August 19, J904
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HOW TO FIGHT THE FLU
Plain common sense is the main ingredient of ad
vice offered for the treatment and prevention of in
fluenza, which has assumed the proportions of a mild
epidemic, not only throughout the United States, but
in Alaska as well.
Plenty of sleep and rest is recommended, with
large amounts of water, fruit juices, milk and hot
soups; warm clothing; avoidance of contacts with
others who have colds; keeping in the open air as much
as possible.
These are merely sound rules of health which
might well be observed at any time, particularly at this
period of the year. There is no royal road to health, on
ly the road we build by schooling ourselves to follow
the laws of nature, which are available to all of us.
FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS
Although It is the shortest month, February per
haps holds the birth anniversaries of more famous
Americans than any other. Among these, Washington
(yesterday, Feb., 22) and Lincoln are preeminent, but
two other presidents, William Henry Harrison and
Millard Fillmore, were also bom in February.
This month also marks the birthdays of David
Porter, naval officer of the war of 1812;Zebulon M.
Pike, soldier and explorer, for whom Pike’s Peak was
named; General W. T. Sherman of Civil War fame;
Horace Greeley and Henry Waterson, noted editors;
Henry W. Longfellow and Sidney Lanier, poets; Mark
Hopkins, great educator who was president of Wil
liams College for 36 years; Roger Williams, pioneer of
religious liberty and founder of Rhode Island; Richard
W^ son Gilder poet, editor and civic reformer; Dwight
L. Moody, evangelist; Peter Cooper and George Pea
body. philanthopists; Joseph Jefferson, actor; Cyrus H.
McCormick, inventor of the reaper, and William F. Co
dy, the colorful ‘"Buffalo Bill.”
This month’s list also includes several famous
women, among them being Susan B. Anthony, pioneer
suffragist, and two noted women educators, Mary Lyon,
founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary, and Alice Free
man Palmer, former president of Wellesley College.
Among living Americans born in February, the
most famous are Thomas A. Edison, Elihu Root and
Charles A. Lindbergh.
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MAKE YOUR GAME PAY ITS WAY!
PERSISTENCE AND SKILL WILL DO IT
A $2.50 Cash Prize awaits one man and one
lady making the lowest aggregate score for
the week beginning Monday, Feb. 23 and end
ing Sunday, midnight, March 1.
Contest open to anyone over 15 years of age.
Anyone can play the game but practice makes
a good player—develops skill and judgement.
INQUIRE AT GOLF COURSE OFFICE
FOR DETAILS.
Tickets on sale at the Golf Course Office
at $4-50 each good for 20 rounds.
WAS MADE A DAME OF THE
BRITISH EMPIRE DUE TO
WAR WORK
MELBOURNE. Australia, Feb.,1
23, (./P)—Dame Nellie Melba, not- (
ed Australian soprano, died yes- !
terday following an illness of sev- '
eral weeks.
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NIELLIE. MELBA
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She suffered from a strange
malady believed to have been
[ contracted in Egypt apparently
caused by the toxic condition of
biood.
| Mint. Melba was born May 19,
1359 near Melbourne, Australia
| and took her stage name from
1 that city. She was the daughter
of David Mitchell, a contractor.
At the age of 19 she married
j Capt. Chas. N. F. Armstrong,
i son of an Irish baronet, and the
| following year a son, George Nes
bit Armstrong, was born to her. A
separation from both husband
and son followed a shore time
later, and in April, 1900, Captain
| Armstrong, then engaged in
ranching near Galveston, Texas,
obtained a divorce.
During the years she was sep
. araied from her boy, Mine, Mel
ba continued to lavish upon him
i everything within her command,
■ except her maternal presence.
1 Then, when he was 23 years old,
' came the long hoped for recon
ciliation. and young Ai strong
| joined his mother in Kan
sas City while she was touring
| America. In 1906 he married Ruby
! Otway, daughter of a London
; millionaire, and it was reported
j that his mother presented him
■ with a castle in Ireland and a
handsome annuity.
In recognition cf her work in
| behalf of the British soldiers
i during the World War, Mme Mel
| ba was made a Dame of the
British Empire, a title .she is
1 said to have valued second only
i to her marvelous singing voice,
j Mine. Melba continued through
| out her life to regard Melbourne
j as her home, although she lived
j at various times in London, Paris
and Brussels.
30 YEARS IN ALASKA
Birdie Ash, 74 years old, died at
Juneau last week of infirmities
due to advanced age, reports the
Empire. She had been a resident
i of Alaska for 30 years and had a
wide acquaintance throughout
the Northlnd.
Oil is being used to rid Mare
Island, California, shipyards of
mosquitos. Ditches are dug and
! oil is poured into them every 14
| days at high tide.
| Phone for ftorlur,K“s Danish
lice Cream and we will deliver
Candy Cottage.
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LIBERTY THEATER
8 O'CLOCK — ONE SHOW — 8 O'CLOCK
LAST SHOWING OF THIS FINK PROGRAM
SPECIAL — this wonderful cast — SPECIAL
George Bancroft — Clyde Cook — Mitchell
Lewis — G. Von Seffertitz — Betty Comp
son — Baclanova ,N
| DOCKS OF NEW YORK'
A very powerful eight-reel drama giving the rough side
of shipping labor around the waterfront of New York.
NOT A CROOK PLAY; JUST THRILLING, EXCITING
— COMEDY — HEAVY DRAMA — LOVE —
A wonderfully acted play that will hold your attention
every minute. It is strong—it is rough—it is rank—it is
beautiful—and we recommend rt without reservation.
With it there will be a late News Reel.
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