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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
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NEW CALENDAR PLAN
Another effort to revise the calendar, so as to make
each month contain exactly four weeks, is being consider
ed by a committee of the League of Nations. Several
plans have been suggested, but one proposed by M. B.
Cotsworth, director of the International Fixed Calendar
League, appears to meet with most favor.
Briefly, his proposal is to divide the year into 13
months of 28 days each, every week and month to begin
on Sunday, with the extra month inserted between June
and July. It would be necessary to have an additional
day atfthe end of December, and an extra day in Leap
years, but these would not take the name of any day of
the week.
Thus each day of every month would always come on
the same day of the week—Sundays on the 1st, 8th, 15th
and 22d; Mondays on the 2nd, 9th, 1th and 23d, and so on.
From a practical standpoint the proposed calendar
would have many advantages and would greatly simplify
the keeping of accounts, computing pay rolls, calculating
interest, recording statistical data and the like.
Sentimentally, it would play havoc with anniversaries
and church feasts by requiring other days to be substitut
ed for those now observed. Those who were born on the
29th to 31st, inclusive, of any month would be legislated
out of their birthdays.
Still, the same thing has happened many times in the
past when calendar changes have been made, and no one
appears to have been harmed by the process.
Dr. William McAndrew has recently been delivering!
an interesting lecture entitled “Life Among the Bone-i
heads”. The learned doctor was recently ousted from
the superintendency of Chicago's schools at the instiga
tion of Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson, therefore should be
well qualified to discuss his subject.
Among those bits of more or less useless informa
tion which we find interesting for the moment is one to
the effect that Americans spend $300,000 for Santa Claus
whiskers last December. Quite a sum to blow in for some
thing even the kids don't believe in any more.
It is said that a former clerk has paid $310,000 for
a seat on the New York Exchange. Some of them are
like that, while others save up a little more and go after
a seat in the United States Senate. . "
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START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT
A. C. GRAUNSTADT, MANAGER
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Norton Sound has been well repre- j j
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sented at Chemawa for a number of I
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years. At the present time this sec-,!
tion of Alaska is well represented at I
I this fine school. Emily Ivanoff, John j j
j Dexter and Chas. Fagerstrom return- j f
i ed there this fall on the last Boat out j |
from Nome, after a summer vacation j f
with their folks at home. It was j p
Miss Ivanoff’s first visit after many, f
years. She is finishing her high l
school course there and hopes to find |
a place in the Alaska Service of the |
Bureau of Education.
John Dexter is completing a busi-: 1
ness course and expects to return to |
Golovin to assist his father in busi- §
ness after graduation. These young |
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people are in earnest and ambitious, |
and have creditably represented Alas- |
ka at Chemawa.
SCRIP ROOK EXERPS
Ben F. Primmer, Hamilton, Ohio—
“I regret that I did not see more of
that great country. I have told a
number of people that the trip from
Cordova on the Copped River Railroad
up to the Miles and Childs Glaciers
alone was worth the entire trip from
here to Alaska; the afternoon we
went up the Copper River was a per
fect sunny day and the flowers were
abi|ndant, the trees and shrubbery 1
was very green, the high and steep j
mountain streams filled with sediment |
spreading out over the lowlands gave |
me the impression that T was seeing |
a part of the earth formation before |
my eyes. When I :recall now the |
many beautiful scenes we passed on |
our trip I feel hungry to see those |
places again.”
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REGULAR BUSINESS
Regular business occupied the at- |
tention of the City "Dads” at the |
meeting last night. Bills were order- |
ed paid and a committee appointed to =
inspect certain structures on the main
thorofare.
PRINCESS SUES U. S.
CONSUL FDR REMARKS
JjARIS, Feb. 7. (JP)—Princess Viz
: ianoff won the first step in a suit for
| defamation she is bringing against the
i American Consul Bigelow for remarks
he made in connection with a refusal
of a passport wh.en Attorney General
ruled tribunal of Seine is competent
to hear the case.
MAY BE PRETENDER
LONDON, Feb. 7. (JP)—Princess
Anna Ilyinsk;i, former Audrey Emery,
daughter of the American millionaire
leather magnate and wife of the Rus
sian Grand Duke Dmitri, gave birth
to a son ■who may'become pretender
to the Russian throne.
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SAILS FOR HOME
NEW YORK, Feb. 7. (£>)—Lord
Rothermere, British publisher, who
has been traveling thru the east and
south regions of the United States,
sailed for England.
You read it in The ‘Gateway first.
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LOUISE FAZENDA
THREE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST
COMEDY STARS ACTING TOGETHER IN
| “Millionaires”
Suggested by the great story by
E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
A wonderful comedy with a touch of pathos.
The picture of a thousand laughs. They found
themselves rich unexpectedly and then—well,
what kind of a fool would you make yourself?
ITS UPROARIOUSLY FUNNY!
As the oil dollars rolled in their good senses
rolled out. How the swindler stung himself
when he tried to bunko the Rubens. It will keep
you entertained every minute. The “Society
Bug” bit his wife, but he just couldn’t remember
to do things right.
And to loosen up your sides for the feature
we will give you
CHARLIE BOWERS IN A 2 REEL COMEDY
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