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MOVIES RAISE GRADES
Some interesting tests with a view to determining
the benefits derived from supplementing ordinary in
struction by motion picture films illustrating the sub
jects taught were recently made in San Diego and eleven
other California cities.
In more than 11,000 children were tested, each
school being devided into two groups, one of which re
ceived both book and film instruction, the other being
taught through text-books only. The tests covered a per
iod of ten-weeks, at the end of which examinations were
held. Pupils having the advantage of the motion pictures
made grades 33 per cent higher in geography and 15 per
cent higher in general science subjects.
The introduction of educational films is becoming
widespread and there is little doubt that they ywill be
widespread and there is little doubt that they will will be
On Christmas Day Dr. B. B. Ross, state chemist of
Alabama, celebrated his 64th birthday and retold his fav
orite joke. Some years ago when he applied for admiss
ion to a German university he was given a text book on
chemistry and asked if his experience was sufficient to
comprehend it. Looking it over, he said: “I guess so; I
wrote the book.”
You just cant beat California. Listen to this one: A
lady in Santa Barbara noticed' that she could hear radio
programs coming from a pan of boiling beans, although
there was no receiving set in the house. Experts investi
gated the phenomenon and decided that the radio waves
were probably picked up by the electric range or some
thing.
A press dispatch of recent date from Washington
says a dry drive is to be made in Alaska. The boys will be
glad for this advance information.
General* Pershing will hereafter receive a salute of
19 guns instead of 17. Some Chicago gangsters get al
most as many.
“Highest Prices in History for Rabbit
SkinsChicago Fur Executive Declares
Millions of rabbit skins will be
taken In the United States and Cana
da this season, yet if all these pelts
were received by one large house
dealing exclusively In American raw
furs, the concern would not have too
many t supply its demand. And this
Is especially true of Jackrabblts, those
large, bounding animals of the mid
western and western plains.
"So great is the demand for Jack
rabbit skins this year,” Stanley T.
peshen, vice-president of A. B.
phubert, Inc., Chicago, one of Amer
ica’s largest handlers of rabbit skins,
declared, "that prioes have been
pushed up until today we are pay
ing the highest prices in history for
Jackrabbit pelts. Literally, we need
millions of rabbit skins, and the
more Jackrabblts, the better. Those
residing in Jackrabbit sections of the
country can make from $5-$25 a day.
depending upon the time they spend
hunting, killing and handling the
rabbits. Organized drives for these
animals, formerly considered of little
lvalue and regarded as pests, will
prove more than real sport. It will
be to the financial advantage of the
hunters who bag the Jackrabblts."
There are several valuable varieties
of wild rabbits, Mr. Eeshen said, and
those coming under this classifica
tion are the whltetall Jacks, the black
tail Jacks, the snowshoe hares and the
i cottontails, all of which are In ex
treme demand. A. B. Shubert, Inc,
could use every skin In these va
rieties. which this season are com
manding top prices.
More than one hundred million
rabbit skins annually are required by
' the big fur markets, of which A. B.
l—^ srANcer t. xesHeN
Shubert, Inc., Is the largest dealing'
exclusively In American raw furs. Atj
least half of this huge number ofj
rabbit skins Is used In the manufac-j
ture of fur garments and fur trim-!
mlngs. The balance is converted In
to coat linings, glove linings andj
manufactured Into felt for hats.
Hunters, trappers and farmers;
who have found It most profitable
for them to ship rabbit pelts, are ad
vised by Ur. Eeshen to lose no time
in sending in their catches, for the
terrific existing demand calls tor Uni
mediate attention,
W
I, R. MACPHERSBN
W. R. Macpherson received notice
Saturday from Bishop P. T. Rowe, j
of the Episcopal church and who !
at present is in Victoria, B. C.,
that he has been appointed pastor
in charge of the Seward church.
Mr. Macpherson expressed him
self as being greatly pleased with
the annoucement and has wired
his acceptance. It will be the first
time in two years since regular
Episcopal services have been held
in the city resumption of which
begin next Sunday. Sunday school
will be held at 11 a. m. and even
ing services at 7:30.
The local church will be thor
ouly renovated this week as Bish
op Rowe has been very generous.
Mr. Macpherson departed today
I for Anchorage but is returning on
Wednesday.
FREIGHTER JANUARY 18
Thi freighter Tanana will sail
from Seattle on January 18 with a
,oad of coal and explosives accord
ing to the local office of the Alaska
| Steamship Co.
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ARCHEOLOGISTS WANTED
PARIS, Jan., 14, (JP)—Women
archeologists have had their first
chance in France with the appoint
ment of Count du Mesni! de Buisson
to a new chair of archeological ex
eavarion at the Louvre school.
Count du Mesnil issued a call to
young women in search of a career
to replenish the thinning ranks of
French archeologists.
HITRLOCK SUES AM1VIANN
Misrepresentation involving 100
lode mining claims in the Kotsina
district, near Strelna, form the basis
of a damage action for $301,350 filed
in the Seattle courts by George
Huriuck aga'nst Adolph Ammann, j
executor of the estate of the late
Archibofd Crawford. Hurlock said
Aminann induced him to spend the
money in the mines representing
the mworth $270,000 but their value
was only about $25,000.
PURE UNADULTERATED ICE
CREAM 50 c. PINT $1.00 A QUART.
Schallerer’s Alaska Shop.
SEWARD CHAPTER NO. 10, ORDER
OF EASTERN STAR
Meets the second and
fourth Mondays of eaeh
month in Odd Fellows’
Hall at 8 p. m. Visiting
members always wel
come; Mrs. Anna Les
lie, W. M.;
SEWARD LODGE NO. 1426, L.O.O.M.
Meets every first
and third Fri.
day ea%h month
at 8 p. m„ at
Odd Fellows’
Hall. All vlalt- .
1 n g members
welcome
PETER N. ANDERSON, Dictator.
M. A. HORNER, Secretary.
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 9
C. M. Brosius, Sec. - Treas.
SEWARD REBEKAH LODGE NO. 6
A., I. O. O. F.
Meets the first and
third Mondays of
each month In Odd
Fellows’Hall at 8:00
p. m. Visiting mem
bers are always wel
come. Mrs. Maris Osbo, N. G.,
Ludvig Larsson, Sec’y.
RESURRECTION LODGE NO. A-7,
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Thurday at
8.00 p. m. In Odd Fellows’
Hall. Visiting brothers welcome.
Ingwald Jacobsen, N. G., Ludvig
Larson, Secretary.
SEWARD LODGE NO. 219, F. & A.
• M. Stated communications
first and third Tuesdays
/Nr \ of eacii month. Visiting
brethern welcome. J. H. Flickinger,
. M.: Martin Banbury, Secretary.
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THE IRRESISTIBLE LOVER’
The nicest sort of a fellow, but being young, handsome and
rich, he couldn’t he!p playing around with all the willing
ladies, with no intention of marrying. At last he meets
‘The Girl’, a daughter of a police sergeant, whom he de
ceives as to his station, leading her to believe he was a bond
salesman. In trying to keep up the deception and ‘square’
hmself with her family, he gets into many corneal mixups
which keep you laughing so much it proves this is a
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AND THE BEST KIND OF ENTERTAINMENT
To start the laughs we will show also the ‘Let George Do It’
comedy
GEORGE STEPS OUT’
And in doing1 so he has a heck of a time as you will see.
IT’S A FINE LAUGHTER PROGRAM
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