Seward Daily Gateway
OF SEWARD. ALASKA — Established August 19. 1904
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NORTHWESTERN ALASKA FAIR
Nome has asked the Seward Chamber of Com
merce and The Gateway to assist in telling Alaskans
about their annual Northwestern Fair, April 8th to the
11th. We’re glad to pass the good word along.
This will be the second event of its kind sponsored
by the Nome organization. Last year’s fair was a great
success and was attended by Alaskans from all points
of the Territory.
The Fair not only fills a niche in the winter’s ac
tivities in the North, but it encourages the growth of
various industries necessary to build up population in
the vast Northwestern section. The Eskimo element in
the region manufacture many interesting and valuable
articles; their ivory and fur garments cannot be dup
licated anywhere.
The Fair’s program this year starts off with the
All-Alaska Championship Dog Races, for which $1,500
in cash prizes will be awarded. Sail and ski races will
also be featured, and a native potlatch. Reindeer races,
parades and other forms of entertainment are also on
the card, we note in the interesting booklet received.
Exhibitions of animals, native-made clothing and other
articles, home canned products, candies, fish, and un
canned vegetables are some of the display materials
for which substantial cash prizes will be awarded.
Not stopping at this, among the exhibits are also
listed paintings, needlework, photography, furs, flow
ers, bread baking and, last but not least, a baby show.
Alaskans down here haven’t seen anything, appar
ently, if they haven’t attended a Nome Fair.
It is no longer considered proper to clip the tips of
a man’s ears for insisting that the earth turns on its
axis, but the current print recently sent North shows
that the vogue of rough stuff has not entirely ended.
We read where Turkey hung 28 at once in various
places in a single town where they argued for their
peculiar political views. Slavery at present, we noticed,
is not considered polite or profitable in the United
States, especially white slavery, yet it flourishes in Lib
eria to such an extent that the poor old League of Nat
ions thinks that “there ought to be a law.”
Sir Wilkins, the explorer, plans to dive under the
ice cap, and come to the surface in the open waters of
the pole. Jules Verne pictured that in Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea, a book that charmed us in our
youth. Men of science meet the present needs, but the
ranks of the prophets must be recruited from the com
pany of imaginative writers.
The Anchorage Antlers basketball team arrives
tonight. Soon, the Purple Bubble Ball, then “The Patsy”
and in between the movies and midget golf. My heav
ens ! Could one want more fun than these simple, inex
pensive entertainments? Then they talk about the cruel
c-r-u-e-1 North.
The latest development in aerial transportation is
the promise of a non-stop passenger service from the
Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. The convenience to travel
ers is obvious, and the Department of Commerce points
out that the railroads need not suffer, since there is nc
reason why they should not operate planes as well as
surface vehicles.
Seems like with all these dog teams coming and go
ing out of Seward this year, the little old reliable steed
of the North is coming back into his own. And the
freight rates are just about the same.
Welcome Anchorage Antlers! May you someday
shed your horns but only to grow larger ones.
AMERICANS III THE ft
ANTIPODES GOING GOOD ]
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WAITMAITE, N. Z., Mar., 12, j ^
(/P)—Harlow Rothert of Stanford, j j
j touring the Antipodes with Geo.; t
Simpson of Ohio state and Rufus i
j Kiser, of Washington, broke the j
, Australian-New Zealand record j !
1 for the discuss with a throw of j
144 feet six and one-querter in
ches.
This mark is five feet, four <
and one-half inches better than 4
the old mark.
Simpson won the 100 yard!
dash in nine and fiur-fifths sec- (
onds, equoling the local record.
CHANGED HIS MIND J
MONTEREY, Mexico, Mar-, 12,
P)—Plutarco Elias Calles, Jr.,
son of the former president, with- ,
drew his candidacy for nomina- (
tion for the governorship of Neuve
Leon. The nomination, which was j
j assured, was on the social demo- j <
! crat ticket and probably would j
1 have won him the election. 1
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AIMEE’S DAUGHTER WEDS
SINGAPORE, Mar. 11. W —
Roberta Semple McPherson, 20
years of age, daughter of the Am- 1
erican evangelist, Aimee Semple
McPherson, was married at the
Wesley Church here to William i
Bradley Smyth, 23, purser on the
liner President Wilson, on which
Mrs. McPherson and her daugh- j
tor arc making a world tour
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HAND AS WATER PLUG {
ABERDEEN, Mar. 11- (/P)—A j
Scottish fisher youth, who, like the \
the Dutch boy of legend, used his j
hand as a water plug, saved his j
own life and the lives of seven I
others in the wintry gale which j
has lashed Great Britain recently. \
NEW LODGE
The Native Daughters of the \
Golden North, a new lodge whose j
membership will be limited to )
girls bom in Alaska, was formed j
in Fairbanks recently. Officers ;
were elected and it was decided
to postpone consideration of a
constitution and by-laws until the
next meeting, which was to have!
been held on March 11, says the
Fairbanks News-Miner. About 59
girls have signified their inten
t’on of joining. Members must be
at least 15 years of age.
A hunter near Yymore, Neb., re
cently shot a rare black squirrel.
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BASKETBALL
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ANCHORAGE ANTLERS
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TOMORROW
BEBE DANIELS
One of the screen’s most entertaining stars
in the fast action picture
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What a Night
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A play of throbbing city life. A semi-crook play giving
the fight between a newspaper and gang-leaders in a
series of thrilling encounters. A whirlwind picture
With it we will show you a two-reel
Bobby Vernon comedy
“SPLASH YOURSELF”
A laugh-getter of the first water. Also, there will be a
“KOKO” REEL
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