COP GOES RODEO ACT
CHICAGO, July 23. (;p)—Even a
former plainsman may find a task
right to his liking on the Chicago
* police force. When a steer ran away
from the stockyards down a business
thoroughfare, Sergt. Anthony Huber,
former cowboy, bulldogged it and
held it down until attendants arrived
in pursuit.
OLYMPIC MEDAL STRUCK
AMSTERDAM, July 23. (JP).Queen
Wilhemina has ordered a new Olym- j
pic Games medal struck. It will be j
presented to all participants in the j
1928 Olympic Games. The design j
is by the noted Dutch sculptor. J. C. i
Wienecke. More than 12,000 athlet- j
es are now expected to take part in !
the games.
SILVER FOX FARM
FOR SALE
One of the most successful on
Kachemak Bay; 14 breeding pens,
9 pup pens, excellent harbor for
boat; cook house, warehouse, gar
den, berries; 150 per cent increase
this year: stocked with 14 pair.
PRICE $10,000
Write for particulars
AXEL A. JOHNSON, Aurora Fox
Farm, Seldovia, Alaska.
SHORT SKIRTS WANTED
PARIS, July 23. (#>)—Higher skirts
'justify higher sidewalks, say the
■scientific members of the city traffic
j commission. They t'hink many side
walks and the safety islands are so
low as to be too easily climbed by
excitable automobile drivers. The
| commission delved into records and
; found that the sidewalks and pedes
J train refuges—called in French ‘‘Fool
Protectors”—were made low in days
when women’s skirts dragged the
ground. Now that skirts are higher
| there seems to be no reason why
| women can’t step a few inches high
FEW OUNCES OF STAMPS
»
PARIS. July 23. (/P)—Probably the
most valuable collection of stamps I
'ever gathered was the recent ex-j
position at Strasbourg during the
hilatelic Congress. The few ounces
’of old paper were valued at 100,000,
000 francs. A commemorative issue
of five and ten-franc stamps, limited
to 50’0000 was .printed by the French
government in connection with the
Congress.
Don’t forget the big public dance
at Odd Fellow’s hall tonight. Take
it in after the theater.
MET BEE IS WORTH
MILLIONS TO 6ERIH
BERLIN, July 23. (£>)—'The little
bee is a greater economic producer
than are all the high-sea fishermen
Germany put together, according
to the Frankfurter Zeitung.
Another striking tribute to the bee
is the .‘u,sertion by Professor Enoch
Zander of Erlangen University that
“tee culture is the most essential
branch of agriculture.” '
There are some 65 billion bees in
Germany, according to the Frankfurt
er Zeitung. Together they produce
about 300,000 hundreweight of
honey annually, representing a value
of $7,000,000. This, says the Frank
furt paper, is an economic item of
no small importance in an impover- '
ished country like Germany, and ex
ceeds the proceeds from Germany’s
high sea fisheries.
Professor Zander bases his high
estimate of bees upon the fact that
billions of blossoms are fertilized by
them. This is worth at least $70,000,
000 annually to Germany .Fruit trees,
vegetables, the grasses and flowers
of the meadows—all owe their ferti
lization to the busy bee, which car
ries the pollen from one blossom to
the other.
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EITHER PEDDLES PIPERS
PAYS FOR liW COURSE
CHAMPAIGN, 111., July 23. (JP)—A
31-year-old “newsboy” with a wife
and two children has won a doctor’s
degree in the college of law at the
University of Illinois.
He is Dudley Woodbridge, and he
has delivered The Champaign News
Gazette since 1917.
Sometimes Woodbridge studied as
he walked his route, on which he a
veraged 20 miles a day. The $1,600
to $1,800 he earned each year as
“paper boy” defrayed most of the
expenses of his education.
He has accepted an assistant- pro
fessorship of jurisprudence at Willi
am and Mary college, Williamsburg,
Va.
The regular meeting and luncheon
of the Seward Chamber of Com
merce will be held Tuesday at noon
in the Seward Grill.
Eastman kodoks and supplies.
Schallerer’s Alaska Shop.
There will be a large crowd ar
riving in Seward this evening from
the Interior, but it is expected the
special tourist parties, comprising
some 125 persons, will check in and
out tomorrow.
A show never to be forgotten tonite.
Ford Celebrates With Three
Most Famous Automobiles
* i
Production of Fifteen Mil
lionth Ford Car Marks An
other Chapter in American
Motor History.
^ r* > VERY day is a big day in the
I™< life of Henry Ford, but
1" ^ throe of his days in particu
lar have been tremendously impor
tant historically to all the rest of
the world. 0
There was that day away back 1n
/
Yesterday and today in motor car history. Lower picture shows the three most famous Ford cars—
the first built, built by Henry Ford in 1893, the first Model T, built in 1908, and the fifteen millionth Ford.
In insert. Henry and Edsel Ford.
the early 'nineties, when he chug
ged forth upon the streets of
Detroit with his first “horseless
buggy.”
There was the day in 1908 when
he introduced the first of the Model
T Fords.
Then there was that day—just a
few days ago—when, with his son
Edsel at the wheel, he rode the
fifteen-millionth Ford automobile
off the assembly line at the great
Highland Park plant
The true significance of the first
of these three days was apparent
J to no one at the time. To be sure.
the noisy jerky little horseless
carriage was the first automobile
Detroit had seen and, for that mat
, ter, one of the first three the world
4 had seen. But to observers it was
just a curious sort of freak vehicle
—a toy. Even Henry Ford himself
had not vet dreamed of the tre
mendous development of automo
biles that was to follow in its wake.
Likewise, the world was unaware
of the importance of that day in
1908 which saw the advent of the
Model T Ford car. Automobile
manufacturers were multiplying by
that time; the automobile already
had passed the plaything stage and
was showing promise of becoming
a factor in transportation. But only
Kenry Ford and a tew of his clos
est associates foresaw that the long
line of descendants of that first
Model T Ford would revolutionize
automobile manufacture, aid per
haps more than anything else in
the development of paved roads,
and place the automobile within
the reach of almost every family in
America.
But on that late spring day in
1927, when the fifteen-millionth
Ford car came off the assembly
line, the whole world knew it was
a day of days in the history of the
automobile and of American indus
try and life in general.
On the day before, the Ford
Motor Company had issued an offi
cial announcement tliat a new Ford
automobile “superior in design and
performance to any now available
in the low-priced, light car field,"
would be introduced during the
present summer. The announce
ment meant that the fifteen
millionth Ford marked the begin
ning of another long line which
may play an even greater part in
providing improved transportation
for the masses.
The completion of the fifteen
millionth car was the occasion for
a celebration in the Ford 'organiza
tion. Eight of the men who helped
to build the first Model T motor
and who are now executives of
high rank in the organization,
supervised the assembling of the
fifteen-millionth motor and stamp*
ed upon the motor block the num
bers “15,000,000.”
When the entire car had been as
sembled, Henry Ford and his soa
Edse., who is president of the Fori
Motor Company, drove it from the
Highland Park plant to the ad
ministration building of the com
pany at Dearborn. There it was
met by Mr. Ford's first automobile,
the old “horseless carriage” and
by the first of the long line of
model T Fords.
While news and motion-picture
cameras clicked, Henry Ford drove
his little gas buggy of the early
Dineties around the area way where
the three most-famous motor cars
in history had met. Also he talked
in his characteristic manner to
newspapermen and others who had
gathered.
Mostly be talked of that little
old first car.
“I was proud of that car,” he
said, “but almost everybody else in
j Detroit either laughed at it or ran
from it I remember one day a
family party jumped out of a
buggy and ran as I approached
with my car. The horse wasn't
afraid, though. While the family
were scampering up the road, he
moved off to the side of the road
and began to graze.”
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A Simple Test
of Name Quality
TRY this simple test! Check up on
* the mileage you have been getting
with ordinary gasoline. Then drive
up to Ogle’s station and ask the pump
man to “fill ’er up” with this clean
burning, energetic fuel. The first ten
miles will be a revelation to you!
Ogles Garage
\[0 matter what class, quality
^ or quantity of Lumber you
may need, we carry it in our
yard. Estimates will be furn
ished without charge or obliga
tion. * i
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PORT BLAKELEY MILL CO.
CAL M. BROSIUS
Seward, Alaska