ALL SAME TO MINERAL
WASHINGTON, Aug., 26, ^P)—
A twist of a chemist’s hand and
salts of strontium will make the
sugar you stir in your coffee or
the red fire you burn July 4.
The chemical with such varied
uses, according to R. M. Sant
myers of the bureau of mines,
is of sufficient importance in the
United States for imports of the
strontium minerals to amount to
4.233,816 pounds in 1927, the last
figures available.
Its versatality in producing fire
works or sugar extends further
<o the manufacture of iridescent
glass, as a hardening agent for
copper castings and s a paint fil
ler.
Duck season opens up Septem
ber 1.
CUP TO GERMANY
MARBLEHEAD, Mass., Aug., 26,1
(JP)—The Piesidcnt Hoover cup goes
to Germany in the first maritime
races held here between America
and Germany since the war. Teu
ton sloops came out victorious.
Hear the new iwunswick records. |
Carolina Moon and Wear a Hat
with a Silver Linning, at SCHAL
LERER’S AY ASK A SHOP.
Join Urbach & Valade’s CIRCU
LATING LIBRARY; 15c to read
a book.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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FOR FIRE INSURANCE ^
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW £
Offices L
VALDEZ and CORDOVA 1
Dr. A. R. Roberts f
DENTIST
Dental and General X-Ray work
Phone MAdison 108—Tecklenberg Bldg.
L. E. Grammer
CIVIL ENGINEER
Deputy U. S. Mineral Surveyor
Deputy U. S. Surveyor
Fish Trap Surveys
Anchorage, Alaska
l)r. H.W. Hyatt
PHYSICIAN-SURGEON
Offices in Tecklenberg Bldg. j
Office hours: 10 a.m. to 12 o’clock. 2 p.m.
to 4 p.m.; 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Phones: MAin 136—Residence, MAdison 90 1 *
INCOMING LOCALS
The incoming local list of pas
i sengers on the S. S. Yukon, ii
j port Saturday from the South
included: From Ketchikan—Bar
| rett Willoughby, W. C. Chamber
lain, W. G. Strench, W. J. S. Len
j non. From Juneau—L. Juron, H
C. Willis, I. Lachman. From Val
dez—Betty Simpson, Dot Simp
son. From Latouche—Alex Rue
H. C. Dunlop, N. Catrabasis, M
Sande, J. Hoveland, J. Christofer
son, O. Kilsgard, R. Tolo, O. Mon
son.
WAS DISAPPOINTED
NEW YORK, Aug., 26, </P>-Gloria
Swanson and some of her friends
who came down to the pier to see
her sail on board the Olympia for
Europe, received a bitter disap
pointment. Some one sent Miss
Swanson a bottle as a sailing gift
and she had summoned ice and
ginger ale for cocktails. She then
discovered it was just a bottle.
There was no liquid in it. '
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C. B. White, manager of the
Goldsmith Dredging Co., operations
on Solomon river reports progress
on the construction of the new
dredge, which his company is
building.
POOR BUSINESS
PARIS, Aug., 26, UP)—Warnings
not to learn to play a musical
instrument with the idea of earn
ing a living have been issued by
the National Council of Enter
tainments. Phonographs, radios
and sound films are killing music
as a profession, says the council.
Andy Newberg and Lou Berry are
Drospecting at Jerome Creek, Solo
non river.
A man who wished to make con
rersation at the table said to the
voman at his side.—
“Do you know the story of the
irchaeologist who found two skulls
>f Cleopatra, one of her when she
vas a girl and the other when ske
yas a middle-aged woman?”
“No, do tell me,” she said.
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SHOP
Radios and Radio Supplies
For service call
Madison 123
House wiring, boat wiring,
and repairing. We stock up
to-date light fixtures.
Mail orders promptly
attended
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Overland
Hotel
On the Main Street
Seward, Alaska
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PEAK OF THE SOU
j MOSCOW, Aug., 26, (£>)-N. Gor
bunov, head of the German-Rus
| sian expedition to the Pamir, has
' | announced that Mt. Garmo, at
- the upper reaches of the Vanch
river, is the highest peak in sov
iet territory.
Calculations just completed give
it 24,584 feet, which is 1,211 feet
j more than Mt. Lenin, hitherto
; deemed the highest and thus j
| named in honor in honor of the
j soviet founder.
j A- C. Stewart brought in another
; cleanup to Nome from his mining
| property on Monument creek. He
istates that activities are progress
ing favorably with his crew of 12
men.
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PREFER MATRIMONY
WARSAW, Aug., 26, .(/P)-While
38 per cent of the students of the
' Warsaw University are women,
j only three per cent graduate.
Most of them abandon the halls
j of learning for matrimony.
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Louis M. Royal, a former member
of the Wrangell high school faculty
91?d whose marriage to Miss Liberty
Worden occurred after his first
vear, has accented a nosition in the
Pawtucket. Rhode Island, schools
for the coming year.
“FER GOODNESS SAKE”
LONDON,. Aug,, 26, (A5)—Aus
tria’s only woman electrical en
gineer, Fraulein Kathe Bohm,
showed at a convention here an
electric kitchen table which
saves steps because it runs!
around the kitchen after the
housewife. It includes a stove, a
sink and a kitchen cabinet.
A-l meat and nothing else in
the Frye-Bruhn Meat Market.
DOWERY RIGHTS
NEW YORK, Aug., 26. (/P) —
Mrs. Edward “Peaches” Browning
enjoys dowery rights of about
$1,500,000 of her husband’s pro
perty under the terms of the
settlement made.
Joseph Belleview who is interest
ed in the operation of a dredge on
Dry creek about 12 miles north of
Nome, is at present carrying on ex
tensive prospecting operations on
the Benson ground on Iron creek,
with the view of installing another
dredge.
I I was going along the street one
day and I saw my little friend
Willie.
“Hello, Willie”, I said, “How’s your
Grandpa standin’ the heat these
summer days?”
“We ain’t heard yet, he only died
last Thursday.”
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with
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Total Cost $4.50
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