Bird Creek Lumber Co.
Phone 52-Y'
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Sails Seattle Arrives Anchorage
MARCH 23 ALAMEDA MARCH 31
ft MARCH 30 ALASKA APRIL 6
APRIL 5 . MARIPOSA APRIL 12
APRIL 11 .. NORTHWESTERN APRIL 19
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
I J. J. LANKIN, Agent.
F. B. TRACY, General Agent.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Lv. Seattle Ar. Anchorage
Mar. 26 ...EVANS... April 3
Apr. 1 ..FARRAGUT.. Apr. 9
Apr. 9 ..WATSON .. Apr. 17
Apr. 17 ...EVANS. .. Apr. 26
Slailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
'President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE. |
Sar. Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday. §
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday. jj
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR, S
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY. g
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice. ?
For Full Particulars. T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska, jj
LAUNCH “SWAN”
Capt. N. J. Gaikema.
Daily Trips to Knik and Goose Bay from Govern
ment Dock No. 1.
See Bulletin Boards for Schedule
i Ticket Agencies at Baxter’!* and City Auto Service,
; Phone 89-R.
Alaska Men
Going Outside This Winter Outfit at
CHEASTY'S
The Specialty Men's Shop
in Seattle.
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V .n r.nLl 1 I O IIIU. 2a Av. and Spring
Men’* and Young Men’s Wear
Sandwiches, coffee and pastry lunch
es served at the North Pole Bakery.
Best music and entertainers at Pe
terson’s.
399
NEW NOTES
An international live stock exposi
tion, fostered by the government, will
be held in Uruguay in August.
A griddle hinged in the center has
been invented that can he turned over
to bake a cake on both sides.
By crossing certain fibre plants in
the Philippines an excellent grade of
artificial silk of much strength has
been produced.
To prevent roosters crowing an in
ventor has patented a sort of muzzle
that grips tightly only when a fowl
throws his head back.
In a South African mine 160 horse
power is developed from the fall of
water piped into the workings for
various purposes.
An Illionis man is the patentee of
a shovel in front of which is mounted
a lever-operated brush to draw mate
rial into it.
English chemists have made a syn
thetic turpentine at what is said to be
one-third the cost of the genuine
American article.
An Indiana inventor has brought'
out a device that can be used as a
child’s go cart, sled, carpet beater or!
carpet stretcher.
Bergamot oranges, which are rais
ed only for the oil obtained from their
skins, can be grown successfully in
but one small region in Calabria.
Radio experts are trying to find an
explanation for the fact that wireless
telegraphy works better on the Pa
cific ocean than on the Atlantic.
In Brussels a belt conveyor is
used to carry barrels of flour from a
mill to a railroad station through a
tunnel that runs under a ship canal.
A novel spark plug has a turbine
fan that is rotated by the engine ex
plosions to give a larger sparking
area and throw off waste oil deposits.
Sheep Breeders in England have in
vented a branding material that with
stands the weather for six months,
yet is soluble in the ordinary wash
ing process.
Photographic apparatus has been
invented by a New York scientist to
measure any deviation from the per
pendicular that occurs when deep
wells are bored.
Thirteen plants, having a total ca
pacity of 90,000,000 cubic feet of
ozonized air, have been installed in a
London underground railway to ven
tilate it.
Government figures indicate that
the per capita consumption of sugar
in the United States is increasing at
about twice the rate of increase in
population.
Natives of one province in India
have succeeded in breeding egrets in
captivity and thereby obtaining plu
mage four times a year without in
juring the birds.
A Milwaukee electrician is the in
ventor of a flashlight to be so mount
ed on a phonograph that it shows
where the needle is to be placed in
starting a record.
Of food imported by England, Ire
land furnishes from one-third to one
half of the meat, more than one-third
of the eggs and more than one-sixth
of the butter.
An electric headlight to be mount
ed on a horse’s bridle, supplied with
current by dry batteries attached to
the harness, is the invention of an
Arkansas man.
A french company will exploit a
lake in Venezuela the waters of
which are so strongly impregnated
with potash salts that they are used
locally as a fertilizer.
An Ohio inventor is the patentee of
a step ladder with two additional
legs at the sides, adjustable for
length, so that it will stand securely
on uneven surfaces.
Of the 101,000 primary schools in
the Russian empire nearly 60,000 are
under the direct control of the central
government and more than 34,000 are
church institutions.
Last year for the first time there ■
was a considerable production of lith
ographic stone in the United States,
practically all of it coming from
quarries in Kentucky.
The Panama Assembly in consider
ing the establishment and mainten- j
ance of a Pan-American university at
Panama City, using the national in
stitute of Panama as a base. -
Using a gasoline engine for power,
a machine has been invented by a
New Jersey teacher that digs up gar
dens or small farms, manual labor be
ing required only to guide it.
Russia’s oil fields produced almost i
61,000,000 barrels of petroleum in the
first ten months of last year, a gain
of nearly 4,000,000 barrels from the
like period in the previous year.
A recently patented tent is sus
pended from a tripod and extended
by a hammock that it contains, while
a piece of canvas can be fastened un
der is to completely enclose its oc
cupants.
A Spanish society has offered sub
stantial cash prizes for new inven
tions, processes or improvements in
electrical or mechanical lines tend
ing to promote the progress of na
tional industries.
A Chicago inventor’s hand signal
light for automobilists is so arranged
that when mounted on a man’s finger
the extending of his hand to warn
following vehicles automatically
switches on the current.
So'extensive are precautions taken
by railroads that link Argentina and
Chile by climbing the Andes, which
have the steepest grades in the world,
that not a fatal accident has happen
ed since they were opened in 1910.
The net weight of the contents of
a container is given automatically by
the aid of a new scale attachment
that balances an empty container
against the one in use and causes the :
weight of the latter to be omitted
from the scale reading.
Stop at Peterson’s Hctel. 399 j
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PRICE & BENNETT
Plumbing and Sheet Metal
Works
PHONE 29-Y
5th, near G.
Anchorage
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IS ACHIEVED BY STRICT ADHERENCE TO YOUR CUSTOMER'S WANTS
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PRICES REASONABLE
PHONES: STORE 7-R
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PROMPT DELIVERY
—COURTEOUS TREATMEN1
OFFICE 20-R
YOU’LL BE ADMIRED
And oft envied in one of our swell
form fitting suits. Suit of fully
shrunken, pure woolen cloth. There’s
a dash and class to our tailoring that
sets off your figure to the best ad
vantage. And another thing, the suit
will hold its shape and wear well.
BJORNSOX & GANTON
Corner Fourth and I St.
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George Anderson
PIANO EXPERT AND FACTORY REPRESENTATIVE.
For high-grade pianos and plavei pianos will be in An
chorage this summer. Expert work on pianos, player
pianos and organs guaranteed. For prices on new and
i used pianos and organs, also pianos for rent, address Box
! 991, Juneau, Alaska. •
Alaska Pool Room
Fourth Ave., Near D.
Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
Grape Juice.
MUSIC
JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER.
Proprietor.
I Hotel Anchorage
NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
1 SUNNY ROOMS ELECTRIC LIGHTS
HOT AND COLD WATER.
REASONABLE RATES
Dohrmann - - Herning & Co.
BUILDERS' HARDWARE
TOOLS AND SPORTING GOODS.
HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS.
PHONE 76R.
New Matanuska Hotel
MATANUSKA JUNCTION.
M.J. ROCHE, Prop.
CAFE IN CONNECTION
A. LYALL, Prop.
LEARN TO DANCE.
Latest Dances Taught. Begin
ners given special attention. For ap
pointment call at third house from
C on Sth Ave.
WM. BUNTING.
C. HENNING
TAILOR.
Ladies' and Gentlemen's
Suits Cleaned, Pressed and
Repaired. 4th Ave. and D St.
OUR COMPLETE FACILITIES, together with a thorough knowledge
of the INDIVIDUAL REQUIREMENTS of our customers, make
our service distinctively profitable and satisfactory to those
who deal with us.
DIRECTORS:
Leopold David Chas. E. Brown
Sidney Anderson Geo. W. Palmer
Harry V. Hoben J. E. O’Reilly
BANK OF
RESOURCES OVER $500,000.00
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ANCHORAGE
ESTABLISHED MAY 20th, 1916