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King River Coal
Bird Creek Lumber Co.
| PHONE 52Y.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP
COMPANY_
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova. Valdez and Seward._
Sails Seattle Arrives Anchorage
APRIL 17 ALAMEDA APRIL 24
APRIL 22 ALASKA APRIL 29
APRIL 28 MARIPOSA MAY 5
MAY 4 .NORTHWESTERN MAY 11
This company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office. Empress Building.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
ADMIRAL LINE
ALASKAN SAILING DATES
Lv. Seattle Ar. Anchorage
Apr. 17 ...EVANS... Apr. 25
Apr. 25. .FARRAGUT.. May 3
May 3 ...WATSON ..May 11
May 11 ...EVANS... May 19
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
San Francisco to Los Angeles, daily except Sunday.
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
For Full Particulars. T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
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Launch Wilhemina
JOHNSON AND THOMPSON
jj Twice a week trips to all points on 1 urnagain Arm.
| See bulletin boards for schedule.
R For information call City Auto Service. PHONE 89R.
TRAIN SCHEDULE.
Klteettve 12:01 a. m„ Monday, April
I'U7 a mixed passenger and freight
train will he run ■ between \nehorage
and Matanuska, Matanuska and King,
and oetween Anchorage and l.ablnt on
the following schedule:
Main L1M. . , ,
Northbound Southbound
I milv ex Daily ex.
^Sunday ' ^Arrive
7-30 a. ill... 0.0 Anchorage .. 9:15p.m.
7:55 a.m... 1.8 Whitney -
s-25 a. m... 12.3 Knney . 8:30 p.m.
m 10 a m.. .21.8 P.irchwood ... 7:a0p. ni.
!I;40 a. in.. .27.6 Kklutna . 7:20 p.m.
\rrive Leave
1(1:111 a. m..36.4 Matanuska .. 6:45 p. m.
Matanuska Branch
.^rihlmund
Sunday' STVwe
!r *'*11. ,11.. 36.4 Matanuska .. 6:20 p.m.
I 1:30 a. 111.. 42.9 Palmer .. .. 5:55 p.m.
1'e'op m.l95 Moose Creek. 5:25 p.m.
. ,'ive Leave
12:40 p. m..55.0 Kska . 4:50 p. m.
i phvp Arn\e
12:50 p. m..55.0 Kska . <j:08 P* m
1:10 p. in. - 58.7 Granite . .:53 p.m.
Arrive l^etiA e
' 125 p. m. 60.6 King . 2:45 p.m.
Main Una
Un,,11.1,0111111 Northbound
Tuesday','"Thursday and Saturday jnly.
•V o'o'ii in.. . 0.0 Anchorage .. 10:45 a.m.
0:20 a. m.. . 5.0 Campbell . . . 10:2
o 45*mm.. 10 4 Rabbit . 10:00m m.
Mixed train leaving Anchorage north
bound will stop .hist north of road cross
ing. Terminal Yard, AJichoraffc^^^^^^
Anchorage’s most popular lunch
room. North Pole Baker. 881
The Episcopal guild will meet Thurs
day at 2:30 at Parish House. Mrs.
Craig and Mrs. Fitzgerald, hostesses.
878
Clairvoyant Palmist Readings daily.
Join our developing class, Fourth, over
Dick’s Kitchen. Know thyself, for
knowledge is power. 868
The eating question: Have you
tried Cameron’s Cafe. 737
Dr. W. A. Rystrom, dentist, over
Harmony theatre. Prices reasonable.
810
O-Cedar Mops and Polish at Eck
mann’s Furniture Store. 874
Best music* at Peterson’s. 444
NEW NOTES i
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Electric power plants in Great Brit
ain now number 276.
Dried orange and lemon peel are
good substitutes for kindling wood.
Traces of copper are found over
almost one-third of the area of Chile.
Glycerine applied to the glass stop
pers of bottles will prevent them stick
ing.
Steam-driven motor omnibuses that ■
use coke for fuel are being tried in
London.
A California inventor has patented
curved shears for cutting corrugated
metals.
, An Italian has invented a holder
for a boiled egg that clamps to the
side of a plate.
A new rack for several tooth brush
es is covered by a box that protects
i them from dust.
Brazil has prohibited the use of pre
servatives in almost all kinds of foods
ami beverages.
A new spirit level for use in dark
places is equipped with a dry battery
incandescent lamp.
Paper machinery belting, as well as
cordage and yarn, is being successful
ly made in Austria.
Bales of cement-covered straw have
been used by a Colorado farmer to
build a six-room house.
A new manhole guard for street
work can be folded very compactly for
carrying when not in use.
An Knglishman has built a tug boat
that is driven by an aerial propeller
for use on shallow streams.
Steam from a small portable boiler
is fed through hose to a new device
for removing paper from walls.
A German is the inventor of a com
bined cane and umbrella which also
can be unfolded to form a camp stool.
To remove the cocoons of certain
insects from trees a loop of wire at
the end of a pole has been patented.
Piano stools that are adjustable to
several angles as well as heights have
been patented by a Chicago inventor.
A Paris theatre has a reversible
floor, one side being intended for
dancing and the other holding the
seats.
Short telescopes take the place of
lenses in spectacles of German in
vention for extremely near sighted
persons.
Shutters that can be operated from
a driver’s seat have been invented to
protect automobile radiators from
freezing.
For ironing laces and other light
fabrics an Englishman has invented
a polished steel roller, heated by elec
tricity.
For cleaning tobacco pipes a bulb
operated syringe has been invented,
the end of the tube fitting tightly over
the bowls.
In Bombay the tank and outlets of
a century-old street springier have
been mounted on the chassis of a mod
ern motor truck.
Toothed blocks for carrying large
pieces of ice for which a patent has
been issued are said to have advan
■ tages over tongs.
, The governments of Brazil and
Peru have combined to maintain a
chain of wireless stations all the way
across South America,
j For men who have much writing to
do out of doors a desk that can be
suspended from the shoulders by har
ness has been invented.
Electrical apparatus that warns
miners of roof movements in mines
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The Store For All the People.
REDUCE THE HIGH COST OF LIVING BY TRADING WHERE YOUR
DOLLAR HAS MORE CENTS — WE BUY IN LARGE QUANTITIES
ONLY, THEREBY SAVING YOU ALL MIDDLEMAN’S PROFITS.
PH1CE3 REASONABLE— PROMPT DELIVERY— —COURTEOUS TREATMENT
PHONES: STORE 7-R OFFICE 20-R
in time for them to escape has been I
invented by an Australian.
A new lock for automobiles will se- |
cure robes or baggage on a rail or ?
can be used to fasten the steering |
gear against being moved. f
French scientists who have investi- j t
gated, have found that rubber is sub- j
ject to attacks by microbes unless |
kept in perfectly dry air. g
A new type of incandescent lamp 5
has the filament concentrated into a |
small spiral to give a greater verti- ■
cal distribution of light. \
So bituminous is the clay found in ,
one place in F.ngland that bricks .
made from it yield oil, gas and am- .
monia when heated in retorts. ■
Radiating arms which form the top ■
of a new camp stove fold down like .
an umbrella into a tube which consti- ■
tutes its body and support. <
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An inventor in Australia has given i
a piano a slightly curved keyboard to i
enable a player to reach all parts of •
it with equal effort. i
That Happy Morrison, whose body j
was found recently on Mitkoff island, j
committed suicide, was the verdict of j
a coroner’s jury. He was on a hunt- j
ing and trapping trip and had landed j
on the island, from which it was evi- j
dent his boat drifted away, leaving
him without food. He is believed to
have shot himself while temporarily
insane from hunger and exposure.
Reports received in Fairbanks
from the new strike on Goodpaster
river states that genuine pay has been
located there running from $1.50 to
$5 per square foot, and only ten feet
deep. The strike was made on
! Michigan creek and the pay streak I
! has been opened up for a distance of
j 15 feet up and down the creek and 25
I feet across.
Most popular lunch place. North
Pole Bakery. 881
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The Electric Bath House, K and
Fourth, is now under the management
of a graduate masseur and chiropo
dist. Electric and Turkish baths. Open ,
day and night. 862 i
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Latest War News at Peterson’s. 399 !
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Cotton felt mattresses, bed springs
and linoleum, at Crocker's. 459
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Try a Times Want Ad for results.
MOUNT M’KINLEY
is still opposite Robarts. 870
Wood Undertaking Co..
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
LICENSED EMBALMERS
Anchorage Matanuska
MONEY TO LOAN
Short term loans on Real
Estate. Bills discounted.
R. NICHOLLS, 615 7th Ave.
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SEE....
Our New Stock of CUT GLASS, CROCKERY, CHINA
GRANITE AND ALUMINUM WARE.
OIL CLOTH, Builders’ and Heavy Hardware.
STOVES AND RANGES.
C. W. BOLTE
726 4th Avenue. Anchorage, Alaska.
[ Alaska Pool Room
jj Fourth Ave., Near D.
£ Dinars, Tobaccos, Dandies, Soft Drinks, Fruits, Concord
L Grape Juice.
I MUSIC
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| JOSEPH SCHMITBAUER. - - Proprietor.
{ Hotel Anchorage
1 NEWEST AND MOST MODERN IN THE CITY
S SUNNY ROOMS ELECTRIC LIGHTS
1 HOT AND COLD WATER._ _
| REASONABLE RATES
| Hegg & Laurence
Members Photographers’ Association of America,
* Washington, D. C.
I High Class Portrait Work
| Artistic and Pictorial Photography.
* EXPERT KODAK FINISHING.
! ! We do not finish work in the shortest possible time,
' but in the best possible manner.
Our prices a tv not the cheapest in town, BUT OUR
; | WORK IS.
@ We have the best labor saving equipment that money
! \ can buy, hence our claim to superior work.
: HEGG & LAURENCE,
| Masonic Building.
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| LAUNCH “SWAN”_
jc (’apt. X. J. Gaikema.
S Daily Trips to Knik and Goose Bay from Govern
je meat Dock Xo. 1.
§j See Bulletin Boards for Schedule
# Ticket Agencies at Baxter’s and City Auto Service,
ijjj Phone 89-R.
Fine Job Printing at The Times offia
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CONSERVATION UPON THE PART OF THE INDIVIDUAL—THE BUILDING OF A SURPLUS—IS ESSENTIAL TO BOTH NATIONAL AND PERSON
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BANK OF ANCHORAGE
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA.