Circle Hot Springs Alaska Travelogue Chronicle
A travelogue from Alaska describes Circle Hot Springs as a once grand health resort built around a hot mineral spring. The author notes the vast capital sunk into hotels baths and cabins, now run for creditors with few guests, plus vivid scenes of hunting moose, river travel, local Finns and Swedes, and life in Fairbanks. It details costs, local customs like the smash list, and miners’ ditches while contrasting harsh wilderness with modern comforts.
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Fairbanks
Circle Hot Springs
Yukon River
Circle
Yukon
Jack Rry
Ing
Bear hunting tales and Alaska moose on the tundra
A narrator recounts fatal trapping mishap with a hunter tying to dogs to save his wife. He details bear hunts by Jack Berry Gordon Hunter Walter Slim and others, noting two grizzlies killed and multiple hunts over 18 miles. Moose hunting near the Arctic Circle yields a 700 pound animal. they haul it by rowboat and shore it for winter meat. The piece closes with notes on moose horn size rutting season and a photo to C. W. Furr.
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Walter
Medicine Lake
Doc
Yukon River
Circle
Jack Berry
Gordon Hunter
Jack
Bnt
Gordon
Slim
Valdez
Jake
Alaska
Arctic Circle
Eggs Thrown at Willkie on Michigan Campaign Train
Willkie charged the Roosevelt administration with seeking power or funds to solve problems during a Michigan stop. An egg struck his car and another hit a photographer’s truck. A hotel area girl, Betty Wilson, 19, suffered a skull fracture from a metal wastebasket amid a shower of missiles. Doris la Rue, 31, was arrested on disorderly conduct. No other injuries were reported.
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Willkie
Michigan
Wendell L. Willkie
Roosevelt
Pontiac
Mich
Court House
Germany
Betty Wilson
Doris la Rue
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Paul Wencel
Miss la Rue
Miss Wilson
Alaska Living Warns of High Costs and Small Families
The speaker notes Alaskans tend to have one or two children due to the high cost of living. Observations include many men with small families, and the need to work long hours to support eight or ten children. He contrasts Alaska’s harsh climate with Texas high plains to illustrate conditions.
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High Plains
Texas
Alaska
Help Wanted Letters From Amarillo and Canyon Areas
A set of solicited help requests and personal notices from readers spans Amarillo and nearby Canyon. Applicants seek room and board, farm or ranch work, housekeeping or practical nursing, with contact details and preferred conditions. One note offers reward for a lost black purse containing ID and cash.
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Amarillo
Markets show Dow Jones gains and broad stock list
At 1 PM the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 15.20 to 134.18 and rail and utility indices advanced. New York Stock Exchange quotes include gains for Am Can Am Rad c Bethlehem Steel Chrysler and many others, with mixed activity across industries. Kansas City livestock report notes slow hog trading with top at 6.40 and cattle steady to weak. yearling stockers and calves mixed, lambs stronger late.
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NEW York Stock Exchange
Fenner & Beane
Prey
Alleghany Lad Steel
Allis Chalmers
T&t c Am
Zinc & Lead
Nese Aly Armour & Co
A. Tre
Ferentila Aviation Corp
Baldwin Locomotive
Bendix Aviation
Beth Steel
Borden
Callahan
Nialls
Calumet Hecla Mines
Pactseee
Chrysler
Consol Copper
Consul O
Curtis Wright
Curtis Wright “A
Tinian Deer & Co
Douglas Aircraft
Electric Boat
el Power & Lt
Gem Elec
Ceere
Gen Foods
Gen Motors
Gillette
Goodrich
Goodyear
Li's Greyhound Co
Houd Her
Houston
Int Harvester
Int Power
Johns Manville Vereee
Kennecott Cop LN
Marshal Field
Veee Tar
Mid Cont Pet
Montgomery Ward
Murry Corp
Nash Kelvinator Sta
Nat Biscuit
Nat Dairy Pr
Nat Pow & Lite
New York Shipbuilding
New York Central
North Amer Co
Ibly North Amer Aylat
Ohio Oil Gas
Pac Gas & el 2A' Packard
Paramount
Penney ' Ol Penn RR
Phelps Dodge’ Phillips Pet Plymouth Ou
Pure Oil
Beon
Rem Rand
Repab Steel
Sears Roebuck
Aia
My Shell Union
Bea! Simmons Ac
Socony
Aesa
Tex Stan Oil Ind
Stan Oil N J
Studebaker
Tex Corp
Merex Gulf
Tex Pac Coal & Oil
Trans & West Air
Union Carbide
United Aircraft
United Corp
United Drug
Uu S Rubber
Walgreen
Warner Bros
Iw U Tel
Case West Bl
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Colorado
Winnie Gets Letter Meant for Winnie
Two freshmen at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg share a mix up when a letter meant for one Winifred Watkins is read by another. The Richmond and Birmingham students laugh as they realize the error and compare notes about boyfriends.
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Fredericksburg
W. Va
Winifred L. Watkins
Richmond
Birmingham
Mich
Mary Washington College
Watkins
Miss Watkins
Michigan
Italian Front Holds Yet Austrians Press Offense
October 1 1915 report notes Italian forces suffering reverses at Terolean frontier and Carinthian front while Germans and Russians clash along the Styr River. French and British troops consolidate gains in Artois as the broader front persists.
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Terolean
Carinthian
Styr
Artois
Hundreds Dead or Injured in Kunming Air Raid
Central News reports about 400 Chinese killed or wounded in Japanese air raids on Kunming the capital of Yunnan province.
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Hong Kong
Central News
Kunming
Yunnan Province
Judge Outlines Endurance of Democracy in America
Judge E. C. Nelson spoke before the Lions Club at noon on the 153 year history of democracy in the United States. He argued democracy has endured due to constitutional rights federated government and separation of legislative executive and judicial branches. An entertainment segment followed with Mrs. James Flory and two young musicians performing violin and cello.
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America
E. C. Nelson
Lions Club
Nelson
United
James Flory
Florey
Speeding Man Sentenced For Dual Citations in Kansas City
Harold McKain was cited for speeding and told officers he rushed to traffic court to answer a second summons. Judge Edmund B. Smith fined him 7.50 dollars for the first offense and 5 dollars for the second. The two violations differed by seven miles per hour.
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Kansas City
Kan
Harold McKain
Edmund B. Smith
Barkley Says Senate Won't Act On Aid to Britain
Senator Barkley of Kentucky said the Senate cannot act this session on a proposal for unrestricted financial aid to Great Britain. He warned such a resolution would provoke much debate and action was not possible at this time.
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Washington
Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
Great Britain
Spitz Dog Brought to Hospital After Auto Accident
In Houston on October 1 a small Spitz named Lady suffered a broken leg when struck by a car. She limped to the emergency room, whining in pain until she attracted attention. Her leg was set in a plaster cast.
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Houston
Lady
Roosevelt urges unity with Central and South American chiefs
President Roosevelt told visiting chiefs of staff from Central and South American nations that the United States and these allies must defend the hemisphere on the principle of one for all and all for one.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Sates
Brother of Amarilloan Dies in Missouri
Andrew G. Etter, brother of Mrs. William Q. Boyce of 3200 Hayden Street, died this morning at his home in Bunceton Missouri, his sister learned by telegram.
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Andrew G. Etter
William Q. Boyce
Hayden Street
Bunceton
Potter County Grand Jury Reconvenes Today
The Potter County grand jury re convened today after a week's recess. A typhoon in Formosa killed 50 people, destroyed 5,000 homes, and severely damaged crops with winds up to 102.5 miles per hour, the strongest since 1914, according to a Comei dispatch.
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Potter County
Grand Jury
Formosa
Tokyo
Comei
Dispatch
Pope Pius XII Speaks On War Divine Providence Judgment
In Vatican City on October 1 Pope Pius XII, addressing the Sacred Roman Rota, said divine providence that gives and takes away emperors would judge the current conflict differently from history, but he did not specify what that judgment might be.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Douglas Aircraft lands $37 million air contract
The War Department announced awarding a $37,462,121 contract for airplanes to the Douglas Aircraft Company of Santa Monica California.
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Washington
Douglas Aircraft Company
Santa Monica
Calif
War Department
Amarillo Library Listed on Inventory
Amarillo Public Library now housed in the east wing of Municipal Auditorium. It contains 27 852 books and a rich collection of bound magazines, with Ruth Delzell noting its value for local history and the librarian’s ongoing efforts in a fire proof building.
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Amarillos
Ruth Delzell
Delzell
Rogers
Librarians Open Southwest Library Association Convention
Members from Louisiana Arkansas Oklahoma Texas Arizona and New Mexico will attend the Southwestern Library Association annual meeting in Albuquerque through Saturday Grace Philippi of the San Antonio Public Library is Texas publicity chairman Miss Dorothy Amann of SMU is association president Haniel Long director of the Rydal Press in Santa Fe will give a chief address and Paul Horgan of New Mexico Military Institute will speak on Josiah Gregg the famed Southwest chronicler.
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Southwestern Library Association
Albuquerque
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Arizona
New Mexico
Grace Philippi
San Antonio
New Mexico Military Institute
Josiah Gregg
Skunk Trouble Strikes Lincoln Residents at Home
Judd Woods and Bill Dieta faced a series of inconveniences after a car hit a skunk. The garageman refused storage until washing, Woods’s dog hid under a bed, and Dietz slept in a shed behind his apartment.
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Lincoln, Neb
Judd Woods
Bill Dieta
Wood
Dietz
Legion To Hear About Registration
The American Legion meeting tonight will cover draft registration and other national defense matters. The gathering is at Legion Home, 1800 Harrison Street, with Charles Hoppin urging Legionnaires to attend.
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Hubert Cole
American Legion
Legion Home
Harrison Street
Charles Hoppin
Amarillo Postal Receipts Rise for September
Amarillo postal receipts for September show an increase over August and over September 1939. September receipts totaled $30,573.62, up $128.74 from August's $30,444.88 and up $178.70 from September 1939.
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Amarillo
Churchill Lunches King George VI at Buckingham Palace
Prime Minister Churchill lunched with King George VI today at Buckingham Palace in London. The brief royal encounter highlighted wartime leadership and Anglo British unity as World War II ongoing.
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King London
Churchill
King George VI
Buckingham Palace
Building permits issued for a brick mercantile and a frame dwelling
City hall issued a $7,000 brick mercantile permit to W. Jenkins for 915-17 Lincoln Street and a $4,000 five room frame dwelling permit to F. F. King at 927 Rusk Street. Amarillo's construction costs to date this year total $2,048,157.
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Coln Street
City Hall
W. Jenkins
F. F. King
Rusk Street
Amarillo
Hungary imposes three meatless days weekly
Hungary's government decrees meatless Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. Berlin radio reports a Budapest dispatch stating the measure aims to conserve food amid ongoing shortages.
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New York
Hungary
Berlin
Budapest
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