Alaska Progress Amidst Obstacles Toward Statehood
Residents of southern and southeastern Alaska push to form the territory of South Alaska and seek federal action. The piece highlights Alaska’s vast coastline, resource wealth, agricultural experiments, and a decade of progress including new rail links, towns like Anchorage, and five agricultural stations improving crops such as strawberries and wheat.
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Alaska
Panhandle
Congress
Russia
Lincoln
Fairbanks
Washington
Harding
United States
Bone
Howe
Briaguay
New York
Sitka
Pacific States
Rampart
Yukon
Craine
Matanuska
Anchorage
Passage
Benator Bumner
Mississippi
Would You Like to Live Forever and Other Immortal Tales
The essay surveys immortality myths from Genesis to Swift, tracing immortality ideas from Babylonian Eden to Cagliostro and Gulliver, and discussing the desire for eternal life, the limits of youth, and the burden of endless age. It notes immortality's religious and scientific temptations and warns of struldbrugs' fate.
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Adam
Eve
Garden of Eden
Eden
Babylonia
Adam and
Euphrates
Babylon
Cagliostro
Rome
Nero
Europe
Sicily
Bastille
Paris
Cagnostro
Ponce de Leon
Columbus
New World
Porto Rico
Florida
8. Augustine
Struldbrugs
Dean Swift
Gulliver
Laputa
Struldbrogs
Epiria
Centurion
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Southern
Srs
Katherine Louise Smith
British Columbia
Nome
Fairway Rock
Arctic Circle
Port Barrow
Mackenzie Bay
Bering Sea
Seattle
Canada
Nenana
Grand Trunk Pacific
Prince Rupert
Congress of the
Esquimes
Seward
Territory
Executive Department
Scott C. Bone
Franklin
K. Lane
Stocy
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Public Health Service
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