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Newspaper
Fairbanks Daily Times
Location
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1908
Page
2
The Fairbanks Daily News is printed every weekday evening and Sunday morning by the Tanana Publishing Company with Zach F Hickman as manager. It is entered at the Fairbanks Postoffice as second class matter.
Tomorrow night the Fairbanks city council will meet to settle finances. The News urges continuing the salary fund and paying old warrants in order, with possible general fund support. City treasurer Barbour resists, citing bondholder responsibility, while The News offers to indemnify him to enable payment.
The Tanana Chamber of Commerce notes strong interest from across the country in moving to the Tanana valley. It emphasizes that opportunity favors workers willing to toil for $5 a day plus board, with industry intelligence and integrity as keys. Professional and business crowds are plentiful already. growth hinges on producing people.
An editorial extols May and Tanana as ideal places to live with abundant schools churches homes and services. It praises modern conveniences healthful climate and strong mail and telegraphic links, citing chamber pamphlets as effective advertising and urging the chamber to supply more copies.
The New York Herald article claims powerful financiers block Alaska rail growth. It cites attempts to tap Tanana, Valdez, and Katalla with rival lines, stock schemes, and hidden backers. It contrasts the White Pass and Alaska Central lines and notes geography errors by out-of-state editors.
Abundant whale stocks could revive the industry as the Sullivan sails from New Bedford on a 2 1 4 year voyage with about 3300 barrels of oil. Five rapid days yielded 375 barrels and spurred renewed activity along the New England coast. A sea elephant seal near Cape Horn is also drawing interest for its valuable oil.
A Siberian paper says Udsky district inhabitants near Primorya discovered rich veins of iron quartz and copper in the Shantar island mountains and three natural mineral water springs near the eastern seashore. It laments Russia lacks capital to develop the resources.
The wife of Senator La Follette, Belle Case, completed her university degree alongside her future husband. As Miss Belle Case she defeated Bob La Follette in a university oratorical contest at the University of Wisconsin. Before marriage she had been admitted to the varsity faculty.
Article explains pencil production relies on ground graphite and clay. It notes Germany and the United States dominate manufacture and describes the process that forms the pencil core and encases it in wood.
The article traces the pencil’s birth in Elizabethan England with graphite misnamed as lead, the early crude methods, Conte’s clay binder 1795, and U S growth culminating in 1860 factory production in the United States. It notes German and American pioneers and New York as the industry center with a daily output of over five thousand gross.
Entries list mortgage and legal notices including a satisfaction mortgage on a homestead near Front street Fairbanks due Oct 3 1908, a mortgage on boilers and equipment with certificate of attachment, a civil suit against John Cignetti, a purchase option in Townstake claim Treasures Creek, a power of attorney to locate claims, and a Summit association claim on Summit creek tributary of Goldstream.
A feature highlighting workers in extreme heat who boil eggs as part of daily labor and earn their bread through strenuous effort. It profiles the toil of those enduring scorching conditions for a livelihood.
Valdez will install an electric fire alarm system soon. A heavy bell from the steamer Portland will be mounted near the fire engine house to trigger calls from street boxes by breaking glass and pulling a wire, signaling the location of a fire to alert firemen.
The article surveys extreme heat endured by workers from Death Valley to ocean steamship stokers and New York boiler rooms. It notes Roosevelt’s brief stoking of a warship, the hardy, habit-bound stokers, brave bakers in France, and a legendary figure known as Chabert the Fire King who faced 600 degree flames.
Advertisement boasts laxative and bromine quinine tablets to cure a cold in a day. Druggists refund money if it fails. Boxs carry E W Gruve signature.
A St Pauls Valley Oklahoma woman asked a local editor in a letter about evangelist claims that children are sent by the Lord. The editor cited authorities on both sides, and John G. Saxe replied defending St Peter's gate while denying the angel tale. Elsewhere Syria yields rich inexhaustible asphalt near Kferie northeast of Latakia.
A collage of light verse from multiple papers humorously tracing a bride and groom’s trouble with the bride’s father and family, ending with the couple reconciliation and the father’s stance. The fragment closes with a note about a two ton rope of hair in the British museum said to be for a Japanese emperor.
The Virginian writer Thomas Nelson Page notes that he addresses the president as His Excellency. He observes the title is rarely used in the White House except by a foreign visitor or a southerner clinging to old ideas when seeking an audience with Mr. Roosevelt.
Manufacture of rubber from the native guayule shrub has begun in Marathon Texas. Factory owners are estimated to control 75 percent of the guayule land in Texas.
Classified column notes an ELP w Anatg advertisement prompt for readers to acquire “all you require” through these listings. Sparse text implies a general recruitment or product offer aligned with the newspaper’s ad section.
Directory lists Fairbanks Aerie 1087 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles meeting Mondays at 8 30 p m at Eagle Hall Fairbanks Lodge 3 i u v O F meets Thursdays at 8 p m at Odd Fellows Hall Tanana Masonic Lodge regular meetings first and third Wednesdays at Masonic Hall Auditorium building.
Camp Fairbanks No 16 A B meets Tuesdays at 8 30 p m in Auditorium building J W Hill A C Charles E Taylor Recorder Order of Pioneers Fairbanks Lodge meets Thursdays at old Odd Fellows Hall Harry Cribb Sect.
The Gesang-Verein Harmoniee meets every Sunday evening at 8 p.m. at the old Odd Fellows Hall Istave. Henry Roden serves as president with Leo Wile as secretary.
The notes list departure times at 8:00, 8:25 and 8:45 a.m. with arrivals by 6:00 p.m. and leaves at 5:30 and 5:15 p.m. The entry mentions mixed service numbers No. 1 and No. 6 and a northbound route.
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