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Newspaper
Fairbanks Daily Times
Location
Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1908
Page
6
Alaska enacts road districts and overseers to manage road labor. Appointments occur each April with one year terms and bonds. Overseers must keep accounts, file annual reports, and face fines for neglect. Road tax duties include two days of labor or monetary payment with penalties for noncompliance.
The act requires free government paper to overseers and directs district court clerks to provide copies of the act and road work forms upon request. The attorney general must supply clerks across Alaska with road and trail laws for overseers in each judicial division. Approved April 27, 1904.
Representative Nehemiah D. Sperry of Connecticut is the house’s oldest member at 80 turning 81 in July, serving his seventh term. He was New Haven postmaster under Lincoln and helped to make the Monitor possible. The piece notes future plans and remarks on inventors and political jargon from Hall Caine.
In Bulgaria the chief article of food is sour milk made into Zoghurt. On this diet the people live to a rare old age.
A humorous remark notes that much of the money men marry is counterfeit, reflecting on the dating era’s money matters.
The steamer White Seal will depart Monday carrying prospectors outfits for the Healey river diggings in the Tanana region. It will also stop at Richardson and McCarty station, with freight pickups at all reachable points.
Timetable note lists arrival at 6:00 p m with departures at 5:30 p m and 5:15 p m for No 6 Mixed services.
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