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Newspaper
Iditarod Pioneer
Location
Iditarod, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1911
Page
3
Nome reports a deadly accident as Gus Carson, longshoreman, was electrocuted while using an overhead telephone wire at the snow dock. A 2200 volt line snapped during a short circuit, leaving his hands burned away and arms burning. Carson was an elderly Nome resident.
Old-time Klondiker Peter Annance features in the Hope Trail record. The first pack train, 18 horses averaging 200 pounds, left for Ste bont and return in five days despite snow patches between 14 Mile and 23 Mile. Within a week horses were moving over the trail and by May a larger train of 86 horses began, with 150 horses expected within a fortnight, including private owner horses.
Ansel Langley known as Biddy Doyle died in Seattle after months of elephantiasis. Langley, a 1 year stage-door keeper at the Orpheum theater, was a well known dance hall caller and cheerful figure in Alaska mining camps and local theatrical circles.
Wireless specter Jooner Elsueno, owned by Bender Bros., has gone to the Kusk, with a large number of stampeders taking in complete prospecting outfits.
Kaminski reports a productive drill at work on the upper 1100 feet with a net showing around three tenths. Mrs Harry Siebe and child arrived the Helen M Wednesday. Attorney Baxter arrived in Iditarod from Seattle on Wednesday on business. JN McCain now in char Elite Baths offering Turkish plain or steam baths. Connolly at Flat sells Boek cig.
Two of the strongest Philadelphia unions the machinists and the boiler makers vote unanimously to continue the strike against Baldwin locomotive plant despite the companys pledge that future workers must refuse union membership. Union leaders see a wider challenge and sympathy strikes are discussed with financial aid from the American Federation of Labor.
A Kansas picnic tale by William Allen White recalls a boy who climbed a cornstalk to gauge growth. Neighbors debate the stalk’s rapid rise as White notes the boy may have eaten five bushels of cobs, suggesting an ample diet.
A rustic scene unfolds as the village smithy boasts of a baseball victory with a gleeful recital. Farmers cluster beside the chestnut tree while the smithy, interrupted and amused, recalls the game and the crowd’s reaction to his hit and base play.
A 1915 celebration plan seeks Britons in America to fund purchase of Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire England, ancestral home of George Washington. The aim is to preserve the manor as a memorial to the Father of His Country, with hopes to gain support from President Taft and King George.
Byers and Co advertises landings for freight regardless of rain, promoting Gold Bell sodas seltzer and ginger ale as chasers. The note uses casual bravado about reliable service and product branding.
In Topeka Kansas August 5 two men narrowly escaped when a hot air balloon caught fire. Aviator Bert Curry rose while spectator Walter Taylor was yanked aloft by the blazing balloon. The gas bag ignited, the balloon climbed above a thousand feet then collapsed, sending both men tumbling through trees to the ground. They were shaken and scratched but unharmed apart from injuries. the balloon was a total loss.
Dr. Pare, famed to Yukoners as prian to the Royal North Mounted Police at Whitehorse, resigns from the force after over a decade as Whitehorse physician. He will visit Montreal briefly before likely settling in the Northwest where his sons and daughters reside.
In Greeley Colorado on July 31 Keeper Thomson at the Pavis fish hatchery exhibits a rainbow speckled trout shown as a typical specimen. Placed in a trough four years ago the fish now responds to its master and returns home by swimming to him. Thomson says the fish is so tame it may jump out of water and follow him around the hatchery.
German aviator Hirth and a passenger flew from Munich to Berlin in 5 hours 41 minutes covering 345 miles. The journey beats the German express train time of about ten hours and is linked with a prize of $12,500.
A brief line notes native cucumbers priced at 75 cents at the Pioneer Greenhouse. It includes a casual regional ad style with local shop reference and a quirky motto about leaving no caches on the over bank.
In Shefield England a town of 150000 residents runs only a few small soda fountains. J N McCain has assumed management of the Mlite Baths. The notice promises old barons and new guaranteed satisfaction.
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