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Newspaper
Iditarod Pioneer
Location
Iditarod, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1917
Page
2
Figures show Yukon territory raised 95 031 94 for the Yukon Patriotic Fund up to July 81 with Tallis support. Much of the money goes to other Canadian funds including 12 562 60 to the Canadian Red Cross. The fund began in Dawson in December 1914 to meet patriotic demands of Yukon residents.
The poem argues Uncle Sam fights with noble aims after patient suffering and wrongs heaped upon humanity. It declares war as a just, triple-armed duty to defeat autocrats and end war’s scourge, citing a guiding ancient proverb about a quarrel just.
A humorous Mark Twain piece recounts a drunken husband who explains he mixed his drinks. His wife urges him to ask for sarsaparilla after finishing the whisky, but he confesses he cannot pronounce the word once fully drunk.
Joe Riau working at Williams creek copper mines finds a fox nest 200 feet from his worksite. He captures the inmates and secures two fine black fox pups and four cross pups sent to the Northern fox farm at Dawson.
A wartime morale song rallying millions to support the war effort. The verses urge every region and professional group from Dixieland to Maine to unite, sing, and can Kaiser Germany, celebrating the Yankee spirit and collective labor across the nation.
Eleven people including seven policemen detectives and women died after a bomb exploded at a Milwaukee police station last Saturday night. The device had been brought there after being found in an Italian church and was aimed at Pastor August Gillant.
Former Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicolaevna Romanoff escapes exile in Siberia via a fictitious marriage to the former czar’s chamberlain’s son. She travels across the Pacific guarded by an Englishwoman.
El Paso reports six hundred Carranzistas guarded by U S soldiers were moved to Juarez today. They had surrendered last week to American forces following the capture of Ojinaga by Pancho Villa, ending their participation in the Cordova command.
At the Havana presidential palace President Menocal signed a decree transferring four Germano steamships Batavia Oli vant Adelheid Constantia totaling about 20 000 tons to the United States government. Secretary of War and Navy General Murti and United States minister William E Gonzales witnessed the transfer. Gonzales said the U S government pays nothing and Menocal refused offers to purchase or lease. The ships are to aid the war against Germany for the common benefit and a swift victory.
The grandson of Gen. Franz Sigel enlists to serve in the United States armed forces, following his mother who urged him to go. The piece ties Sigel's Civil War legacy to modern calls for freedom and duty.
A London Nation critique argues that twenty years of American style reporting has degraded press dignity. It laments the rise of sensational stories over truth, the decline of leadership editorials, and the shift to audience pleasing narratives as the public consumes a cinema like news landscape.
A Washington conference among sprucemakers Oregon Washington and military and defense bodies proposed supplying aircraft spruce at 105 pounds per thousand feet for allied and U S needs. If approved by authorities the move would markedly reduce spruce costs and save lumber resources. Harry Mehan and Tom Hanlon are noted locals with regional movements.
Robert Forbes superintendent of Alaska canneries for the Pacific American Fisheries Company died here yesterday of apoplexy. The death occurred in Bellingham, Washington, on November 24.
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