Alaska Wonderland Promotes Better Tourist Image
Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Glenn Farley argues Alaska is misperceived as a frozen wasteland. He highlights temperate coastal influences, mild summers, and scenic beauty from Seward to Sitka, urging more publicity to attract travelers and dispel the old snowbound stereotype.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Sitka
America
Pacific Coast
Japan
Alaska
Middle West
Seattle
Skagw Wi
Gulf
Seward
Cordov
New Englash
Wrangell Narrows
Juneau
Skazway
Erie
Danube
Switzerland
Norway
United States
Glenn Farley Seattl
Post-Intelligencer
Reminiscences of Bill Nye and Nye's Tornado Memoir
The article recalls Edgar W. Nye, famed humorist Bill Nye, and a trove of private letters. It highlights a November 1885 note after Nye and his wife survived a tornado near Hudson Wisconsin, describing his recovery and witty self-deprecation. Additional letters recount early tours with Riley in Minneapolis and New York, Nye’s candid views of contemporaries, Coney Island mischief, and later scripts about lectures, including plans to expand into Staten Island and Skyland Springs. The collection paints Nye’s playful voice, career moves, and enduring edge even as critics weighed his renown.
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Laramie
Edgar Wilson
Bill) Nye
Nye
Hudson
Wis
Minneapolis
Alaska Child Sends Dimes For Battleship Fund
A New York Tribune clipping shared by a Pioneer reader tells of a 13-year-old Alaskan child Alva Joyce sending three dimes from Latouche to support Marjorie Sterrett’s Battleship League of 184,027 members. The letter from Alaska, written on a cracker carton wrapper, expresses hope the ship will be large and notes the writer’s family mining and hunting plans. The item reflects cross country enthusiasm for funding a imagined battleship through youth subscriptions.
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New York Tribune
Pioneer
Ohio
Robert W. Tiemann
Alaska
Marjorie
Latouche
Sterrett
Tiermenn
Grama
Grapa
Nash
Ark
Papa
White Boys
Newtown Bee
Newtown
Conn
Tribune
Method in His Madness Debate Retort at Bogee Fresh
A Washington Star line records a heated exchange in which Senior Sorghum defends his forceful rhetoric. He argues that restraint harms persuasion as he aims to sway the audience despite critics calls for calm. The item mentions Olympia and Eastern Oysters and a price note for canned goods.
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Sorghum
Washington Star
Bogee
Fighters in the trenches doing serious thinking
A Chicago Herald piece reflects on how war reshapes social views. Soldiers witness class leveling, demand justice, and challenge the distribution of wealth as governments derive power from the living and labor produces wealth. Toronto opens a new industrial school costing 2,000,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redia
Toronto
All the mail all the time for Fairbanks proposed
Fairbanks may receive an all the mail all the time service as Otto Praeger second assistant postmaster general investigates cost and routes. Postmaster Deal urged a winter mail service adding second class mail beyond Northern Commercial Company limits to be shipped by freight from Valdez to Fairbanks. Praeger inquired into transporting 1000 pounds twice monthly from Valdez and other details. The Washington visit shows the department aims to improve Alaska mail service with regional support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairbanks
Otto Praeger
Deal
Department
Northern Commercial Company
Vallez
Notice of Forfeiture of Quartz Mining Claims
Tas mir A Everett and assigns are notified that expenditures in 1900 1910 1912 1913 1914 were made to hold five lode mining claims Parks No 1 2 8 and Marks Banner and Cinnabar on the Ruskokwinn river about fifteen miles below Olina river in Kus Rokwith district Mask. If within ninety days from personal service or thirty days after publication you fail to contribute your portion of the expenditures your interest will become the property of the subscriber who holds title. First publication free Last publication March 3 1917
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Tasmir A. Everett
Parks Tin
Olina
Mask
United States
Col Hubtal
Hollee
Vans
Mare
Forfeiture Notice on Slate Creek Mining Claim Partners
Andrew Huta Jacob Olsen Chas Arthur Valentine Nelson VP IL Stafford K Atbeight and Geo and others are warned that labor and improvements worth 100 dollars per year were expended from 1913 to 1915 on the Discovery association mining claim at Slate Creek near Henry Creek, Alaska. If any co owner does not pay their share within ninety days after publication, their interest may be forfeited to the undersigned under 2924 Revised Statutes. First published Sept 9, 1915. last publication in 1916.
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Andrew Huta
Jacob Olsen
Chas Arthur Valentine
Nelson
IL Stafford
K. “Atbeight
Geo
Ad Jet
Eis
Henty Creek
Er Creek
Otter
Alaska
United States
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Miners & Merchants Bank
Iditarod
Scandinavian American Bank Territorial Depositary
Charles Ross
John Holmes
R. C. Button
THE
Coset
Copper River Basin
Yukon- Tanana
Pacific
Washington
Aler
Harry Ponnelley
General Merchandise
H. Boas
Merchants’ Cafe
Robt
Soutar
Iditarod Meat CO
Shubert
Che
Bubert
A.B. Shubert, Inc
West Austin Avend
Chicago
U.S.A
Bill Nye
Ril
Pres Club
Minn
Riley
Generaly
New York
Edgar
Bill
Coney Island
George
Brighton
Liverpool
Nature
Cork
Minnepolis
Edgar W. Nye
Staten Island
Broadway
Harbor
Narrows
Brooklyn
West
Olympia
Iditatod Meat Co
Pioneer Office
Stoughton Cooley
Chicago Herald
Theildren
Lin
Chelly
Louisville
Pion
A. FE. Riley
Rls. McMillan
Lottie BR. Marston
Stanley House
John Bagoy
Hurst Cigar Store
Westover
Victor Phonograph
Accessor
J. A. Nelson
Murst Bros
Grand Bar
Gibson Rye
Juan DE Fuca
Marc Antony
Gold St
Fiat City
Mutchler
Caribou St
Black and Willow Sts
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