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Newspaper
Iditarod Pioneer
Location
Iditarod, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1913
Page
6
An editor from the States reflects on the late ship Vic leaving Nome for Seattle, urging residents to resist despair. He urges action over talk, celebrates local potential, and calls for organizing communal projects to enliven winter and avoid scandal, promising a merrier season if people stay busy and positive.
The Oregon Journal reports Secretary Lane stating the goal to make it simple for a man to obtain a home in Alaska while preventing speculators from grabbing public land to block home buyers. The policy aims to ensure affordable homestead opportunities and deter land hoarding by speculators.
The article explains Saint Nicholas Day on December 6 as the true day for children. It traces Nicolas the Russian bishop from Lycia, his imprisonment under Diocletian, and his relics moved to Naples in 1807. It notes how the figure evolved through Germany and Holland into Santa Claus, merging with Christmas in English-speaking countries.
Merchants sailors and travelers seek St Nicholas protection on the sixth of December in Manhattan. School children add to the bustle as Santa remains a busy saint in this holiday scene.
Hillsboro editor jokes about the burdens of boosters duties. He was asked to join a lodge and received a printed invitation from a supplier, a merchant’s bill in a government stamped envelope, a Gargling Oil statement, a duplicate bill from Chicago, and a check written on a blank printed in Denver. He quips how editors must press trade at home while facing such treatment.
A satirical voice mocks historic medical advice that urged rest and indulgence of illness while ridiculing doctors who prescribed harsh, bodily exertions and unconventional cures. The narrator longs for gentle care, rest, and simple comforts as a remedy versus the era’s overblown medical claims.
Alaska public notices report multiple items including a $70,000 structure with 42 rooms and modern improvements, Bert Howdeshell joining the Juneau Empire as editor, Pueblo copper mine operations expanding, fox shipments to the Atlantic coast, western emphasis on mail and telegraph expansion, Kodiak wireless station damage, Judge Jennings appointing Jay W. Bell as court clerk, Armstrong obituary, Yukon military reservation abandonment, Karluk repairs, Fairbanks to Valdez automobile feat, Iditarod sale blanks printing, Canadian boundary survey landslide deaths near Cape Muzon.
Timothy Sullivan known as Big Tim, a powerful Bowery political figure and Tammany Hall boss, rose from street vendor to state assembly, senate, and congress. He built a vast personal following, used wealth in races and business ventures, and remained a magnetic, generous, complex leader whose death ended a turbulent era in New York politics.
Caton Hablitt of South Dakota died in Christoval Texas at age. He stood 512 pounds yet led an active life with 3,000 acres west of Watertown. A freethinker like Ingersoll, he had prepared his own obituary and oration. no minister or hymns marked his funeral. The piece notes his unusual self-composed services.
Notice to Margaret Brandt and W F Cantredl heirs executors and assigns that 1912 and 1913 expenditures of 4100 in labor and improvements on a placer claim known as No 5 above Ophir Creek Ophir mining district Alaska to hold interests under Section 2324 US Revised Statutes. If not paid within ninety days after last publication, co-owner may lose shares to undersigned. First publication October 49 January 17 1941.
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