New Year Note on Alaska Draft Quotas and Population
The Iditarod Pioneer discusses Alaska draft calculations based on a 1910 population of 74 916, noting natives may not count toward the quota. It estimates about 50 usable men must be supplied across Otter Innoko Mt McKinley and Kuskokwim precincts, with many likely failing medical exams. It also notes 18 ships sunk by submarines for the week ending December 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
National Army
Otter
Innoko
Mt. McKinley
Kuskokwim
Commercial Club To Hold Meeting In January 1918
The Iditarod Commercial Club will hold its regular annual meeting at the Miners & Merchants Bank on Monday January 7 1918 New officers will be elected and discussions include finances The treasury is down to eighty six cents with eleven members in arrears The club has provided some local benefits and urges members to pay three dollars prior to voting
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iditarod Commercial Club
Miners & Merchants Bank
Hohenzollern Doctrines and Maxims Unearthed
A Wendell Phillips library pamphlet reveals a Hohenzollern creed titled Instructions of Frederick II to his successor. It presents Frederick the Great’s maxims and asserts some say the Kaiser follows this doctrine. The text argues monarchs take what they can and err only when forced to relinquish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell Phillips
Boston
Frederick II
Prussia
Frederick the Great
Frederick
Seizure of German Vessel Hugh Hogan in San Francisco
Government orders the port collector seizes the power schooner Hugh Hogan as a German sea raider. Investigations show shelter deck concealment for light guns and Bolinder engines enabling high speed. Ownership traced to German interests in Mexico. A second vessel in Puget Sound faces seizure on the same charge. Pete Monier arrived last Saturday from Tolstoi mining grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Hugh Hogan
Mexico
Puget Sound
Local Board No 18 in Alaska Explains Draft Exemptions
Local Board No 18 Crary of Iditarod Alaska explains they have received blanks and supplies but no registration cards except Otter Innoko and Kuskokwim areas. Major Geo W Albrecht cautions against idle questions as the 600 page instruction book is complex and timing for the draft is unclear with exemptions limited to officers clergy divinity students federal service enemy aliens and resident aliens among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crary
Iditarod
Iprraropd
Alaska
Otter
Innoko
Geo. W. Albrecht
Fairbanks
United States
Territory of
Germany
Otter Precinct
Louis Schwars
Stephen Resch
Peter Dukich
Ely Rapich
Geo
N. Nogulich
Louis Hasu
Mike Blanusha
Vincent Kaubeck
Mato Matich
Giacomo Giuliano Cassatti
Sea Service
Local Draft Board Limits Claims to Proper Forms
The local draft board can only consider claims filed on proper forms within seven days of actual summons for examination. A Bulletin of Information is available at the Iditarod Pioneer office and at local post offices, with access also at Major Albrecht's office, secretary of the local board. Candies offered by Pioneer Drug Store, Flat. Cleaning and Pressing by Miss Isaacson, Flat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iditatod Pioneer
Major Albrecht
Also Mentioned on This Page
George M. Arbuckly
TION
Pioneer Office
Commercial Club
Pete Monier
Tolstoi District
ECO
Kcom
Seattle
Scandinavian American Bank Territorial Depositary
Charles Ross
Claude Baker
R. C. Button
Aeons
Iditarod Meat CO
Prone Is
Local Board OF Selective Draft
Pioneer Drug Store
Miss Isaacson
Flat City
Front St
J. H. Rogers
White Elephant
Front Street
Willow, Iditarod
WAX Simes Tree
Cripple City
Tolstoi
E Bagoy
J. E. Gunning
Henry Durand
Fiat
Gold St
Geo. Mutchler
Michigan
George Woodruff Albrecht
Kentucky
Iditarod, Alaska
Chas. E. Taylor
First Avenue
DR. Moore
Brug Store
J. Wilsom Reed, M.D
Flat Hospital
Flat, Alaska
H. Behla
Behla Hospital
Flat
Baily Arcace Dafe
Pioneer
Gasolir
Harnes
Finnegan & Cameron
Thos. McMahon
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