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Newspaper
Iditarod Pioneer
Location
Iditarod, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1917
Page
8
The Washington Times notes Germany's long term thorough preparation for mobile, defensive warfare at Liege with giant guns and cement redoubts. It argues Germany had advantages in mobilization and method but failed to foresee changes in modern warfare and the evolving battlefield.
The article argues German mass formations at Verdun failed to break fortifications as planned and the French and British learned to defend citadels as liabilities. On the Somme, Allied offensives showed flexibility, adapting methods and material to meet emergency, while Germany remained rigid. Germany suffered heavier losses at Verdun yet did not win. Allies endured losses on the Somme but ultimately prevailed.
Ike Bayles reports a letter from brother Sam Bayles a well known Interior Alaskan merchant in Oatman Aziz praising his thriving mercantile business yet lamenting extreme heat and longing for Alaska snow Anchorage Times December 9.
The week saw temperatures plunge to sixty three degrees below zero, the coldest in the district’s memory, freezing travel and halting freight. Iditarod Flat and Tolstoi saw no arrivals or departures as mushers and others endure the Arctic weather. An observer’s barometer debate sparked bets but failed to predict any thaw while a daily temperature table records readings by K. J. Smith.
Og ck and John Anderson and others in the city recently left for Ophir. George Young started afoot for Ophir last Tuesday in 37 degrees below zero. He will be away several weeks. Joe Kettlawwell arrived from Flat on Thursday and left the same day despite 50 degrees below zero. Billy Tanlon, active at Flat Creek mining, waited in town for moderating weather before returning to Ruby. Bob McMillan and Bob Goebel came from Discovery on Monday. Goebel went home Wednesday while McMillan stayed for better conditions. A J Weiss, Flat clothier, visited Monday and Tuesday. Charley Worden came back to town Sunday.
Two brothers brought a rabbit with a loose hind leg to Paterson General Hospital in New Jersey. Dr. John Van Winkle reset the broken leg and cast the limb. The registry logs name the pet as John Harry Bunny, age three weeks, listed as an outside patient.
George F. Kilroy of Union Construction Company ships a patent drill to Center Creek by Rowe's terms. Kilroy, representing the firm, holds a major contract to prospect with the drill for the Center Creek Dredging Company. Includes notices of caps and fur repairs for Mrs Shaller of Flat City.
Seattle attorney Maur ice D. Lechey, in Juneau for Alaska coal claims work, pushes for federal legislative changes to secure stable railroad rates affecting Matanuska coal development. He notes high transport costs, market competition, and the need for $100,000 in development funds amid a fragmented regulatory path.
A plan proposed by a Bemidji Minnesota committee envisions a navigable canal from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico to drain Red Lake country. Estimated cost is 25 million dollars. The project would extend to the Mississippi River at St Paul and consider river traffic from the gulf to Winnipeg.
An old Highland sergeant on night rounds shouts at a room he thinks bears a light. A soldier replies the light is the lamp of a “lumene.” The sergeant mishears, demands the button be pressed, and repeats his command in clumsy phrasing.
Quote from Baltimore American debating independence and fear with a sharp retort about keeping calm in royal presence. The exchange reflects colonial attitudes and bold rhetoric on sovereignty and power.
A Chicago style quip notes Mr Cumrox sounding like a professional musician and piano tuner when asked about his daughter’s progress. The item ends by endorsing a steam bath at the Snyder House in Flat.
A Philadelphia Ledger report notes one-sixth of world radium comes from a Lansdowne plant near Philadelphia with a 3 gram annual capacity. It cites Dr Kabskjinn’s method extracting 90 percent from carnotite ore, costing about $100,000 per gram, and a $50,000 order destined for a large eastern hospital as a memorial gift.
Reports from the St Louis fur sale in late September show a record 1,458,178 pelts sold valued near 2,000,060 dollars. Over a million skins were sold on the closing day, mostly mink and skunk, bringing 10 to 15 percent higher prices than expected. Russian buyers heavily invested, with more than 250 purchasers from six nations attending. Government skins from Alaska sold briskly at 35 to 41 dollars each, including 1,900 skins. Five hundred silver skins drew a top price of 2,000 dollars per pair.
A Valdez Prospector advertisement seeking a Filipino cook drew a bizarre, verbose reply full of odd promises and slang. The letter touts cooking, furniture polishing, picture developing, auto editors, and even gold mine prospects, ending with a wary plea for prompt payment and a polite salutations to the advertiser.
A piece of the famed German Zeppelins, brought down near London by Lieutenant Robinson who earned the Victoria Cross, arrived in Dawson from Dawson lad George Crookston. Crookston witnessed the airship fall and kept a salvaged joint fragment with canvas. The Zeppelin exhibits the era’s war litter, valued as a souvenir and symbol of the costly air war. W. Y. Fisher abandons Nome ice trip. plans to resume steam bath work at Snyder House once weather moderates.
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