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Newspaper
Iditarod Pioneer
Location
Iditarod, Alaska, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1912
Page
2
The text notes a weekly publication from Iditarod Alaska with subscription rates and advertising rates. It mentions conventions in Chicago on June 18 and Baltimore on June 2, along with references to Republican and Democratic national conventions.
The piece questions the city’s fate as treasury empties and council filibusters persist. It urges honoring older creditors in order, cites resignations and retrenchment, and notes Mayor Barnes’s stance against excess spending while criticizing opponents for personal bias. It mentions Dr. Wiley and references disputes echoed by newspapers.
A verse by Walt Mason rails against cruel pranks that injure others and provoke anger. The speaker laments being the butt of tricks that break boards and hurt people, calling for kinder humor and wiser schooling to curb foolish jests.
Henry Isaacs head of Isaacs Bros. Co. and Joseph Weissenbach acquire all goods and chattels at the Hilstead and Twelfth store and the adjoining warehouse for 339 757 while leasing the six story Phillipson building for twenty years at increasing rent totals. The deal, described by the Chicago Tribune as a major ghetto district transaction, renames the store The Twelfth Street Store with Klein heirs guaranteeing rent.
William R. Benkert of Davenport Iowa national chaiman of the United Christian party calls for a national conference to be held in Rock Island Illinois in May. The party aims to end war and capital punishment and to settle tariff liquor trust and high cost of living issues by direct vote of the people and the golden rule.
The Western Daily Mercury notes a printer's error in yesterday's issue misreporting Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch at Fowey. The piece misstated a phrase about Sir Reginald Pole-Carew and cited confusion with last Sunday's Observer. Readers suggested corrections.
A newspaper notes the correction was not complete until part of the issue had been printed and the accurate version of the speech appeared in subsequent editions.
Errors misidentify Bear Creek miners with names such as Kallerman Wolfert Jack Miller OMeara Florne Heins Ben and Hammond. The note cites multiple misprints while recounting a duck hunting trip of Sam Godfrey Al Thorns Al Goslow and Bob Hurt on Otter creek and the iditatod rivers. Fresh eastern oysters offered at $1 per can by Iditarod Meat Co.
The article notes the initial arrivals of watercraft at Iditarod last spring led by the poling boat from Boulder Creek called Big John the Swede on May 2. The Reliance reached May 22 from winter quarters 40 miles below Dikeman, marking the first steamboat departure for the Yukon. The White Seal left LeBarge May 22 and arrived May 29 as the first Yukon river steamboat reaching Iditarod, while the Minneapolis, frozen at Lewis Landing with a Fairbanks party since the previous fall, did not arrive until June 2.
Mrs. Davis named matron will split duties between Flat City and Iditarod as the new Tay lor emergency hospital opens at First avenue and Gold street. Dr. Heinrich Wortmann will run offices in Flat City and Iditarod, sharing time between both sites. Patients may choose their own physicians while treated at either hospital. Iditarod Meat Ca.
The February Outlook Magazine editorial associates Col. Roosevelt and argues against a strict one term limit, defending a potentially long presidency if the leader yields effective work. It contrasts tradition with efficiency and notes past debates on Grant and Roosevelt's own nomination mentions.
All persons indebted to the estate of John S. Harding deceased are requested to settle with the administrator Henry Roden to liquidate claims.
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