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Newspaper
Iditarod Pioneer
Location
Iditarod, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1910
Page
8
Sunday Morning edition from Iditarod Alaska presents publisher Geo. M. Arbuckle and editor Frank E. Becker. Subscription rate listed at 10.00 with a five dollar monthly option and single copy advertising rates available on application.
A provocative plan envisions a central pit where drunken fights occur to fund a public cause. Needing raised seating, spittoons, iron railings, and a system to alert crowds, the concept promises profits for a hospital while attracting large audiences despite moral objections.
A reflective note on wintry memories and skating fantasies interrupted by rain. The narrator recalls lagoons for skating behind town and the clatter of skates, then shifts to visions of returning argosies as rain patters on the tin roof.
A lyrical scene recalls anxious friends on a river beach awaiting long absent visitors among sacks of beans and crates of bacon at busy docks. The text shifts with seasons from winter to summer as a man debates drink and attire, a colloquial Elflike aside and a call for a Mackinaw overcoat.
A chechako deckhand recalls the Iditarod steamboat season halted by ice jams near Dikeman. Boats beached, crews tangle with gasoline engines, cuss words fly, and improvised repairs unfold from Dikeman to Iditarod City as the river freezes.
Winter advertising urges home comfort materials from Nerland and Simpson's. Lost dogs described with names Jack Baldy Whitey and two foxlike appearances. reward offered by Geo. F. Kilroy of Boulder.
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