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Newspaper
Petersburg Weekly Report
Location
Petersburg, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1920
Page
2
After school on Friday a boy seeks buyers for papers. Reports office. A seven room house with pantry clothes closets bath and one long range two heaters priced 2500 on terms. L C Berg lists a Swanson log cabin cheap if taken at once located below Oil Dock see S A Swanson.
Governor Riggs proposes shifting the open deer season in Southeastern Alaska from August 15–November 1 to September 1–November 15. He and Dr. E W Nelson of the Biological Survey discuss the plan, aiming to adjust hunting rules for nonresidents and seasonal harvest patterns.
A Seattle based representative informs Juneau that a new steamship line will operate freight seagoing ships between Puget Sound ports and Southeastern Alaska starting next summer. The U S Shipping Board has provided two or more 4000 ton steamers to run Seattle Tacoma to Alaska with semi monthly service and southbound cargoes already arranged.
A fragment explains that after November 1 sportsmen may hunt ducks and also legally kill deer until the end of the open season on game birds, with both hunts running concurrently.
At Juneau the Chichagoff Gold Mining Company has agreed to pay John Tupela about 300000 to settle a judgment over the title to a mining claim. The deal involves 150000 payment now and the remainder in January. Tupela’s interest was sold to the company via a guardian while Tupela was confined in an insane asylum.
Fragmentary note references Tupéla wali discharged from asylum and initiating proceedings to set aside the former Sales. No clear date, place, or names beyond the partial terms.
Hyder Miner reports a fatal accident at the Premier sawmill where Charles Ross Ficklin was crushed by a falling tree while he and Moses Seguin were felling logs for the mill. The tree kicked back from the stump, pinning Ficklin until rescue work freed him. he died several hours later.
Advices from Prince Rupert say the Canadian Fish and Cold Storage steam trawler wrecked recently has been floated and towed by gas boats Chief Zibassa and Chief Skugard to a safer position on Randall Island Beach a few miles away.
An odd handbill from the Wen Finger-prints on it boasts about our fingered job printer and their neat printing. The piece mixes self praise with a mock comparison to Sherlock Holmes and includes garbled phrases about artistic work and knocking out “metw printing.”
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