This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Alaska Items Reflect Coal Sales and Local Disasters
Nenana reports coal selling at $6.00 per ton in Fairbanks. Cordova cannerys report first sockeye run. Gov. Bone appoints Dr. Wallace E. Peterson to the Territorial Board of Dental Examiners. Captain MacRae suffers a fractured hip at Ketchikan. Klondixe sinks on ice jam near Mayo. Longshoreman Gus Johnson breaks leg in Cordova. Juneau Woman’s Club raises funds for children’s playground. Secretary of Agriculture approves $30,000 for Hyder dock approach. Berlin bound from Portland to Naknek goes ashore near Ugaguk. Bernard Stone returns to Ketchikan as Daily News editor. Cemeteries near Nenana moved for rail construction. Admiral Evans crew notes harbor dredge costs. Ernest Peterson reports Ester creek cleanup. Yukon drill taken to Keno Hill for prospecting. Alaska railroad laborers sought. Knik boy loses thumb and fingers from dynamite cap. Bishop Anthony to visit Alaska. lands of church eyed. Wade and Petrich named deputy collector and stenographer in Juneau. Clifford Smith earns Colorado School of Mines scholarship. Hope mining prospers. over 100 workers. Resurrection Creek hydraulic operations. Kenai Star lode promising. Stewart area diamond drilling finds high grade ore 80 feet wide. surface untouched, extent unknown. Captain C.A.S. book on polar expeditions presented to President Bunnell for Alaska Agricultural College. Boat and camp orders advertised by Star Bakery.