Remembering a war ending and a far north paper
Durward Smith found a Cincinnati Post from November 12, 1918 with armistice headlines and a Save This Post box. The piece recalls Everett True comics mocking flu fears, plus notes from Fairbanks Daily News Miner and a Canadian Vancouver date line, highlighting Alaska gold quotes and AP affiliation.
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Durward Smith
Cincinnati Post
Wilson
Appomatox
Germany
Everett
Sonny
Board of Health
Everett True
L. P. Gum
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Associated Press
Fairbanks
Alaska
United States
Vancouver
B. C
Going To Prison and Alaska Airline Ads in Small-Town Paper
The piece notes advertisings by Wein Airways of Alaska and Pacific Alaska Airways in a Fairbanks Daily News-Miner issue. Schedules show winter mail routes from Fairbanks to several towns with weekly or bi monthly service. Passenger and air express rates are given, with a main office in Fairbanks and radio equipped planes. The article also highlights Associated Press news service reach and recalls Jimmy Mattern’s earlier attempted flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Wein Airways of Alaska, Inc
Pacific-Alaska Airways, Inc
Upper Yukon
Fairbanks
Ft. Yukon
Eagle
Lower Yukon
Kaltag
Kuskokwim
Flat
Bethel
Wiseman
Livengood
Air Express
Associated Press
Arctic Circle Quilt Show At Methodist Temple
Four local boys will view quilts made by their mothers at the Methodist Temple show tonight Mrs George W Williams of Woodlawn avenue reports quilts on display include those from the mothers of Mr hk B Yaple Dr Robert Winston Mr A A Potts of North Oak wood and Mr Frank Foote Harper road dairyman
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Temple
George W. Williams
Woodlawn Avenue
Operatic Star Calls Assault Charge Piffle
Mary McCormic, famed operatic star, dismisses assault and battery charges as ridiculous and piffle after Los Angeles officials decided to press the complaint tied to the Grace Williams incident. She questions taxpayer funding of publicity stunts and calls the matter nonsense. In other dispatches, Dr. A D Pringle notes tuberculosis kills about 3000 yearly in the union of South Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Grace Williams
Mary McCormic
Ney Higgins
California
Miss Williams
Johannesburg
So. Africa
A. D. Pringle
South Africa
Union
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Waxey Gordon
New Jersey
Northeastern Penitentiary
Lewisburg
Federal House of Detention
Chicago
John Burke
Irene Dineen
Siberia
Mattern
Arctic Circle
Miss McCormic
Africa
Pillsbury’s
Maxwell House Coffee Post
Campbell’s
Kellogg’s Whole Wheat
Chuck Roast
Melrose
Kale
Ibs
Beckley
Stanaford
Sophia Rhodell
OAK Hill
Marscott
East Beckley
Lester Eccles Glen Hedrick
Eamon de Valera
Morrison
Gi Guidto
Gowen
Morrison's
Hurlingan
SloUr Morrison
Holliday
Santa Claus
O. J. Morrison’s
Q. J. Morrison Stores
Neville St
New Post Office
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