Alaska Social Life Shines With Winter Revels and Civic Pride
The piece celebrates Alaska’s outgoing social scene from Juneau to Nome, detailing balls, smoking rooms, and summer excitements. It notes cross-cultural hospitality, winter sports like skiing and hockey, Fourth of July joys, and the Capitol Hill scene, highlighting Juneau’s charm, capital institutions, and thriving fraternal orders. The tenor is warm, praising Alaskan sociability and community life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inleta
Tourteta
Juneau
Capitol Hill
Alaska
Puget Sound
Governor's Mansion
Captain Stretch Drafts Alaska Trades Directory Stunt
Capt R H Stretch of the Alaska bureau of the New Seattle Chamber of Commerce works on an exhaustive trades directory for Alaska. He aims to map professions across towns, but local clans resist exposing certain skeletons like undertakers. The list details tailors in Juneau and Ketchikan, skating rinks, dressmakers, clubs, churches, theatres, and various businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Honolulu
Skagway
New York
Arctic Circle
Tropics
Nome
Panama
Cairo
Fairbanks
Alaska
Wrangel
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Antlers
Booklovers
Tanana
R. H. Stretch
New
Stretch
Ketchikan
Petersburg
Juneau
Cordova
Valdez
Douglas
Sitka
Seward
Eskimos Practice Harsh Tribal Customs in Arctic
A Seattle voyage report describes Inuit customs including tattoo marks signaling a family cap and killing elders unable to work. The account notes lack of religious knowledge among Paskimos near St Lawrence Bay and East Cape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Lawrence Bay
East Cape
Suppose You Never Found Your Letter
A Yukon prospector imagines a letter lost at river speed, tossed from a steamship and carried away by current. The piece notes such mail tragedies happened often in Alaska, where delivery could fail and letters vanished downstream.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Yukon
States
Streas
North
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tenderfoot
Billa
Sister
Leas
Montreal
Norway
Sweden
Eastern
Canada
Orater
Curtis & Miller
General Freight
Northland
S. S. Northland
S.S. Alki
S. E. Alaska
Prince of Wales Island
Main
Pier
Seattle, Wa
Elliott
Theodore Roosevelt
O. A. Rannevix
Kit
Capt
Rannevik
East
Phillip T'woroger Orney
Room
Triangle
J. J. Kelley
Bond
First Avenue
WM Uder
Beacon
Occidental Avenue
Washington
Nels Nelson
Gus Carlson
Minnesota
BAR & Cafe
Occidental Ave
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