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Newspaper
Seward Weekly Gateway
Location
Seward, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1906
Page
6
The read fragment mentions Aust 2th Sewant Alaska and Masel 8 187% wintered ax with a post office and rates for one year or six months 3.00 and 31.50. The text is incomplete but indicates a rates notice or ad related to a post office or service.
The article argues Alaska will become a world leading copper region with vast deposits and active mines. It notes rising copper prices stimulate new discoveries on the Seward peninsula and Prince William Sound areas, including Kaizht island, while citing Guggenheim interests and smelting linkages to coal and rail lines shaping future production and markets.
A factional jumble of scandals, opinions, and public figures is sketched across references to Creffield, Mitchells, Tolstoi, Thaw, Roosevelt, and others. The text lampoons social mores, politics, and media, noting trials, indictments, and leadership moves while mingling satirical asides about public figures and institutions.
The Transvaal fears Chinese labor removal as mine owners push to keep Chinese workers. Britain bans new imports until March when self-government arrives, offering return to native land. Few accept, implying possible forced deportation. Despite rising May gold output, shares fall amid policy uncertainty and potential shifts in mining activity.
Late Seattle papers question the diabolical anarchist August Rosenbers claim, suggesting he was an inoffensive experimenter. German reports lack evidence, save a warning letter of a planned attack on the Kaiser, while other notes mention wealth schemes and railroad plans near Cordova, Katalla, and Port Valdez.
A New York corporation lawyer voiced his view on the packinghouse Investigation and the Pure Food Convention immediately adopted his suggestions, moving to implement them without delay.
Rex Beach the rising literary sensation visits Seward aboard the Excelsior spending ten days for local color and information for future novels. He is accompanied by David W. King a Northwest newspaper man with years in Spokane British Columbia Nome. King says they are collaborating on new Alaska stories though specifics are not disclosed.
July 3 reports a man claiming to have invented "23" and founder of "skiddoo" was captured by local sleuths and given 23 dollars costs and three times 23 days in the works. Patsey Morrison, a former jockey at Sheepshead Bay, was arrested outside the Colonial hotel after a drunken incident. The docket note shows the quipping prisoner and the judge reacting to the famous number tale.
In Cleveland and San Francisco a dispute erupts over a staged Jack O'Brien versus Bob Fitzsimmons fight. O'Brien denounces a libelous display and mocks the imagined likeness, while combatants and showmen face legal and public scrutiny. Local juries, politicians, and railroad plans surface in a broad Alaska and Pacific region update.
The United States Fish Commission vessel Albatross sails from Unalaska to the Kurile islands and Sakhalin coast studying Alaska sea life and fish supply along Japan’s east coast. The eight to nine month voyage aims to compare Bering Sea cod with Atlantic stocks and return to San Francisco.
Real estate and mining records show transfers in Seward with L Ballaine selling lot 32 block 13 to John Me Laughlin and J O Buzzard acquiring lots T and 8 block 10 for 1600 dollars. Fred Laubner and others purchase lots 1 and 2 block 2 for 1 dollar, with further transfers noted between F L Ballaine, Laubner and Christensen for land and lots in block 2.
Weather record for the week ending July 20 notes Alaska Steamship activity with SEWARD STEAMERS Portland and other ships sailing to Seward Toledo Sexlovia Santa Cl sailed from Seattle and Bertha and Excelsior arrivals and sailings. The notice invites Alaskans in Seattle to use the Industrial Bureau of the Alaska Central Railway Company as mail address and headquarters in Seattle.
A grainy notice urges readers to lay aside small sums. It extols thrift with the saying dimes make dollars and a saved dollar earns more than the one earned. The message appears under the Bank of Seward seal.
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