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Newspaper
The Daily Alaska Empire
Location
Juneau, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1925
Page
2
Two OW PTICe groups present best value options in white and pink tissue ginghams. Styles vary across groups with diverse color choices. Material priced at 75 cents a yard, while the $1.90 and $2.00 tag lines highlight affordable permutations for the season’s use.
A compact note on Broadcloth House dresses praising smartness and comfort. The sturdy fabric takes repeated rubbings well, colors stay fresh, and the dresses are priced at 5 dollars 50 cents.
Stripes and fancy patterns mark a new line of Cross Word Puzzle Oxfords for men priced at $1.25. The ad highlights innovative style and emerging trends in footwear with a focus on comfort and fashion.
July peace conference hosted by the Institute of Pacific Relations opens in Homeblu with Pan American and allied delegates. Roy Lyman and Wilbur outline a nonpolitical, unofficial gathering to discuss a permanent clearinghouse for Pan American ideas and studies. Fundraising nears goal, Rockefeller gift tied to full amount. Attendees include John D. Rockefeller Jr., William Allen White, Mary Woolsey, and Robert Lynch.
The Modern Woodmen of America prepares for its quadrennial convention in Milwaukee, opening June 21 and continuing through June 5. Governors and officials set meetings across the event with sessions aimed at organizational and regional updates.
Pope Pius names Bishop Chartrand of Indian apolis as the new Archbishop of Cincinnati Ohio to succeed the late Archbishop Henry Moeller, in a transitional church leadership move.
The article notes about 1,200 delegates attending the week long program with drills by nine army officers as judges. It highlights Venetian Night as the week’s likely highlight, to be staged on Lake Michikan with colorful planned activities and top drill teams from national camps after extensive preliminary meetings.
Juneau park will be a principal speaking venue as Governor John J. Blaine of Wisconsin attends the convention sessions set to run daily in the natural amphitheatre. The event features other speakers and formal proceedings throughout each day.
Rio de Janeiro June 6. Local businessmen sponsor a beauty contest offering unusual prizes alongside cosmetics. Prizes include a repeating rifle, bicycle, gas stove, ice chest, typewriter, 50 safety razor blades, a lottery ticket, and 25 love story collections. Contenders are photographed with bobbed hair, sparking speculation about motives.
President Coolidge could have many honorary degrees but declined more than twenty invitations to attend commencements and accept degrees. In Dublin the Free State Government standardized porter bottle sizes, fixing contents at 14 bottles per gallon after reports of 16 bottles.
Rival forces of China face off for supremacy as mobilization spreads. Feng mobilizes Shan Railway stock and Russian aid increases Chang’s army. Supplies flow from Japan while U S and AP note anxiety over the border mobilization and border incursions.
An expedition searches west along the Altay Mountains toward Chinese Turkestan to reach a newer rock layer for fossilized traces of human evolution. The team plans to study flora and climate, bring 40 men, fuel, food, and gear, aiming to Kalgan by mid September on return.
Edinburgh health officer Dr. William Robertson told Edinburgh City Council that slum residents prefer the old environments even with modern amenities. He urged building decent homes on city outskirts to prevent the slum dwelling habit and ease transition to better housing.
W P Mills, a prominent Sitka merchant, departed Juneau aboard the Virginia TV for home after a stay during January. Otto Wilde left on the Estebeth for Sitka. At Gastineau J L Hill, Lincoln Island, H H Shepard and wife near Alaskan Pete Manderoich at Pearl Harbor.
Charles Henderson aged fifty pleaded not guilty when arraigned before a United States commissioner in Detroit Michigan on a charge of mailing poisoned candy to Louise Havers a hotel door manager.
Three men in a car with a bobbed haired girl driver robbed the State Bank at Bothell, taking about $3,000. A robber was wounded and escaped. another bank robbery in Seattle yielded $16,800. Coroners in Bothell identified suspects. Ogden and Matt Molatto named as locals.
A fragmentary blot of a sports report mentions Zach Wheat and a Chicago game, plus a Sacramento incident where a man killed an elderly Vancouver resident. The text is damaged with names and details partially unreadable.
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