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Newspaper
The Daily Alaska Empire
Location
Juneau, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1925
Page
6
Public ad space notice states closing times for fleet ads at 2 PM and for other ads at 11 AM with ten cents per line for first insertion and five cents for each additional line. Average five words per line.
Southbound steamer Jefferson under Capt Jock Livingston of Alaska Steamship Co reached Juneau at 6 50 am and sailed at 11 00 am bound for Seattle. It carried 20 tons of concentrates from Alaskine mine 20 tierces of mild cure salmon from Nequist and sawmill machinery to Scow Bay Petersborg area for a new mill to replace a burned one. Also stopped at Taku Harbor to unload salmon and planned Red Bluff Bay for 500 barrels of herring. Passengers included Set A N Mand and Set G O Russell. departures listed for W Wakeham C Oshjonghensey Gust Borgenson Lb FP Patts and others.
The mail and passenger boat Estebeth, Captain Vo Davis, arrived in port about 2:50 this morning from Shkhaigway and nearby ports. Alfred Shea from Sentinel Isheni was aboard for Juneau. The Estebeth will depart at 11 o clock tomorrow night for Sitka and nearby ports.
Special Correspondence from Windetam June 6 reports W. TL Mitchell preparing to sail on his boat Enterprise to recruit a crew for mining work on his property. Work to begin upon arrival. a tractor aboard the motorship Oregon will haul supplies from the leek to the site. Mrs J D Sawyer Jr hosted a party for her husband’s birthday with guests including J Ho Sawyer Jr, J I Mitchell, FP Hopper, FL Goteh, A W Wavell, and the Yates couple.
Annie Bardi and Hans Hope were married at 7:30 p.m. last evening at the bride's Eleventh Street home. Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff officiated. Attendants were Nellie Kirkpatrick and Bert Vooge. The couple will reside in Juneau. Both have lived in Juneau about 11 or 12 years. Hope formerly resided in Sitka.
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The steamship Princess Alice of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company arrived in Juneau at 7:30 PM on its first round trip of the season with 247 passengers, mostly tourists, and departed for Skagway at 11 PM. Capt. C. Sainty commanded, with Norman Thomson as chief officer and Archibald Alexander as chief engineer. The vessel plans a return by 4 AM Friday, with many passengers bound for Skagway Atlin Whitehorse or West Taku Arm while others travel to Yukon routes.
In the Nevada desert a buried city known as the Lost City yields bones of a prehistoric people dated over 3,000 years. The site was found by migrating Paiute Indians and is now under excavation by scientists.
Fragmentary tided forecast and a brief local business notice for Sully's Carpenter Shop offering jobbing and cabinet work with phone contact 136. The text is incomplete but indicates maritime timing and a small ads entry for a local tradesman.
Juneau to Douglas Treadwell Thane ferry services list multiple daily departures with times including 7:10 a.m. 9:15 a.m. 12 noon 2:00 p.m. and later evening runs. Outbound from Douglas to Treadwell and onward show varied intervals with notes indicating freight acceptance and Saturday-only services. The schedule reflects routes among Juneau Douglas Treadwell and Thane with departures throughout the day and through the night.
Northbound movements list Admiral Watson due Friday night or Saturday morning and Admiral Rogers due Saturday night or Sunday. Schedules include Estebeth leaving for Sitka and ports at 11 9 o'clock tomorrow night, Princess Louise from Vancouver at 9 tonight, Alameda Seattle at tomorrow morning, Yukon Seattle June 20 at 1 am, Jefferson Seattle June 25 at 9, Henry J to Petersburg next Monday midnight, Virginia IV to Chickagoff tonight. Southbound ships Queen at 5 pm, Northwestern noon tomorrow, Admiral Evans about June 20, Princess Alice at 4 am Friday, Alaska about June 24.
The halibut fishing vessel U-107 arrives in port carrying 2,000 pounds of halibut sold locally. The boat is owned and operated by Harold Grimstadt.
The steamer Admiral Rogers sailed from Seattle at 10 am for the Alaskan ports with 185 passengers mostly tourists aboard. KE Levy and one steerage passenger are heading to Juneau.
An advertisement touts Mentho Sulphur as the quickest cure for facial and body pimples. It promises rapid drying and disappearance, claims a noted skin specialist endorses sulphur, and suggests buying Rowles Meat sulphur from druggists to apply like cold cream.
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