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Newspaper
The New Native
Location
Hydaburg, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1919
Page
2
Printed every other Friday the New Native reports on local progress at the mill on warehouse and dock street. It notes rising subscriptions across SE Prince Rupert and plans a full account of the First Memorial Church built and owned by Natives. Readers are invited to expect fair speeches and native crafts in upcoming issues.
The notice invites readers to subscribe to the small paper, promising value through columns. It praises the fair's health and home decor coverage and cites a Kla Woock businessman's claim that thousands of dollars in beaver board wallpaper and lumber were bought two weeks before the fair, spurring home renovations.
The New York Times notes shifts in consumer demand across hardware stores as running water, plumbing fixtures, coal oil stoves, and kitchen sinks rise in importance. Female labor, laundry needs, and home comfort drive growth in washing machines and irons, while local trends show broader preferences for garden tools, tree pruners, and decorative tableware.
A Washington newspaper man borrows time with a jesting story to dodge a loan. He feigns poverty, claims pay day is tomorrow afternoon, and the friend promises to return then, illustrating a crafty prepay evasion.
A note on medieval dining from Domestic Manners of the Middle Ages explains that tables used a nappe with a calt cellar bread and cups for wine but no knives or plates. The absence of knives reflected the era’s practice of guests carrying their own sheathed knives at table.
The Frisco built at a cost of 4360 dollars weighs 13 tons and carries a 30 hp Frisco standard engine with a speed of seven miles per hour. Crew last summer included George Nix Frank Nix Nick Nix and Albert Nathong. It worked around Tenakee for the Craig cannery from June to September catching 70000 fish.
The Alaska Native Brotherhood represented by Paul Liberty and Ralph Young of Sitka discusses uniting SE Alaska natives under the A N B. Mr. Marsden outlines aims, George Haldine plans Hydaburg chapter, and Judge De Witt likens unity to twisting fibres into a rope as a campaign for stronger organization begins.
Sup t Hawkesworth declares one third of our young men are diseased and near the undertaker as the Health Crusade backed by the U S government opens. Miss Gibson opposes tobacco sales to minors. Mr Lopp calls cigarettes coffin nails while Mrs Webb stresses cleanliness.
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