Republican Club Fourth Division Fires First Guns
The Fourth Division Alaska Republican Club opened the campaign season with an enthusiastic Moose Hall meeting in Fairbanks.63 new members joined as officers were reelected and several candidates announced filings for territorial and U S Senate seats. A divisional convention is set for February 1 in Fairbanks.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Republican Club
Moose Hall
H. A. Blyth
Louis D. Colbert
Cecil T M. Clegg
U.S
Congress
Lester O. Gore
Ketchikan
U. S
Nome
Fred Wann
Territorial
Julian A. Hurley
Territorial Senate
Oscar Samuel Son
Bethel
H. Elton Buzbey
House
Andrew Nerland
Paul Rickert
Louis Colbert
Weather Reports Broadcast Daily Airplane Traffic
Beginning today the U S Signal Corps Radio Station at Nome broadcasts weather reports field conditions and upper air data at 1130 Nome time on a frequency of 2604 KCS this data being in addition Continued on Page Four
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U.S. Signal Corps
Nome
Ten Nominated Run For Title Miss Fairbanks
Fairbanks on January 23 nominating ten candidates from seventy five for Miss Fairbanks. The winner joins contestants from other Alaska towns for Miss Alaska at the Tee Carnival and dog derby March 6 to 8. Nominees are all Alaska born Adriana Black Lucille Lavery Sigrid Seppala Josephine Raats Margaret Gilbert Elsie Phillips Muriel Rivers Dorothy Murphy Ernestine Erickson and Hilja Reinnaka.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Serum Transport to Cook Inlet for Smallpox
Acting Territorial Health Commissioner Dr. Cassius Carter approved flying smallpox serum to Kenai Ninilchik and Cook Inlet western Alaska towns. Dr. A D Haverstock visited the area as cases were mild, vaccination given as precaution. A vaccine consignment arrived Tuesday with more dispatched westward and inland.
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Juneau
Cassius Carter
Alaska
Kenai
Ninilchik
Cook Inlet
A. D. Haverstock
Interior
Roosevelt Children's Benefit Show Promises Large Nome Audience
A Dream Theatre performance titled Be Good Roosevelt Child ren's Show is planned for Thursday January 30 to celebrate President Roosevelt's birthday. The Roosevelt Children's Benefit features Miss Aleda Brinkerhoff, Mrs Neva Whaley, Richard Lee, Mildred Maynard and an community chorus with W H Bloom as the orchestra director. Funds support local use with 70 percent kept in Nome and 30 percent sent to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation to pursue a combat cure for infantile paralysis.
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Dream Theatre
President Roosevelt
Aleda Brinkerhoff
Neva Whaley
Richard Lee
W. H. Bloom
Mildred Maynard
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
Weather Summary for Alaska and Northwest Coast
Low pressure persists over Alaska and the northern Pacific. Nome to Fairbanks route fair weather, while Cordova reports rain. Western Alaska warmer near average. Oregon and Washington coast cloudy. Airway observations show mixed skies from clear to partly cloudy with several stations reporting snow and cold readings.
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Alaska
North Pacific Ocean
Nome - Fairbanks
Alask
Cordova
Oregon
Washington
Nome
Solomon
Golovin
Nulat
Frigid Weather Triggers Fatalities Across Regions
A severe cold wave from the northwest kills at least twenty five people across ten states. Schools close and transport halts as prices rise in grain and livestock markets. In Canada two men shot themselves during a bank robbery as police stormed a rooming house. Mussolini deepens the diplomatic clash over the League Armistice and British naval maneuvers spark new debates while embargo reports are compiled.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Weather Bureau
Great Midwest
Faeto
Vancouver, I. A
Mussolini
League Council
Mediterranean
Duce
Newe
League
Tholisa Worles
Fn ‘Ly
Pioneer Woman Anora Widner Leaves Alaska After 37 Years
In a Seward Gateway note, Mrs Anora Widner recalls 37 years in Alaska from the Skagway snow slide of 1898 to Daw son encounters with Jack London and Rex Beach. She served as a nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital panned gold on Cand le Creek and attended cake walks in Nome with Big and Little Tex Ricard.
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Skagway Trail
Jack London
Dawson
Good Samaritan Hospital
Candle Creek
Rex Beach
Tex Ricard
Nome
Anora Widner
Seward Gateway
Herbert Hoover Joins Democrat Roster At 17
Herbert Hoover, a Texas Tech freshman from Post, Texas, has taken a government NYA job and is now identified as a Democrat. He attends school while holding the NYA position that enables his education.
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The
Associated Press
Lubbock, Tex
Herbert Hoover
Texas Tech
Post
Texas
Anchorage Ranger 1Ry—Mason Reports Contacts With Navy Vessel
Captain Mason of the United States Army Sanar Corps reported on Ranger 1Ry in Anchorage about indirect contact with a naval vessel en route from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands. Weather, contacts, and other details were noted without a clear contact type.
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Associated
Widner’s Yukon trek recounted at Overland hotel
Mrs. Widner spoke in a gentle voice about her life with her late husband and their lost daughter. Born in Boulder Colorado she spent her years in western mining camps and frontier towns. The couple sailed for the Klondike on the S8 Seattle joining a crowded deck of travelers just before the Dyea slide.
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Overland Hotel
Victoria
States
West
Deadwood
Butte
Klondike
Seattle
Skagway
Dyea
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Gore
Weather Today
Weather Bane
Europe
George Lawson
Jack Hyslop
William Hobbs
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Hobbs
Charles Russell
Hyssop
Lawson
NYA
Anchorage
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