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Newspaper
The Nome Daily Nugget
Location
Nome, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
2
Nomination event held in Nome Alaska on July 20 1908 naming a delegate to Congress. Local officials presided as community leaders and residents gathered to support the contested seat amid local development interests and territorial governance questions.
John W Corson launched his Republican campaign at Deme Creek before the largest gathering ever seen there. He pledged to address local conditions with practical remedies while criticizing opponents, and the meeting drew wide attendance as organizers planned subsequent events toward Fairbanks Creek.
Depositors gathered as the Market Street bank collapsed, rumors of 10 cent dollars circulated. Police intervened as crowds threatened a violent outcome, a fifteen member committee formed to probe the bank's affairs ahead of grand jury testimony.
In Port of Spain Jul Jute reports four new cases of plague with three suspected fatalities. Authorities implement precautionary steps while the city opens a bath house and a bakery advertises bread and pastry. A local CWI engineer profiles his 48 years in field construction, inviting Nugget applicants.
Notice of marshal sale by writ of execution from February 1908 court judgment. T. C. Powell, U S Marshal, will sell at Nome Alaska on August 29 1908 at 2 PM the right and interest of YT Lane in multiple Quartz Claims including King Solomon and Dewey. Sale at court house door, cash to highest bidder.
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