■THE KUSku ii.ujlS
A. X. Grant, Publisher, Sole
Owner and Editor.
Published Every Saturday
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Entered as seconn-ctass matteT Au
gust 29th, 1923, at the postoffice at
Tokotna, Alaska, under the Act of
-March 3, 1879.
Takotna. Alaska. July 7, 1928.
PRESS SQUIBS.
A politician may straddle a fence,
?-but is unable to ride on two band
wagons at the same time.—Ashton
Hood Syndicate (Philadelphia),
The G. O. P. elephant seems to be
^growing more and more Herbivorous.
-DDallas Journal.
They are trying to divorce politics
ifrorn crime in Chicago, but it cer
tainly can’t be done on the grounds
•of non-support.—American Lumber
man.
Noting that overdoses of oil have
Tolled certain persons in Italy, we
-take it for granted that none of them
"was a prominent Republican.—Nash
ville Banner.
Today’s blue-ribboner: Astronomer
aner says if the sun should explode
we would have only 133 hours to live.
But the newspapers could get out
tsome hot extras in that time.—Key
West Citizen.
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A psychology class in Chicago has
succeeded after exhaustive researches
an teaching a herd of mice to turn to
'the right. It is believed the secret is
vto place a pound of store-cheese to
tthe right.—Detroit News.
With a new rubber humpeT it is
:said that a motor car running thirty
•miles an hour may strike a tree with
«aut damage, which, of course, indi
cates that it could kill a pedestrian
'without jarring the driver.—Boston
’Transcript.
The hoys responsible for the flood
irelief bill seem to have built the levy
itoo high to suit President Coolidge.—
!St. Louis Star.
California has an automobile for
<every two and one-half persons. The
itwo are the passengers.—Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
The trouble about worshiping an
cestors is that people who do it sel
dom provide the same privilege for
posterity.—Brooklyn Times.
Arthur Brisbane is right; the Ger
mans could attack us by air—if we
helped ’em in from Labrador.—Rich
mond Times-Dispatch,
A village street isn’t really more
bumpy than the highway out of town.
It just seems that way on account of
the chickens.—Publishers Syndicate.
If the farmers ever get as excited
over farm relief as the politicians are,
look out.—Florence (Ala.) Herald.
The most recent trans-Atlantic
flight confronts the sloganers with
the necessity of choosing between
Iloch Erin and Deutschland go Bragh.
—Arkansas Gazette.
Civilization began with the first
hatchet, says Aldous Huxley. Per
haps, Mr. Huxley, but right now it
progresses fastest when your hatchet
is buriel.—Council Blues Nonpareil.
Physicians having caused a tremen
dous increase in the price of liver by
recommending it to anemics, we hope
they will otn discover anything re
medial in ham and cabbage.—Omaha
Bee News.
Nothing makes the average candi
date think more highly of modern
journalism than a ringing, clarifying
and convincing editorial proving that
prohibition is in no sense a party
issue.—Ohio State Journal.
All a European nation wants is a
neighbor rich enough to buy goods
and too poor to make war.—San
Francisco Chronicle.
When a bomb goes off in the mid
dle of a political speech in Chicago,
it is considered the same as a comma.
—Detroit News.
The Socialist party has its candi
dates in the field and platform all
built, and that is about all that it
has to do.—Potland Express.
Chicago plans a crime museum.
Which will be a good thing if all ex
hibits can be permanently housed in
it.—Arkansas Gazette.
The artist who says there is no
beauty in straight lines never has
seen a white sphere describing one
just over second base.—Hartford
Times.
President Coolidge praises Andrew
Jackson as the outstanding example
of a good Democrat—Jackson having
died on June 8, 1845.—San Diego
Union.
After touring the United States,
Count Herman Keyserling, the emi
nent German philosopher, tells the
newspaper boys that while many
American girls look like queens, he
saw no American men who looked like
kings. A gracious compliment for
the ladies and a nice little nosegay
for the men too.—Macon Telegraph.
According to a good many peopple,
the chief problem facing us Demo
crats is not how to bring the two fac
tions of the party together but how
to keep them apart.—Norfolk Vir
ginian Pilot.
We thought Chicago surely wasn’t
as bad as painted. And, sure enough,
we learn that among the books stolen
from the libraries there, the Bible
leads.—Council Bluys Nonpareil.
Horses of the Detroit police depart
ment understand that a red light
means “whoa” and a green light “go.”
What a lot motorists need is horse
sense.—-Wichita Eagle.
Takotna Pool Hall
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Tobaccos
Apples
Candies Soft Drinks {
Cigars Cigarets
Oranges
GENERAL MOTORS CORPORA
TION SMASHES A RECORD
(New York World.)
It is not easy to visualize the net
profit of S235,000,000 earned last year
by the General Motors Corporation.
We may have a better idea of its real
significance, perhaps, by noting that
the amount exceeds the annual reve
nue of any American State, if bor
rowing.- are excluded, and that it ex
ceeds the combined revenues of the
first nine of the American States list
ed alphabetically. No other corpora
tion in time of peace has ever made
such a showing, and it seems quite in
keeping with the spirit of this age
that such a record should be made by
a concern producing motor cars. The
country wants cars, and General Mo
tors has undertaken the task of sup
plying types to fit the requirements
of every purse.
The record earnings of General
Motors in a period when the Ford
plants were quiescent again empha
sizes the contrast between the two
rivals in motordom—if it be accurate
to record them now as rivals. The
; Ford organization is a one-man con
1 cern; it shuns Wall Street as a
plague; it looks askance at bankers,
directors and stockholders; and it
concentrates on the output of one
: highly standardized product. The
General Motors Corporation has out
I side advisers on its directorate; it
i listens to the counsel of bankers; its
| stock ownership is widely ditfused; it
I is a Wall Street favorate, and it care
fully diversifies its products.
The differences are striking, and
’ yet both concerns have prospered im
; mensely. The moral, if any, .to be
drawn from all this is that in a coun
try as big and as rich as America
there is more than one road to suc
cess.
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| REMINISCENCES OF OPHIR’S
4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION
j The Fourth of July, with sunshine
bright,
i Brought into camp the crowd all
right;
Some came by car, some came by
boat.
And many mushed in over the dusty
road.
All had a good time, I should say,
At racing and dancing the crowd was
gay;
So they kept on till morning came
on
And the drivers tuned up their cars
to go home.
The N. C. car was bucking high and
low
Till finally the A .R. C. truck took
her in tow,
And soon to David Mutchler’s delight
The old bus kept on going for miles
all right,
Till half ways up to the Ganes creek
bridge
The A. R. C. truck ran in the ditch.
Very soon we had her out of the
swamp,
And then we sped full speed for
camp.
But this was not all that happened
that day,
I teil you Dave Mutchler had some
more delay.
He was within a few miles of town
on the road,
When the old-bus just quit him dead
cold;
There was nothing doing, the old bus
would not move,
So they legged into town on feet and
hoof.
Automobiles and airplanes are all
right,
But when you ne ed them most they
are on ^a strike;
If you g® somewhere and want to be
sure to be back,
Put <on the shupacs and mush it with
the packbaard on your back.
J. L. R.
“And remember politeness costs
nothing.”
“Doesn’t it? Try putting ‘I emain
your obedient servant’ at the end of
ia telegram.”
cost to
—-L-UJ--H Ill 1B1|.WWI ■ »
Druggist—What will it
have my car fixed?”
Garage Man—What’s the matter
with it?
Druggist—I don’t know.
Garage Man—Fifty-two dollars
and fifty cents.
“ Beforet we were married you
called rw an angel. Now you don’t
call me anything.”
“Weil, that evidences mv self-con
trol.”
“You say her father is a Southern
planter?” j
i “Yes, he’s an undertaker in.Ala-;
I bama.”
_
“Did y«n marry that girl of yours,
■ or do you still cook your own break
| fast and mend your own clothes?”
“Yes.”
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I Hotel
Flat City
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L'J Jil.UlU'.JM—
If you ae not satisfied with your
lot, build on it.—Christian Science
Monittor.
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