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Entered as secona-elass matter Au
»ustf"29th, 1923, at the postoflice at
?okoina. Alaska, under the Act of
• larch 3, 1379.
Takotna. Alaska, May ;»„ 1928
PRESS SQUIBS.
Revised version: To the victor be
longs th coil.—Asheville Times.
The greatest world figures arc not
preceded by dollar signs.—Boston
Herald,
You're right, Mr. Borah; one rotten
egg doesn’t spoil the whole dozen.
But it does when they’re scrambled.—
Newark Ledger.
The chemical constituent* of a mat
ere said to be worth "8 cent,;. < Possi
bly it is that prict which causes some
wonien to run after them.—Tampa
Times
Chasing the greased elephant is
going to he the king of sports this
summer.—Milwaukee Journal.
Politics appears to be the only well
>ile;ef machine that develops friction.
—Christian Science Monitor
Much is to be said on both sides of
the average political question—espe
•ially the inside.—Virginian-Pilot.
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“A comfortable gas mask” is the
War Department’s *;ift to its country
”i a Presidential year.—Detroit News, j
Another trouble with modern ro- j
■nance is that the time is too short he- ‘
ween courtship and court.— Arkansas
Gazette.
\nd the. pistols! red glare
Bombs bursting in air
Givi; proof through the night
That Chicago’s- stille there.
—Brooklyn Eagle
The last two might b ecalled Mr.
Coolidge’s declining years —Publish
ers Syndicate.
Nicaragua might get rid of the ma
rines by enacting an alien.- exclusion
law.—Lynrhhurg News.
Just SO' the Nicaraguans do not
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send ;i delegation to the United
Suites to study some ot' our election
methods.—Charieston Mail.
It is hardly likely* that any film,
feature will be built around Teapot
Dome during the reign of the present
movie e/.ar.—Arkansas Gazette.
If Lindbergh is really anxious to
retire from the hero business, he
should marry.—Wall Street Journal.
A Democrat’s idea of good pros
pects of winning in a Presidential
year is a ghost of a chance.—Ohio
State Journal.
Medford. Mass., reports a manhole
cover stolon. Somebody must have
needed a spare wheel.—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Remember, girls, in seeking vouv
model husband, there are two models,
sport atid working.—Council Blufi's
Nonpareil.
Now is the time for n good". Rid
Menace, or something, to come to Du
al d of the party with n domestic- oil
scandal on its hands.— Detroit News.
The lobby’s zero value is shown by
the fact that nil the -' lobbyists in
Washington could not t hwart ur.ani ■
mous passage by the Senate of an
anti-lobbying bill.—Weston Leader.
A Chicago judge estimates that
there are 350,000 persons in this coun
try who make a living bv crime.
Which seems to indicate that the
wages of sin are misrepresented.—
San Diego Union.
The latest adaptation of the tinn
ing of plows into plowshares is found
in the use by Idaho farmers of 1,500,
000 pounds of high explosives manu
factured during the war to clear 6,000
acres of land of stumps.—Christian
Science Monitor.
Another thing that makes it little
.difficult to accept the ‘straw votes
| taken at the colleges as a true index
of serious public sentiment, even
when they come out our way, is that
| quite a lew scattering ballots are gen
j orally cast for Aimee Semple Me
' I’herson, H. L. Mencken, and Mayor
1 Bossy Gillis of Newburyport, Massa
chusetts.—Ohio State Journal.
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Wo have often- heard of. enough
money to choken an elephant. There
; is a chance that Mr. Sinclair’s $160,
i 000 will do the tfick in 1028.*—Nash
i villa Banner.
A Huntington, West \ irginia, pa
i per carries-.its.stock-market reports
jin its-sports section, -hich may not
i be entirely misleading.— Chicago
Journal of Commerce
The Bishop of St. Albans is need
lessly alarmed, we feel, ui'er the pos
sibility that television will invade the
privac yof the bathroom. While
Takotna Pool Hall
resh Fruits Candies Soft Drinks
Tobaccos Cigars Cigarets
Apples Oranges
I Mutchler Cold Storage Barge |
I Pork Beef Veai Mutton i
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t Boiled Hams Pickled Tongues j
I Sausage in variety Head Cheese j
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tastes are at their present level there,
will be little or no public for bathing:
bishops.—The New Yorker.
Nova Pictoris, a star first discov
ered in South Africa in 1925, appears
to have split in two. This may indi
! cate that 1928 is election ye.araamong
the New Pictorials uiso.—New York
Evening1 Post.
i Among those who are in favor of
j Senator Borah's plan to return the
; bO.WH) contributed to the Hepub
'Tran campaign of 1920- by Harry F.
Sinclair is Mr. Sinclair hintse f.—Se
attle Times.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics
has announced that American tourists
spent $105,771,000 in Canada last
year, and even Pussyfoot Johnson
would have to admit there aren’t that
many postcards in Canada.—New
York Evening Post.
Well, we see the Federal Prohibi
tion Bureau is already sending trust
ed men to Kansas City and Houston
to prepare to protect, if possible, the
great political conventions that are.
going to declare for stric* law ob
servance and enforcement from pat
ronizing the bootlegger*. — Ohio
State Journal.
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LYNX IN DEMAND SEATTLE
AUCTION—WHITE FOX AND *
MARTEN BRING GOOD BRICES
I SEATTLE.—Lynx continued to be
in keen demand at the Seattle Fur
Exchange auction. Practically-“all of
the 2,500 pelts offered sold for an av
erage price of $40.08, an advance of
10 per cent. The best lot brought I
$59.50.
Half of the 1,500 marten offered ■
were sold, averaging $30.42. The best
lot brought $56.50. An-ordinary col-1
lection of 500 Alaska white fox sold i
for an average of $40.32. The best;
lot brought $57. Silver fox was!
withdrawn from the market. There
was little demand for muskrat and
the price declined 5 per cent.
REDUCED SIZE CURRENCY.
Issuance of the 'educed size paper
currency has been -postponed until
next January. "The Treasury Depart
ment had hoped to have the new bills
in circulation by now. The first issu
ance will be $1 bills. These notes
will be six and five-sixteenths inches.
long by two and eleven-sixteenths.,
inches wide, as compared with bills
of the. same denomination now in use
of seven and seven-sixteenths inches*
long bv. three and - ore-eighth inches
wide. The Government hopes that
, the new bills will not only last
'.longer but will cost less money tx*
I make.—Pathfinder
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KLAN GETS STERN INDICT
MGNT FROM FEDERAL JUDGE
PITTSBURGH.—A stern indict
ment of the Elan, in which it was held
to be responsible lor riots, bloodshed
and burn.ng of men alive, was made
by Feoerai Judge Thompson in an
opiii.^u u.suiLSSing the injunction suit
brought by the Klan against five
. ..inbers.
- -»i- court, after hearing sensa
tl.#ual testimony for five days,., held
uie organization came into the court
of equity with “dirty hands” and will
not gain relief from him.
In dismissing the Klan petition to
restrain former members using its
name, asking $500,000 damages,
Judge Thompson placed all costs on
the Klan.
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She was in Alaska looking over a.
1 fox farm. After admiring a beautiful
! silver specimen she asked her guide:
! “Just how many times can the fox be
skinned for his fur?”
“Three times, madam,” said the
guide, gravely; “any more than th»t
i would spoil his temper.”
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