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•STOKOiTNA, ALASKA. APB. 26.. 1924
Progress Being Made <
Airplane,Development
Detrelt.—Two revolutionising contri
butions to aviation are to.be made
short!* by Detroiters.
Ralph Upsoa, one of the foremost au
thorities on llghter-than-air craft, is
developing ao all-metal dirigible which
will use hydrogen and is expected to
hare a 40 her cent increase io cruising
radian oxer-present-type dirigibles.
William y. Stout, president of the
Stout Metal Airplane Company, ie am
atructing a 100-horsepower plane which
will travel at a speed of 120 miles an
hour, carry eight passengers sod
freight and will weigh 1,500 pounds
Sees than a Cadillac roadster. The
wlegs> it is said, will withstand an 18
>ioa load of sand:
Announcement of these developments
•as made by Mr. Stout Wednesday in
an address before the Vortex club at
the Hotel Taller. He prefaced it with
the remark that “no Industry can be
placed on a sound foundation until we
sbiak io terms of facts, and not opio
*
“For four Tears,’’ he noted, “we have
bad New York to San Francisco air
mail, with deliveries 96.7 per cent on
time, which is 20 per cent better ser
vice than, trains. Tbn air mail makes
she imp in 24 to 30 hours, carrying
18.000 pieces of mail out of New York
•very morning..
“We are getting away from the mili
tary plane, and the effort now is for
safety .and -low eoet, neither of which
sole red into the • military plane. En
gines-.of today weigh hail what the
war-time motort-dld and go 45,000 to
76.000 miles without repair.- They cao
Machine, Black
smith and.
Sheet Metal Work
All Kind* of itepairsi
*
Stoves Built:
and Repaired^ -
r-- -—
Kobt. E. Ldwrie
carry a ton of freight five miles so .a
gallon.
“This country is in a particularly -ad*
▼aotageous position in aeronautics. We
bold all air records. We can go. 80
miles an hour faster than the. maohioe
of any other oouotry. .An aeroplane
can go to Flint while you are walking
from the Tuller to. the Detroit Ath
letic Club,’ and eaa Uy. from Detroit
to New York.while, a man .is goin<
from Detroit to Flint, itt-an.au tome
bile.”#
Stout called attention-to the'fact that
12,00®, leadings were made last year at
the Dayton, O*, commercial field, and
that the Curtiss company machines
flew '200,000 miles without mishap in
1923. __
Farthest-North£ollege
Now in Its Second}Ydear
□The Farthest Neeth Collegian,, Vol.
2, No. 1. ^ issued by the students and
faculty of the Alaska Agricultural Col
lege and School-o' Mines,- was received
recently by The Times. The Collegiait
contains a number of meritorious and
interesting articles, is very neat typo
graphically,-sod is certaiaiy e-credit to
the institution. Under the heading
“The Second . Year,!' Fhe Collegian
says:
‘ The Farthr-t North College has
grown-since the last number of-the
Ceiie^ian came from the press in a way.
to compel the attention even of those
who were skeptical at the time of its
humble beginning. When the College
opened its doors little more than a year
ago, on the 18th of September, 1922,
there were six students enrolled} there
are now 65 registered, mod every indi -
cation that the registration wiH grow
to more than a hundred before the year
is out. This year three new members,
have been added to the faoultv, and
one new department, business admin
istration. A wing to the original
building which more than doubles the
fioor space available for classrooms and
laboratories was completed shortly after
school began in the fell, and a com
pressor bouse and experimental mine
are now being operated at the foot of
the College hill by men in the mining
short course. With equipment vqual
to and in some cases surpassing that of
technical schools Outside, in its second
year Alaska’s College is estabUehed>j
too firmly for fearer doubt* end- needs
now only the advertising of ►its frioode
Co draw students from all parts and be
come the pridoof the Territory.”
A Little of Everything.
... Amoog the moat iuisrsstieg exhibits
in the South Keoaiisgton Muuud is
the engio* that props Usd tbs Coart,
the first passenger steamer *u --uropean
waters. It. was designed hr Henry
^ielf, a Scotch geoios. who am seed tha
World with bis little steam-propelled
beat puBlag merrily along at a speed of
five miles an hoar.
4 Probably the nearest thing to per
petual motion yet developed is s radium
clock, invented by Lord Ravleigh more
than ten years ago, and which has been
operating ever since without having
once been repaired or touched, by.
human hand*.
, A mammoth plow that luras a furrow
ten feet wide is said to be the latest
implement for use ot> sugar plantation#
For a Nice* Lunch»
or Eirst-Gla«rM4aL«.
CUT At *
Durant’s Cafe
Flat City
Gangs of blade* that have a circular
otoitoo both turn and pulverise the toil
•t the same litre* The plow is hauled
by a 120 boraspower engine, with cat
erpillar tractor. Under favorable con
ditions the plow will turn over about 25
acre* a day. _
So expensive were the wives of Rome
that Julius Caesar was induced to offer
premiums to encourage marriage. Be
allowed married women to dress more
superbly than the unmarried and he
relieved of various taxes the married
man who was the father of three chil
dren.
Ac Austral fan-scientist dealaroa that
be has been able to produce a synthetic
sugar which differs in no way from the
product of the cane. Experts, it is
said, bare been unable to distinguish
any difference between the two.
\i -
Among the Hot as, the reigning race
of Madagascar, the two higher castes
are constrained by social law to main
taie a certain purity of blood, the tak
ing of a wife from outside the clao
being prohibited.
At Crell, near Paris, there is a so
ciety of archers* with an annual compe
tition for the original trophy given at
the first meet of the society, more than
one thousand years ago.
The Rumanians regard Sunday as
the luckiest day for a wedding, and the
autumn,.when the wlce is to. as the
mow* .suitable season,
, Beid beaded criminals are verv rare,
say those who have mode a study of the
subject.
A typewriter which writes music has
been invented by-an Italian.
The‘Old Songs. -
l> Is there danger that the old folk sod
patriotic tones which sre familiar to
the present generation will be lost to
future generations? There are some
who think to sod who claim that the
fault will lie at the door of the public
School because of the neglect of teach*
era to teach these tongs to children ia
■defereoce to their desire for something)
of a “ja££ier‘' nature, says -the Alaska'
School Bulletin.
Modern tongs should not be neglect
ed, of course, with a reasonable degree
of eeosorship.. Howeter, the old songs
should occupy an important place oo
’both,the elementary and high school
Kmc of favorites.- Following are a few
songs which every Alaska child should
be able to sing
“Alaska. My Alaska;”
“America;”
“Americe, the Beautiful;’*
I “Annie Laurie;”
“Auld Lang S*ne;”
“The Battle Cry of Freedom;”
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic;”
“Columbia, the Gem Of the-Ooean;”
“Dixieland;”
“Juanita;”
“Love’s Old. Sweet Seng;**
“Massa's in the Cekl, Cold Ground;” j
“Ms Old Kentucky Homei”
"Old Black Joe;’*
• ••Old. Folks at Borne (Suwaoee
i River);”
i “The GW Oaken Bucket;’*
“The Sear Spangled Banner;”
“We’re Tenting Tonight;”
“Yankee Doodle.”
f Two hundred Knights of Columbus,
the LaSalle Asaemblr.'WMl visit South
eastern Alaska during, the coming sum
user, according to advices received at
: Juneau recently
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Larson Roadhouse
(Formerly The McLean, Tacotna.)
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses
Mrs. Frank Larson
Proprietor
Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Good Prices for Your Fur
Arrange to Spend the Night at the
Big River Roadhouse
Best possible meals. Private rooms]
New dog kennels, and the best of lower t river fish
for dog feed.-.
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Proprietor
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