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February 12, 1926 – The largest school of herring found in any one locality in Southeastern Alaska in years, and the only school yet found in the district this season, fills the channel at Tee Harbor, according to local fishermen. Following the herring is a large run of King salmon, which is unusual for this time of year, and appearing in Southeastern Alaska waters for the first time, as far as is known, are blue shark, said to be man-eating, following the herring and salmon. The amount of herring can not be estimated so great are their n...
Art teacher Ashley Lohr leans in for a moment of instruction during last week's enamel earing art workshop she led in the Helmi Jensen Community Room at Petersburg Public Library. 19 participants learned from Lohr the art of blending colors and melting glass as she shared insights into her distinctive style of enamel earing creation. Heather Conn melts colorful powdered glass onto her soon-to-be earrings using a handheld butane torch provided by Lohr....
Approximately 60 devoted local fans of the Seattle Seahawks gathered at the Petersburg Crane Dock in the rain on Saturday to take a group photo and cheer for the Seahawks on the eve of the Super Bowl. The 12s, or 12th Man, are the passionate fans collectively considered the twelfth player on the Seahawks team for their tradition of powerfully loud support. 12s in Seattle have set two Guinness World Records for loudest crowd noise at a sporting event. The day after the photo in Petersburg, which...
February 5, 1926 – The past few years has witnessed a struggle between theologists and the end is not yet. Whether the miracle of changing water to wine is questioned or not worries not the average layman. For the days of miracles are not past. Recently the United States Marshall’s office of the third division seized considerable whiskey and rum for the pre-Volstead stock and for safe-keeping it was kept under lock and key and stored in the custody of the clerk of court. Recently Judge Richie appointed Frank H. Foster as District Attorney and...
The Litter Getter crew from Kinder Skog, a Petersburg Medical Center Youth Program, filled several garbage bags with litter they cleaned up from around town this week....
This large brass nut was donated to the Clausen Museum collection in 1967 by Bill Johnson. It was recovered from the steamship Mariposa. While the specific purpose of this nut is unknown, its 13 1⁄2 inch diameter suggests it was designed to withstand immense force while providing a secure, durable fastening in a harsh marine environment. Brass resists seawater corrosion, making it ideal for marine applications. The SS Mariposa was an iron ship built in 1883 in Philadelphia by the William C...
January 22, 1926 – There is going to be a big time at the Sons of Norway Hall on Saturday when the Firemen give their annual Ball. We’re going to start with dances from way back in the 1880s and progress right up to the present date. In other words, we will start with a square dance and end up with the Charleston. A feed such as you never saw before will be served by the time you are good and hungry then you can start all over again. So don’t miss this Old Time to Modern Ones – it’s the Firemen’s Dance on Saturday! January 26, 1951 – The spell...
January 22, 1926 – There is a movement afoot in our town for the erection of a hall for athletics. The need for a hall large enough for all indoor sports has been recognized for many years but there has never been a time when every one was as strongly in favor of it as at this time. The committee which has been ferreting out the costs of such a structure, and the possibility of raising the funds necessary for the material, are of the opinion that the building can be put up at this time. Practically every business in town has been interviewed an...
The charming children's book "Glad Lee, The Cross-eyed Bear" with illustrations by Bunji Tagawa was written by Petersburg kindergarten teacher Freda Larson as a Christmas gift for her students. A newspaper clipping affixed to the inside cover of the book "Glad Lee, The Cross-eyed Bear" in the Clausen Museum Collection reads in part, "The story of Glad Lee was first written by Miss Larson for presentation in mimeograph form to each of her kindergarteners at Christmas time, 1949. It proved so...
January 8, 1926 – Mrs. Grover Cleary, whose husband is a fox farmer in Southeastern Alaska, has sworn to a warrant for the arrest of Robert Bryant, radio expert. Mrs. Cleary is well known in Petersburg, where she has visited many times. She said three of her rings disappeared with Bryant while a guest of the Cleary’s on Thanksgiving day. He reported he found them in an ice machine but one slipped away. Mrs. Cleary found the ring in a Seattle pawn shop and declared Bryant held the ticket. She valued the ring at $1,500. It is a platinum set...
January 8, 1926 – As it happened, it did not require a real eruption to start outsiders talking about Alaska and her prize mountain. No sooner had apparition appeared on the distant slopes than wires were going thick and fast to various news associations in the states. It required several verbose messages to the Associated Press to convince that great news dispensing organization that the mountain had not joined forces with Congressman Free to wipe the Territory off the map. January 12, 1951 – Petersburg came through splendidly in coo...
January 1, 1926 – The freighter LaTouche was in port Tuesday the 29th and delivered 25 tons of coal at Ohmer’s dock, 100 tons of coal at the Trading Union and 100 tons at Hoge & Tvetens dock. Also Tuesday, the Alameda arrived with mail from the south. Tuesday night, the Laddie took a large party to Green Rocks and despite the rain everyone expressed themselves as having a dandy time. December 29, 1950 – Kayler-Dahl cold storage workers voted unanimously on Tuesday to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They gave as their reaso...
Temperatures dropped to three degrees on the winter solstice freezing the waters of Hammer Slough as the tide receded....
December 25, 1925 – Construction work at the Cape Spencer lighthouse is complete and the light is now burning, according to members of the crew who arrived in Juneau yesterday on the tender Alder. The completion of the construction of the station marks a big improvement to navigation. The station is located at the most northerly entrance from the Pacific Coast into the channels of southeastern Alaska and will be a guide to all shipping to Southeast Alaska from Prince William Sound, the Alaskan Peninsula, the Aleutian Islands, and also the l...
This Edwardian Era (1901 – 1910) dressing gown, an incarnation of the house dress, is made of white cotton lawn and was part of the wedding trousseau of Birgitte Nikoline Hofstad. Birgitte was born in Bo, a small fishing village in Vesteralen, Nordland, Norway in 1874 and came to America in 1898, where she had family in Wrangell, Alaska. She married her father's half-brother Isak Myrhe Hofstad several years later. A bride's trousseau would include family heirlooms, handmade clothing and l...
December 11, 1925 – The fishing industry continues to be the most important in the Territory. The value of its products, which aggregated $38,584,837 – an increase of about 4% over 1923, the expansion being chiefly in the herring fisheries. Labor finds its greatest source of employment in the fisheries. Owing to the seasonal nature of the employment furnished by the salmon and herring industries, the building of a permanent population has been retarded. This has not only been a detriment to the Territory but has been a burden on both ind...
December 11, 1925 – Petersburg’s Miss Laddie Kyle, who is in Seward gathering data for a novel she is publishing, received a substantial check and a good contract from an Eastern magazine for pen drawings illustrating scenes around Seward. As a magazine illustrator Miss Kyle has few superiors, her work being of a high order, and eagerly sought by some of the Eastern magazines. Shortly, Miss Kyle will leave for Anchorage where she will spend a month looking over local color, and making pen and ink sketches of scenery in the vicinity. Her new...
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