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April 28, 1922 The Totem Pole is now open. Miss Mary Allen and Miss Blanch O’Dell opened “The Totem Pole” ice cream parlor in the Ohmer post office building. The new place is a credit to the town being furnished in the mission style, with old rose hangings, curtains and shades. The service is excellent. A cozy corner alcove with piano and settees is included and music is one of the evening attractions. A soda fountain has been installed and all the fixings are in order. April 25, 1947 The annual Junior Prom was held Saturday evening April...
April 21, 1922 A reef of gold bearing ore several hundred feet in width and over five miles in length, which runs from four to twelve dollars in values on the surface, has been discovered at Muddy River by Martin Dahl and John Loseth. The ledge lays along the water and extends from Horn Cliff in a northerly direction. The discovery was made accidentally by Martin Dahl last fall and samples were sent to Juneau for assay. The returns showed the good values could be secured and active prospecting was continued throughout the winter. The ledge has...
This Friday, April 22, is Earth Day and the Rainforest Festival is celebrating the day by inviting everyone along for a field trip. The group will meet at the ballfield at 3 pm for a hike on Hungry Point Trail. Raingear and boots are recommended. The guided hike will provide a closer look at the trees and shrubs of this area, and their unique features and uses will be discussed. The event is part of the Rainforest Festival which is transforming itself this year. In 2008, the weekend after Labor...
Dairy operations require careful temperature control to protect from unwanted bacterial growth in milk products, and to achieve the desired results. Temperatures are especially critical in cheesemaking; and the back of this thermometer has markings for churning, freezing, scalding, and cheese. While thermometers can be made with alcohol, mercury, dial or the more recent digital readings, there are some who say the mercury thermometers can't be beat. The floating dairy thermometer is still used...
April 14, 1922 Miss Mary Allen and Miss Blanche O’Dell will within a short time open an ice cream parlor and lunch room in the quarters formerly occupied by the Post Office on Front Street. Carpenters, painters, and electricians are working on the new place, putting it in shape for the expected business. A modern soda fountain is being installed and it is understood that a piano with room for dancing will be provided. The two young ladies are well known here; Miss Mary Allen having been the former post mistress, and Miss O’Dell having bee...
Roxie Lee, who served as a library board member 60 years ago, gave the toast to her dear old friend during the Helmi Jensen Community Room dedication event in the Petersburg Public Library on Wednesday. "A toast to Helmi and a toast to the community. A room like this which is just going to be used over and over and over again for so many different activities. Helmi would have been so pleased ... Here's to Helmi a very creative, wonderful, wonderful person." All in attendance agreed and raised a...
April 7, 1922 The gas boat Progress, in charge of ‘Spanish Joe’ was captured recently at Ketchikan with the entire crew aboardt. When taken into custody she had some 65 cases of imported wet goods on board. Sometime before midnight officers Moyer Halllson and Van-Zandt took up a position near the roadhouse on the Wards Cove road and acting under instructions from Deputy Marshal Handy kept a sharp lookout for the expected booze runners. Their vigil lasted till shortly after midnight when a boat landed and the crew began unloading the cargo on...
This tiny camera is a Universal Minute 16, first introduced in 1949. Its “guillotine shutter” had a speed of 1/50th of a second. The camera holds 16 mm film that can be advanced by the lever on the camera’s side. Its manual boasted it could be carried in your smallest pocket or purse, and was an “expensive camera offered at an inexpensive price”. The small prints measured 2 1/4 by 3 1/4 inches. A special feature – especially for such a small piece of equipment – was the synchronized flash, allowing for picture-taking under a variety of co...
Mark and Sue McCallum, along with Pamela Mae Post, happily announce the marriage of Tess Walther and Ian McCallum. The happy couple eloped on April 1, 2022 in New York, New York. Tess is a doctoral student in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and Ian is a Project Engineer Diver at Marine Solutions Inc. They will reside in New York City....
March 24, 1922 What about the tide flats in front of town? It is a certainty that work will start on the dredging of Wrangell Narrows this year and will be running full blast by next season. Thousands of cubic yards of sand will be pumped from the Narrows directly in front of the town. What will be done with it? Will it be used to fill in the unsightly tide flats and convert the useless property into level building land or will it be allowed to run out into Frederick Sound? If the waterfront property owners will get together and ask the...
Early communication in Alaska took months by ship. Eventually the Washington-Alaska Military Cable Telegraph System (WAMCATS) was installed, but undersea cable was frequently severed by ice. Radiotelegraph replaced wires, and telephones were introduced, allowing some civilian use. WAMCATS became the Army Communication Service (ACS) and later Alaska Communications Service. RCA purchased ACS in 1969, agreeing to provide improved service to 142 remote communities. A teletype and modem could...
