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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-09
SENATE INQUIRY
NEARING. CLOSE
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF, IN
TERROR DEPARTMENT is
CALLED ON STAND
Senate OIL Committee For First Time
Goes Into Detail In Inquiry of
Naval Reserves on Buena
Vista Hall

Washington.-The senate oil com.
mittee, for the first time in its in
quiry into the leasing of the naval
reserves, took up in detail the situa-
ton in reserve No. ON the Buena
Vista hills in California.
Assistant Secretary Finney of the
interior department and Director II.
Foster Balm of the bureau of mines
We're called for question 'ng in what
committee members said was the last
phase of the long investigation.
Mr.. Finney gave to the committee
complete list Of all leases made on
the Buena Vista reserve and review
ed the history of each. This reserve
Is known as the "checkerboard" re-
serve because the lands held for the
navy were. in most instances, alter
mating sections, with the intervening
sections under private control.
Many of the early leases, Mr. Fin
ney showed. were for offset wells,
granted to protect drainage by wells
on adjoining properties. While au-
thority for making the earlier leases
rested in the secretary of the inter-
ior, the witness said that Secretary
of the Interior Payne, In all instances
referred applications to Secretary Of
the Navy Daniels and made no leases
without the latter's approval.
Some of the leases made under |
Secretary Payne were to prevent the
intrusion of water Finney said The
early leases were made by act of
President Wilson, upon written re-
ports by Secretary Payne Nest of
hem were for producing wells and
some were for the purpose of estab-
ishing offset wells. The first area
eased by Mr. Payne went to the Con-
Mutual Oil company and
covered 100 acres.
Secretary Fall later granted AREA"
eases, the witness said to cover
reas in which his predecessor had
ranted well leases to producing
Nells on mining locations. The first
area" lease by Fall was for 100 acres
n the naval reserve No. 2, to the
oston Pacific Oil company.
Secretary Fall took the view"
inney said, that, on account of the
rye area of patented lands and
ellis upon them, it was impractic- '
de to maintain the. reserve as a re- >
rye and the lands should be leased
,. | heard him express that opinion
bout that time he was considering II
plan for exchanging crude oil for t
wal oil in storage" h
The development of the Fall pol II
Y with respect to naval oil reserves a
rs then reviewed by Finney who h
id the first discussion of the Eek S
ange" pan was between March and U
ne. 1921. In July Fall went West a
d was absent two or three months
December IA, 1921, the lease to /;
, Boston Pacific Oil company was n
proved, and 1t was followed by wv
Ter area leases ~
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-09
Dunkdrds Increase

On. Christmas day, 1928, two persons
were baptized in the Icy waters of the
river at Germantown. Pa. These were
the first Dunkard converts in America.
says the Detroit News. Since then the
communion has grown to include over
100000 persons.
1t was originally a celibate order
whose members ate meat only once a
year and held property In common.
These strict rules have been abated and
now Dunkard may even marry out
side the faith and still hold member
ship In the church.
They hold church property valued at
S5,O0OO00. The states where they are
strongest are Tennessee and Texas.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-09
underaoes FIftIeth operatIon

Baltimore. = DR.. Frank Baetjer,
professor of Roentgenology, at John
Hopkins Medical school, and distin-
guished for his work with the X-ray,
submitted this week to his fiftietL
operation to remove infections caused
by burns from the powerful ray. Or.
Baetjer reacted well physicians said
and probably will leave the hospital
within a few days.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-09

Twin Falls.-Through federal in
termediary credit banks, members of
the Idaho Woolgrowers' association
may obtain loans at 51s per cent in
terest in amounts from 70 to so per
cent of the value of their wool clip,
according to report made by com
mittee at a meeting here recently OF
the directors of the association to
complete arrangements for shipment
and storage in bonded warehouses at
the markets of the clips of assocfa-
lion members
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-09

Walter F. DAILY, %. for eighteen
years first assistant United States
district attorney of Colorado. was
found dead in an alley in South Den
yer. Death was due to natural
causes.
Two aviators, J. H. Green and n.
r. Cruickshank, were killed at the
Great Lakes naval training station
at Waudegan, ILL.,, when their sea-
plane crashed into a tree from al
height of 1000 or 1900 feet Cruick-
shank formerly lived in Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa. Both were married.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-09
GENERAL

Wanda Stopa, who plumbed the
depths of love. life and despair in the
last four years of her twenty-three
years of life and who destroyed a
brilliant and promising career when
she swallowed poison in the Statler
hotel, Detroit was quietly buried from
the modest little home of her mother
IN Augusta street, Chicago.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-09

Pittsburg.-Harry K. Thaw is now
at home here. The slayer of Stan
ford White and former husband o.
Evelyn Nesbit arrissd in Pittsburg
and Immediately motored to Cresson
to join his aged mother, Mrs. Mary
Thaw
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-09
Minnesota soIan Found Not Gui'ty

Washington Representative Har-
old Knutson of Minnesota wa fou~d
not guilty by jury in Arlington
county, Virginia, on charges growing
out of an automobile ride in Virginia
last March with Leroy M. Hull, a
Washington government clerk. Hull
also was found not guilty. The jury
was out one hour and three mimi. es.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-09
WASHINGTON

Secretary Mellon advised Presiden
Coolidge that the treasury had com
pleted its inquiry into charges o
Irregularities in the bureau of en-
craving and had found them base
less.
! Retention of J. Weston Allen, for
mer attorney general of Massachu
sets, as general counsel for the
Citizens Federal Research bureau
was announced by Frank A. Wander
lip, head of the bureau. Mr.. Allen
will assume personal direction of
all legal phases of the bureaus work
of investigation.
Wars of the future will last no
longer than the time it takes to put
the participants to sleep, chemists
attending the convention of the
American Chemical society here pre-
dicted.
Representative Theodore Burton Of
Ohio will be temporary chairman and
keynoter of the Republican nationar
convention at Cleveland in June.
The amazing discovery has been
made that the Daugherty Investigate
ing committee had lost, through theft
and forgery vital papers and records
belonging to CASTOR P. Means, fnves-
tigator extraordinary and principal
aide to Senator Wheeler of Montana
in the prosecuting" of the former
attorney general.
The world court controversy flared |
up in the senate when Senator Lodge
If Massachusetts, chairman of the
'oreign relations committee, and SEN
ltor Shipstead of Minnesota laid be-
ore the senate large bundle of pc
itions in favor of American partici-
'ation in the court.
Negotiations to continue the Taft
Panama canal agreement in effect
ntil June 1, have been opened be-
ween the Washington and Panama
overnment. The agreement was to
xpire May l by arrangement enter :
= uPoi w tuc tWO governments
hen they began negotiations looking {
ward the construction of a treaty
} sppplant it. At that time it was I
fought treaty could be drafted, t
ltified and put into effect by May t
but that was found impossible. n
A flat statement that "if by any a
ance the nomination" for the vice
esidency SHOULD be offered to me, Z
should decline to accept it," was c
ade by General John j. Pershing. d
my statement that has been made l,
at would be candidate for vice s.
esident has been made without my "
thority," said the general in for Ii
Il statement. 81 am not candi- r
tie, and if, by any chance the NOM
alton should be offered to me, ]
ould decline TO accept it." q
House Republican leaders inform e.
President Coolidge that the house :,
s approaching conclusion of con- r
Grafton of constructive legislation, n,
that, so far as that body was ),
lcerned, congress would be able to e,
ourn June I.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-05-09
FOREIGN

America defeated Germany and
won the war for the allies. No less
an authority than the exiled emperor,
Wilhelm /, of Germany, pins the
victory medal of the United States.
He ought to know
Premier Kiyoura and Foreign Min
lister Matsui of Japan, conferred on
the question of American immigra-
ton. The foreign minister then
submitted to the prince regent an ex-
haustive report on the Japanese
American situation.
Nearly 100 fishermen from villages
on the west coast of the main island
of Japan are missing as a result of
severe storms in the Sea or Japan.
Destroyers from Maizuru have been
to search for the men.
Miss E. L. Turner has accepted an
assignment to act as bird watcher
for the Norfolk and Norwich Natur-
alists' society on a small island near
Brancaster, England called Scott |
Head. She will spend six months
alone on the island occupying its
only hut. Food and other necessi-
les will be brought occasionally
rom the mainland by boat.
DR.. Carl Helferich, eminent Ger
nan financial authority, and his
unit were among those killed in the
of two express trains near
'ellinzona, Switzerland.
Holland will grant de jure recog-
ition to Russia within a short time,
was forecast authoritatively at
amsterdam. Russia, according to this I
formation, has made recognition by :
lie Dutch government a condition for $
of commercial relations .
,tween the two nations and Holland Q
Is agreed.
Resolutions appealing to President T.
oohdge to veto. immigration legis- I,
ton which would exclude Japanese o
ON the United States were adopted d
mass meeting held under the h
spices of newspapers of the FEEDER m
ion of Mercantile Guilds and at q,
lded by several thousand Japan. c,
;.
That Japan's prestige has suffered in
severe blow by the terms of the m
'ent loan concluded IN New York OF
1 London is the belief expressed by fr
ara, Japanese financial commits i'm
ner, who assisted in concluding the M
n, upon his return to this country.
lpanese boast of their country as fo
ng a first class nation" said Or
ara, "but this is not true, in every pl,
pect. In such matters as raising RAJ
'an for example, other nations will bu
recognize our boast"
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SELD0VIA MAN FALLS
 OVER CLIFF WHILE
 RUNNING FROM BLAST
Anchorage, Daily Alaskan


 Plunging thru the air from high cliff at Homer, a man by the name of Newton, fell to the beach, breaking his neck, and dying instantly, accord ing to special dispatch to the Alas kan, last night. The death was pure ly accidental as Newton was rupAlng away from a blasting charge he had just set off in coal seam in the face of cliff, when evidently he took a false step and was hurled to the rocky beach below.
 For some years past, it is stated, Newton has been making a living selling coal to the Adjacent popula- tion. It was his custom to drill hole into the large seams of bitumi- nous coal, visible in the bluff ,and with charge of powder, blow out number of tons and gather it up in a sack for sale. The people in the inn mediate vicinity relied on this source for their fuel supply during the win ter months.
 Newton had been living at Halibut Cove, according to the information re- ceived, and leaves a son 12 years of age, and a married daughter who lives at Halibut Cove. He was a widower.
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YOUNG SON OF MIR. AND MRS. KARL DRAGER
 LOSES HIS LIFE WHEN HE FALLS THROUGH ICE

Karl Edwin Drager the five-yearod of Mr.
 ager drowned last evening the home of his the Grouse Lake fish hatchery The boy playing the front of the hatchery the time the accident the water where the Hume lake, the ice and beneath mad Just left his mother who busy with household due when she looked for him she noticed their Areae companion of the lad sitting the looking ter. The body quickly recovered rush ed to Mile the parents worked with their to bring life back to the body MT. H. E. Ellsworth Romg the who used known method boy, but to avail life being extinct
 Mrs. John Flowers Mrs c. C. Hnde Mrs A. E. Rucker Mrs Leon Urbach also left render aid to the be- ed parents The body brought resting the undertaking parlOrs Funeral will be held morning at 10 o'clock at the undertaking parlors the Dunlap preaching the funeral Mr. Mrs Drager will leave on the steamship Yukon for Ketchn where will be made
 The death of the lad has cast gloom the community he being universally beloved by all who account of his bright disposition and winning ways.
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BIG BUSINESS REJOICH
 OVER ELECTION COOLIDGE

NEW YORK, Nov. Big business is today rejoicing over the election of Calvin Coolidge as president. Fl bert H. Gary, the steel magnate said "The election of MT. Coolidge by an unusually large majority has furn. ished reasons for a worldwide feel, ing of gratitude to a wise and merci. full providence that rules the destin. ies of human kind. We have turned the corner and I look for a great future in business prosperity"
 Chas. E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank said: "The cleo tion of Mr. Coolidge eliminates poll tics from the business situation anC clears the way for constructive en terprize both at home and abroad Conditions are more favorabi& foi an era of stable prosperity than al any time since the war"
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YOUNG SON LA TOILETTE
 ELECTED DISTRICT ATTY

MADISON, Wis, Nov. 7.-Senator La Toilette began last night to shape his plans for the immediate future with special reference to his return to Washington to prepare for short session of Congress.
 Philip La Toilette, the younger son of the Wisconsin senator, was elected prosecutor of Dane county by a large majority. This is the first office filled by his father A years ago, and is the young mans first elective office.
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DR. AND MRS. RoMiG HERE

Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Romig arrived on Saturdays train from Fairbanks, and are occupying their cottage, on upper Third avenue. They will leave within the next week or so for Chi cago, Pittsburg, New York and other Eastern cities. In Pittsburg, they will visit with Miss Elizabeth, who is taking nursing course in the Johns Hopkins hospital. Dr. Romig has been chief surgeon for the All aska railroad in the Fairbanks hos pital.
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REDUCTION OF TAXES
 ON BIG INCOMES TO 25 PER CENT RECOMMENDED

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. IT. A reduction of surtaxes on big in- comes to twenty-five per cent will be recommended to Congress next month by President Coolidge. This is one of the features of the original Mellon tax plan.
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ELECTION JUDGES AND
 CLERKS NAMED BY COUNCIL

The following election officers will be named by the City Council at the meeting tonight:
 Clcrks-Mrs. Jennie Paulson, Alex ander Bclam.
 Judees--L. A. Peel, Wm. Fairman and Mel A. Homer.
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EMPIRE CONCEDES
 ELECTION SUTHERLAND
 BY FIFTEEN HUNDRED

JUNEAU, Nov. 7.-Although he lost in Juneau and Ketchikan, Delegate Sutherland is leading Frank A. Boyle, his democratic opponent, by 1923 votes and will probably have a majority of 15OO to 1900 John Rustgard, attor- ney general, and candidate for re-elec- tion, in the returns already in is lead ing Henry Roden, democrat, by 252 votes.
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Wednesday,

Messrs Young, Robertson and Kelly moving picture experts in the big game field, and Messrs. Blair and Kristiansen returned yesterday from several weeks trip to lower Skilak lake. They report seeing hundreds of moose, and as many as a hundred in day in that district, and secured some fine pictures of close-ups of large hands as we'll as single animals.
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ALASKA PIONEER KNOCKED DOWN BY
 AUTO AND KILLED

SEATTLE, Nov. 9.-John Boyle, 67 years of age, pioneer of Alaska, was killed here the other day when he was knocked down by an auto mobile. This is the thirty auto mobile fatality victim in Seattle this year.
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WASHINGTON WOMAN
 CAST ELECTORAL VOTE

SEATTLE, Wn., Nov. Mrs. Sam uel Cosgrove, widow of Washington's former governor. has been chosen to take Washington's seven electoral votes to the national capital and cast them for Calvin Coolidge for Presi- dent, and Dawes for Vice President.
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NEW HOSPITAL STARTED

Dr. J. A. Baughman states that he now has his hospital furnished and ready for patients. Three beds have been installed and Mrs. Andrews en- gagged as nurse. This will be a great accommodation to Seward patients who have heretofore been compelled to go to Anchorage for hospital treatment
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Milton Noll arrived on Saturdays train from Kenai and left again for his hunting camp on today's train. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Flickenger and Milton are on a moose hunt, and have had the best of luck
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Capt. George A. Green, and crew of the steamer Panama, plying on the Tanana and Yukon rivers, left on the Alaska for the States.
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MT. and Mrs. c. J. Truitt and son left on the steamship Alaska for Ju- neau, where MT. Truitt, who is en- gineer at Mckinley Park, will report t othe Alaska Road Commission. They will probably spend the winter in Jul neau.
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Ed. Belmont, of Hope, who has pla- cer properties on Bear Creek, was a Seward arrival Saturday. MT. Bel mont stated that he did not get to make his usual cleanup this year owing to cold weather setting in ear Her than usual
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Deputy Marshal James Hagen, of Nenana, was guest of the Hotel Van Glider over Sunday. He was al so former chief of police at Fair banks
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Dr. o. A. Braafladt, former dentist at Seward, who arrived from the S.a,es with his family on Saturdays boat. left on today's train for Nena- na, where he will engage in busi- ness. The doctor will make the inte- rior country and Yukon river dis trict next year.
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Thursday

U. A. DeGolf, and a crew of ten men left on today's train for Mile 54, the crew at that point coming in to Seward.
 Mrs. c. Knapp, wife of the we'll known railroad employe at Anchorage, is returning on the Yukon from visit to Seattle. MT. Knapp will come over on Saturdays train to meet her.
 Andy Weidman left today for Moose Creek where he will join the steam shovel gang.
 The Rev R. V. B. Dunlap, pastor of the local church, returned on last nights train from Seldovia, where he has been the past few weeks look ing after the opening of the new mission recently completed The Rev. Dunlap preached the funeral sermon for Wm. Brooks, the murdered of Deputy Marshal James Hill, and also accompanied Mrs Hill and small son to Anchorage.
 Lew Swanker, engineer on No. 1 steamshovel, left on today's train for Moose Creek.
 Chas. Metzdorf, steam shovel fore man, with crew of men, left on to- days train.
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LOCAL FIRM SECURES
 BIG TIE CONTRACT

The Resurrection Bay Lumber com pany has secured contract from the Alaska Railroad for 25,OOO ties. A camp and tie mill will be erected at Days Harbor
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Lieut.. w. C.. Hut and Mrs. Hut left on the steamship Alaska en route to Camp Lewis, where Lieut.. Hut has been assigned to duty. He will serve in the o. M. department.
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T. w. Buckholtz, captain on one of the N. c. company's lower river boats passed through Seward Saturday on his way to Seattle.
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Mrs Rose Mills and three child ren who were registered at the Van Glider Saturday departed on the Al aska for the States. MT. Mills is quartermaster clerk at Anchorage Barracks.
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B. E. Gaskill, locomotive engineer for the Alaska Railroad, left on the steamship Alaska for the States, and will 1lake trip east. He has six months leave of absence.
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L. M. Carrigan, representing Ar mour and Company, spent Sunday in town, leaving for the south on the Alaska.
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John T. Elliott and c. H. Kiel, Bu- reau of Public Roads officials, left for Juneau on the last boat.
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The Misses J. Boyer and K Faw- cett left on this mornings train for Anchorage. They are employed by the Alaska Railroad.
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Miss Inez Waugh entertained a number of young ladies at Bridge in her apartment last evening" There were three tables at play. Those present were the Misses Sexton, Full Ter, Stutzel, Rouch, Mathews, Eccles, Bettanini, Ulleland, Elsie Leslie, Bea- trice Baughman, Edith Mcintosh and the hostess, Miss Waugh
 Miss Stutzel won the prize for high score and Beatrice Baughman the low prize. Miss Fuller was pre- scented with goodbye present from the hostess, Miss Waugh. A dainty luncheon was served late in the even ing.
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Monday

J. A. Elwell and crew, interior op- orators, left on the Alaska for the States.
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B. H. Barndollar, examiner of ac- counts for the Alaska Railroad and a member of the Alaska Railroad po- Hey board, left on the steamship Al aska in company with General Mana ger Noel Smith for Washington, D. c. He will return some time after the first of the year.
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Paul Barnes, representatives for the Sellers company, left on the last boat for southern ports.
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Mrs. Lillian A. Faranger, a former Nenana girl, who has been living in Seattle the past few years, arrived on the Alaska and left on today's train for Livengood where her mother conducts a roadhouse.
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Local Happenings of Week

George Roll is talking of entering he n.iring game and will take ove"" ;l nunlb,r of quartz and placer prop ositions.
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The demand by the local trainmen for an increase in wages has been taken under consideration by General Manager Smith.
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The residence of Stella Brown was entered by some unknown person last night, the burglar entering by a back window. The contents of sev- eral suit cases were scattered over the floor and several garments taken. No clue has been found to the perpetra- tor of the act.
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Jerome Hackey and Frank DeLong vEr Fourth q J.!y creek registered at the Seward over Sunday.
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Bud Whitney and wife. prominent ranchers from north of Anchorage, were outgoing passengers on the AL aska
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I uesday

Karl Drager, superintendent of the local fish hatchery, states that many fish will be released from this con- cern this coming spring. The build ings will be painted and the grounds placed in shape So much work has been done on the interior that little grounds.
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Brunswick Portable Monographs, and Records, Schallerer's Alaska Shop.

Remington Portable Typewriters at Schallerer's Alaska Shop. If.