Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty to 100 years ago, Chinook Jargon (based partly on but not to be confused with the Chinook tribal language) was spoken very extensively by whites and Indians alike throughout the coastal portions of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and southern Alaska. . . . But the Eskimos never spoke Chinook Jargon; those I have asked never even heard of it. The few Jargon words (such as Cheechako) which are familiar to the Eskimos today have been brought to them by their contact with the whites...
Died. Marine Corps Captain Charles William ("Charlie") Paddock, 42, track star dubbed the onetime "world's fastest human" in the '20s, peacetime manager of California newspapers; in the crash of a Navy plane; near Sitka, Alaska. (Killed in the same crash: Marine Corps Major General William Peterkin Upshur, 61, commander of the Marine Corps Department of the Pacific...
...graduation from Bowdoin College he worked two years in the New York office of a paper manufacturer. Then came news of the Yukon gold strike, and Oakes rushed off to prospect. He found no gold there. In the next 13 years of a persevering search he found none in Alaska, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, West Africa, the Belgian Congo, South Africa, Mexico, California or Nevada...
Spry Uncle Fred sat in his office last week, and snapped a rubber band. He was melancholy. Said he: "If an institution stays around for ten years, it has probably done all it can do. . . . I plan soon to go to Alaska again to gather some data for the War Department. . . . The work? It is bound to come back again, of course...
...Dentist Jim." In the comic strip King of the Royal Mounted there used to be a character, "Dentist Jim," who visited Alaska's ports on a small ship with a sightly daughter. Dr. Good has heard that he and Anna are the originals but has never bothered to look up the comic. He was continually amazed at the need for dentistry in Alaska and wonders what his old friends do now for their aching jaws. If a dentist's office can be pleasant, the chair on the gently swaying deck, with halyards, birds and daughter Anna to look...