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...their family, for the founding of which they have traveled miles up the river. Covering the eggs with sand both male and female go off and die. Some fortunate few struggle back to the ocean to grow sleek and begin the cycle over again next year.* Many an Alaskan salmon, however, is leaping this April-May not into a waterfall but into round tin cans, neatly sealed and labeled. These round cans, each of them containing one pound of salmon flesh, are filled in 135 canneries in Alaska and in 64 in Washington, Oregon, California. Forty-eight cans are packed...
Calculations placed the origin of the disturbance at a spot about 3,950 miles northwest of Cambridge, or near the Aleutian Islands, and the time of actual occurrence at 10.30 o'clock Alaskan Time, Monday evening. The direction, however, is only probable when calculated by a single station. The center of the shock is determined by government seismologists at Washington after receipt of telegraph reports from contributing stations...
...chews tobacco, spits the juice. He plays solitaire, reads Shakespeare, keeps a garden farm near Granite Falls, Minn. A widower, he has a daughter named Laura, who drives the Studebaker and keeps the house. Last week, he announced her engagement to Carl Lomen, founder and dominator of the Alaskan reindeer industry...
Senator Norbeck of South Dakota, to introduce Arthur Frame of Anchorage, Alaska, candidate for an Alaskan judgeship...
...every one knows, Woodrow Wilson's Paris trip was the first of its kind. Taft visited Panama in 1910, but stayed in territory under U. S. jurisdiction, except for a brief stop-over at Cuba on the home trip. Harding, returning from his Alaskan tour, visited Vancouver, B. C., not, however, on a diplomatic mission...