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...Sitka, Alaska, angry citizens tried to seize the cargo of food on S. S. Northland, were repulsed at the gangplank. Elsewhere in Alaska, the food shortage became so grave that Governor John W. Troy telegraphed Washington for help. By contrast, in Boston many striking seamen, unsupported by funds from their union, were literally starved into submission, returned to work...
What I want to know is-where is that big bear skin he promised to send me when he returned to the Northland...
...most extensive busline business in the U. S. which last year earned net profits of over four and one half million dollars is the (1 Northland Transportation, 2 Transcontinental, 3 Santa Fe Trail, 4 Pan-American, 5 Greyhound Corporation...
...Busman Wickman sold out for $60,000, wandered to Duluth where he began buying up small businesses. Established as Northland Transportation Co., this system prospered so sweetly it looked good to Great Northern Railway's then President Ralph Budd. Unlike other railmen, he considered busses not as rivals but as possible allies. In 1926 Great Northern therefore bought 80% of "Northland for $240,000. Leaving that concern largely in Great Northern's capable hands, Busman Wickman formed Greyhound Corp., a holding company for a baker's dozen of other buslines which he & associates proceeded...
...northern Michigan on Lake Superior. Son Edsel was taking his ease at Seal Harbor, Maine. One day the elder Ford was driven in one of his V-8's 35 mi. to Marquette to telephone Edsel. He put the call through from a private room at the Northland Hotel. As he ambled out, newshawks swooped down on him to ask about the Blue Eagle...