The Nome Daily Chronicle, touting itself as the “Only Illustrated Paper in Alaska,” on August 11th, 1900, printed its first edition as a daily paper. The paper’s circulation as a daily was very short-lived, within a month, the paper discontinued daily circulation and only published once a week. By November, the paper discontinued publication as […]
On August 10th, the people of St. Lawrence Island celebrate St. Lawrence Day, named for the day that Danish explorer, under the flag of Russia, Vitus Bering, visited the island on August 10th, 1728. According to history, St Lawrence Island is the first place in Alaska visited by Europeans. Bering did not set foot on […]
Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne in their quest to chart a great circle route around the globe, departed New York for Tokyo on July 27th, 1931. Anne had trained extensively for the flight and had received her private license that Spring in New York. Their intent on the New York to Tokyo leg of […]
By the time the fire that swept through the Straits Packing cannery on August 6th, 1920 was finally out, it was reported that only a lone bunkhouse building was left standing. The southeast Alaska cannery, was originally constructed for Gustav and Company in 1911, and was sold to Straits Packing prior to the 1920 fire. […]