With the passage of the Organic Act of 1916, hunting on the Kenai Peninsula was brought to a halt and the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, C. F. Martin, announced in a letter published in Alaska newspapers on August 12th, 1916 that hunting would cease until August 1st, 1918. The ruling prohibited the hunting of Mountain […]
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 […]
On August 7th, 1938, a Pan American Airways, twin-engine “baby clipper” departed the Sand Point Naval Air Station, five miles northeast of Seattle, and headed north for Ketchikan and Juneau in an air service experiment to Alaska. The aircraft flew an outside route over water in what was to be a seven-hour flight to Ketchikan but was delayed […]