Northwest History. Alaska. Dogs, Dog Races & Mushers.
Dog Teams Race From Northland: Five Nome Residents Start Trek To Government Railroad. DOG TEAMS RACE FROM NORTHLAND Nome Residents Start Trek to Government Railroad. NOME, ALASKA, Dec. 17. (/P) -- Reminiscences of the memorable dog team race with death a year ago recurred to Nomeites today as they a...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/90447 2023-05-15T17:23:56+02:00 Northwest History. Alaska. Dogs, Dog Races & Mushers. Spokane Chronicle 1925-12-17 Dog Teams Race From Northland: Five Nome Residents Start Trek To Government Railroad. 1925-12-17 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90447 English eng nwh-sh-8-2-9 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90447 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History. Alaska. Box 8 dog teams northland Nome government railroad Alaska Nenana Alaska railroad serum air line dental equipment Grant R. Jackson Nome Miners and Merchants' bank James Keenan Miami corporation Thomas Jensen Seattle dog team race Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Text Clippings 1925 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:18:12Z Dog Teams Race From Northland: Five Nome Residents Start Trek To Government Railroad. DOG TEAMS RACE FROM NORTHLAND Nome Residents Start Trek to Government Railroad. NOME, ALASKA, Dec. 17. (/P) -- Reminiscences of the memorable dog team race with death a year ago recurred to Nomeites today as they awaited the outcome of the overland dash of three rival teams to Nenana on the Alaska railroad, more than 400 miles in a direct air line from here. A year ago the dog teams were bringing serum to halt a diphtheria epidemic which threatened to wipe out many lives in this outpost of the far north. Today the dogs were transporting five resdients of Nome to the outside, from which Nome is hemmed in six months of the year by snow and ice. Dr. Hoelscher and his wife, on their way to Seattle to purchase dental equipment to replace that destroyed in Nome's recent $100,000 fire, compose one party. Grant R. Jackson, president of the Nome Miners and Merchants' bank, making his first trip outside in more than 20 years, and James Keenan, a mining man, representing a Miami corportaion, make up the second, and Representative Thomas Jensen, going to Juneau to attend a meeting of the Alaska game commission, is going with the mail team. Great rivalry exists among the contestants to tsee which party will be first to buy railroad tickets at Nenana. The race started yesterday amid the shouted encouragement of the friends of the travelers. Text Nome Alaska Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Pacific |
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Dog Teams Race From Northland: Five Nome Residents Start Trek To Government Railroad. DOG TEAMS RACE FROM NORTHLAND Nome Residents Start Trek to Government Railroad. NOME, ALASKA, Dec. 17. (/P) -- Reminiscences of the memorable dog team race with death a year ago recurred to Nomeites today as they awaited the outcome of the overland dash of three rival teams to Nenana on the Alaska railroad, more than 400 miles in a direct air line from here. A year ago the dog teams were bringing serum to halt a diphtheria epidemic which threatened to wipe out many lives in this outpost of the far north. Today the dogs were transporting five resdients of Nome to the outside, from which Nome is hemmed in six months of the year by snow and ice. Dr. Hoelscher and his wife, on their way to Seattle to purchase dental equipment to replace that destroyed in Nome's recent $100,000 fire, compose one party. Grant R. Jackson, president of the Nome Miners and Merchants' bank, making his first trip outside in more than 20 years, and James Keenan, a mining man, representing a Miami corportaion, make up the second, and Representative Thomas Jensen, going to Juneau to attend a meeting of the Alaska game commission, is going with the mail team. Great rivalry exists among the contestants to tsee which party will be first to buy railroad tickets at Nenana. The race started yesterday amid the shouted encouragement of the friends of the travelers. |
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