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Introduced in the summer of 1911, the VV-IX, or Victrola the Ninth, was the Victor Talking Machine Company's premier tabletop phonograph model with a closable lid. It featured a well-crafted cabinet, nickel-plated hardware, a two-spring motor, and Victor's Exhibition Soundbox. Sales were strong from the start and the IX, whose production lasted for more than thirteen years, became Victor's fourth best-selling model of all time. This model was spring-driven. The user would turn the crank several...
Julie and Sheldon Walker were among the swing dance students who have been learning to lindy hop in the lead up to Petersburg Arts Council's concert and swing dance fundraiser taking place this Saturday evening upstairs at the Elks....
September 26, 1924 – Monday evening next, September 29th, at the School building will be held a meeting of all those who are interested in a Night School. Mr. Boselly plans to start a night school that will run all winter, and furnish an opportunity for education to those who are now unable to take the work in the regular school because of their age or inability to get away from work. Under Territorial laws, those eligible to enter a Night School are those who are American born who did not have opportunity to secure adequate education in t...
Kari Petersen, Petersburg Public Library Programming Director, (left) stands alongside Tlingit artist Mary Ann Rainey who led workshops this month at the library for crafters to sew and bead ornaments depicting local animals in Tlingit formline designs. The ornaments are intended to adorn the Capitol Christmas Tree in Washington D.C. The tree will be harvested from the Wrangell Ranger District in late October and its cross country journey to D.C. is expected to take around two weeks. This year...
September 19, 1924 – The Grand Jury reports that minors under the age of seventeen are allowed to frequent pool halls and billiard rooms in violation of the laws of Alaska. And further, it has been reported that cigarettes and tobacco are being sold in violation of the law to minors under the age of eighteen. This Grand Jury feels called upon through the Court to call the attention of City and Federal authorities to the large number of so-called taxi drivers and hangers-on now to be seen in Ketchikan, whom, from reliable information, are k...
The Homelite Corporation, an American power equipment manufacturer, was renowned for being one of the largest post-World War II manufacturers of portable electronic items such as generators and consumer chainsaws. The company was also known for producing the first one-man operated chainsaw, the model 9-26, also known as "The great American muscle saw." Manufactured for less than a year between 1959 and 1960, the model 9-26 boasted a 32" bar, a toggle kill switch, a manual oiler button, a glass...
September 12, 1924 – Some fine loganberries have been raised on the Papke farm below Petersburg. It has been claimed by agents of the government experimental farm that this class of berries could not be successfully raised in Alaska, but yet Mr. Papke has proved the contrary so far as his place is concerned. He also has cherry trees, apple trees, raspberries, strawberries, and several varieties of vegetables. On his place also has been raised hemp with an excellent texture. In fact, his place is a veritable wonderland in the many different f...
Beth Flor's oil painting Micelli Violin with Sargents Carmella was accepted in the International Guild of Realism Fall Salon online 2024 Exhibition. Works were selected from over 700 entries from twenty countries. The exhibit will be online at the guild's website from September 20 through December 15, 2024....
Lee's Clothing celebrated 55 years of operation in downtown Petersburg last week, culminating on Friday, Sept. 6 with a champagne toast to Lee's founder Roxy Lee. The store was packed with friends eager to share in the appreciation. Roxy launched Lee's Clothing in 1969 and was one of the first women in the Pacific Northwest to sell men's ware. Though she faced many obstacles as a pioneering woman in business, she build a loyal customer base through top notch service and a skillful dedication to...
A moody change of season over Labor Day weekend sends cloud wisps through the trees on a mountainside near Petersburg....
September 2, 1949 – Convicted on three out of six counts brought against him by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Frank Richardson, 72, was sentenced Wednesday by U. S. Commissioner Dale H. Hirt to thirty days in federal jail and fined a total of $750.* Richardson was apprehended on August 19 in Blind Slough by FWS Enforcement Agent L. J. Dugger. On that occasion the 45-year resident of West Petersburg was charged with fishing above the markers, using more than one net, using a gillnet, and fishing without a license or boat registration. On...
On Saturday the 31st, a joint EMS/ Fire Branch drill on vehicle extrication took place at the baler facility. Using PVFD equipment and cars at the dump, the drill included vehicle stabilization, patient care and extrication to practice and prepare the participating volunteers -including new EMS/Fire recruits- for real life scenarios in Petersburg. The practice drill lasted nearly two hours in the pouring rain....
The SS Princess Alice was a steel-built passenger liner in the coastal service fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Along with her sister ships, the SS Princess Adelaide, SS Princess Sophia, and SS Princess Mary, she cruised the Inside Passage along the coast of British Columbia. In 1913 the SS Princess Alice made several cruises through Southeast Alaska, with stops in Petersburg, at a reduced rate of sixty dollars round trip ($1,906 today). The 291-foot ship was built in 1911 by Swan Hunter...
August 29, 1924 – Again the sea takes a toll from Petersburg. R. Dahl, in the prime of life, falls overboard and is drowned. Last Monday he was taking up a crab net and, while hitching a line to a snatch block that was hanging a short distance off the deck, lost his balance and fell overboard. Mrs. Dahl was in the cabin and their two boys were on deck. They were so frightened and excited that they did not act immediately, but saw Mr. Dahl apparently on top of the water. By the time the nine-year old boy got the small dinghy to where his f...
This brown bear was sighted in the area of Blind River Rapids last Saturday afternoon, Aug. 24. Brown bears are not often seen on Mitkof Island. Black bears are far more common near Petersburg. All of the incidents so far this year of bears foraging in garbage cans in town, Petersburg Police confirmed, have been black bears....
Petersburg's high school seniors arrived on the first day of their senior year to find their names chalked across the school's entrance by their parents....
The crew of the F/V Spicy Lady crew go through the seine before putting it away for the winter, Friday, Aug. 23....
Colette Peters and her dog Gordy enjoy the sunrise at 5:29 a.m. on Sunday from the top of Crystal Mountain....
August 22, 1924 – Sealed bids are wanted at the office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General until 4 p.m., September 12, for a new mail route to be established from Petersburg once a month for Mountain Point Cannery, Green Rocks, Fair Island, Grief Island, Castle Island, Olympic Mine, Lung Island Level, Rays, Raeburn, Strait, Sumner, Conclusion, and Behrs Islands, to Monte Carlo, returning by the route, equal to 70 miles. This is the route to accommodate fox farmers for which the Petersburg Commercial Club has been working for the past s...
Petersburg Rotary Club officers Kaili Watkins, in a raft, and Aaron Hankins, swimming in a survival suit, await the arrival of the hundreds of plastic ducks floating toward the finish line strung across Hammer Slough. The annual fundraiser was, as usual, well attended. This year's prizes for fastest ducks went to these lucky winners: 1st place Susan Shey for the $1000 prize, Kaili Watkins had the second place duck, winning $300; and Michelle Strickler's duck took third for $200. Rotary Club...
Eight river otters caused a raucous on the dock near Tonka Seafoods in Petersburg on August 15...
On August 17, 1913, the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's steamship State of California had just departed the new Admiralty Trading Company's salmon cannery in Gambier Bay with 74 passengers and 76 crew aboard when she struck an uncharted pinnacle rock, opening the entire length of the port bilge. Bound from Puget Sound to Alaska with passengers, mail and freight, Captain Thomas H. Cann Jr charged straight toward shore, where the ship rolled to port and quickly sank into 36 fathoms of water....
To register a new student, please stop by the office at 303 Dolphin Street by August 22. You will need to bring a current immunization record and birth certificate – a legible copy is okay. For questions, please call or text the office at 907-302-2385 or 877-526-7656, ext. 400 Mrs. Willis, Kindergarten: Julie Baguley, Levi Bateman, Mia Carr, Levi Clemens, Esmae Corrao, William Hussey, Jackson Josey, Kaylee Lenihan, Tora Marohl, Harlan McKay, Knox Mendoza-Einerson, Ca’Nay Mitchell, Sophie Morin, Chloe Morrison, Lydia Padgett, Henry Paul, Kno...
A rare sight in summer, last week a strong display of northern lights was visible on the night of the new moon. The team of scientists conducting whale research based out of Five Finger Lighthouse photographed the phenomena. That team, known as WhaleSpeak will depart the lighthouse this week and will be offering a community presentation at the Petersburg Public Library this saturday about their research on the loud aerial vocalizations of Southeast Alaska’s humpback whales....
August 15, 1924 – This afternoon a most disastrous fire broke out in the power plant of the Kennecott Copper Corporation resulting in the total loss of the plant, at an estimate of between $1,500,000 to 2,000,000. The fire began about 3:15 on the top side of the number four boiler and in two minutes it was a roaring inferno of smolder and flame barely giving time to the men on shift to make good their escape. The mill, machine shop and a number of the employees residences in the immediate vicinity escaped with a similar fate through the p...
