August 26, 1916 – The probable establishment of a new freight service to Southeastern Alaska was announced last week by the Washington Tug and Barge Company. The plan is to handle the freight on covered scows, to be towed north, and to make a specialty of calling at
places off the regular steamer lines, as well as Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, and Juneau.
August 29, 1941 – A fifteen minute blast of the whistle of the PAF cannery was the signal last Tuesday night that the
last can had come off the
line for this year. It has been a
good season and a record
pack of an estimated 300,000 cases h...
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