OLD EMPRESS HOTTER:

Fully Licensed

LOUIE ROSS, Proprietor

Prince Rupert, B.C.

A. MacKENZIE FURNITURE
LIMITED
A. MacKenzie, Proprietor

COMPLETE HOME FURNISHINGS

Phone 775
Prince Rupert, B. C.

MITCHELL and CURRIE

Builders and Contractors

.

Shop and Office: 125 East Third Avenue

Prince Rupert, B. C.

MUSSALLEM’S |
ECONOMY STORE |
“WHERE DOLLARS HAVE MORE CENTS”
GROCERIES, FRESH FRUIT,
VEGETABLES |

317-19 3rd Avenue
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.

Subscribe to The Shoulder Strap.

SAVOY HOTEL

CARL ZARELLI, Proprietor

LICENSED PREMISES
e

Prince Rupert, B.C.

225—Ilst Avenue East Prince Rupert, B.C.

F. MURPHY

General Contractor and
Engineer
Phone Black 884

Page Forty-four

not a tree, not even a solitary hill was there
to break the dread monotony of whiteness.
Inhabited only by the Arctic hare, the
white fox, the gaunt wolf and the migra-
tory caribou, the unutterable loneliness of
this vast, illimitable Land of Cain dulled
one’s very soul and stultified the mind.

Epic JOURNEY OF EskIMO WOMAN

But the Stone Age mother came of a
race renowned for its courage and resource-

Big Cheesie who sought to humiliate his Eskimo
companion only to meet with a rude awakening.

fulness. Now and then she clubbed an
Arctic hare. Coming across a partly de-
voured caribou, pulled down by ravening
wolves and not yet frozen, she feasted on
the raw, red meat. From one of the bones
she made a knife, and from a rib and a
piece of driftwood fashioned a spear. Other
bones she made into fish-hooks, while from
the skin and sinews she manufactured
snares and fishlines.

Spearing an occasional caribou; snaring
the odd ptarmigan and Arctic hare; fishing
where swift water had prevented ice from
forming, she made her way slowly across
the dismal Barrens. When assailed by biting
blizzards from the Pole she erected a snow

Libb Printing Compant

STATIONERS, OFFICE SUPPLIES,
BOOKBINDERS

BESNER BLOCK
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.

WILLIAM F. STONE

CLOTHES OF DISTINCTION
CALL ME “BILL”

P.O. Box 845

PRINCE RUPERT B.C.

Subscribe to The Shoulder Strap.

BOOKS STATIONERY

RCA VICTOR RADIO
Genuine Native Souvenirs
McRAE BROS. LTD.
PRINCE RUPERT B.C.

De Luxe Cars—Heated and Radio Equipped
AT YOUR SERVICE DAY AND NIGHT
PHONE

Ross Brothers
TAXI - CIGAR STORE - BILLIARD HALL
2nd Ave. W. (Across from Prince Rupert Hotel)

PRINCE RUPERT BRITISH COLUMBIA

RUPERT BAKERY LTD.
BREAD AND PASTRY MAKERS

Prompt attention given to Steamboats
Canneries and Restaurants

e
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.

THE SHOULDER STRAP