The Way We Were

In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago.

Sept. 26, 1912: The long looked for machinery for the Columbia and Northern Fishing and Packing company's freezing plant was shipped north on the Spokane and landed on the company's wharf Sunday. The apparatus, consisting of a 60 horsepower boiler, direct connected engine and ammonia compressor and Sharpe freezing outfit, will be installed immediately and made ready to take care of the fresh halibut catch which heretofore has been shipped packed in glacier ice. Mr. Albright at the Wrangell Meat Market last spring had charge of the installation of t...