The Way We Were

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

Nov. 7, 1912: Several patriotic Wrangell votes, some taxpayers and businessmen, deprived this election of suffrage, because they are residents on the waterfront on their launches, boarded the gas boat Mabel Tuesday and bucked the current of the Wrangell Narrows to reach the voting place at Scow Bay, some 35 miles from Wrangell and literally “swore in “ their vote by giving their pedigree and previous conditions of servitude. Charles Darwell and T. Anderson operated the Mabel on the trip. J. Mot, M. Kazenmeyer, F. E. Gingrass, H. Taylor, J. Martinda...