Alaska's fight for fair treatment dominates the front page as Chief Forester W. B. Greeley proposes slashing federal road funding for Alaska's National Forests from $400,000 to $200,000. Delegate Sutherland fires back with frustration that would echo through Alaska's territorial years: 'Alaska has no Senators; nor Representatives, no vote in Congress... Alaska is the great object of economy by Congressmen, but wait until some appropriation for the Panama Canal arises and you'll find no demand for economy.' Meanwhile in Seattle, the massive Olmsted bootlegging conspiracy case goes to the jury after Judge Neterer delivers stunning instructions, essentially telling jurors he believes the defendants are guilty but they shouldn't take his opinion. The case represents one of the era's largest liquor smuggling operations during Prohibition.

These stories capture America in 1926 grappling with the tensions of Prohibition enforcement and territorial expansion. Alaska, purchased just 59 years earlier, still struggled for political representation and federal investment, foreshadowing statehood battles that wouldn't be resolved until 1959. The Olmsted case reflects the massive bootlegging networks that flourished during Prohibition, when enforcement was inconsistent and corruption rampant. President Coolidge's illness and the tax reduction bill worth $343 million show an administration focused on business-friendly policies during the height of 1920s prosperity, just three years before the crash that would end it all.

• A scientific treasure hunt in Seattle ended when Professor F. A. Osborne used an electroscope to find $4,000 worth of radium accidentally thrown in the trash and traced to a waste facility in Sumner, Washington
• The Fairbanks Exploration Company was pushing ahead with a massive $15 million gold dredging project, including a 180-mile ditch that would cost $10 million alone
• Colonel William Mitchell, the controversial aviation advocate, had his traveling bag containing Air Service records and letters stolen while lunching at a Boston hotel
• Frederick I. Pearson, heir to a $2 million estate, burned to death in Chicago's Claridge Hotel when his cigarette started a fire during what the paper calls 'night revelry'
• A University of Wisconsin professor declared 1,000 of the school's 3,000 students were 'drones' wasting their time and should be kicked off campus

• Judge Charles E. Bunnell, endorsed for Congress by Ketchikan's Independent Voters' League, would later have the University of Alaska Fairbanks building named after him when he became its first president
• Captain George Wilkins, mentioned dealing with snow motor supply runs to Point Barrow, would become Sir Hubert Wilkins two years later and attempt the first trans-Arctic submarine voyage under the North Pole
• The tax reduction bill cutting $343 million represents about $5.8 billion in today's money—a massive cut during the peak of 1920s prosperity
• Joan Borotra, who beat tennis champion William Tilden in New York, was one of France's 'Four Musketeers' and would win Wimbledon twice, helping establish tennis as a global sport
• The Army's new regulations defining aircraft as support for 'ground forces' directly contradicted Colonel Mitchell's vision of independent air power—he'd been court-martialed just months earlier for criticizing exactly this kind of thinking