They called it the "Seward's Icebox"
Seward's Folly. Newspapers denounced Alaska as a worthless "icebox."
Newspapers.
William Seward was the Secretary of States that negotiated the Alaska purchase treaty. Those who called it Seward's folly or Seward's icebox thought Alaska was a bad investment of tax-payers' money.
Reporter
Alaska is commonly called the last frontier.
He is still called Santa Claus there, in Alaska.
cold.
an eskimo
Aleut. a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and western Alaska
I would call the newspapers.
Newsies are what they used to call boys who sold the newspapers.
"Zeitung" in German is newspapers and Zeitungs marke were tax stamp duty on newspapers