Night Wind in the Pines in Landry’s Lumber War
In a lumber camp, Walter Landry feigns allegiance to Dillingsworth Lumber Co. and navigates strikes, rival Hampden, a revealed unrecorded deed, and a tense romance with Siletz while Poppy Ordway pursues Hampden for clues. Bandies of deception, a ruined raft, and a hinted marriage scheme drive the plot as Landry plans to confront Hampden.
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Biletz
Daily
Walter Landry
John Daily
Dillingsworth Lumber Co
Siletz
Poppy “Ordway
New York
Dally's
Hampden
Yellow Pines Co
East Belt
Bandry
Poppy
Landry
Salem
Sandry
Jeaious
Hampen
Summer Heat Fails to Warm Landry’s Turbulent Camp
Landry confronts threats as Hampden moves to seize control of the camp’s strip near Hast Belt. Miss Ordway pressures Landry to act, while Poppy Ordway and Siletz observe tensions rise. The mortgage is lifted by a large check and work continues with lumberjacks from Sacramento arriving in April.
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Johnny Eastern
Hampden
Walter Landry
Landry
Poppy Ordway
Siletz
Sacramento
Portland Lumber Company
Hast
Walter
Sandry
Salem
Siletz Came
A Cruel Weapon Leads to Whitby Mystery
In Farnsworth and Heathcote offices Miss Poppy Ordway guides insight into James B. Whitby’s fatal June 18 1899 episode and the missing banknotes while probing the Landry family link. The case blends high society finance with a young man’s pistol and a historic estate in New York City.
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Farnsworth & Heathcote
New York
Poppy Ordway
Farnsworth
James B. Whitby
Mystery
Whitby
Mr. Farnsworth
Sandry
Riverside Drive
Musseldorn
Wilton Landry
Europe
U’m
Miss Ordway
Jane
Right Law and the Hero in Miss Ordways Tale
Poppy Ordway and Walter Landry push a novel’s plot with a man’s ethics at stake. Siletz’s bold riding scene tests the hero’s integrity as Ordway debates how far her male lead may bend law for art.
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Miss Ordway
Liletz
Sandry
Walter
Promises and a tour of distant riches imagined
A narrative fragment presents a wooing scene where a suitor vows travel and lavish gifts across Asia and Europe. The woman’s ambition to explore the world is teased as the couple imagines silk, perfumes, camels, and exotic journeys amid fragmented newspaper text and stray notes.
Multiple Nebraska notices from Holdrege to Lincoln
Conden citizens celebrate opening of Waco electric plant. Phelps County Fair to be held in Holdrege next autumn. Omaha bank clearings rise over 9 million. Plattsmouth ferry boat carried away by breaking ice. Brownville leads in strawberry acreage. W A Rourke plans Beatrice train for Omaha team. Clarke hotel adds 65000 at Hastings for state convention. Legislature banquet serves 300 quarts of grape juice. Nebraska National Guard campaign launches for full quota. Oakland election for 48000 high school building bond. Louisville bridge spans damaged by ice. Holdrege farmers form union to buy elevator. Fremont Y M C A nears 750 members. Fremont church gains 272 new members, 131 baptisms. North Platte to vote on saloon license April 6. New national guard companies planned at Aurora Schuyler David City. North Platte area sugar beet contracts rise 1200 acres to 3000. Grand Island smallpox quarantine at Soldiers Home. Bristow gravel pit found for railroad use. Davis replaced as North Platte postmaster by McEvoy. Westervelt seeks GOP delegate seat in Sixth District. Holdrege school garden and poultry contests enroll 54 students. 24 pens of chickens in egg contest. Norfolk superintendent Croseer not seeking re-election. Thayer county fair promotions under Deshler editors. motion pictures planned.
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Missouri
Plattsmouth
Brownville
Richardson County
W. A. Rourke
Omaha Western League
Beatrice
Clarke
Hastings
Nebraska
Nebraska Legislative League
Lincoln
Nebraska National Guard
Oakland
Platte River
Louisville
Farmers’ Union
Holdrege
Eighly
Fremont
F. M. Sisson
First Methodist Church of
National Guard
Aurore
Schuyler
David City
North Platte
Sutherland
Grand Island
Phelan
Nebraska Workers Fund War Steel Embargo Foe
State Engineer George Johnson urges an arms embargo due to rising steel prices benefiting European war suppliers. Nebraska taxpayers paid about 900000 more for bridge steel than needed without embargo. Nebraska banks hold about 240000000 in deposits per state agriculture bulletin, underlining statewide prosperity from crop and animal production totaling 473062762 dollars.
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Union News Service
Europe
Nebraska
George Johnson
Hitchcock
Steel Trust
Nebraska Advocates State Publicity Bureau Boost
A Hastings booster meeting hears Secretary Mellor argue for a Nebraska state publicity bureau citing $525 per person and $246 million in bank deposits as proof of potential returns. The letter urges legislative action. a New York inheritance tax debate and Oregon Trail heritage notes are also mentioned alongside a court ruling on political communications.
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Nebraska
Mellor
State Agricultural Board
Hastings
Meiler
Defining Vulgarity in Taste and manners
The article debates what vulgarity means, arguing the modern sense is offensive to good taste rather than rustic or coarse. It questions who defines taste and which standards count, noting shifts across eras and among the so-called best people.
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Webster’s Dictionary
Webber
Motto E Pluribus Unum Found Across United States
The Latin phrase E Pluribus Unum meaning From Many One serves as the motto of the United States. It is traced to a Latin poem Moretum traditionally attributed to Virgil.
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United States
Virgil
Global Clearing House Sways Coin Value Far Beyond Gold
A historical note describes the clearing houses in London and New York moving checks that, in a single month, exceeded the value of all existing gold and silver coins in the world. The piece highlights banking power and international finance.
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London
New York
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Heart OF Night
E.roese Illustrations
Ty” Er
Wirst—Standard Copper and Zinc Company
Consolidated
Whitby, Halstead
Witherspoon & Haste
Whitby Place
Aredale
Oregon Hills
Law
Black Bolt
Ordway
Eben
Uncle Eben
Whars As
Bride
China
Arabia
India
Russia
Wilton
Cosn
Decature
Sper
Nora
Taft
Owens
Wens
Mrec
J.eby
Mire
Kat
Joy Drummond
Kelan
Spe
Jaan
Will -Beioy
Smisers
Conden
Waco
Phelps County Fair Association
Omaha
Northwestern Railroad
Bristow
BE. S.davis
P. H. McEvoy
McEvoy
Senate
Eugene T.westervelt
Scott's Bluff, Republican
Chicago
M. E. Croseer
E. M. Hunter
Norfolk
Board of Education
A. T. Holtzen
Mitchell
Deshler
Deshler Rustler
Paul Gruple
Thayer County
Condra
the State House
Nebraska State Board of Agriculture
W.B. Mellor
Sowce
F. J. Rist
Humboldt
Nebraska Pure Grain and Seed Growers’ Association
Advocates State Publicity Bureau
New York State
Congress
Smith
Morehead
Hara Meeker
Oregon Trail Fame
Painé
The
Historical Society
Oregon Trail Commission
National Highway ‘Association
Meeker
Washington
Pacific Coast
Washington, D.C
Lee Estelle
Vane
Supreme Court
Sedgwick
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