A BlackBerry Pie
Pioneer John Cardigan of Sequoia is a timber industry magnate and widower at forty seven. His son Bryce befriends Shirley Sumner as they explore the Valley of the Giants. After Bryce’s college years and a trip abroad, Bryce returns home and meets Shirley again while Cardigan’s business fortunes falter. Col. Pennington schemes to profit from the elder’s failing eyesight.
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California Redwood Sea
John Cardigan
Sequoia
Bryce Cardigan
Bryce
Shirley Sumner
Valley of the Giants
Col. Pennington
Cape Horn
San Francisco
Pal
Princeton
Cardigan
Buck Woods
Pennington
Michigan
Jules Rondeau
Tully
George Sea Otter
Johnny
Colonel Pennington
Squaw Creek
Squaw Creek Securtry
San
San Hedrin
Humboldt County
Bill Henderson
Fox
Township Nine
Bill
John
Tidewater
Henderson
Jean
Pennington’s
Pard
Holks
Cardigan's Redwoods
Cardigan T Redwood Lumber Company
Timboldt County
Bryce Cardigan eyes a new timber future in twilight valley
In Sequoia ailing timber barons discuss a looming crisis. John Cardigan recalls vanishing markets and costly mistakes while Bryce outlines a plan to secure northern timber, a key road, and a potential railroad future to preserve Cardigan redwoods and the family business.
Genius as an Unquenchable Fire in Everybody's Magazine
The book reviewer muses on genius as an inexplicable force that flashes through diverse lives from ancient Rome to London. He compares it to wind and fire, saying it lights paths for all of us regardless of success or failure.
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Everybody’s Magazine
Rome
Persia
London
Rejecting a Compliment From a Stock Exchange Figure
A London Tit Bits excerpt recalls a famed stock broker who has turned to philanthropy. In his prime he and his partner were noted as expert in stock gambling and in “making enemies.” An associate once called him the biggest thief on the exchange, to which he replied that the accuser did not know his partner.
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Stock Exchange
London
Woman’s Remedy for Woman’s Ills Promises Relief
An elderly Knoxville letter describes chronic back pain weakness and poor appetite improving after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Liver Pills and Sanative Wash. The testimonial urges others to try the remedies and reports lasting relief.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Lydia E. Pinkham
When the Clothes Give Out and Mourning Emblems
A quirky exchange imagines repurposing a barrel into clothing with two paths a carpenter or a tailor. The tale notes in Egypt mourning symbols, the yellow brown hue of dead leaves used as emblem.
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Obediah
Tam
Egypt
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Ite
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Grant's Pass
Oregon
Redwood
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Dean
Kansas
Doan
Calomel
Ablem Hs Ees
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