Night Wind in the Pines in a Lumber Camp Romance
In a west coast lumber setting Walter Landry enters the Daily camp and forms ties with foreman and workers. Siletz, bearing tribal marks, is courted as Landry navigates rival interests, a preacher, and a magazine writer Poppy Ordway. Tensions mount as unseen loyalties and a budding romance unsettle the camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biletz
Daily
Walter Landry
John Daily
Cas
Diflinsworth Lumber
Siletz
Black Bolt
Tle
Vine Siletz
Pepiapey Belis
Pramayseen
Bandry
Psat
Harmaden
Landry
Tampdens
Santeyv Or
Boppy Tes Sandre
Hampden
The Big Raft Tragedy and Landry's Fight for Survival
Landry leads a lumber raft voyage with eight Silets on the Oregon coast. A blast destroys the raft, Daily retrieves Landry amid wreckage, and the group tends the wounded. Landry clings to life as Daily plans rescue and Hampden's dangerous gambit looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landry
Dillingworth
Hampden
John
Toledo
Yellow Pines
John Teeter
No Quiet Sabbath as Walter Landry Lies Between Two Women
A Spring Valley scene centers on Walter Landry badly injured and near death. Mrs Daily reveals an engagement to care for him while Siletz, a Native caretaker, confronts her, declaring she is the man’s woman after he kissed her. Tension erupts between two women as the doctor and Westerners watch.
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Pole
Sam
Hampden
Daisy
Landry
Siletz
Portland
Dillingworth
Absalom
John
Big John
East Belt
Bill
Jim Pinetree
Toledo
Doc Hooker
Swamishta
Daffy
Coognah
Walter Landry
Poppy Ordway
Walter
Mr. Landry
Will
Liletz
Riley’s Jingles Preceded Study as Hoosier Pupil Remembered
Mrs. Tibby Ulrey of Athens Tennessee recalls James Whitcomb Riley as a youthful pupil who preferred writing jingles to study. He wandered with a traveling medicine show and later painted signs before returning to compose verses while daydreaming on the grass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Whitcomb Riley
Tibby
O1rey
Athens
Tenn
S. A Rice
Covington
Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune
Greenfield
Ind
Riley
Canada’s Giant Trees at Kew Gardens Flagstaff Preparations
The 225 foot Douglas fir spar gifted by British Columbia will become a flagstaff at Kew Gardens in England. The previous 166 foot flagstaff, also BC timber, stood for over fifty years before being removed in 1913 for safety. It was brought to England in 1861 by ship via Cape Horn and presented by the late E Stamp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
Kew Gardens
England
Canada
Wildlife control tightens in French fields this summer
France imposes countrywide hunts to curb crop damage from rapidly increasing wild animals and birds. Rabbits hares pheasants and other species are culled only on authorized commune days under gendarme supervision with guns used sparingly and as a last resort. Whenever feasible animals are captured alive for relocation to restock areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Chance to Think and Talkative Women in Social Graces
In a witty exchange Miss Gadderg is described as very talkative and fast. Professor Diggers notes her chatter helps his thoughts when he must attend social duties, though he finds it hard to interrupt her. He admits the talking can demand his full attention and that with a quieter person he might have to respond more.
Inside bath craze claims hot water cleanse cures
An advertisement extols drinking hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to “flush” the stomach liver kidneys and intestines. It argues this internal sanitation prevents toxins from entering the blood, promising quick health benefits and labeling users as “cranks” if they resist. The piece likens internal cleansing to external soap and water effects.
Old Gentleman and Child at Church Misunderstanding
An 84 year old man, intending to wed a 15 year old girl, visits a church. The clergyman remarks the font is at the other end of the church. The man asks why he needs a font. The cleric realizes the mistake and apologizes, saying he thought the couple sought baptism.
Castoria Ad Emphasizes Safety for Infants and Children
An old advertisement stresses Castoria as a safe remedy used for over 300 years and urges mothers to examine bottles for the signature. The fragment also includes stray lines about a professor and international law, a Red Cross Ball, and various stray exchanges, reflecting a damaged, tattered page.
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Fletcher
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O Fom
Fun Grays
Dobcdnead
Sandry
Miss Ordway
Mai
Evers
Hilett
Cook-Shack
Pappy Ordway
Silett
Borys
Long Bay
Sardry
Yaquina
Riverside Drive
Tenderfoot
Red Cross Ball
America
Wally
Reggie
Dred
M. C
Grand Avez
Coville
T. Kidney
Sage
Foster-Milburn Co
Gr Dogipiena
Everf Capital
Emperial
Dairy Farm
Ile ‘Hoynwrite Ara
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