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Newspaper
The Gallup Herald
Location
Gallup, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1916
Page
2
Walter Landry arrives to steer a timber outfit, meets Fiona Dally and John Daily, learns the operation from the field start to a cutting yard, and faces a new owner’s changing company as loggers work the two mile trail and huge trees.
Walter Landry becomes owner of the Dillingworth Lumber Company in Oregon and moves into the Toledo camp. He studies records, assigns foremen, and writes his father, an invalid, expressing ambition and hope while confronting East West tensions and the camp’s loyal workers led by Big John Daily.
In the camp saga Landry and Ma Dally observe change as Black Bolt and Siletz stir emotions. Landry, alone and thoughtful, watches the girl and her horse while Ma Dally recalls forty-two years of camp cooking. The chapter ends with a farmer style conversation about timber and growth.
A village cricket match had a man-short fielding side until a substitute fielder then caught a ball. The local paper called it a caught sub, sparking confusion and a humorous letter to the editor about accidental catches and libel. Bill Wiggins is mentioned in the epistle.
The article describes the weeping tree of the Canary Islands in the laurel family. It gathers water from evening condensation at leaf margins, forming a natural pond at the base from which locals obtain a fresh beverage. Water exudes through numerous pores and drops out as the leaves bend and shed droplets.
Memory of old New York recalls church and state ties after a supreme court decision on gospel and literature lots in the Adirondacks. Legislation in 1786 set aside townships for gospel promotion and literature. Patented to Sackatts Harbor and Saratoga Railway in 1856, returned to the state in 1891 by Everton Lumber Company.
A three year old watches a film villain and asks how he will blow the railroad bridge. The exchange with her mother reveals a child’s curious perspective on danger. A second note jokes about mind cure and shifts to a product plug for Red Cross Hag Blue.
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