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...songs and the changes in logging techniques, on river drives, log thieves, the I. W. W., forest fires, loggers' slang and legends. Author Holbrook's warmest passages are given over to descriptions of the red-light districts, skid roads and loggers' saloons that have flourished from Bangor to Eureka, Calif. Result is that Holy Old Mackinaw is a puzzler, with solid bits of unfamiliar industrial history sandwiched between slightly sophomoric tributes to vanished vice. Author Holbrook's loggers get into so many fights, frequent so many bawdy houses, sing so many logger songs and swear...
From England last week came a report by Ebenezer Griffiths, of Bangor, on an extraordinary afternoon's ferreting. Ferreter Griffiths said he had just put his ferret down a rabbit hole when, with a prodigious squealing, seven angry weasels emerged. Ferreter Griffiths said he escaped the weasels only by jumping over a wall. "I was afraid to go back for my ferret," he said. "I shall never see it again...
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...second time, to pick up his merchandise. Said he: "Where's the stuff I ordered?" The clerk who stepped forward was not Hurd but Walter Walsh, a crack G-man and specialist in trick shots. Walsh's job was to signal 13 more G-men, 30 Bangor patrolmen and a squad of Indiana and Maine State troopers posted outside the store as soon as a member of the Brady gang came in. As Walsh moved to pull a cord which would, set a signal in the window, Dalhover realized that he had walked into a trap...
...seize the gangster, who dashed for the cellar, emerged by a back door where two policemen collared him without difficulty. Meanwhile on the street outside, Brady and Shaffer, alarmed by the barrage from inside the store, jumped from their car and began firing wildly through the plate glass windows. Bangor citizens popped into the street, among them. Maine's Republican...