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...rage of the Northwest, The Frozen Logger, was written by a onetime mule skinner, hobo poet and bull cook named Jim Stevens, one of the first men to set the tall tales of Paul Bunyan down on paper (1925). He wrote the lyrics in 1928, borrowed the melody of an old ballad to go with them. He finally got it published last year, and the folk-singing Weavers picked it up and boosted it into popularity. So much popularity, says Stevens, 59, that "I hear some of the boys in the woods are beginning to use their thumbs...
...tramp who has stolen his valise, Toto is invited to take shelter on a dreary wasteland at the city's fringe, where glum derelicts elbow one another to get into each stray shaft of sunlight that breaks through the winter clouds. By spring, Toto is busily turning the hobo jungle into a shantytown haven for Milan's poor, and imbuing them with good will. Among the newcomers is a badgered, not-quite-pretty girl (Brunella Bovo), with whom he strikes up a charmingly innocent courtship...
A.F.L. President William Green noted the 43rd annual convention of the Hoboes of America, meeting in Tucson, sent, Hobo King Jeff Davis a fraternal greeting "While the members of the A.F.L. believe in steady jobs and the members of your organization are conscientious objectors, we entertain a sympathetic interest in your problems...
...time she was taken to a convalescent home at Richlandtown, Pa. last month, tiny, 89-year-old Mrs. Ella Reeve Ware Cohen Omholt-known for half a century in hobo jungles and union halls as "Mother Bloor"*-had served the Communist Party with a generosity which few U.S. leftists had equaled. Hot-tongued, warmhearted, indomitable Mother Bloor was a rarity in the party's ranks-a genuine, old-fashioned American radical, whose roots ran deep into the U.S. past...
...City Council of Fredericksburg, Va. decided that the new abbreviated street signs reading "Jeff Davis Boulevard" were both confusing and improper. People might think they meant Hobo King Jeff Davis instead of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, the Council ruled. It ordered bigger signs to carry the full name "with all the dignity that great man decerves...