Word: logs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Log Cabin Syrup...
That was Paul Bunyan, legendary hero of the logging camps. In his honor, woodsmen from the Northwest camps meet in Paul Bunyan Canyon, near Longview, Wash., for their annual "Rolleo," a carnival featuring the things Paul Bunyan liked to do?log-rolling, timber-topping, axe-twirling, Gargantuan eating, whopper-telling...
...log-rolling was won by Peter Hooper of Kelso, Wash. Clad in trunks and spiked shoes, he maintained his equipoise on a log furiously spinning in water for 14 min. 50 sec., when Sam Harris, his nearest competitor, splashed off. Champion Hooper received $150 and a belt stout enough to hold his bemuscled girth...
There were many other events dear to the huge heart of Paul Bunyan?log-jousting, block-turning, canoe-tilting. For two days the carousal continued with Bunyanesque shouts and vaunts, ended with profound Bunyanesque sleep...
...which he still serves. He has written on many an industrial topic, has been recently engaged with William T. Foster on a study of the Reserve Board v. Wall Street situation. Whenever Mr. Catchings can catch some leisure from his business cares, he travels to his Lake Placid log cabin...