Word: lumbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Mrs. Matilda R. Dodge, widow of the late John F. Dodge, founder (with his brother Horace) of the Dodge Bros. Automobile Co. (TIME, Apr. 13, BUSINESS), to one Alfred G. Wilson, Detroit lumber man. He is a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church where she is President of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society...
Subsidiary organizations, such as an electrical plant, a laundry, a dairy, a lumber company, were also expected to be sold or abolished...
...that swung axes, mattocks and murderous steam-warped wooden pitchforks upon the troops of Queen Victoria in the Papineau Rebellion of 1837, there roared a thick-thewed, bellicose, hairy giant named Paul Bunyon. At his skull-crushing feats in that episode, and his later accomplishments as a boss logger, lumber camp historians have marveled ever since...
...stern and that?the red flag with the white $ on it. That stood for little Robbie Dollar, who romped about Falkirk, Scotland, more than three-quarters of a century ago. It stood for Robbie, the Canadian lumberjack, who ventured into business for himself, bought a 300-ton boat because lumber freights were so high. It stood for the ingenious skipper who, stranded in the Philippines without a return cargo, waded ashore to a virgin island, found copra?the beginning of an industry that is now worth $22,000,000 annually. It stood for Captain Dollar ?the idol of China...
...John A. Spencer of Revere, Mass., was a mill-hand in a Maine lumber camp. He worked with the night shift and part of his job was to keep the boiler simmering. The boiler had a rounded clean-out door; and when John heaped up a hot fire, this door would go Crick! outward, convex like a bubble. When the fire cooled down, Crack! would go the boiler door, back inward, concave like a saucer...