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...Lumberjacks from Michigan and Wisconsin arrived in boots, gay plaids, several days' growth of beard. They sang such lumber camp ballads as Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door, danced jigs, reels, clogs. Average age of the Michigan group: 67. The Wisconsin lumberjacks played on a one-string Norwegian instrument called the salmodikon. Seventy-one-year-old Sven Svenson, in a chef's costume, chipped a two-inch piece of birchbark from a log, put it to his lips and played a thin, shrill tune on the chip...
Died. Colonel Sam Park, 79, U. S. vice consul at Biarritz, France since 1920, at a $1-a-year salary; at Biarritz. A retired Texas lumber & oilman who called loafing "the end and aim of my existence," he complained on recent visits to Manhattan that it took "the hardest kind of struggle" to reach a golf course...
...Kerr, a rail-road man since 1904, when he arrived in the U. S. with a degree in engineering from the University of Glasgow. With Great Northern Ry. from 1910 to 1936, Mr. Kerr was assistant to the vice president in charge of operations and president of coal and lumber subsidiaries in Montana when Mr. Loomis hired him as his assistant last year. Reserved, 53-year old President Kerr lives in Manhattan, enjoys most "just being in Montana...
Last week the ice went out of the Littlefork River in northern Minnesota with a great rush, playing hell with International Lumber Co. Most years it would make little difference to International whether or not the Littlefork rose 26 feet in a few days. It did this spring because for about ten miles the Littlefork was a river of logs. Piled on its ice all winter by 600 lumberjacks were 11,000,000 feet of white and norway pine destined for the company's lumber mills at International Falls, near where the Littlefork enters the Rainy River. If flood...
...into the things it does. John Meade, tycoon extraordinary, plays with natural resources as he does with the little country lass's heart--he is frank in his admission that his work is swindle by business technique, and he scorns to replant forests he devastates. When he shifts from lumber to wheat, he runs against a dust storm, the governor of the state who reminds him of his responsibility for the storm, and a farm movement led by the girl he has jilted. He is shot by a dispossessed farmer,--but not killed; he repents, and will, of course, live...