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...father, who was, he says, not John London but an eccentric, intelligent astrologer named Chaney. Whoever his father was, London spent such an adventurous youth that his stored-up experiences were good for 16 years of novel writing. He had been an oyster pirate in San Francisco Bay, a sourdough in Alaska, a sailor, barber, patrolman, tramp, marcher in Coxey's Army, when at 23 his stones won national attention. Thereafter his life settled to its pattern: he was always broke, although he made a lot of money; he was always successful, always in trouble with women. Robbed right...
...tenth annual International Sourdough Reunion. Swapping tall stories, but doing little whooping in the Multnomah bar (see cut), which, like other Oregon taprooms, serves no hard liquor, were such diverse sourdoughs as Alaska's Episcopal Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe, Henry Macaulay, first mayor of Dawson, Editor Frank J. Cotter of Seattle's Alaska Weekly, scores of old Yukon prospectors, storekeepers, mail clerks...
...Biggest sourdough storyteller was the Reunion's retiring president, Michael Ambrose Mahoney of Ottawa, Ont., who flew to Portland in a checkered jacket. Big Mike Mahoney, who is supposed to have retired with $250,000 in his poke, spends most of his time at luncheons and banquets reciting Poet Robert W. Service's doleful ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife...
...adoption was a platform calling for public ownership of key industries; peace; slum clearance; a 30-hour week; a "workers and farmers amendment" to the Constitution to give Congress complete control of agriculture and industry. When the hour came for choosing candidates, George A. Nelson, Wisconsin farmer, onetime Alaskan sourdough, was nominated for Vice President. Norman Thomas, unopposed, was given the Socialist nomination for President for the third time. At this wholly expected choice, the delegates, aping Capitalist politicians, gave way to 15 minutes of shouting, cheering, singing as the white-haired nominee was carried to the platform, beaming...
...most energetic citizens, Prohibition went into effect. In 1919 the last prostitute left town. Today, says Marshall, Wiseman is one-quarter its boom size, but it is neither depressed nor dreary. Most of its inhabitants came to make a fortune, stayed to enjoy life. Said one old sourdough: ''My God. the time runs away to nothing. Ain't it a corker the way time goes? You can't accomplish anything before you're ready to be buried." Marshall persuaded most Koyukukers to take the Stanford-Binet intelligence test, found them by & large the most intelligent...