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...Rivers, and added him to his camp crew as chief bookkeeper, surveyor, inventor, doctor, and general efficiency expert. And Johnny Inkslinger was very glad to meet Paul Bunyan, too, despite that hero's carelessness in mistaking the great scribe's supply of fresh-sharpened pencils for a pine forest and having them all chopped down. One of the very first reforms that Johnny Inkslinger proposed in Old Paul's camp economy was to diminish the loggers' rations and build some ships and send the surplus produce from Old Paul's great supply farms to European...
After two weeks of weary debate the Senate last week ratified (58 to 9) the London Naval Treaty. The nine dissenters were: Republicans Bingham, Hale, Johnson, Moses, Oddie, Pine, Robinson of Indiana; Democrats McKellar, Walsh of Massachusetts. Even they were glad to adjourn and go home. All relevant and many irrelevant arguments had been exhausted. The opposition had blown itself out in a futile filibuster; a quorum and more had stood fast, literally under the guns of miniature cruiser batteries set up in a corner of the Senate chamber by Senator Hale of Maine to illustrate his objections...
Western porcupines migrate slowly, deliberately in the spring from their dens in the mountain lava cliffs to the valley farms, returning in the autumn. It is during these travels that they gnaw the butts of pine trees great and small. In some sections a huntsman would have no trouble killing 50 per day. Foolish is the huntsman who takes with him a dog. But for himself he need not worry. Legend to the contrary, porcupines cannot shoot or throw their quills. Only those get stuck who try to pinch or pat a porcupine...
Wilbur announced that the U. S. had just taken title to 13,000 acres of timberland owned by Sugar Pine Lumber Co. in the heart of Yosemite National Park. The U. S. paid $3,300,000 for the tract, half the purchase price being donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.* Last year, over the vigorous protest of Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana who owns a summer home in Glacier National Park, Congress ordered the Interior Department to buy up all private land within national parks to save them from mutilation (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929). Under...
They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree and Somewhere in Old Wyoming (Brunswick)?The first (by Dick Robertson, a male quartet and a jews' harp) should become a barber-shop classic...