Maritime Anthropology by Skye Research
22 Jul 1913 in an article in the Morning Oregonian of Portland, Oregon KIDDIES CAVORT ON TRIP WITH FAIRIES Hundreds Enjoy Annual Steamboat Ride. 0.W. R. & N. HOST TO WAIFS Gleg Reigns Supreme on Excursion Down River. PILES OF GOODIES EATEN Band or Flute and Two Drums, In Hands or Volunteers, Furnishes Music When lee Cream Does Not Lure Performers. Do you believe in fairies? And do you know that there are Indian fairies, and that sometimes, when things just suit them, they ride on steamboats? Well, there are, and two of them, Wind-in-the-Hair and Sun-in the-Face and, oh yes, another Summer sprite, Freckles-and-Tan took a ride on the steamer Hassalo yesterday afternoon with 261 happy Portland children down the Willamette and three miles down the Columbia River, where the steamer made a great big circle opposite McIntyre’s Landing and came back to the Ash-street dock of the O.W…
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