We may never know what “Walker hrdltshrdl hrdl hrdlu rdluuu” means, but a century ago, someone at the print shop left this cryptic message in a story about a Banks man playing on the radio.

A century ago, fire consumed the Glenwood Post Office. This and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

“Help protect our forests from fire,” a timely message valid today as it was in 1923. This and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

Moonshine, landslides, and the Banks American Legion sells chicks to raise funds for new building. This and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

A man pulls a gun on a Gales Creek farmer while fishing: his “license to fish anywhere in the state of Oregon.” This and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

A bad week for workers at the Gales Creek Logging Co., squirrel poisoning season, and $8—”quite a sum of money”—raised in Kansas City. This and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

Walter Frank Vanderzanden sentenced to life in prison over the Hayward murder of a recluse. This and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

The mill starts up again near Glenwood, prune trees are dedicated in Hillside, and the coming and goings of regular folks in Banks, Buxton, and Gales Creek in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.

A dance at Balm Grove, almost two feet of snow are melting, and a horse dies of the staggers. This and more in this week’s edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.