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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1922
Page
6
The item notes a then current quip about a mother in law considered very old and a remark by Thomson about tracing back to Adam's time. The fragment hints at humor and literary references without full context. Names appear as Sammuels and Thomson.
Leon Fraser executive officer of the United States Veterans bureau in Washington has a varied background from army private to major and wartime officer. He left a steel company vice presidency to rejoin service, later directing veteran affairs while Col. Charles Forbes is away. Fraser’s career includes law, journalism, and bar practice with honors from France and Pershing, and he is vice commander of a local Legion post.
Joe Taylor a former automobile bandit reformed after jail and became a lecturer. He served in the war using anarchist intelligence for government work and helped prevent planned explosions. His talks about the link between politics and crime travel across Legion posts near New York.
Washington state Americanism director Dr. William Hicks urges freeing all American eagles held in captivity. He says the eagle embodies American freedom and should be released, enlisting Legion Posts Audubon Society and other groups in the campaign.
For the first time two gospel ministers will box at a Legion event. Rev John W Beard of Hoguinm Washington and Trey Bart A Brnckman national Legion chaplain will fight at the Legion state convention in Wenatchee Washington this fall. Beard a former sky pilot with the Ninety first division in France boxed John Diggin veteran of the British forces at a recent Legion post meeting. Beard is known as the fighting chaplain and once boxed as a trim active preacher. Brig Brnckman a Kansas pastor and boxing referee, war record shows captain rank with the 361st Infantry Wildcat division. He received the Croix de Guerre and a U S citation. After the war he joined the Legion and was elected state chaplain for Washington.
Mrs Mesh John Marshall of Anchorage Kentucky known to thousands of ex service men from Blue Grass wartime canteen work is still active as national executive committee woman for the American Legion Auxiliary in Kentucky. Her latest plan creates a Louisville boarding home for ex service men in vocational training with nominal fees a large living room and library. She presided over care for more than 300000 service men at the canteen during the war and shared memories of soldiers and sailors.
The radio bug gains popularity among ex service men with wireless phones in Legion clubhouses hospitals and camps. In Omaha Nebraska a dance was nearly spoiled until a makeshift wireless linked to an Chicago orchestra saved the event. North Carolina hospitals use radio phones to entertain wounded soldiers with tunes from Al Jolson to Madame Jeritza at a government hospital near Asheville.
Women in Kansas organize to support the amended bonus plan and urge ex nurses be compensated. Emergency World War officers would retire on equal terms with regular officers under the American Legion Bursum bill now before Congress. Harding home favors adjusted compensation as Marion Ohio chamber and Legion post urge passage to aid soldiers.
Promogram claims Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root helps long overlooked kidney trouble. Warns many applicants for life insurance are rejected due to unrecognized kidney issues. Drug stores carry two bottle sizes medium and large. Send ten cents for a sample to Dr Kilmer & Co. Binghamton NY, noting the paper.
The fragment presents dialogue attributed to Cactus Joan criticizing Orhmson Gulet and claiming the town is hindered by pride and patriotism. A skeptical remark about Crimson Gileh suggests resistance to improvements and a loss of influence for any agitator.
An assortment of notes on Bayer aspirin from 1900, the first regular English gold penny of 1247, and reflections on currency, preparedness, and culture. Includes a humorous missive from an Indianapolis druggist and musings on vanity and easy money.
A touring car struck Lester Briscoe’s mule team on Main Street near Johnson's hardware store in Laurel. The driver was seriously injured and a mule was killed. A bystander touted a Baltimore See Thru windshield treatment as preventing such accidents, urging readers to buy it. Alver tieement.
A traveler mistakes Milton the blind guide for a living figure, sparking a comic exchange about souvenirs and prices. The piece shifts to Chilean volcanic disturbances, noting eruptions blamed on Coulle and ERinehua, earthquakes, crevasses, and ash covering 30 leagues into Argentina and beyond.
A man struggles to swallow a bitter coffee mistaken for cocoa, prompting the waitress to notice the mix up and apologize for an error. The fragment hints at a spring circus adventure with three boys offering thrills.
An analysis argues low priced lands offer greater net profits for farmers through better soil fertility conservation and moisture control. It cites Western Canada opportunities and suggests relocation or leveraging cheaper lands to reduce costs while maintaining yields, with government agents as a resource. The piece ends with an unrelated ad and a brief joke about happiness.
A Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt shows a chief grumbling at repeated roof fires in a hoarding house kitchen. A bystander questions responses while the landlady offers coffee and sandwiches. The text ends with a dubious proverb about fools and cost.
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