League of Nations Averages Topics For Discussion In Washington
Secretary Hughes selects a U S delegation for the armament conference with Lodge Root and Underwood, and Marshall Sheets of the Irish talks shift to Inverness. The League assembly elects judges to the international court as tensions rise over Manchuria and the Chinese railway issue amid Irish negotiations and Klan opposition.
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Hughes
League of Nations
Moore
International Court
Senate
China
Russia
Tokyo
Manchuria
Washington
Shantung
Peking
Bayer Aspirin Ad Advises Genuine Tablets Use Only
An old advertisement urges readers to take only genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin and follow physician graded dosage. It claims Bayer Cronus op tablets are safe for colds, headaches, neuralgia, rheumatism and other pains, and promotes handy tins of twelve tablets and larger packs.
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Bayer
Drageista
By Way of Explanation in the Kansas City Star
An elder asks why few parents sing to children and Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge explains a past incident where children were ganged and one man had to fling hot water on them to make them turn 10050.
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Gap Johnson
Rumpus
Ridge
Kansas City Star
Catarrhal Deafness and a Constitutional Cure
Catarrhal Deafness is caused by inflammation of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. When the tube is inflamed hearing is impaired and deafness may become permanent unless inflammation is reduced. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine claims to act through the blood to reduce inflammation and restore normal function. Circulars free. All Druggists. Fug, Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio. A proverb notes that those with small wants have enough.
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Fug, cheney & Co
Toledo
Onio
Aidy
Adjutant Jack Williams Known for Fargo Newsie Career
North Dakota American Legion Department adjutant Jack Williams gained popularity by crying Extra on Fargo streets for six years. He built a local paper monopoly, worked his way from newsboy to pressroom, enlisted in the Third Engineers during war, and rose to become the department’s first adjutant. He left school in fourth grade, educated himself on the streets, and led the Fargo Trades and Labor Assembly at twenty one before enlisting as a private.
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North Dakota
Jack
Williams
American Legion department
Fargo
N. D
Wilts
Third Engineers
Fargo Trades and Labor assembly
Seattle Legion names Hazel Jordan Northwest beauty
Miss Hazel Jordan of Everett Washington has been selected by the American Legion of Seattle as one of the three most beautiful girls in the Northwest. The Legion credits cool air and year round seaside activities for the region's beauty, noting Miss Jordan is eighteen and lives on Puget Sound's eastern shore.
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Hazel Jordan
American Legion of
United States
Legion of Seattle
Jordan lves
Everett
Wash
Puget
Indianapolis veteran killed by shell in home burial at legion post
Frank M. Kinne of Indianapolis survived World War I battles but was near fatally wounded by a three inch shell he had brought home from France. He had demonstrated unloading shells in an exhibition squad, and while unloading the souvenir shell his house was wrecked. His mother and sister escaped injury upstairs. The local American Legion post gave him a military burial after his discharge from the army.
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Frank M. Kinne
Indianapolis
Ind
France
Kinne
American Legion
regular army
Special Rates to Convention for American Legion Meet
Sixteen railroad lines spanning 27 states grant one cent per mile fare for the American Legion convention in Kansas City from October 30 to November 1. Participating lines include Missouri Pacific Kansas City Southern Frisco Rock Island Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Wabash Illinois Central Chicago Great Western Chicago and North Western Burlington Chicago and Alton Santa Fe Chicago Peoria and St Louis Missouri and Missouri Kansas and Texas Union Pacific. The one cent per mile zone extends from Denver to Minneapolis to Buffalo to Savannah to Jacksonville to Birmingham to New Orleans and Port Arthur.
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the
American Legion
Kansas City
Missouri Pacific
Kensas City
Missouri
St. Louis
Kansas
Texas
Union Pacific
Denver
Minneapolis
Buffalo
Savannah
Jacksonville
Fle
Birmingham
Alp
New Oreang
Port Arthur
Tex
Well Posted Legion Man
A Gallup New Mexico farmer and lawyer, 7 W. Chapman, rises to commander of New Mexico’s American Legion department. His varied career includes trapper, dynamite worker, motion picture operator, book keeper, and lawyer. He served in World War I, helped draft the neo political clause of the Legion constitution, and boasts a broad life of travel and service with a strong mix of faith and prohibitionist views.
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olield
W. Chapman
Gallup
New Mexico
department of the American Legion
United States
Mexico
Chaproon
America
Legion
Chapman
M, B
P.O
Py T
Notable Decorations and Titles At Legion Convention
The third annual American Legion convention in Kansas City showcased British and Canadian guests whose WWI records earned high honors. Notable figures include General Douglas Haig with earl and field marshal titles and multiple post-nominal letters, Admiral Beatty titled Admiral of the Fleet with various honors, and Gen Sir William Currie addressed as commander of the Canadian corps with a string of honors. Officials believe Britain and dominions participation in President Harding's disarmament conference underscores these distinguished guests.
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American Legion
Kansas City
Douglas Haig
earl
Admiral Beatty
Earl Beatty
C. D
France
William Currie
GoMG
Mc@ill. university
Great Britain
dominions
Harding
Swale A Dishwasher Became Washington Legislator
Thomas W. Swale narrates his rise from a Great Northern construction gang bookkeeper to a dishwashing role after a fight with a gang bully. He later served two terms in the Washington legislature and worked in army intelligence during the war. Swale is now a practicing lawyer in Seattle.
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Thomas W. Swale
American Legion
department
state of Washington
Great Northern
Swale
wat
Washington
army intelligence
I. W. W. Investigations
Pacific Northwest
Seattle
Wash
Ardmore Legion Salvages 2000-Volume Library
George R. Anderson of Ardmore Oklahoma post of the American Legion salvaged a drift of 2000 volumes found in a store room. The wartime Ardmore effort collected books for soldiers but they were never shipped and remained boxed until the post retrieved them using the term salvage.
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A. H
George R. Anderson
American Legion
Ardmore
Oklo
post
Legion post
Storm kills four head of Zoll horses in Hanover
Four head of good horses owned by William Zoll of Hanover were killed by upturning during a recent storm. A poultry horse of Thomas Whannel south of Gledbrook was raided by thieves who took 250 of his checkers leaving twenty five. The cornerstones of the new Task ion Lutheran church were sold at Glenwood. The new structure will cost 40000 dollars. Rev. Charles Pederson is the pastor. Jake Luienberg, a farmer, hanged himself in the hay mow of his barn four miles north of Sheldon, saving his wife and two children. No reason is known for the act. Mary Chukker, 7, daughter of Mr and Mrs J J Chukker, was instantly killed when struck by the Rock Island train at Waterloo while playing on the tracks.
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William Zoll
Hanover
Thomas Whannel
Gledbrook
ion Lutheran church
Glenwood
Charles Pederson
Jake Luienberg
Sheldon
Mary Chukker
J. J. Chukker
Rock Island
Waterloo
Butler county board of supervisors
Leng Construction company
Davenport
Clarke Stevens
Yorktown
cornhusker
Stevens
Nodaway
Buena Vista county
Keokuk
Chamber of Commerce
A. W. Barton
Kirkman
state bank
Greenville
timber
Gillette Grove
C. P. Deawing
Ute
Farmers Terminal Elevator company
Sioux City
Doralca Quinlan
Dubuque
John Mingus
Spencer
Council Bluffs
Ames
Thompson
Vannderpool
Missouri
S. BD. Waters
Boy‘er Methodist church
John Fleming
Iowa City
J. Jenson
Weacott
Billy
Grace
Orpheum circuit
Misa Hazel Kendall
O. J. Moore
Moore
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Greenland
Lento
Leith
England
Blaine
Henry Cabot Lodge
Elihu Root
Brenstor
Oscar W. Underwood
Repubicans
Hara
Pacific
Holland
Belgium
Far East
Japan
Robert Lansing
Wilson
assembly
league
Versailles
Saar basin
Danzig
International court of justice
HElby Root
Juan Bassett Moore
New York
Senor Alvarez
Chile
councll
M. Descamps
Belgum
Senor Amador
Panama
Alvarez
Tacun-Arica
Senor Edwards
Senor Aramayo
Bolivia
La Paz
Galle
Inverness
Lloyd George
Sinn Fein
De Valera
Harry Boland
Joseph McGrath
Ireland
Uister
Dublin
Dall Hirann
Arthur Griffith
Michael Collins
Hubert Barton
Eamon Duggan
Irish republican army
Unison
George Gavan Duffy
Rome
Freeman’s Journal of Dublin
Dawes
Hnahce committee
Asen
War department
abppiog board
veterans’ bureau
finance committee
Ku Klux Klan
Klan
Chicago
National Unity council
Edward F. Dunne
Ilinois
Armour
Swift
Cudahy
San Antonio
Dauntless
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Beteans
BULL DURHAM TOBACCO
BULL
He Maarten
Bhpeel
Western Canada
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reece
tacit og Mane
faewan
Alberta
oetah Columbia
A. COOK
Vistar town
Dek
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Featey
American Legion News Service
JACK WILLIAMS
North Dakota Legion Department
Newsie
Puget Sound Organization
Department of New Mexico
Beatty
Washington Department
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