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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1922
Page
3
The piece mocks editors and columnists naming Ole Buck and Hank Legrett while lampooning bootlegger culture and coffee cream misstatements. It quips about golf, money, and scandal mongering with pointed humor and unnamed sources.
A lighthearted note outlines a poetry course for amateurs in Chadron starting with ballads and moving through obituary verse, blank verse, and vers libre. Mentions Leo Lloyd and Lily Begin as potential participants and promises later inclusion of sonnets and limericks.
An open doorway shout announces an ambush as the cowardly assailant slips in by another door, with a harsh exclamation of disgust. The scene frames a tense, unnamed confrontation marked by abrupt entrances and evasive action.
National commander Hanford MacNider urges devotion to mother in a Mother's Day message as 4500 Legion Auxiliary units observe May 14. Nebraska posts plan Memorial Day grave decorations and three special trains to New Orleans for the national convention, while funds support wreaths in Paris and European cemeteries.
The York legion plans a big Fourth of July event with wrestling boxing baseball parades and a $500 support from the local commercial club. Since 1931 the American legion has sold flowers for veterans graves and disabled ex service members and this year the official flower is the American daisy replacing the poppy citing weed concerns.
The American Legion post at Falls City formed Dad's auxiliary with over fifty veterans and charter member Former Governor Morehead. The group will work with legion boys on Americanization efforts and local activities. Memorial day will see tree dedications for service members who died.
Small boys chatter about the forthcoming Christy Brothers monster four ring wild animal exposition. Posters deck streets showing clowns pink girls on white horses and flying figures as city routes glow with color. The big show arrives Monday May 22 in Alliance.
Christy Brothers premier wild animal exhibition expands to five times former size with elephants camels zebras lions tigers and more in four rings. The traveling show promises thrilling spectacles and vivid color for families and promises a free elephant ride to a lucky child with Herald Want Ads.
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