Retired American Finds Rare Coin in France Loot
A departing American serviceman returns from France with mementoes and highlights a gilt coin found in a duffel pack. Corporal Foster of the Fourth Division discovered a coin inscribed Magni on one side and Voties XX Beetu Trenquillias on the other, minted in Nuremberg Germany, once part of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Sedon
France
Douchhbos
Beliwlwe
George 1
Pescer
Bogihers
Serg
Vrance
Foster
Amerem Legion
Cottage Orove
Pre
Fon College
Legion Men Bury Comrades Honor the Fallen Homeward
The American Legion plays a key role in honoring soldiers being returned from France. Legion members participate in most cases where overseas bodies are reinterred on American soil, demonstrating the organization's purpose and respect for national heroes.
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France
American Legion
Legion
Funeral of John Lefoe in Cloquet honors first American Indian KIA
The Carl Anderson Post of the Legion held a military funeral in Cloquet Minnesota for John Lefoe the first American Indian from the state to be killed in action. The tribe allowed his white comrades to bury him in a suitable casket befitting his brave service to the country.
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Carl Anderson
The
Legion
Cloquet
Minnesota
John Lefoe
Ex-Service Veterans Hired by Chicago Grain Firm
Paul J. Healy, president of Chicago Grate Products in Rockford Illinois, hires ex service men for a new distillery project. Healy, a World War I veteran, vows to build a former soldier led staff and give veterans priority on payroll after construction. He served from private to sergeant and was gassed on the Belgian front. The piece notes his active role with the American Legion's Brophy post in Chicago.
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Paul J. Healy
France
Chicago Grate Products Company
Rockford, al
Healy
Howe
Mr. Healy
Albert
Beltish
Brophy Post
Ue American Legion
Chicago
Bird Reservations Spread to Texas and Gulf Islands
The Texas Legislature grants a fifty year lease to the National Association of Nudabon Societies for bird islands along Laguna Madre. T. Gilbert Pearson of the Audubon Society, visiting Texas, promotes guarding these sites as United States bird reservations from breeding grounds in Canada to the Mexican border.
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Roosevelt
Florida
Audubon Society
United States
Texas
State Land Board
National Association of Nudabon Societies
Laguna Madre
T. Gilbert Pearson
New York City
Audubon Societies
Pearson
Ward
Green Island
Point Isabel
Bexas
Gulf
Salton Sea
California
Canada
Texas Boys to Be Experts in Stock Judging
Agricultural Club Boys of the Extension Service A and M College of Texas prepare for the annual club encampment focusing on livestock judging. The event combines instruction in evaluating livestock with the recreation of the camp, promoting profitable farming practices and proper animal selection.
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TEXAS
Agricultural Club
Extension Service A
M. College of Texas
Hudspeth's Push Secures Tubercular Cattle Aid
Congress faced a gap in funding for treatment of tubercular cattle and government destruction costs until Representative Hudspeth highlighted the omission. The Agriculture Department submitted a $900,000 estimate, arriving after general appropriations were set. leaders and Hudspeth inserted it into the deficiency bill in the Senate. A Dayton Bicycle ad closes the piece, promoting Christmas sales and five year guarantees from H. H. Leech.
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Congress
Hudspeth
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
House
Senate
Ban on nonprohibitionist judges urged in editorial
An editorial argues some U S judges lack sympathy for law and calls for prohibitionist judges only. It cites a contempt fine incident and asserts that no man should join the bench unless aligned with American prohibitionist views.
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United States
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Oath Promises Compensation
Prank J. Cheney a senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Notary A. W. Gleason certifies the oath in Toledo Ohio in 1886. The remedy is said to work systemically through the blood.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Tucas County
Prank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. D
A. W. Gleason
Mall
Fr. J. Cheney
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Alpine Telephone Exchange
Spine Drug Store
Rexall
Alpine Light & Ice Company
J. D. Hex
Clarence
Hord
Avalanche
Odr
Anibrang, Bone the Virility Business Paper
Oregon Legion
Chicago Grain Concern
Trench
Baby
Alpine Studio
Alpine
A. T. McDonalde
Dayton
H. H. Leech
A. M. Turney
Lackey Building
Starr Meat Market
Marathon
Ritchey Bros
General Merchandise
Davis Auto Company
Ford
A. R. Davis
W. A. Weakley
Justice of the Peace
Brewster County
George McSpadden
Marathon State Bank
L. J. Hess
Fred Clark
W. K. Bates
J. J. Roberts
Earl Clark
W.J. McIntyre & Sons
Alpine Lumber Company
J. W. Gillett
Chesterfield
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
Chesterfield Ae
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