Monument at New Orleans World War memorial by Lawhorn and Dodd
The New Orleans memorial to fallen World War heroes, created by designer Charles L. Lawhorn and sculptor H. Dodd, stands in a park amid red poppies. Inscribed memorial text honors comrades who made the supreme sacrifice, with side insignias for Army Navy Marine and Aviation. T. Semmes Walmsley lauded it as a remarkable conception.
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New Orleans
Charles L. Lawhorn
H. Dodd
American Legion
Army
Navy
Marine
Aviation
T. Semmes Walmsley
Legion
National Committee On Memorials
Walmsley
Legion Helps Ill Navy Veteran Get Home From NY Hospital
Paul P Pinnell a former gob baker in the U S Navy during World War I suffers tuberculosis and has waited over a year for compensation from the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Bronx American Legion members raised 3450 to transport him home to California with an attendant nurse after Walter T Hamilton helped push the case.
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Paul P. Pinnel
United States Navy
Seton Hospital
New York City
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Pinnell
Bureau
American Legion
Walter T. Hamilton
Bronx
Legionnaires
Pies for Sailor Boys Parade in Seattle
One thousand home made pies were distributed by the American Legion women's auxiliary in Seattle to 1400 Pacific fleet sailors who marched in a parade. Other rations were given generously. Pity the ship's cook on a night like that.
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Women’s Auxiliary of the American Legion
Seattle
Wash
Pacific Fleet
Order of Loyal Dads forms to aid veterans
The article describes the creation of the Order of Loyal Dads by Dad Sheldon Foote of St. Myers Florida, a group aiming for clean patriotic living and affiliation with the American Legion. It details veteran welfare efforts in St Paul and Oregon, leadership changes in the American Legion and related society actions, a fatality from a pin scratch in Minnesota, a summer camp for veterans in Washington, police crime prevention efforts in St Louis, citizen ship letters from Okmulgee Oklahoma, and notes on future Liberty Memorial dedication and 1922 national convention candidate cities.
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Women's Auxiliary
The
American Legion
Dad
Order of Loyal Dads
Sheldon Foote
St. Myers, Fla
East Side Post
St. Paul
Minn
American Legion Welfare Bureau of
Mother influence shapes sons says Baldwin chief
Caen Matthews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works argues that a mother’s traits and home environment largely determine a boy’s character and future success. He cites Lincoln Napoleon and Foch as examples, noting a strong mother can lift children beyond their father’s limits.
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Caen Matthews Vauclain
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Mr. Vauclain
Abraham Lincoln
Napoleon Bonaparte
Corsica
Europe
Vavelain
Lyrics of Life Lady Seeks Beauty
Poetic monologue urges a lady to find beauty in nature and modest dignity. The speaker links beauty to quietness and restraint, presenting imagery of a red rose and crimson tones. The tone resembles a lyric meditation on aesthetic harmony and feminine grace.
Melon and Fig Desserts From Mothers Cook Book 7
A preservation era culinary snippet offers recipes for Melon Cream Banana Cream Melon Lilies and Frozen Fig Pudding. It provides method details for meat balls with tomato sauce plus decorative fruit serves and ginger syrup garnish, all in period kitchen prose.
The Romance of Words in Gossip History
The Hampire peasantry called baptism sponsors gossip or gossips, a compound of God and sib meaning akin and god parent. The term evolved from sacred sponsorship to familiar chatter and tale bearing across cultures, tracing parallels with the French commere and commereage.
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Gossib
Chaucer
Hampshire
Scotland
Fireroom Immune Firemen Like Salamanders on Steamships
A fragment notes that Chinese stokers, similar to salamanders, tolerate extreme heat in the fireroom of steamships, enduring temperatures and conditions that would quickly disable white men. The reference highlights racialized perceptions of endurance among rank-and-file workers aboard ships.
The Girl on the Job How to Succeed-How to Get Ahead
A mother discusses empowering her three daughters with varied career training. One to design, another to domestic science and catering, the oldest to agricultural work. She funds each start, arguing for skills that offer freedom and growth beyond menial office roles.
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America
Aac
Aominous Possibility at Petunia Tavern Fire
A fragment from a Kansas City Star piece recalls a chaotic blaze at the Petunia tavern with a guest and landlord trading jests about mayoral and gubernatorial mishaps. The text also includes comic exchanges about nature, pay days, and family ties among hens.
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Petunia
Kansas City Star
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American Legion News Service
California
Walter Hamilton
Thomas J. Bannigan
New England
Connecticut
Harry C. Brumbaugh
General Pershing
Information Force
France
World War Veterans’ State Aid
Oregon
Brumbaugh
Legion Publishing Corporation
Clifford A. Laflin
St. John's Hospital
Laflin
Seventeenth Field Artillery
Emery
Gresham
Galbraith
Col
F. W. Galbraith, Jr
Port Townsend
Victor J. Miller
St. Louis (Mo
Frederick W. Stockham
Miller
F. M. Wood
Okmulgee
Oklo
Wood
Kansas City
National Convention of the American Legion
Baltimore
Houston
San Francisco
F.A. Walker
Marshal Foch
LADY
Ady
Mother's Cook Book
By Jessie Roberts
Bugs P.D
OWL Chemical
Terre Haute
Ind
P. D
Evers
Standard Pub. CO
44Th Stree
New York
Grace Hotel
Chicago
Jackson Blvd
Clark Bt
Momshee
Bain
Elite Trunk Factory
Spring Valley
Schluster & Sons
W. Randolph St
Mfg. Co
Dept
Ashland
N. U
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