Toledo Soldier Patient Identified as War Veteran or Imposter
A bedridden man in Toledo Ohio who calls himself Martin Lyons or Bert Jordan may be a U S Army veteran or an impostor. War department records tie Lyons to 1915 service and police notes link Jordan to a World War officer. Red Cross traced a Stockton California patient history and Alameda enlistment. Family and identity details are sought by Mrs F C Conrad of the Toledo American Legion Auxiliary for verification.
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Martin Lyons
Toledo (O
United States Army
Bert Jordan
American Legion
Mnan
Toledo
Lyons
War Department
California
Salt Lake City
Utah
Red Cross
Stockton
Calif
Alameda
American Legion Auxiliary
France
F.C. Conrad
East Broadway
Ohio Department of the American Legion Auxiliary
Gose’s Fireproof Gas Tank Aimed at Airplane Safety
John Henry Gose of Washington DC, a World War I veteran and member of the American Legion aero nautics committee, led aviators in developing a fireproof gasoline tank with a fire resisting chemical to extinguish leaks. His system includes an acid flask over the engine that releases at high temperature, built like a thermos. Gose, who lost a leg in a British Royal Flying Corps crash, served in US and Canadian aviation units and sought safer fuel systems after his injuries.
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John Henry Gose
Washington, D. C
American Legion
National Committee On Aeronautics
Gose
Fort Myer
Virginia
Canadian Royal Flying Corps
Toronto
Hicks
Tex
Twenty-second Aero Squadron
British
Royal Flying Corps
Ee Inns Gassaint
Corerees Eone
Seine
Amnesiac World War Vet Sought By Legion After Memory Loss
A World War veteran known as Howard Grimes is hospitalized in New Orleans with total memory loss except for brief flashes of a tropical land and a Woolworth Building memory. He carries cards identifying him as state distributor for Alco Rim Tool Co with a Jacksonville address that is not found. The American Legion seeks relatives or friends and asks anyone who recognizes him to contact A. M. Daspit in New Orleans.
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Howard Grimes
Grimes
Charity Hospital
New Orleans
American Legion
Alco Rim Tool Company
P. O
Jacksonville
Fla
Nunshaven
Woolworth
New York
Coluns
A. M. Daspit
Service Division of the Legion
Legion Leader Spreads Education Lead in Arkansas
Bodenhammer, Arkansas American Legion commander, travels the state to promote literacy and civic education. He addressed 2,000 Fort Smith schoolchildren on patriotism and education, gifting a stand of national colors. He notes ten million American-born adults cannot read or write and ties illiteracy to weak citizenship and voting rights.
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QO. L. Bodenhammer
American Legion
Arkansas
Bodenhammer
Legion
Fort Smith
Bodenhaimmer
America
National Colors
Post Adopts Trenton Newsboy Scout Troop
The Elkins Oliphant post of the American Legion formally adopts a Troop of Trenton Newboys. To cover the field day earnings the Legion arranges a special edition with Legion members taking over routes and delivering all revenue to the scout fund for uniforms.
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Trenton
N. J
Elkins Oliphant
American Legion
Legion
Legionnaires
Scout Fund
Glacier National Park Vacation Thrills and Acute Savings
In the Northern Rockies Glacier National Park offers wide breath taking scenery with glaciers streams lakes and wildflowers. The piece highlights rustic inns small hotel villages chattels and mountain ponies along the Continental Divide and urges early reservations for National Travel West Year with routes to Yellowstone Colorado and beyond.
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Rockies
Continental Divide
Glacier
Burlington
Pacific Northwest
Yellowstone
Colorado
L. T. Wykoff
The Chigre Is A Bloodsucker
In Columbia Missouri on July 18 a university entomology professor warns that the chigre is a blood sucking pest harming livestock and poultry as it attacks humans. It thrives in woods and briar patches and can be deterred by precautions including bath and dressing changes after exposure and by removing bites with disinfectant. lawns can be freed by soapsuds.
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Columbia
Leonard Haseman
Entomology Department
University of Missouri
Haseman
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Toledo (Ohio
John Gose
Committee On Aeronautics
Man
Legion Department
POST
New Jersey
Glacier National Park
Sedalia
Pennsylvania
Browning Motor Co
Fords
Fordsons
Tractors
Buick
United States
DT Johnson
Browning, Mo
Chillicothe, Missouri
Moore Motor CompAny
Brookfield
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