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Newspaper
Darlington Herald
Location
Darlington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1921
Page
3
A statewide update shows Governor McCray's appointments to state and federal rolls raising questions on tenure for lawmakers. Articles cover county representation, fruit cultivation in St Joseph County, Evansville building year forecast, depredation protection efforts, mine riot indictments, and local tax and licensing developments across Indiana towns.
Mason City Iowa man Hanford MacNider was elected national commander of the American Legion. At 34 he is the youngest commander. His career includes Harvard studies, World War I artillery service, a Croix de Guerre with three citations, and a role as Iowa Legion commander before his election. He works as an investment banker in Mason City and has a long Legion record.
Lemuel Holles of Seattle elected national adjutant for a third term. Minnesota adopts American Legion Day in Yellow Medicine County. Asbury hospital Minneap lis edits The Pajama Gazette for disabled veterans. Say it with jobs slogan boosts unemployed ex service men in Chicago. Bodies of Gunmar Dahl and David Thor buried together in Illinois. New Orleans to host 1922 national convention with $100,000 promised. Milwaukee mayor vetoes pro Legion job placement measure. Monument to World War Guardsmen proposed in Washington by Maj Gen Richards. Legion grows with 1,050 new posts in 1920-21. daisy named official flower. poppy dropped as non American. Lincoln begins ex-service employment for police robberies. Marshal Foch lauded Kansas City visit. post 1 signs him. Foch enjoys corn cob pipe. Foch offered Missouri cigar. declines. 30,000+ American war dead rest on sacred soil near France. 43,670 bodies returned to U.S. War Secretary reports. Main Street U S A houses a democratic Legion post. debates offer future insights. 600,000–700,000 service men jobless nationwide. East leads unemployment with 150,000 in New York. Iowa police investigate threatening letters to Legion members. names Wallace and Polk linked to the letters.
Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart of Cincinnati, first national president of the American Legion Women's Auxiliary, served with her son in the colors and worked daily as a Red Cross supervisor in Camp Zachary Taylor. Now she heads a world known organization with about 125,000 members drawn from mothers wives and daughters of ex servicemen.
Logansport Indiana reports a year of strenuous service by 100 scouts totaling 500 hours at Kiwanis play fest with 48 helpers. one troop spent four days posting materials. 22 assisted Salvation Army building. 200 hours of free service. 200 graves decorated on Memorial Day. 50 scouts 12 hours at Fourth of July with American Legion. saved 12 lives. additional help to Red Cross G A R DAR Camp Fire Guardians Public Health Nurses Epworth League and Masons.
Robert Reed of troop No 11 Oak Park Tl earned the blacksmithing merit badge after completing preliminary metalwork in his home and school training. The requirements included forging a chain hook and links, making a bolt, bending and welding links, forming a ring, lap welds, a cold chisel, and tempering a rock drill with explanations of hardening and tempering.
Troop 3 in Flushing Long Island reports 14 boys achieved ranks including 1 life, 1 star, 2 eagle, with 13 tenderfoot 19 second class and 6 first class advances. Activities included Roosevelt pilgrimage 1920, All American mass meeting 1921, 500 circulars for Serbian aid, 200 posters for hospital drive, Memorial day for G A R, Rotary meeting support, Salvation Army drive, cleaning vacant lots, and a boy rescued a drowning child.
The Syracuse Herald offers a permanent cup for an annual relay by Herald parish Boy Scout troops during the State fair. Last year the message carried from General Pershing to Governor Smith. this year Harding to Governor Miller. The Phoenix troop won, covering 26.5 miles in 2 hours 19 minutes 10 seconds. Howard Moyer ran a half mile in 2 minutes 10 seconds.
A Mt Pleasant Utah scoutmaster reports nine percent of the city's residents are in scouting and the town backs the movement wholeheartedly. The recent summer program featured a six day 400 mile auto trip to Bruce Canyon with 175 participants including 110 scouts and accompanying fathers and supporters.
Cincinnati scouts distributed 3000 window cards to promote health week. Mayor Barley Han issued a proclamation urging Denver citizens to support and cooperate with the Boy Scout organization, declaring the scouts indispensable to the best interests of any city.
An advertisement urges buyers to insist on Bayer Tablets of Aspirin and follow directions for quick relief from colds headaches toothaches earaches neuralgia lumbago rheumatism joint pains neuritis and pain generally. The Bayer Cross is shown as a mark of genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for over twenty one years.
In a rural exchange Farmer Corntossel notes that schooling helps his son Josh only sometimes. He laments wishing he could proudly say agriculture instead of farming without hesitation, reflecting on differences in opportunity and pride.
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