Impressions of Zona Gale by Mary Stewart Cutting
The piece portrays Zona Gale as a compassionate writer of small town life and its people. It highlights her notable works including Miss Lulu Bett and Friendship Village and notes her empathy and openness to different viewpoints. It mentions her interest in the Star Author Series of Matrimonial Adventures and the Clausens as a non married author.
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Zona Gale
America
Pelleas
Etarre
Lulu Bett
Othererson
Clausens
Mary Stewart Cutting
Used to Each Other in a Teeming City
Clauson, an exhausted haberdashery buyer, contemplates Miss Ruth Rickson in a scarred boarding house while Jep, his wife, clings to their familiar life. When Miss Rickson seeks a future, Clauson offers help, but she rejects him and he returns home to Jep. A eviction scare prompts them to stay put, reaffirming their stubborn comfort in a life they barely understand yet deeply rely on.
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Clauson
Miss Rickson
Jep
Clamson
Jen
Darling
Dibble
Arthur
Paradise
Ruth Rickson
Clawson
Clausen
Mr. Clauson
Language Formed by Trade
A Kansas City Star note explains how calico's name traces to Calicut, India, via British traders. It then describes how foreign languages renamed the cloth as American or Mericani based on trading origins, with calico used as a medium of exchange between Arabs, Levantines, and Eastern traders.
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India
Calicut
Ingland
America
England
Near
Isust
Kansas City Star
Bomb Used as Andiron Explodes Destroying Opelousas House
A Civil War bomb kept as an andiron for 57 years exploded on a plantation two miles south of Opelousas Louisiana. It had been used in shot put and as an andiron and wrecked a house, which burned to the ground, with no one inside at the time.
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Opelousas
Legion to Seek New Laws Proposed at National Convention
The American Legion outlines eight main legislative goals for the Sixty-eighth Congress. They include adjusted compensation for veterans, a standing House committee for veteran bills, expanded war risk insurance, universal draft powers for wartime, immigration policy flexibility, archives building for war records, distribution of war trophies by state shares, and disability retirement parity with regular officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
National Legislative Committee
Legion
House of Representatives
Congress
Arlington of the West opens for World War veterans
The American Legion opened Glendale California’s Arlington of the West memorial cemetery for ten thousand World War veterans and their families. The dedication drew Southern California residents and leaders including Governor James G Scrugham of Nevada Governor Richardson of California and Congressman Walter Lineberger of San Francisco. Seventeen World War veterans received full military honors at the inaugural graves.
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Arlington
James G. Scrugham
Nevada
American Legion
Richardson
California
Walter Lineberger
San Francisco
Legion Man in High Court Named to Minnesota Supreme Bench
Royal A. Stone, active American Legion member, is named associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court after a long public and military career. His rise followed early financial hardship, World War I service, and tenure as assistant attorney general, culminating in a gubernatorial appointment to the state’s highest court. He remains a member of St. Paul Post No 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal A. Stone
Minnesota
Supreme Court
American Legion
Minnesota Supreme Court
Justice Stone
Northwest
University of Minnesota
Havana
Stone
Georgia
St. Paul
United States
Camp Dodge
France
Inspector General's Department
Eighty-eighth
Legion
Justice Stone Hag
Supreme Bench
Sitka Legion Restores Alaska War Cemetery
American Legion members in Sitka Alaska cleaned and restored a neglected national military and naval cemetery where marines buried from the 1898 gold stampede lie. They obtained Navy surgeon general approval for 1200 dollars to maintain the grounds and the governor appointed the Sitka post to manage the fund.
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Washington
American Legion
Sitka
Alaska
Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
Navy
Sitka Post
Owsley Receives French Order of Merit Honor
Alvin Owsley national commander of the American Legion is awarded the Order of Merit by the Union Nationale des Combattants. Charles Thertrand presents the decoration to the U S Legion leader in New Orleans, joining a select group of recipients. The Interallied Veterans federation, representing fifteen million veterans, gains influence in international affairs. The medal comes with a bronze plaque from M Bertrand as a keepsake.
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Alvin Owsley
American Legion
Union Nationale Des Combattants
Charles Thertrand
Interallied Veterans’ Federation
New Orleans
M. Bertrand
Owsley
Paris Post Presents Regular American Legion Concerts
Texas Post Gives Concerts. The Paris Texas post of the American Legion has held weekly concerts for about nine months. Legion musicians have played in nearby towns and in Paris with a complete program broadcast from a major radio station. The post runs a band orchestra drum corps and a quartet and supports a free medical clinic for the poor.
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American Legion
Paris
Tex
Legion
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Matrimonial Adventures
Pel- Jeas and
Friendship Village
United Feature Syndicate
Zona
Nello
Chauson
Paing Boly Tords
Legione
American Legion News Service
Texas Post
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