Abe Returns From Vandalia Engaged to Ann in 1835
In 1835 Abe comes home from the legislature to resume postmaster duties and propose marriage to Ann though she hesitates. Slavery tensions rise as Samson Traylor aids fugitive slaves from St. Louis toward Canada, aiding a brutal Biggs encounter and a perilous escape near Brimstead.
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Abe
Vandalia
Ann
Samson Traylor
Harry Needles
McNamar
Samson
Harry
St. Louis
Canada
John Peasley
Tazewell County
F Eliphalet Biggs
Suh
Peasley
Sarah
Bim
Lukins
Brimstead
Henry Brimstead
Biggs
Canadian Soldier Imprisoned To Save War Buddy
Harry W. Haley of Canada served six months in prison to repay his life saving comrade Private Thomas G. Jones. Haley swapped identities to take the fall for desertion after Jones reappeared during Haley's planned wedding in Canada, prompting a court martial and dishonorable discharge. The American Legion seeks to purge the record.
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Harry W. Haley
Leavenworth
Haley
American Legion
Thomas. G. Jones
Jones
Canada
Fort Slocum
N. Y
Germany
Ialey
St. Paul
Minn
Thomas G. Jones
Fort Crook
Neb
The
Legion
Harding
Legion Aid Expands Care for Jobless Veterans
An array of American Legion actions aid veterans nationwide. In Cleveland an army kitchen and 1000 cots assist jobless ex servicemen, while merchants grant a 5 percent discount to Legion members. Posts from Toledo to Minneapolis organize films, employment bureaus, and housing for veterans, reflect broad postwar outreach.
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Cleveland
American Legion Employment Bureau
New York
Noted Legion Guest Busy on 16000 Mile Foch Tour
Marshal Foch travels through 42 states on a 16000 mile American Legion hospitality tour. He visits over 200 towns with receptions and speeches, earning LL.D. degrees from 17 universities. Allied leader appears tired yet remains in good humor after a long voyage.
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Marshal Foch
Paris
American Legion
Legion
Marshal Ioch
New Orleans
Minneapolis
France
Fong
Above the Draft Age Centenarian Recalls War Service
John Sylvester Myers, 102, walked from Line Ridge to Bloomsburg Pennsylvania to spoke at the Bloomsburg post of the American Legion. He recounts attempting to join during World War I but being rejected for being above the draft age and notes prior service in the Mexican and Civil wars and the Spanish-American war. He has been married three times with the last marriage at ninety two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sylvester Myers
Line Ridge
Bloomsburg
American Legion
Myers
He Is Not Dead but Steepeth
A veteran returns to the land of the free and mourns that saloons are dead. A friend answers cheerfully that one can communicate with their spirits, reflecting a wartime era tone from the American Legion Weekly.
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Land of the Free
American Legion Weekly
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Irving Bacheller
Traylors
Penasley
Brimstead’s
Peassey
Justice
Brimstead's
Peagley
Aittle
Freeman Collar
Collar
Elphalet Biggs
Samson Henry Traylor
New Salem
Sangamon County
Nate Haskell
Flea Valley
Mrs. Brimstead
Ace
Alton
Beardstown
Annabel
Buddy
No Man's Land
Arcadia
Fla
Argonne
Toledo, O
American Legion Theater
Alta Vista
Kan
Chicago American Legion
Mesnil-en-Arronaise
Picardy
Harold Wells
Petersburg
Grover O. Bergdoll
Maols American Legion
War Department
Confederate Veterans of
Tennessee
American Legionaures of
Nashville
Chicago
Christopher
State of
Michigan
Camp Custer
Cloctunatl
William Treary Harrison
Bentley American Legion Post
Mamaroneck
N.Y
New York American Legion Employment Bureau
Birmingham
Ala
Wichita
American Legion Post- Employment Agency
Peperanent of
Lst
Minnesota
American Legion Auxiliary
Kansas Cit
American Legion Employment Office
Oscar Kk. Carlstrom
Aledo
United Spanish War Veterans
Ilinois
Grover C. Bergdoll
Missouri
Toledo
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