Funds Probe Is Demanded
Lorillard Spencer representing the American Legion urged a federal investigation of relief fund distribution at the National Civic Federation meeting in New York City. He charged money from cadleal organizations for Soviet relief was diverted into propaganda and cited the Sacco Vanzetti case to illustrate propaganda machinery. He noted many new groups collecting funds claimed for Russian relief while praising relief distributed by the American Relief Administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Civic Federation
New York City
Lorillard Spencer
New York
American Legion
Spencer
Sacco-Vanzetti
Russia
American Relief Administration
Bartholemy Elected Oregon American Legion Auxiliary Secretary
Miss Bartholemy wins the election as executive secretary of the American Legion auxiliary in Oregon. She is described as both highly executive and notably secretarial, guiding a rapidly advancing organization across entertainments visits bazaars and dances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coletta Bartholemy
American Legion Auxiliary
Oregon
Miss Bartholemy
Callow Chicago Swain Seeks Daughter’s Hand in Wry Plea
A playful vignette from American Legion Weekly shows a bragging Chicago youth flashing a broad smile to impress Mister Jones and win permission to marry his daughter. The old man pauses to identify him before hearing the request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
One Way Round
A Washington butcher tells a joke about selling chickens to a housewife. He says he no longer chops off chicken heads but instead chops the chickens off the heads, revealing the punch line as a supposed life hack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Legion Weekly
Woman Tries Water as Fire Silence in Ohio Hotel
A hotel guest asks for water repeatedly to fight a fire in her room. The clerk, puzzled, learns she is using water to try to extinguish a blaze. The incident is recounted in American Legion Weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
American Legion Weekly
Marshal Foch Outlines Two Sentence Formula For Success
Marshal Foch urges patience earnest endeavor diligent study and tireless work as the path forward. He counsels planning life like a battle map and following the program to achieve goals with the idea that hesitation loses and progress wins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshal Foch
Jobs Go To Ex-Service Men
The British Legion secured a government promise that public works jobs for the unemployed will favor ex service men at 75 percent. With King George's approval the Legion aids via consulates and employers with a special seal and King’s Roll. Formed 1919 under Haig, it has 1300 posts, millions of members, nonsectarian and nonpolitical. It plans to send unemployed ex service men to British Columbia and Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Legion
American Legion
Legion
Britain
Haig
British Columbia
Australia
Lord Haig
Opdycke Named Manager to Aid Ex-Service Men Care
Henry G. Opdycke is appointed manager of the United States Veterans' Bureau in the second district to speed rehabilitation for veterans in New York New Jersey and Connecticut. He plans to supervise school programs directly to prevent exploitation by contract schools and has served in two wars.
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New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Henry G. Opdycke
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Opdycke
Broadway
American Legion
Marjorie Rambeau Plays Victory at Legion Ball
Marjorie Rambeau, known for Eyes of Youth and Daddy’s Gone Hunting, was cast as Victory in the American Legion victory ball at the Waldorf Astoria New York. Social leaders and stars attended, noting her bright and victorious eyes on stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie Rambeau
Daddy
American Legion
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
New York
Miss Rambeau
Legion and civic projects highlight new community initiatives
St Charles Minnesota receives a fully equipped rest room from the Woman's Auxiliary of the American Legion. Christopher Illinois hosts a lyceum course by its American Legion post. Oklahoma planning a half million dollar World War I memorial arch in Oklahoma City. The Pershing cap debuts for army officers with longer visor and broader top. A Veterans' Bureau survey at Dannemora prison reports 48 ex service men confined for various crimes and to be examined for war service related disability benefits.
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St. Charles
Minn
Woman's Auxiliary of the American Legion
Christopher
Ill
American Legion
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Weeks
Army
U.S. Veterans’ Bureau
State Hospital For Criminal Insane
Dannemora
N. Y
The Sheep Industry In The United States
The sheep sector has faced ups and downs with recent depressions but remains essential to balanced farming. Wool stays a staple while mutton supports diets, and conditions favor future profits if flocks are well managed. Surplus wool exists but is consumed faster than production. demand for lamb and mutton remains below potential.
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United States
Forests Turning Out Meat
The USDA notes paid grazing permits on national forests turn them into meat sources. It estimates annual production of 300 million pounds of lamb and mutton and 500 million pounds of beef. Each spring 14 million sheep and cattle move into forests, then head to markets in Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha in the fall.
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Chicago
Kansas City
Omaha
Pyramid of Gizeh Picture Helps Cold Sufferers
A simple image of the Pyramid of Gizeh in Egypt is suggested as a possible aid for those suffering from the cold. The picture offers a visual reminder of distant travel and ancient wonders.
Plan to Market Live Stock
The United States Department of Agriculture will study costs and methods of marketing live stock starting in country points. Areas will be selected across important live stock regions and include several counties. The project examines country buyers local shipping associations elevators and independent shippers, with state cooperation in several cases. Department personnel are in the field collecting data.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Value of Purebred Size in Breeding Value
The greatest value of a purebred bull lies in its ability to produce offspring superior to its dams in type or production or both. If it cannot improve over the animals it replaces, its value is not better.
Warming Water for Stock Widely Practiced by Farmers
Winter stock water warming is common among farmers using devices from kettles to heaters. The practice aims to keep drinking water unfrozen and accessible for livestock during cold periods.
Admiralty an Insane Asylum Origin Story
A London Admiralty building tale claims the architect, while drafting naval plans, confused them with a lunatic asylum design. Summoned to Windsor, he presented the asylum sketches to Queen Victoria, who approved the plans. The Admiralty was built from those asylum designs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiralty
London
Windsor
Queen Victoria
Asylum
Mayfair
Montmatre
Ralph Nevill
Grandmother Reaches Century One in Story from Birmingham
A south side house wife notes early laundry delivery by a colored laundress who aims to finish washing quickly to visit her grandmother. The laundress says her grandmother is a settled woman and one hundred and one years old.
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South Side
Yessum
Birmingham
Age-Herald
Condensations of culinary, geological and linguistic trivia
A collection notes soup richness from heredity in cows and a Russian favorite dish with sour cream. It mentions Mount Lassen cinder cone in National Park as a 640 foot inverted bowl. Therblig defined as motion study unit. An Italian firm uses a new process to extract fuel oil from Sicily asphalt. War brides abroad numbered 2295 French 1001 British 79 Belgian and 31 German.
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Mount
Lassen National Park
Sicily
Also Mentioned on This Page
American Legion News Service
the Live Wire
Oregon Auxiliary
Henry Opdycke
Veteran’s Bureau
Second District
The
Austria
Forest Service
Colorado
Benedict XV
Sistine Chapel
St. Peter's Church
Pyramid of
Ghizeh
Egypt
Harold Payton
National Military Home
Dayton, O
United States Navy
Navy
Prohibition
Jacksonville
Fla
George O. Squire
R. D. Duncan
Signal Corps Research Laboratory
Bureau of Standards
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