Fighting Parson Is Liked As Legion Chaplain
Rev Earl Blackman of Chanute Kansas named national chaplain of the American Legion. He earned a reputation as a man’s man and liberal spirit advocate. He once boxed with a chaplain in France, started a church gym and taught boxing, and spoke against blue laws saying relaxation varies by occupation.
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Earl Blackman
American Legion
Kansas
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France
Blackmun
the Legion
Blackman
Chanute
Kan
Honor British war mother saluted by Pershing in U S event
Mrs Amelia Emma McCudden, official British war mother and mother of air ace Major McCudden, was praised in Philadelphia and New York for her role as England's war mother. General Pershing greeted her with a kiss at a Philadelphia banquet as she represented England’s war mothers.
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United States
Great Britain
General Pershing
Amelia Emma McCudden
Island Kingdom
McCudden
America
England
Philadelphia
Jeaned
New York
American Legion Auxiliary
the Legion
Many Legion Men Bachelors After Three Years
Gray Waggett of Evanston Illinois reports from a survey of 100 000 responses on American Legionnaires in the Middle West. Three years after 1918 the data show 61.6 percent remain bachelors and 38.4 percent married to American French or German wives with 10 percent of those couples having children. House owners are 13.8 percent and business owners 15.5 percent, with 21.7 percent driving their own cars. Billet ownership now stands at 44.5 percent with 26 percent to obtain quarters soon.
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Gray Waggett
Evanston
III
American Legion
Legion Posts
Woman Arrested in Chicago Over Government Allowance Claim
Mrs Helen Ferguson Drexler reportedly received $400 a month from military relief programs, triggering her arrest. The case notes she allegedly claimed eleven husbands served in the army and navy, none in the marines, a discrepancy noted during investigation.
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Helen Ferguson Drexler
Chicago
Army
Navy
Marines
Compensated Adjustment Bill for World War Veterans Promised
The five fold adjusted compensation plan offers ex-service members options including adjusted service pay, an insured endowment, vocational training aid, farm or home assistance, and land settlement. Law anticipated in February 1922 with effective July 1922, per American Legion National Commander MacNider citing Senator McNumber and Fordney.
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MacNider
American Legion
McCumber
North Dakota
Senate
Fordney
Michigan
House
Legion
Carrying On With the American Legion in 1921 notices
Members of the American Legion, including police families, received proceeds from a Legion benefit show. The War-time fund of the W. Co. T. U. amounting to about $4,000 was turned over to aid sick and wounded. Local posts sell town name tags in Worthington Minnesota. Legions' bulletins and notices reach Bay Shore New Jersey via Westinghouse Radio. Delegates from Bemidji Minnesota head the Mississippi River to the Legion convention in New Orleans. A Warsaw Poland post protests using the flag for commerce. Vocational training costs rise by 2 million since September 1921 per Director Forbes. Tubercular and nervous veterans lose proposed million-dollar hospital funding after a canceled amendment. An ex-soldier seeks help locating Ollie Kendall and his family after borrowing francs in France.
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American Legion
Practical Fattening of Poultry Methods and Rations
Practical guide from the USDA outlines pen crate and machine cramming fattening. It details pen fattening quiet conditions and regular soft feed, crate dimensions for groups, indoor ventilation, feeding schedules, and sample rations including mixed barley corn oats buttermilk or skim milk, salt, and fats for three weeks.
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United States Department of Agriculture
New York
Milk products boost poultry yields on dairy farms
Milk and by products such as skim milk buttermilk sour milk cottage cheese provide profitable feed for poultry. Feed them consistently either by moistening mashes or feeding dry, but never switch day by day. Fowls convert otherwise waste into meat and eggs when milk by products are available on the farm.
Dust Bath Box for Fowls Keeps Vermin Down
Fowls can stay free from vermin in winter by a dusting area. A box 30 inches square and 12 inches deep, built in a corner or raised on logs, provides space for dusting. Any fine dry powder works well as dusting material.
Smuggling Ring Busted as Smuggler Wore Diamond Shoes
Federal officials in Chicago seized a smuggling operation after arresting a suspect who wore shoes with hollowed heels to conceal diamonds. The raid recovered thousands of dollars in gems and four large diamonds stolen from the Russhin family.
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Customs Office
Chicago
Kipling Honored by Sorbonne Sparks Translation Debate
The Sorbonne awarded Rudyard Kipling an honorary doctor of letters. French critics praise him, but translations frustrate English readers who see misrendered lines like S help me Bob becoming Que Bob m emporte and Jakko becoming Tant que flotteront les couleurs anglaises.
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Sorbonne
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling
Bob
Jakko
Simla
Peculiar Currency Across Worlds Cited in Echoing Notes
The report notes odd forms of money in distant regions. Sperm whale teeth circulate in Fiji with value varying by color. Red feathers and certain stones also act as currency among South Sea islands. East Indies Siam Africa use shells valued at a tiny fraction of a penny.
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East Indies
Siam
Africa
Fiji
South Sea Islands
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Bemidji, Minn
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Warsaw Post
Department of Poland
Forbes
Veterans’ Bureau
Oklahoma American Legion
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One Hundredth
Fortieth Infantry
Kendall
Petrograd
Winter Palace
Czarina
John A. Kelleher
Boston
Charles Street
California
Hollywood
Cal
A. Burnheimer
Agile Firemen
Punta Arenas
Chile
Grand Rapids Banker
Guy
Dudley E. Waters
Grand Rapids
Mich
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