Woodfill Receives City Honors After Heroic WWI Feat
Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, famed for clearing three machine gun nests and 19 Germans, is hailed with the city’s freedom honor. He visits Jersey City and New York, lauded by officials and greeted by the public, while crediting regular army training and his father for his skills. His wife praises his domestic steadiness and “kitchen police duty.”
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Samuel Woodfill
Jersey City
N. J
American Legion
New York City
Supreme Court
McCook
Bronx
Woodhill
Uncle Sam Comes Alive as A Legion Grandfather
George Campbell a Civil War veteran at the United States Soldiers' Home in Washington D. C. embodies Uncle Sam with steel blue eyes and a white goatee. He leads George Washington post No. 1 of the American Legion and enjoys marching in parades while recounting Civil War memories to younger veterans.
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Uncle Sam
George Campbell
United States Soldiers
Washington, D. C
Campbell
Times
George Washington Post
American Legion
Ireland
America
Seventeenth Infantry
French nativity announced for Maurice Brocco
Maurice Brocco and his partner who have won the Madison Square Garden bicycle race for two years announce his French nativity. Born in Fismes on the Vesle river in the Marne department thirty eight years ago, Brocco was once reported Italian. He was recaptured by American troops in July 1918 after a desperate encounter.
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Maurice
Jimmy) Brocco
Madison Square Garden
Fismes
Vesle
Department of the Marne
Filmes
American Legion in Somerville Holds British Captain Funeral
Official letters of thanks from Lord Curzon and the British ambassador arrived at the Somerville, New Jersey American Legion post. The post held a military funeral for a British army captain whose lack of relatives in the U S led the city to plan burial in the potter's field.
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Lord Curzon
Great Britain
American Legion
Somerville
N. J
Potter's Field
Armistice Day Casualties Reported by Adjutant General
On Armistice day November 11 1918 the Adjutant General's Office lists 3912 AEF casualties. Of these 268 were killed 2769 severely wounded 466 lightly wounded 177 slightly gassed and 232 wounded and gassed with undetermined degree. The Fifth Division sustained the heaviest losses.
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Adjutant General’s
Foch Praises American Legion Tour Organizers
Marshal Ferdinand Foch said if another war comes those who organized his 16 000 mile 42 state American Legion tour will be on his staff. He complimented the American people on the Legion during the trip as a guest of the organization.
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Foch
Ferdinand Foch
France
American Legion
Pershing Recommends Nine Training Camps Retained
General Pershing urges retention of nine main training centers Camps Deven s Dix Meade McClellan Knot Custer Fort Riley Travis and Lewis as the core army training facilities amid wartime mobilization.
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General Pershing
Devens
Dix
Meade
McClellan
Knot
Custer
Fort Riley
Travis
Lewis
Arkansas Legion Post Honors Beauty Queen and Pearls
The American Legion Roy Kinard post lauds Miss Edith Mae Patterson as America’s most beautiful girl after a mid western win. Arkansas boasts prized discoveries, presenting a pearl to Marshal Foch and a diamond to Hanford Mac. Nider, highlighting the state’s fertile ground and notable treasures.
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Arkansas
Edith Mae Patterson
Arkansas Diamond
Hanford Mac. Nider
The
Legion
Great Mountain Camp Planned for Ex-Soldiers in Adirondacks
The American Legion in New York plans a mountain camp 30 miles from Saranac Lake to aid 10,000 tubercular veterans. A 12,000 acre state preserve will house lean-tos and shelters for disabled men with access to a main camp at Big Tupper Lake offering bowling alleys motor boats and athletic fields. Each legion post may sponsor its own unit housing with priority given to its men. $20,000 has been raised for the fund.
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Adirondacks
American Legion
New York State
Mammoth Mountain
Saranac Lake
Big Tupper Lake
Legion
Chief Fun Maker Busy Man Edward J Hivers Resigns
Edward J Hivers national president of 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux fun making group of the American Legion resigns as Oregon state adjutant. A 1910 National Guard start, 15 months overseas as machine gun captain in the 162nd infantry, and a 7 000 strong crowd moment presenting Marshall Foch with a badge are noted.
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Edward J. Hivers
40 Hommes Et 8 Chevaux
The
American Legion
Legion
Oregon
Liver
Marshall Foch
Rivers
National Guard
Footless Hunt Seeks Chorus Job at Local Agency
Dottle Dimple knees into a chair at the theatrical agency and pants about running her legs off to see the show manager. Otis, the office boy, tells her the manager is not present and suggests she go home.
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Dottle Dimpleknees
Theatrical Agency
Otis
American Legion Weekly
American Legion aids disabled veterans and post activities
The report notes twenty hospitals in three years for disabled soldiers found by the American Legion. Ex soldiers without discharge papers may obtain duplicates under a proposed congressional bill. Australia raised 50 million for unemployed former soldiers and funds to buy land for farms. Frederick P. Peters of Fort Worth Texas was unconscious when handed to the Legion post. Diagnosis said ham and eggs were his urgent need. Marshal Foch became an honorary member of Cambridge Massachusetts Grand Army post, with Civil War veterans presenting a bronze medal.
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American Legion
Australia
Frederick P. Peters
Fort Worth
Tex
Marshal Foch
Cambridge
Mass
Grand Army of the Republic
Worm Eradication Method Boosts Pig Growth and Survival
The U S Department of Agriculture outlines a worm control system to reduce intestinal roundworms in piglets. Clean farrowing pens with hot water and lye, wash sows before farrowing, move sows and pigs to clean pastures within two weeks, and keep young pigs on clean pasture for four months with good feed, water, and shelter.
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United States Department of Agriculture
McLean County
Chicago
Feeding Garbage to Hogs on Platforms in Feed Lots
The article recommends feeding garbage to hogs from platforms on skids in acre sized lots. It describes 2 by 4 ledges to keep material on the platform and suggests relocating the platform frequently. For rail deliveries, place platforms near tracks. concrete platforms allow easy cleaning.
Hogs Require Little Salt In Diet And Health Observations
The article notes that swine require less salt than horses cattle and sheep due to their grain based diet. It warns that excess salt disrupts the swine stomach and bowels causing gases diarrhea convulsions and paralysis and can lead to death.
Self feeders harm breeding hogs say experts
Self-feeders, while fine for market hogs, damage breeding stock. Pigs with access gorge then rest, grow idle, and refuse to exercise, slowing breeding progress and overall development.
Portrait of Mr Harvey in silk hose and breeches
An American artist drafts how Mr Harvey should appear in formal court dress for a hypothetical royal wedding scene. The piece reflects advance notices that Princess Mary of England would wed the Viscount and include expectations about ambassador attire.
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Mary of England
Viscount Ascetics
America
Harvey
German fire money issued for Wafung en Germany
The municipality of Wafung en, Germany issues small denom paper money to cover losses from fires. A fifty-pfenning note features the town, while seventy-five-pfenning notes depict a fire in progress and the resulting ruins.
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Europe
Wafungen
Germany
Runaway Box Car Dash Near Graaff Reinet
A heavy freight train from Graaff-Reinet northward lost a box car on Zemmelspoort steep, racing through native lands, past Sundays River, and through the station yard to Port Elizabeth main line. It finally stopped at Adendorp station with no injuries or damage reported.
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Graaff Reinet
South Africa
Graaff-Reinet
Zemmelspoort
Sundays River
Greaff-Reinet
Port Elizabeth
Adendorp
Adendorp Station
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Edith Patterson
Great Mountain
New York
Elvers
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Illinois
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R. 1
MR. Harvey
Smalls
Phoros
Abyssinia
Laba-Amelik
Menelik
Waterbury’s
Waterbury Conn
City of
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