Plan to Reach All Illiterates at Washington Conference
The American Legion drove literacy efforts at a Washington conference on eradicating illiteracy. Dr. Homer Seerley noted broadened adult education, citizenship focus, and competency testing for native and foreign born alike. Garland W. Powell outlined aims to teach English to all non speakers and embed citizenship basics. Group C pushed inclusive literacy outreach and a nine member education committee. The report urged literacy friendly textbooks and rural school consolidation to improve teacher quality and pay.
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American Legion
Washington
Homer Seerley
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Garland W. Powell
Americanism Commission of the Legion
United States
Legion
United States Commissioner of Education
Minneapolis
Veterans training leads to a thousand dollar idea
Richard G. Quehl a Peterson post American Legion veteran trained under the veterans bureau program worked in a Minneapolis flour milling equipment shop. He observed the process designed an improvement for a disk separator and sold the idea for 1000 dollars plus royalties. He also compiled a top company sales catalogue and proved himself a versatile comrade beyond selling.
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Richard G. Quehl
Peterson Post
American Legion
Minneapolis
Minn
France
Quehl
Queht
Tie
Kiddie-Kar Polo Becomes Northwest Legion Indoor Hit
The latest American Legion pastime is kiddie-kar polo played indoors in Northwest cities. Legionnaires ride toy-like carts to chase a polo ball, forming an Interpost league. One post notes unusually tall players and fast action as the sport grows in popularity.
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American Legion
Labor Leader Urges Talks Between Labor and American Legion
JOAN H WALKER president of the Indianapolis Federation of Labor urges regular conferences between labor groups and the American Legion in cities with Legion posts to clear misunderstandings. He says labor has a right to organize and that the Legion was formed to aid returned servicemen in war and peace.
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Joan H. Walker
Iindy Federation of Labor
American Legion
Organized Labor
Organizations of Labor
Veteran World War veteran pretends to be German to escape rebels
John Thomas, a World War veteran, fled Huertista rebels in Mexico by posing as a German. He was tortured and stripped, aided by freight train conductors, and freed after claiming German identity. He served as a miner for a British syndicate on the Jalisco-Guadalajara front and witnessed a fellow American killed. Rebels mocked U.S. munition shipments to Obregon as interference.
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John Thomas
Thomas
Huertista
Mexico
United States
Federaists
Jalisco-Guadalajara
Tle
American Legion
el Paso
Obregon
Legion aid offers free Situations Wanted ads for veterans
To aid unemployed ex servicemen in Scape Ala members of the American Legion arrange with local newspapers to run free Situations Wanted ads for local veterans. A membership card in the American Legion or an honorable discharge is the only requirement.
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American Legion
Village storekeeper Katherine Walls in Maine described by a keen observer
A portrait of Katherine Walls proprietor of a village store in Hancock county Maine. The piece highlights her practical wit cash reserves business sense and ties to family tradition while depicting the small harbor town and her role in local trade and community life.
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Maine
Katherine Walls
New England
Southwest
Boston
Providence
New York
Hancock County
Susie Gibbons Defies City Life for Rural Success
An orphan from a St Paul area farm group, Susie Gibbons runs 818 acres and works for a farm loan association and Ble Ishund school board. She values perpetual busyness, people skills, and a home life free from city grind, contrasting rural work with urban pace.
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Farm Loan Association
St. Paul van
Main Street
Ble Ishund
Susie Gibbons
Pins older than needles traced to ancient garment fasteners
The article notes pins predate needles, with primitive spike or thorn forms used to hold garments. It states brass wire pins appeared in England in 1826, the same year the 61st drill eyed needles were produced using a trampling machine.
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England
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