Legions Genuine Cave Man Parlee Gross Explores Ozarks
Parlee C. Gross of McComb Ohio and Me Comb Ohio favors cave life over apartments noting warmth and low cost. He explores Ha Ha Tonka in the Ozarks and discovers Gross's Giant Gnome. Named by McComb American Legion post as a cave connoisseur and chosen to join a party to Wyandotte Cave Indiana and Great Onyx Cave Kentucky exploration.
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Ozark ‘Mountains
Parlee C. Gross
Comb, CO
Gross
McComb
Ha Ha Tonka
Ozarks
American Legion
McComba
Naw
Wyandotte Cave
Indiana
Onyx Cave
Ixentucky
Denver Legion Boosts Her in Go Show Debate
Denver American Legion members claim local talent outshines ex service girls in a theater go show. Miss Edith Adams is approached to join but not discussed with newspapermen. Legionnaires praise her lack of flapping foibles and compare her to Colorado mountains.
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American Legion
Denver
Rockies
Fioe
Broadway
Mdnagers
Edith Adams
Gold Brick Cure Story From Fort Harrison Memoir
Captain P. I. McCarthy of Development Battalion No 1 Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana introduced the term gold brick during the war. The method forced relenting recruits to carry a brick while performing tasks and saluting with the other hand, proving ailments or alibis. Many cases of flat feet and other ailments reportedly disappeared under the scheme.
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P. I. McCarthy
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
McCarthy
Marshal Foch Enjoys Film Recital in Paris
In Paris the French leg of the American Legion screened footage of Marshal Foch’s 16,000 mile postwar tour of the United States. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick praised the film saying if Germany had seen it in 1914 the war might not have happened.
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Marshal Foch
Paris
United States
The
American Legion
Myron T. Herrick
Foch
Germany
France
America
Pioneer Navy Serviceman John A McCormack Led Legion Leader
John Alexander McCormack vice commander of the American Legion admired the navy since 1904 and later focused on the Navy Tuberculosis Hospital at Fort Lyon Cole. He joined the navy at seventeen and helped survivors after the Kearsarge turret explosion in 1906. He served in Vera Cruz 1915, established hospitals at St Angers and Brest, took part in the Marne offensive, and was elected a national head of the Legion.
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John Alexander ‘ McCormack
American Legion
Navy
Navy Tuberculosis Hospital
Fort Lyon
Cole
U.S. S. Kearsarge
Vera Cruz
St. Angers
Naval Base Hospital No. 1
Brest
Marne
Juilly
Legion
Warm Friend of the Legion in St Paul
Ex service men visit the American Legion in St Paul Minnesota seeking work as John C Tuanibrok a restaurant owner helps veterans by feeding them at cost during a recent armory celebration he fed 4000 men and proved a warm American friend.
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John
John C. Tuanibrok
St. Paul Armory
Lambros
Sederocastron
Greece
St. Paul
American Legion
Little child shall lead, or so the general says
An editorial in The New York Times notes Hanford MacNider’s youthfulness as commander of the American Legion. In a later speech he recalls a tale of a young second lieutenant misguided by a private remark. The company marches twenty miles after a child leads them, in a humorous anecdote.
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Schild
New York
Fimes
Hanford MacNider
American Legion
MacNider
Carrying On With the American Legion
Berkeley daily edition reported to be prepared by the local American Legion post. Alien service members are losing citizen papers at about 100 a month per the department of labor. Ex soldiers retreat to a private health resort above Kilauea crater in Hawaii. Three ex soldiers released from Tulsa jail on Legion request after vagrancy arrest. A Toledo judge praised by the Tony Wroblewski Legion post for denying citizenship to two foreign born conscientious objectors.
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Berkeley, Cal
Post
The
American Legion
Department of Labor
Wilauea’s
Hilo
Hawaii
Tulsa
Okla
Toledo
Tony Wroblewski
Legion
Stimulant mix used to pep up hens feeding guide
A United States Department of Agriculture prepared note advises that healthy laying hens need no stimulants beyond a balanced ration. When hens seem dumpish a pepper based mixture may help. mix red pepper allspice ginger cloves fenugreek and feed in moist wash or daily in small amounts until appetite returns.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Turkeys Lay Early In Day Says USDA
Poultry experts from the United States Department of Agriculture explain that confinement to a coop with a slat bottom for two to three days breaks broodiness. After release hens begin laying within a week and the first eggs appear every other day for two or three eggs before daily laying. Most eggs are laid in the morning and timing during the laying season was observed by watchful study of a turkey hen.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Infertile Eggs Warn Poultrymen
Poultrymen should test eggs before placing under a hen or in an incubator and remove eggs unlikely to produce good chicks. It is not inferred that infertile eggs may be selected for incubation. No method exists except incubation to determine fertility.
Radio Ring Set by Teen in Elizabeth N J
Alfred G Rinehart nineteen years old of Elizabeth New Jersey built a radio set hidden in a ring. The KinAall instrument measures one inch long five eighths inch wide and seven sixteenths inch thick. An ordinary umbrella serves as the aerial.
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Alfred G. Rinehart
Elizabeth
N. 1
Ao Radio
KinAall Destrument
Oldest Living Twins Claim United States Title
Mrs. To Peake and Mrs. 2D. C. Billings of Clint Texas say they are the nation’s oldest living twins, born in 1889. On their 83rd birthday they were visited by the youngest twins in the neighborhood who brought a basket of goodies.
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To Peake
Ett
2D. C. Billings
Clint, Tex
United States
Old but still running elock from Lanvon lineage
A carved Rome 1188 elock passed through the Lanvon family until the last survivor aged ninety sold it five years ago to Dr. A. B. Silverman of Atlantic City. The clock keeps good time and hides a tiny music box that plays a tune on the hour and half hour.
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Rome
Lanvon
A.B. Silverman
Atlantic City
N. J
Litter for Poultry House from Hayloft Refuse
The best litter for poultry house floors is chaff and refuse from the hayloft. Hayseeds are small but invigorating and provide benefits driven by the seeds.
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Parlee .Gross
Buckeye
Denver Legion
U.S. Navy
John Lambros
St. Paul, Minn
Aes
Aes Beewene
Masees Sens Tee
Ee Ata Adee Ewsenene Saeeees Bataeees
Carl Kh. Akeley
Belgian Congo
Alice Bradley
Herbert Bradley
EK. Akeley
Martha Miller
Priscille Dall
Alice
Kentucky Brothers
Joseph EK
Lenahan
Charles
Louisville
Ernest L. Bell
Georgia
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