Figure of North Dakota Legion Adjutant J C K Williams
Jack Williams, North Dakota American Legion adjutant, earned fame and a strong voice by crying extra on Fargo streets for six years. He rose from a pressroom worker to wartime service, quitting school in fourth grade but educated himself through night study. He led theargo Trades and Labor assembly before enlisting and became the first state adjutant of the American Legion.
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N. North
Dakota
Jack Williams
American Legion
Williams
Fargo
N. D
Newsle
Witting
Third Engineers
Willits
Pie
Argo Trades Aid Labor Assembly
Suum
The
American Legion de Cerbinerre
Northwest Beauty Selections by Seattle Legion
Miss Hazel Jordan of Everett Wash is named one of the three most beautiful girls in the Northwest by the American Legion of Seattle. The youths praise regional advantages such as climate and outdoor sport while noting her age as eighteen.
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Fteast
Hazel Jordan
The
American Legion of
Seattle
Wash
Great Northwest
Northwest
United States
Legion of Seattle
Jordan
Everett
Puget Sound
Indianapolist man killed by souvenir shell in home
Frank M. Kinne of Indianapolis had served in World War I and become an artillery expert. He nearly perished when a three inch shell he brought from France exploded in his home. His mother and sister escaped injury as the house was wrecked, and a military burial was held by the local American Legion post.
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Frank M. Kinne
Indianapolis
Ind
France
Kinne
The
American Legion
Regular Army
Special One Cent Fare To Legion Convention
Sixteen railroad lines spanning 27 states offer a one cent per mile fare for the American Legion convention in Kansas City on October 30 to November 1. Participating railroads include Missouri Pacific Kansas City Southern Frisco Rock Island Chicago Great Western Chicago and North Western Burlington Santa Fe Chicago and Alton Missouri Kansas and Texas Union Pacific and others. The fare zone covers Denver Minneapolis Buffalo New York Savannah Jacksonville Birmingham New Orleans and Port Arthur.
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The
American Legion
Kansas City
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City Southern
Frisco
Rock Island
Chicizo
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Wabash
Ilineis Central
Chicago Great Western
Chicago and Northwestern
Burlington
Chicago and Alton
Santa Fes
Chicago
Peoria
St. Louis
Missouri
Misouri
Kansas
Texas
Union Pacific
Denver
Minneapolis
Buffalo
N. Y
Savannah
J W Chapman Named New Mexico Legion Commander
Gallup lawyer J W Chapman of New Mexico is introduced as the new commander of the state American Legion. His varied career spans farmer, trapper, dynamite worker, motion picture operator, bookkeeper, and lawyer, with wartime service as a mechanic chauffeur balloon crew and officer trainee. He helped write the Legion’s non political clause and summarizes himself as American by birth with Episcopalian faith and prohibitionist by law.
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J. W. Chapman
Gallup
New Mexico
Department of the American Legion
United States
Mexico
Chapman
America
Legion
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Notable Figures and Titles From the War Era
Fragmented OCR notes list various decorations and titles. Mentions Admiral Beatty and General officers, plus references to Canadian corps leadership and a McCall university principal. Speculates on Britain dominions attendance at a world disarmament conference and a Legion national convention.
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Benny
Davies
Coney Douelis
Aig
Curl
Aid Las
Beatty
Hark Beatty
O. M. Ga
V. CO
France
Sir Wilam Currie
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McCall University
Great Britain
Dominions
Harding
Swale Story of Dishwashers Rise to Leader and Lawyer
Thomas W. Swale describes his unlikely rise from a dish washer and beaten cook to a prominent figure. He led as commander of the American Legion in Washington, served in the army intelligence in the Pacific Northwest, and later practiced law in Seattle after two terms as a state legislator.
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Thomas W. Swale
American Legion
State of Washington
Swale
Washington
Army
Pacific Northwest
Seattle
Wash
Better Sires Campaign Reaches Rural South Pastors
More than 5 000 country pastors will carry a United States Department of Agriculture message urging better sires to improve live stock. A stereopticon lecture using 70 lantern slides will supplement the effort, sent at the request of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
United States Department of Agriculture
Rural Survey
Bureau of Animal Industry
Cause for Unthrifty Pigs in Iowa Experiment Station Report
A report from Iowa Experiment Station swine expert Jelm M. Evvard notes that half a foot of hog intestine contained 63 worms weighing two-fifths of a pound, indicating unthriftiness from parasitic load. Recommendations include clean housing, drainage, good feeding, and emergency treatments with santonin and calomel, plus free access to certain minerals and laxatives in a self feeder.
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Iowa
Jelm MM
Evvard
Denver votes down horseless city plan
Wayne Dinsmore of the Horse Association of America warns in a communication to University Farm that Denver’s rejection of a horseless city ordinance risks a future horse shortage. He cites rising demand and prices for draft horses and urges intensified breeding to avoid higher production and transport costs.
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Denver
Wayne Dinsmore
Horse Association of America
University Farm
Ardmore Legion Salvages 2000-Volume Library
George Anderson of the American Legion post in Ardmore Oklahoma salvaged a library of 2000 volumes found in a store room. The effort echoes war days when items were acquired with simple phrases like we managed for it and we salvaged it.
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AELF
George Anderson
American Legion
Ardmore
Okla
Post
Legion Pos
FURNISH FOALS WITH GRAIN FOR HEALTHY WEANING
As pastures dry, feed Hithe grain to aid foal development and milk fat. Working mares’ colts need separate feed boxes and small grain portions with each feeding of the dam. Foals on pasture require a creep to keep grain available constantly. following these methods ensures steady gain and no shrink during weaning.
Ewes Disown Their Lambs and Remedies Discussed
The article notes ewes may reject lambs and describes methods to induce maternal acceptance. Techniques include penning ewes with the lamb, feeding lamb head and neck with ewe milk, and isolating pair for several days. Caution is given for particularly vicious ewes who may kill their lambs when isolated.
Fat When Grown Up Whet Dol Phatibe Coaintonin
Fragmentary text describes a seven year old child named Jolin weighing about 235 pounds. The readable portion notes a promise about becoming the heaviest, with unclear punctuation and garbled names.
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Jolin
Andy
Remarkable Gold Nugget Collection Found by Mrs Reed
Mrs Reed of Washington showcases eleven gold nuggets ranging from a hazelnut to a fist size, totaling up to 40 ounces and valued around 820 dollars. She recently moved to Washington from San Francisco and many nuggets are described as exceptionally large.
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Eazabeth Reed
Washington
Maj Leonard Darwin at Eugenics Congress in New York
Maj Leonard Darwin son of the famed evolutionist attended the International Eugenics Congress at the Museum of Natural History in New York. He is described as a distinguished scientist and prominent figure.
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Maj
Leonard Darwin
Theamicus Evolutionist
Museum of Natural History
New York
Scraps of Global Facts From Distant Clips
A jumbled collection notes diverse topics from Alaska oil and tea oil uses to ship folklore and Sweden’s government owned telephone systems. It mentions 24,000 curios in Prudhoe Bay and China as a major tea oil producer.
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Asheville
Duper
Alaska
Poidhe
China
Nelson
Sweden
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the American?’ Legion- News Service
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North Dakota Legion Department
Newsie
Department of New Mexico
Douglas Haig
Washington Department
Louisiana
Dr. Evward
Iowa Station
Botten
Dinsmore
Horse Association
Pope Benedict
Workd
St. Peter's
Rome
John Reed
Uncle Sam
National Capitol
Ani
Snagboat
David Tipton
Barden
Mississippi River
Dean
Iere
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