Women Lead Postoffice Roles In Legion Affairs
Wartime service records show Miss Leona S. Mellish and Miss M Etta Wallace advancing to offices in the Somerville post unit. Mellish, grav es registration officer, served in Army Nurse Corps from 1917 to 1921 with overseas service in France and Germany. Wallace, post historian, joined April 1918 and served with Base Hospital Units in France before discharge in 1919.
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Milady
Legion
Leona S. Mellish
Mesves
France
Trier
Germany
Miss Wallace
Camp Merritt
N. J
Relic of War Presented to Alliance Ohio Post
T A Lamont of Alliance Ohio gave the Alliance American Legion a large gas shell as a war relic. He devised a varnish coating inside shells to prevent corrosion and preserve gas strength, later adopted by government experts. The shell, called book patent by the government, will be used as a flag holder at the new Legion quarters. Lamont also gained wartime fame for a rifle trigger treatment to prevent cold sticking.
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T. A. Lamont
Alliance
Ohio
American Legion of Alliance
America
Lemont
Heinie
Alliance Legionnaires
Lamon
Lamont
Utah Legion Seeks Government Insurance Reinstatement
In Spanish Fork the American Legion Utah department adopted resolutions calling for reinstatement of government insurance under approved private methods. They urge investigation of ties between the state insurance head and the U S Veterans Bureau, propose appointed government insurance representatives in each state, and seek laws to allow veterans to reinstate uninsured portions by paying one back and one advance month’s premium.
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American Legion
Department of Utah
Spanish Fork
Insurance Department
U. S. Veterans’ Bureau
How to Keep Well Boils and Skin Infections
Dr Frederick R Green explains boils arise from external infection of hair follicles and sweat glands not impure blood. He warns against poultices and outlines early skin washing, local antiseptic treatment, and a doctor’s incision for deep abscesses to prevent reinfection.
Taking the Cure at Home
A tuberculosis patient opts for a radical home cure over medicine, living with open windows year round, sleeping nine hours, and eating a simple diet. After one year his condition improves markedly and after two years no trace remains.
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California
Tie
Control and Prevention of European Foul Brood in Bees
Montana State College suggests Italian queens for vigorous colonies to resist European foul brood. Beekeepers should observe stock, breed from resistant progeny, and prepare strong winter colonies. If a colony is heavily diseased, kill the queen, destroy queen cells, and requeen with a resistant Italian. Do not destroy brood combs unless severe cases. The extension service distributes pyrotol for stump land clearance at cost.
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Montana
QO. A. Sippel
Montana State College
United States
Montana State College Extension Service
Bozeman
More Land Clearing In Flathead Farmers
Farmers of Flathead County through County Agent R B McKee pursue land clearing projects seeking improved soil and cultivation prospects with local efforts expanding.
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Flathead
Flathead County
R. B. McKee
Lumber Camps Grow Near Whitefish With Expanding Activity
Activity rises in lumber camps south of Whitefish with continued work for years. Somers Lumber Camp No. 1 at Blancham Lake has run since July employing over 100 men. Tom Gardner plans a camp for the Somers company nearby. Meull brothers open a camp on the Kalispell road near the old Micho camp and Crum operates a camp on the Whitefish River.
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Whitefish
Somers
Blancham Lake
Tom Gardner
Meull
College Herd Sire Makes Good at Montana State College
The first daughter of Iowana Mercedes Homestead, raised at Montana State College, produced 21 043 pounds of milk and 671 73 pounds of butterfat in 365 days. Iowa State College supplied the sire and confirms the two year seven month old heifer’s record as the college’s top two year old dairy achievement.
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College
Mercedes
Montana State College
Iowa State College
Jowana Mercedes Homestead
Iowa
College Dairy Farm
Indians Sentenced in Wolf Point Killing Case
Joe Garfield received 3 years in Leavenworth plus a $1000 fine and costs. John Joshue was sentenced to 15 months in Leavenworth. The two Indians were convicted in a federal trial for the November 26 1923 killing of Ernest Pipe near Wolf Point.
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Joe Garfield
Leavenworth
John Joshue
Ernest Pipe
Wolf Point
Waste Made Into Profit on Farm By-Products
A rural note explains that using waste and surplus crops for livestock feed often makes the main difference between profit and loss in farming. It emphasizes efficient resource use and practical feeding strategies for farmers.
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theAmerican Legion News Service
Utah Department
Frederick R. Green
Health
Gov
Dixon
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Butte
Tts
C. F. Kelley
George M. Bourquin
Garfield
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