Work of Veterans Bureau Gains Legion Backing
The American Legion supports United States veterans bureau reforms led by Director Frank T. Hines aimed at improving relief for disabled veterans. Key steps include permanent partial ratings to cut medical exams, better placement of vocational trainees with a 97 percent placement rate, and efficiency moves such as closing 35 subdistrict offices and consolidating supplies into central depots. A strict budget system is cited as a principal achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Frank T. Hines
American Legion
Joseph Sparks
National Rehabilitation Committee of the
Bureau For the Relief of
Legion
Hines
Veteran saved from asylum by American Legion aid
Carl Huff a World War II veteran from Alex Oklahoma was diverted from a state asylum to a hospital for observation after American Legion auxiliary members intervened. Huff served 16 months overseas and faced tuberculosis concerns and nerves led to insanity proceedings in Chickasha before Norman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Huff
Alex
Okla
American Legion Auxiliary
Huff
Chickasha
Norman
Blanche Freeman
Legion Helps Disabled Veteran Get Debt Paid
A Clearwater Kansas letter reports the American Legion arranged repayment of a $100 debt owed to Clarence English by a Wichita man. English, gassed and wounded, traveled west to recuperate and cashed the check for hospital expenses. After protest failed, a Legion post and delegation paid him in full, a gesture his grateful mother praised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Clearwater
Kansas
Clarence
Legion
Remarkable Is Right: A Commuter Smoke Car Tale
In a crowded smoking car, proud fathers traded tales of their clever children. Mr. Spiffington boasted his six year old son, claiming he never said a bright thing, prompting a collective yawn among the riders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Spiffington
American Legion Weekly
Education Week Observance Set for November 18
The American Legion sponsors Education Week with school church and civic support. The 1923 program runs Sunday to Saturday November 18 to outline goals from sermons on church school ties to literacy reading and writing for all ages and improved teacher conditions and facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Legion
United States
Garland W. Powell
National Americanism Commission
The
Powell
National Education Association
Little Brown Bear Wonders Why Pine Trees Sigh
A young brown bear unable to sleep asks a bat about the pine tree sighs. The bat explains wind causes the sighs, and lack of fur coat or cave makes one sigh too. The bear returns to his mother, drifting to sleep with the pine trees whispering outside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ittle Brown Bear
Mother Bear
Little Brown Bear
Brown Bear
Luuke Brown Bear
Cross
Brown Boar
Brown
Bear
Bat
McClure
Legion conducts school for 75 children in West Palm Beach
The American Legion sponsors a winter kindergarten in West Palm Beach with 75 attendees. City school authorities supervise, outside funds cover operation, two teachers hired, and a waiting list is planned. If successful the program may expand in 1924.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Palm Beach
Fla
The
American Legion
Legion
Of Corsets True Mayme Girls at Dances Decline
A brisk item notes that corset fashion and youthful corset wearers waned in popularity as Mayme and Corinne discuss modern dances and what girls wear to social events at the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayme
Corinne
Leglop Weekly
Walter Long Early stage actor turned film star
Walter Long, born 1884 in Milford New Hampshire, became a noted character actor in motion pictures after an extensive stage career. He stood five feet eleven inches tall, weighed 175 pounds, with brown hair and gray eyes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Long
Milford
N. H
The Bridegroom’s Duties Before a Sacred Wedding
A 1923 McClure’s article outlines the bridegroom’s role in wedding preparations including coordinating luggage through the best man, selecting the bridal bouquet with the bride, delivering the clergyman’s fee, and bidding farewell to the bride’s parents after the ceremony. It notes social customs about seeing the bride and dressing for travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClure
Bynificato
The Friendly Path on Illness and Mindset
The article discusses illness and resilience, noting nobody is immune and cautioning against complaint. It emphasizes that philosophical acceptance eases pain, prevention reduces contagion, and modern medicine lowers death rates, while the World War era Army deaths remain higher historically. It ends with a light catechetical exchange showing personal relationships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Beulah A Sacred Name With Mythic Talisman Beliefs
Beulah a historic religious name meaning married and linked to Land of Beulah. Its revival arose among devout families across generations. Coral is said to be Beulah's talismanic stone for health and wisdom, but must stay intact. Sunday and the number two are noted as Beulah's lucky day and number.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Land
Beulah
Israel
Wheeler Syndicate, Inc
No Old Bookshops in Norway
Bassett Digby notes in the Manchester Guardian that Norway has few old bookshops aside from a lone shop near the docks offering an 1843 devotional treatise. He visits Stockholm Antikvariats with dusty tomes dating to the 1600s and earlier, including Elzevirs found years ago and ancient Bibles bound in worm-eaten boards with iron chains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
China
Christiania
Scandinavia
Portsmouth
Bournemouth
Cardi
Antikvariats
Stockholm
Bassett Digby
Manchester
Guardian
Cocklebur Poisoning in Early Plant Stages Warned by USDA
United States Department of Agriculture researchers report cocklebur plants in early growth stages can poison livestock. Young pigs under 50 pounds are at risk from as little as 12 ounces, with cattle and sheep vulnerable if intake is sufficient. Milk feeding, bacon grease, lard, and raw flaxseed offer protection, and mowing before seeding is advised to keep pigs off infested pastures. Copies of circular 283 are available from USDA Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
C. D. Marsh
A. B. Clawson
Department
Department of Agriculture
Washington
DD. CC
Iasy to Lead Sheep If You Know Proper Method
Old shepherds teach gentle handling to lead sheep, avoiding neck or wool pulls. A proper grip on the left side guides the animal while preventing bruises and torn skin. The tips come from an Ithaca extension course on sheep and wool production offered free to New York residents able to work with sheep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iasy
State Agricultural College
Ithaca
New York State
Hogs Gain Little From Undigested Grain
The article argues that undigested grain offers limited feed value for hogs while noting that wet grain reduces quality. It suggests careful feeding for calves and commented on the improper assumption that all grain passes through efficiently without processing.
Mineral mixtures essential for hog herd nutrition
Swine raisers receive formulas for mineral fixtures in hog herds. The article lists combinations using acid phosphate rock phosphate bone meal limestone weed ash hydrated lime and salt to balance essential minerals based on experimental findings.
Pigs Fed Standing Corn Show Low Rooting Behavior
Experiments by Prof. J. H. Shepperd at North Dakota Agricultural College station found pigs fed standing corn with tankage showed little rooting, while pigs fed only corn rooted the most. Pigs receiving four tenths pound per day of tankage plus alfalfa did some rooting, and all groups received coal and salt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Shepperd
North Dakota Agricultural College Experiment Station
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Work OF Veterans’ Bureau
Asylum
Education Week
POST
John Kendrick Bangs
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Mary Marshall Duffee
Tennyson
Robinson
Wheeler Syndicata, Inc
Sis
George
Bobby
Mildred Marshall
Beulail
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