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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1922
Page
6
The article details debates in Congress over army manpower reductions and Navy spending, the pac treaty votes, and warnings from Pershing and Harbord that deeper cuts threaten national defense. It notes Senate actions on gas ban and submarine limits, and ongoing labor and coal mine disputes shaping national policy.
Policy for the Genoa conference to be sent to the House of Commons this week, with Lloyd George’s retention of office hinging on the vote. The plan backs Cannes resolutions with a majorities test of 300 or more, while the Turkish settlement in the Near East is outlined with Greece, Britain, and France negotiating limits and a demilitarized Dardanelles. The piece notes Greek caution, Turkish discontent, and French reliance on British input amid imperial power realignments.
Judge Landis, recently re signed, cites the need for rehabilitation and reconstruction for ex service men. He spoke to American Legion posts noting postwar self control and urging action to prevent a future letdown after victory. He recalled reinstating Joe Burris of the Cleveland Indians due to wartime gas exposure.
Miss Wilhelming Weyhing, long service nurse famed for her war work in Serbia and France, is appointed head nurse at Roosevelt American Legion Memorial Hospital Camp Custer Michigan and commander of Detroit's Legion post of war nurses. Her record includes typhus aid in 1914, chief nurse at Base Hospital No. 17 in Dijon, and 21 months in France. She aims to create a home-like, tubercular veteran care environment at Camp Custer and Alken hospitals.
A planned replica of a French village will be built at Medicina Park near Lawton to serve as a recreation ground for American Legion members. The hotel de ville will include an auditorium for 1000, with Legion posts statewide to erect cottages for members. Water and electric service are donated, and Lawton residents provide native stone for the construction costs.
The American Legion post at Lake City Mun has built a free skating rink. Juba J. Payne, missing since 1918 after release from a German prison, is being looked for by the Legion. Minnesota posts award cups and medals for studies and athletics. New Orleans hosts the fourth annual Legion convention October 16 to 20.
A vintage ad promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a pure vegetable herbal remedy for kidney, liver, and bladder troubles. It claims no stimulants, urges teaspoons, and offers sample bottles by mail while urging readers to buy two bottle sizes at drug stores. It ends with a humorous car-ownership anecdote from a newspaper strip.
A compilation of humorous maxims and misquotes includes remarks on tact, self-reliance, hope, and cash. Notable lines reference a Scottish minister’s condemned criminal anecdote, Bostonian misdirection, and the idea that a wink can imply a nod to a blind horse.
A husband returns home to find a note from his wife claiming she has gone to have her kimono cut out. He fears a tragedy, searches hospitals, then learns the note reveals a drastic but harmless plan. The event unfolds with a mistaken alarm and a domestic misunderstanding.
A Chicago Journal excerpt recalls nurses and patients discussing the ordeal of waking after surgery. One patient nears recovery while a visiting woman learns of the strange humor in the phrase coming to. The tale highlights hospital chat and the oddities of medical bedside talk.
A snobbish young man and a self-made, war-weathered man discuss culture and language. The profiteer retorts that the youth speaks many tongues while the other can only claim Balingsgate and golf, highlighting differing values and humor amid social snobbery.
A brook trout weighing large was caught by J B Barbour of Paterson N J in the St Johns river Gaspe Canada on June 20 1921. Its stomach contained five large pine mice.
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