Bronze Tablet Honors Killed American Legion Commander
A bronze tablet embedded in a large boulder memorializes Frederick W. Galbraith Jr., national commander of the American Legion, killed in an auto accident near Indianapolis. The inscription, dedicated by the Legion, marks his service and memory. The ceremony was led by Legion headquarters staff with National Commander Banford Mack Niger and Mrs. Lowell Hobart attending.
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Frederic W. Galbraith
American Legion
Gnalbraith
Tnodlanapolis
Legion
Banford Mack Niger
Lowell Hobart, Presyoru
Kid Corporal Scores Again in West Point Appointment
Solin Shoemaker, a young veteran who joined the army before age fourteen and served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, has received presidential appointment to West Point. He recently graduated in Phoenix Arizona, after military tactics study under Maj. Claude Decatur Jones, who advocated for him with Phoenix American Legion and Major Jones to fill the vacancy left by oversena hero Charles Barrett.
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Solin Shoemaker
France
West Point
Shoemaker
Phow x
Ariz
Claude Decatur Jones
Jones
Young Shoemaker
Fifty-fourth Infantry
Phoenix ‘American Legion
Jones A
Charles Barrett
Poland Seeks Legion Plan for Unemployment Relief
Poland praises the American Legion for detailing a plan to employ unemployed former service members. The Polish government sees potential in using the Legion’s scheme to reduce unemployment and notes 400,000 ex-soldiers could gain temporary work in its first week. The American Legion and supporters, including Holnko of the consulate, welcome the recognition as London hosts a conference on the topic.
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Eplon
Legion
United States
Regimn
Poldiéra
Faith and confidence in disabled veterans’ future work
Maj. W. F. Lent, chief of the employment service of the United States Veterans Bureau, told the American Legion that veterans with disabilities can and will return to work through initiative and government support. He urged employers to see these men as capable, not crippled, stressing the program places them on paths to suitable jobs rather than guarantees.
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Himaalz
Maj
W. F. Lent
United States Yaternna’ Bureau
Mojoy Lent
Stn
American Legion
Tndianapolis
Legion
The
Legion Auxiliary
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Flapper of 1776 draws crowds at Legion film showing
Miss Hilda Scheuer styled as a flapper of 1770 to promote an Indianapolis American Legion history film at a local theater. The event drew large crowds for Cardigan, a Revolution era picture sponsored by the Legion, with Scheuer and other “flappers” advertising the program. The piece also notes broader Legion Auxiliary and War Gasts farm pest programs and World War I gas usage in pest control.
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Indianapolis American Legion
Hilda Seheurer
Middle West
Cardigan
American Legion 18
Clock for Airplanes Promises Temperature Proof Timepiece
The U S War Department air service claims to have developed a clock for airplanes that keeps perfect time from 100 degrees below zero to 150 degrees above and resists plane vibration with two movements like a watch and electric wind. Veteran Ben ole death record reveals tastor related to four percent of Crystal Springs residents, with stepmother and 16 siblings each receiving monthly installments of $1.92.
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Air Service
United States War Department
Benole
Aytor
Crystal Springs
Attsc
Veterans’ Bureau
Tastor
Fitll
Carrying On With the American Legion on the Sioux Reservation
Standing Bear a Sioux equaw presented Mrs Lowaett B Hobart national president of the American Legion Auxiliary with an Indian doit during Mrs Hobarts glatt to the Indian reservation in South Dakota One ten thousand dollar wager at American Legionnaires from Dallas Texas started to walk from Dallas to New York in eight hundred days One got married on the way and three fell by the wayside Only two reached the last lap of the Journey A Ne ral of the World war One timed nde Chateau nel but with
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Standing Bear
Lowaett B. Hobart
American Legion Auxiliary
Hobart
South Dakota
Dallas
Tex
New York
Concrete Finds Many New Uses in American Industry
A survey of Portland cement shows its development from early simple sidewalks to a versatile material underpinning roads, bridges, buildings, paving and agricultural structures. The piece traces cement’s origins with Smeaton and Aspdin, notes U S production growth from 1860 to 1920, and highlights vast uses from concrete highways to farm facilities and urban infrastructure. It underscores cement’s impact on construction pace and cost, and its role in modernizing the economy.
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Washington
Erlayatona Ulehthowes
English Channel
John Smeaton
Rabies Vaccination Debate Sparks Englewood Dogs Ordinance
A garbled report from Closter New Jersey notes Englewood council debating a dog rabies program. It describes a first dog vaccination project and a one year vaccine policy, with reference to city actions and concerns about street exposure. The text mentions Trenton and a figure described as a great Jane receiving the infection.
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Closter
N. J
Engle
Ander Gandlon
Learth
Englewood
Trenton
Jane
Concrete uses and oddities spread across the world
The text describes varied concrete applications from large foothill and base ball game structures to baby hippopotamus pools, zoo rock barriers, and a chimney in Sagano Japan. It notes concrete products in parks, ports, and industrial works, highlighting broad, imaginative uses and transportation of heavy cargoes.
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Nage
Culver
Saganosahi
Japan
Ha World
Tonkinay
Aqualioln
Almost Wrecked State Rail Man Ad
An advertisement features J J Mowrer of Akron praising Tantne for health benefits. The copy laments a near wreck of a railroad man, claiming tonnage and vitality improved by a tonic. It credits Tonne In ROW and states the remedy strengthens nerves and energy.
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J. J. Mowrer
Park St
Akron
Ile Tenitt
Untitled fragmentary note from a coastal scene
Fragmentary OCR text describes a beach scene with a man named He Didi Olle Kohn and a mention of attire, a malline or wnepleed silt, and a girl with a rapt look, set near Coronulo with a seaside mood. The text is highly garbled and lacks complete context or clear events.
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Olle Kohn
New York
Coronulo
Woman Credits Lydia E Pinkham Product for Recovery
Mrs Cima Perrore of 818 W Liberty St Cincinnati Ohio says years of nervous trouble and fatigue from household work ceased after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. She reports feeling strengthened and able to care for her 19 month old son and recommends the medicine to other women.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mra
Cima
Perrore
Liberty St
Lydia EB
Pinkham
Fragmentary reminiscence from a late 19th century note
The text describes a shaky memory of dying, relocation, and a six year old girl speaking a phrase about a burial in a house. A sister counters with a different memory while a brother named Joli protests. The passage, broken and garbled, hints at a family scene from an old diary or letter.
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Neuse
Elo
Aaid
Henyer
Joli
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