Big convention next week tests Ironwood welcome effort
Lionwood prepares for the annual state American Legion convention, aiming to host thousands of visitors from across Michigan's upper peninsula. City leaders stress hospitality, new memorials, and a robust program, while debates over alcohol during the event highlight past Legion conduct concerns.
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Lionwood
Upper Peninsula
American Legion
Ironwood
The
Straits
Ivawood
Hurley
Legion
Legion Convention Should Not Be Aroused By Booze
A local opinion piece urges Legion members to avoid drunken excess at conventions. It notes most members are young and may feel pressure to drink, but stresses the organization must take pride and refrain from public disgrace. The piece places responsibility on the attendees for the convention's conduct.
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Legion
Fish lore and local jokes about George Newett
In Crystal Falls Diamond Drill Tom Conlin reprints barbed remarks about George Newett and fishing lore. The piece jokes that Newett mischaracterized a fisherman and cites a chain of hearsay about a so called trout claim, ending with the old quip that “Those big fellows are very human after all.”
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Tom Conlin
Crystal Falls
George Newett
George
Chris Bennett
Chris
Iron Mountain
Judge Flannigan
Iron Mountain Rotary Club
Newett
Isaac Walton
Grain Crisis Sparks Farmland Plot to Withhold Wheat
The piece describes a proposed wheat withholding plan by the Washington office of the American Farm Bureau Federation urging a 200 million bushel stockpile. It envisions federal warehouses and high collateral loans via new farm credit banks, with notable advocates including Brookhart La Follette Shipstead and Magnavox Johnson urging government aid. The report notes sharp opposition from price-manipulation critics.
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Washington
American Farm Bureau Federation
Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Brookharts
la Follettes
Shipsteads
Fraziers
Magnavox Johnson
Farmers’ unrest prompts cries for action and reform
In Minneapolis four senators urge President Harding to convene a special session to address agricultural distress. Brookhart pushes for wheat price support and high tariffs, while Frazier backs a broader Wall Street critique. Shipstead and Johnson offer less concrete cures as debates stray from market realities and European purchase power. Oil refiners in Chicago and Kansas City plan to trim output, prompting antitrust scrutiny, yet no special session is invoked for oil. The piece contrasts calls for government aid to farmers with skepticism about market forces and past policy failures.
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Brookhart
Frazier
Shipstead
Minneapolis
Harding
Congress
Nonpartisan League
North Dakota
Commonwealth
Messrs
Johnson
Wall Street
Secretary of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Europe
Mid-Continent
Chicago
Kansas City
United States District Attorney
Juss
Brookharts
Johnsons
Political agitation by La Follette group risks growth of socialist policies
The article warns that the La Follette faction and allied Democrats could gain the balance of power in Congress. It cites fears of socialization trends, restrictive legislation, and appeals to farmers and workers. It critiques promises of reform as ongoing partisan agitation and urges politicians to unite against such planks.
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Washington
William H. Barr
National Founders Association
United States
Bryan
Jean Yeurs
Sta Odheart National
la Follette
Ascotent
Supreme Court
Bevlot Russa
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