Parachute Darewoman Shocks Wichita Falls Crowd
Miss Verne Welch leaped from an airplane in Wichita Falls Texas aiming a 3000 foot dive for charity. Spectators gasped as the parachute failed to open yet she landed with a slight injury. The stunt drew money for a Legion clubhouse at the event.
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Wichitaree
Terra Firma
Revollin
Mise Verna Welch
Wichita Palla
Tex
Mint Welch
Legion
Wichita Falls
Active in Legion affairs Miss Merritt rises to national post
Miss May Merritt of Indiana, longtime leader in the American Legion Auxiliary, is promoted from local president to Indiana national committee woman in under eight months. She chairs the national emblem and resolutions committees and influences policy while advocating better educational opportunities for Hoosier children. A separate note recalls a German officer objecting to songs aboard a ship. In Waynesboro Tennessee, Legion members drill to seal a club house atop an oil well, creating a community clubhouse funded by royalties.
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Freer
American Legion Auxiliary
Connersville
Ind
Indiana
Montha
Blue May Merritt
Misa Merritt
Aux Mary's National Emblem Committee
Resolutions Committee
The
Legion Auxiliary
Mise Merritt
Hoosterdom
American Legion
Waynesboro
Teno
Ex-Service Men Aim for National Home for Disabled Veterans
Readable fragments show ex service men seeking aid for a national home for disabled veterans. The text mentions poverty and support efforts, with unclear names or dates due to damaged OCR.
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Meneifis
Saecessae
Satvnace
National Home For
Yolikmteer
Highest Comimendation From Powneter Unneral Werk
An archival note records a high commendation sent to Cewern Lejennn from Powneter Unneral Werk. The message speaks of the ghost commendation of pour core, marking a formal expression of esteem in a ceremonial context.
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Cewern Lejennn
Only Woman Major in Army Nursing Leadership
Julia Stimson, the first woman major in the United States Army Nurse Corps, served as director of the American Expeditionary Forces nursing service during World War I and later headed the Army Nurse Corps and the School of Nursing. Born in Worcester Massachusetts and a Vassar graduate, she led 10,000 nurses, overseas base hospital No 21 chief nurse, and christened the transport Chaumont with General Pershing in attendance, recalling spilling champagne on the general's uniform.
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Army
Army School of Nursing
United States
Julia
Stimson
Army Nurse Corps
School of Nursing
Worcester
Mass
Vassar
St. Louis
Base Hospital No. 21
Chaumont
Pershing
Buck Privates Shrinking in U S Army Says War Dept
The army has few plain ducks left as reductions slim the ranks. Only about 26,000 unspecialized ducks remain in the army with 47,337 men in foot regiments and 133,000 enlisted at war start in April 1917. Further cuts may leave infantry as a framework of specialists, ready to be rapidly expanded in an emergency.
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United States Army
War Department
Ming
Buck preferring march over parade honor for McMaken
Brigadier General William V. McMaken of Toledo recalls his forty year service and says he prefers marching as a buck to the rear for patriotic memorials. At the 1920 American Legion parade in Cleveland he received a ribbing for not dressing right from a former sergeant. McMaken led aviation units in World War I.
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William V. McMaken
Toledo
American Legion
Cleveland
McMahon
Mr. McMaken
Thirty-seventh
Memorial and property gifts highlighted by American Legion
A fragment outlines a memorial for University of Minnesota marines, an island purchase in the Maumee River by Toledo Post for a Legion retreat, and various Legion aid efforts including tuition coverage and military service bonuses. The text is garbled but centers on American Legion charitable acts and commemorations.
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University of Minnesota
University
Maumee River
Toledo
American Legion
Horse Liable to Sunstroke in Heat and Exercise
A historical note explains horses can suffer sunstroke when exposed to heat or rapid work. It advises seeking shade, keeping the head elevated, applying cold water or ice to the poll, offering small sips of cool water if conscious, and giving four ounces of whiskey diluted in cold water before sponging the animal.
Treatment for Heat Exhaustion in Horses and Humans
The passage prescribes cooling with cool water rubbed briskly until dry and rested, plus ample fresh air without a draught. It notes the same treatment applies to horses overdriven in hot weather suffering from heat exhaustion.
CLEAN BATH BEST FOR HOGS AND HOG WASHING
Five Chinese hogs are kept clean by providing a suitable bath area. Hogs often suffer mud exposure, but if premises allow washing and mud avoidance they gain health and productivity. Regular clean water and space reward the swine with better upkeep and growth.
Suitable feeds for swine in poor corn areas
Many people in areas with failing corn crops hesitate to raise hogs even if barley feterita kafir or milo yields are large. For practical purposes these seeds are not suitable as corn for fattening hogs, and anyone who can grow these crops can grow hogs.
Profit in home grown feed for farmers
A farming rule urges feeding what is raised to maximize returns. While some purchased feeds may be needed, the saver who relies on his own crops will achieve better chewing when calculating preferences on a batch of pigs or cattle.
Hog raising tips and care for profitable farms
The text advises providing mainitary quarters and good feed with plenty of pure water. It stresses stock purity and elevated care, noting disease can be a builder of problems. It mentions camp dusty quarters and lure for buyers, though the passage is garbled.
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Deaner
Protein value and animal byproducts noted for food use
A garbled OCR note discusses the value of protein as a nutrient source tied to animal parts. It mentions meat, horns, and byproducts, with unclear references to organs or feeds and potential rabid or unsafe context. The fragment hints at nutritional roles but lacks coherent specifics.
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Hue
Insurance Man Enthused Over Taniac Health Claim
J W Morrison of St Louis, a National Life Insurance Co agent, says Taniac restored his health and gained fourteen pounds after years of stomach trouble, heart palpitations, and near-bed confinement. He reports improved appetite, sleep, and full-time work, praising the remedy sold by all good druggists.
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Tantac Han
J. W. Morrison
Thrush Ave
Louis
National Life Insurance Co
Taniac
Casanova Exposed in The Dial Review
Gustav Gugits praises a Dial review of Casanova claiming he fakes conquests and inventions for himself. Julius von Ludassy notes that many celebrated escapes and lovers were creations of his imagination.
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Casanova
Gustav Gugits
Lssne
The
Dial
Indies
Julius von Ludassy
Calumet Baking Powder offers free "Reliable Recipes" booklet
Households may obtain a complimentary copy of "Reliable Recipes" from the Calumet Baking Powder Co. Home Economica Department, 4100-28 Fillmore Street, Chicago. The 76 page guide includes recipes and kitchen tips and is illustrated in color. Calumet also provides free cooking and equipment advice upon request.
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Home Econom Benicar
Calumet Baking Powder Co
Fillmore Street
Chicago
Home Economica
Home Economica Department
Fillmore St
Bright Idea Not Patented on Broadway Farewell Kiss
A marine and his girl, strolling Broadway, improvise a street kiss goodbye by shaking hands and walking different blocks. The plan spreads as they continue meeting and parting across town, leaving the leatherneck amused at his own cleverness. One of the joys of summer ends with winter return.
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New York
Broadway
Linsen
Lucille
Leatherneck
Social Calls and a Spelling Lesson from Life
An English lecturer recalls Thomas Hardy as a serious figure once famed for bohemian London social reach. Hardy supposedly phoned 2h Chiswick to summon celebrities, but the directory listed Wormwood Scrubs. A tale about a stubborn student who refused spelling ends with a grim fate and a rueful lesson from the old teacher.
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Thomas Mardy
London
Hardy
Chiswick
Wormwood Scrubs Prison
Corn Squor Tale From North Carolina Mountains
A fragment from American Legion Weekly recounts a rustic scene where two darkles opened a Jug and spilled a drop on a tumble bag. One man reacts with sudden vigor, stepping back and shouting Lets go, as the pair interact with the loaded cotton bales in a coarse humorous illustration.
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North Carolina
American Legion Weekly
Naval Testing Ground Near Washington Navy Yard
The Navy dept establishes a new seven mile Potomac site on the Belleyle magazine grounds for experimental work. The facility aims to function as a development laboratory with primary focus on radio research, slated to be operational this summer.
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Naval Testing
Navy Department
Montil
Herstory
Potomac River
Washington Navy Yard
Belleyie Magazine
Sume Mar
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Avuiliary Precident
Atlantic Ner
Julia ©, Stimson
Red Cross
U. S. Army
Ohio
Buck's County
Pennsylvania
Lawson
Ottmonwe
Atmerican Leee
Heapital Aocenumoda
Gama
Sun-Maid Raisin Growers
Freeno
Calif
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