Change in Father Sees Marked Improvement After Tanlac
Cobb County farmer G W Slayton credits Tanlac with a dramatic turn in his chronically sick father. After twenty years of stomach troubles and failed diets and medicines, the patient began improving soon after starting Tanlac, eating normally again and planning meals. Slayton endorses Tanlac and urges others to try it, noting his father’s weight and appetite increase. Tanlac is advertised as sold by leading druggists nationwide.
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G. W. Slayton
Cobb County
Atlanta
Tennessee
Father
Iain
Draggista
Best Kidney Remedy Promises Under Pressure
An old note argues medicines often fail to meet claims while Kilmer's Swamp Root is praised by a druggist and many customers. It asserts the product cures kidney, liver, and bladder ailments and mentions testimonials. The piece hints at mail order sales and consumer skepticism.
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Oenes
Kilmer
Wap
Dros Steven
Genuine Bayer Aspirin Warning on Packaging
A damaged ad warns that only aspirin bearing Bayer on the package or tablets is genuine and physician prescribed for twenty one years. It lists uses for cold, headache, neuralgia, rheumatism, toothache, lumbago and specifies Bayer tablets in boxes of twelve and larger packages.
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Bayer
Boyer
Legion Helps Louisville Housewives Clean Derby Prep
A surge of domestic help arrives as American Legion posts recruit unemployed ex service men to assist Louisville housewives during spring cleaning. Former soldiers volunteer by the platoon to scrub, mop, and wash while housewives oversee details, with adoption of plant projects spreading to nearby cities.
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Louisville
Milla
Loutaville
American Legion
Legion
Gyrenes
Seattle Captain Aims for U S Navy Flight Service
Captain John S. Griffith of Seattle, a former Royal Flying Corps ace with nine shootdowns and nine decorations, seeks admission to the U S Navy air service. He served four years in World War I, fought Bolsheviks in Archangel, and later earned British and Russian honors before returning home to join the American Legion.
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Congress
United States Navy
John 5. Griffith
Seattle
Wash
Air Forces
Sam
Griffith
Entler
Royal Flying Corps
Toronto
Canada
Archangel
Egypt
Seattle Pont
American Legion
America
Ex-Doughboy Recalls Tone Battle Experience
An ex doughboy recounts his experiences overseas. He says it was a tone battle with his back against the wall, resolved to die in the ditch rather than yield. The account reflects wartime hardship and persistence.
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Negardicas
Legion Man Obtains Patent For Memorial Plaque
Private T G Quehi of the 918th Engineers, wounded in the Vosges and later at Camp Lewis, devised a bronze memorial plaque. The design features a private in uniform, with raised letters surrounding the Allied nations and a central service record plate. Orders are flooding in, forcing expansion of his workshop.
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Vosges Mountains
T. G. Quehi
918Th Engineera
America
Camp Lewis
Wash
Quen
File Disability Claims With Legion Guidance
An American Legion Weekly article urges veterans with disability from wartime service to file claims promptly. It lists forms 526 9 and 645 and requires sworn statements from doctors hospitals employers and witnesses, to be sent to the Bureau of War Risk Insurance for consideration.
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American Legion Weekly
National Service Division of
the Legion
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
National Service” Division
The
American Legion
So Natural Umpire Off Day Provokes Household Tease
A caller voices concern about domestic abuse in a tense scene. The hostess retorts that her husband, a baseball umpire, is off work and might not mind the treatment, framing the exchange as a casual domestic moment in a humorous tone from American Legion Weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Weekly
Advertising club withholds funds over bogus Funda campaign in LA
The Los Angeles Advertising Club has vetted to withhold contributions and endorsement from future campaigns after investigators found funds claimed for ex servicemen were misused. The American Legion was notified and began its own inquiry into the matter.
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Funda
Los Angeles
Cal
American Legion Firsts
American Legion WA Convention Train Plans Dining Car Dance
Washington state American Legion members head to their annual convention in July aboard a special train with a dining car and an observation car. A baggage car will be used for dancing and enjoying the scenery during the trip.
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American Legion
State of Washington
Community House Project Aided by American Legion
The Burch-Wood post of the American Legion in Washington Indiana undertakes a community house project for Daviess County. Proceeds from a Fourth of July pleasure event will be devoted to this cause.
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Daviess County
Iddiana
Burch-Wood Post
American Legion
Washington
Ind
Camp for Legion Men Near Wabash Tod
The local American Legion post plans a summer camp at a nearby lake. It will be open to members on holidays and to unemployed buddies seeking a retreat and camaraderie.
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Legion
American Legion
Wabash
Tod
Ovarby
Be Sure to Keep Blood Pure Nature Weir Droved Message
Be Sure to Keep Blood Pure Nature intended all creatures to withstand the normal changes of the seasons. You never saw a wild animal collapse from heat, did you? People wouldn't get knocked out either if they had the vitality animals get from abut. 11.2 Weir Droved rich wholesome blood gives bodily vigor. If hot weather lays you low heed ae
Not Resting Just Waiting Inspiring Youth Flies High
A humor column contrasts a judge’s remark on world labor with a farmer and an Idiot boy Looney story about resting while waiting for the sun to set. It then reprints a Missouri applicant’s earnest but comic letter seeking a U S detective job, from the Indianapolis News.
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Gary
England
Looney
Boas
Thomas E. Halls
United States Secret Service
Missouri
Wood
United States
Indianapolla News
Missed an Opportunity in a Radium Deal
A miscalculated plan to price radium prompts quotes about profiteers. The dialogue reflects one partner noting no sales attempt despite a high gram price, with a sardonic line attributed to Paorls Le Kire.
Judged Him by His Hair
A Chicago Tribune note recalls a first grader mocked for curls with the remark that hair determines a boy’s spirit, reflecting early schoolyard prejudice and the idea that appearance signals character.
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Chicago Tribune
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