War Hero to Get $700000 Legacy in World War Service
The will of Walter D. Douglas allocates one third of a more than $2 million estate to George Camp Douglas, honoring his five years in World War I. He was wounded at Ypres in 1915 and 1916, cited by Field Marshal Lord French, and must earn $2500 in two consecutive years per the conditional legacy. Guardianship by Senator Fowler and trustees Minneapolis Trust Co. bound the division for the younger son at age 35, with Mrs. Martha Douglas receiving income meanwhile.
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Minnneapolia
Ypres
Lord French
George Camp Douglas
Walter D. Douglaas
Charles R. Fowler
Taterl
Quiker Oats Company
Martha Dutton Douglas
Edward Bruce Douglas
Minneapolis Trust Company
George F. Moer
Douglas
Fowler
Noyal
Meld Forshoal Lord French
Leutenant
Aden
Ambla
Kerlbert
Pastor Finds Lost Roll of Currency Under Stove
Reverend Clyde, Ohio, praying in an interurban trolley station morning, noticed something green under his stove. Rising, he found four dollars and odd currency buried there, believed lost days earlier. He has no idea how it came to rest under the stove.
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Dy Wer
Clyde
Money to Wipe His Shoes Crude German Note Display
A U S cashier reports a strange scene in a Bremen cafe where an American diner drew a thousand-mark note from his wallet and used it to wipe his shoes as a display before handing the currency to a waiter as payment. He called the note merely German pipe.
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Bremen
Bla
Foresighted misread of romance hints at social snubs
The fragment notes a prescient remark about how many women who call a man by his first name imply intimacy and familiarity, while aiming at his interest and status as a stand-in for attraction in social circles.
Forest Fires Endanger Wildlife and Trees, Survey Warns
A U S Department of Agriculture circular highlights how large scale forest fires destroy food and shelter for wild animals, reduce game numbers, and harm water supply. It warns that even beneficial burning is outweighed by loss of habitat, and emphasizes danger to partridges deer foxes woodcock and waterfowl.
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Washington
Biological Survey of the
United States
Explorers Probe 7000 Foot Deep Snake River Canyon
A University of California expedition explores the rugged 7000 foot deep Snake River Canyon from Seven Devils to the Wallawa range. The gorge, deeper and more inaccessible than the Grand Canyon, features whirlpools, cascades, and a mineralized top layer with copper silver and gold prospects. The team traverses the riverbed by horseback and on foot during low water.
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Snake River Canyon
Wattsburg
Wash
University of California
Rouke River Canyon
Grand Canyon
Colorado
Seven Devils Range
Wallawa
Snake River
Souke
Horgeback
Deer Strikes Car. Rail Project Abandoned in Hibbing
An estimate for a narrow gauge line up the canyon is said to be so costly that the plan has been dropped. A deer collision near Hibbing involves Joseph Rooney, a former village council member, who was returning from Dalwth Sunday night. The deer, attracted by bright lights, was only slightly hurt.
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Dee
Minn
Truluth
Joseph Rooney
Dalwth
Woman mail handler Nina El Minimes sets sorting record
The Post Office Department announces Nina El Minimes, twenty years old, of the Detroit post office, as the champion mail handler for sorting letters. She recently set a record by distributing $0,010 in eight hours.
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le Champ
Washington
Nina EL Minimes
Derolt
Post Office
Medal of Honor Guests at Legion Convention in New Orleans
Prominent at the American Legion national convention in New Orleans October 16 20 will be wearers of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Lieutenant Sydney G Gumperts of New York is the first to accept the invitation. His heroism on September 26 1918 in France saw him, after two of his comrades were killed, advance alone on a German machine gun nest and despite heavy fire, kill and wound several crewmen and secure two heavy guns allowing his unit to press the advance.
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New Orleans
United States
Sydney G. Gumperts
New York
Niin
Gumperts
Herolsm
One Hundred ‘Thirty-second Infantry
Boils de Forgea
Gumpertz
Gompertz
Thes
New Orleans Artist Wins Legion Poster Contest
Clarence Reeder, a craft artist for a New Orleans newspaper and former top sergeant who trained rookies at Camp Pike in World War I, wins the Legion poster contest. The design shows a roughboy sailor and marine above a guidebook reading New Orleans the Paris of the U S A with the French Quarter below. The poster proclaims Oh buddy lets go and American Legion National Convention at New Orleans October 16 20. Forty thousand copies will be mailed to Legion posts and displayed in railroad stations nationwide.
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New Orleans
American Legion
Clarence Reeder
Camp Pike
Paris
Legion
Buddy
Will Dance for Doughboys at Legion Convention
Mise Emily V Schupp of Duluth Mina volunteers to dance for doughboys at the American Legion national convention in New Orleans next October. Known as Lada she entertained thousands of soldiers in cantpments and has appeared at Legion events in Minnesota. She is a soloist and will perform at a recital by the Duluth American Legion band, which won first prize in Kansas City last fall.
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Mise
Emily V. Schupp
Duluth
Mina
American Legion National
New Orleans
Miss Schupp
Lada
America
Legion Entertainments
Minnesota
Duluth American Legion Band
Legion
Kansas City
Tanlac touted as a health booster for frail and nervous
Thousands of frail and convalescent people credit Tanlac with restoring health strength and working efficiency. A Salem Oregon man claims nerve restore and twelve pound weight gain while ads promise Tanlac aids digestion purifies the system and returns normal weight. A Mussolini quote is noted in a Louisville Courier-Journal reference about nervous breakdowns and insanity.
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Taniae
Mia
George G. Owen
Salem
Oregon
Tate
Tanlac
Taniac
Drugeast
Louisville Courier-Journal
Cramps and Backache Relief through Lydia E Pinkham's Compound
Mrs Della Scholz of St Louis reports monthly cramps pains and backache. Following family recommendation she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, noting substantial improvement and ability to resume housework. The advertisement touts plant origins and restorative effects for female troubles.
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Bt. Louis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Della ScHoLz
Salisbury Street
St. Louis
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George C. Douglas
United States Department
Mr. Wallace
Maryland
Wallace
Lucy
Rebecca
Julia Tyde
Port Tobacco
California
Cheane Legion Torms
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Nujol
Ben Mary
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