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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1921
Page
3
A vivid feature promotes the Coly bungalow as a honeymoon home. It highlights white stucco exterior, broad porch, ample windows, and a 30 by 30 foot plan. Includes builder William A. Radford’s free advisory offer and notes on housing amid a marriage boom. Also references colonial church history and sugar crop data.
The house speaks to the needs of the housewife with a compact efficient kitchen and quiet sleeping rooms. Two bedrooms measure 11 by 16 and 10 by 17 feet with space saving garment closets. A practical bathroom sits off the hall and the design aims for affordable building costs to help young couples avoid rents and rooming houses.
The Dutch Church of Austin Friars in London rejected a 9 million pounds offer to sell the historic church. The building traces to the thirteenth century, from the priory of begging friars founded by Hamphrey Touhn, earls, and Edward I godfather, noted for its decorated windows.
A discussion on silk fibers and imitation sealskin reveals that woven textile furs may offer health benefits by allowing air flow, while real animal furs lack such ventilation. The piece cites tussar silk from wild silkworms and notes fashion trends in women's outerwear. It also notes the golden plover's migration and includes quirky, illustrative quotes from period writers.
Miss Pauline Trumbo presented President Harding with a set of golf sticks and bag from the Fort Morgan Colorado American Legion post. The items, chosen by Evans an open golf champion, were sent as a gift to the nation’s leader during her journey through twelve states on the way to Washington.
Miss Pauline Trumbo aided by city and state figures as Denver and Governor officials contributed an engraved golf ball for President Harding. The project began with gutta percha pits from Colorado and involvement by Mayor Malley, a Denver Legion post, and a Denver newspaper.
The Legion buried James Flanagan, eighty four, veteran of Civil War and five wars, at Mandan North Dakota. A grand funeral with World War I veterans and Grand Army survivors led the cortege, honoring the last surviving scout of General Custer. Flanagan, born in Greenfield Mark, joined California gold rush migration then the Ohio Cavalry in the Civil War before enlisting in the Seventh Cavalry at Fort Lincoln.
Helen Mant Carey a former signal corps girl and 14 months in France with the A K P led voting at the Legionnaire club, winning 40 24 votes, more than the rival actress. Carey later became commander of Sig-Yeo post, while William Jennings Bryan contributed to the Kansas City Legion convention fund urging continued patriotism.
Robert T. Barton, commander of the Virginia department of the American Legion, advanced from second lieutenant to major during World War I. Born in Winchester, Virginia, he studied at Shenandoah Valley Academy and the University of Virginia earning BS and LE B degrees, practiced law, served on the Mexican border, attended Fort Myer training, captained in the 5th field artillery at Camp Lee, and saw action in St Mihiel and the Argonne Meuse offensives.
Clyde T. Doolittle, 26, youngest legislator from Town, a World War II veteran with the 42nd Division, saw six major offensives and was wounded in Champagne. While abroad, he ran for office and won, becoming a leading voice for the American Legion and Iowa veterans.
Quaker City holds Independence Hall as a shrine to American freedom. The Liberty Bell, cast for the State House in 1752 and recast later, rang through pivotal moments from the Stamp Act to the nation's founding. The old hall hosted Washington’s oath and the Continental Congress while Carpenters’ Hall saw the first and second Continental Congresses convene.
An 1777 Philadelphia tale recounts bells moved to safety as Howe’s forces pressed on the Quaker City. Congress chose to save the Liberty Bell by evacuating it to Allentown, while Washington’s army retreated and Philadelphia faced possible capture. The piece notes Patriot sentiment and Tory opposition during the crisis.
The Wareannw river region in South Carving hosts Prompoet 1111, lorded by Mentarain Huger, a famed American patriot. The Marquis de Lafayette reportedly spent his first night in America in 1777, welcomed by an escort from Prospect Hall at Wax. Maria Proenun Roberts recalls a January river voyage to the mansion, describing grounds, a sun dial, portraits including Huger, and a bed said to have sheltered a memorable guest.
From a hostile center to the American Legion to the town that won first prize Mulberry in the Kansas coalfields records a shift during the coal strikes. Union laborers shaped the Legion's stance on industrial disputes as officers explained the Legion's principles and miners responded.
The Mulberry post, with sixty six members, shows fifty union labor men. Forty six belong to Caltech Mine Workers of America. The post includes six merchants, three farmers, three clerks, two doctors and two school teachers, while a big steam shovel operates in the photograph.
A proposal to plant a tree along major American highways for every United States soldier and sailor in the World War gains support from the American Legion Gold Star Mothers and other groups. Markers naming veterans and their organizations would adorn the trees with separate inscriptions for those who died. President Harding supports the plan and the forestry bureau pledges aid to shade the Lincoln and Dixie highways from New York to San Francisco and Chicago to Florida.
More than 100 former service men have incorporated under the name Khaki and Blue club and will erect a clubhouse in Chicago to provide a meeting place. The group aims to build a clubhouse for hours of rest and camaraderie for veterans visiting the city. Meanwhile Kansas women’s auxiliary posts wrap up a membership drive with 18 units exceeding their goals.
The Liberty Bell, weighing 2080 pounds, traveled fifty miles on rough roads amid fear of British raid as part of a solemn ceremony announcing the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and signaling Chief Justice John Marshall's era end. The escort faced a broken wagon and a fallback vehicle before delivering the bell to its destination, its bell text a defiant message.
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