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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1922
Page
2
A reflective moral piece warns readers about resisting temptation and staying true to values. It portrays brave captains guiding the young away from vanity and material show toward lasting truths and simple faith. The piece ends with a message of perseverance and a meek inheritance.
Fragmented text shows scattered names and terms like Koz OIX M. M.upin, PERERA GFF, and Te She specs with tau. The passage appears jumbled with incomplete phrases and unrelated insertions, offering no cohesive event, date, or clear persons beyond scattered proper nouns.
A compact proverb notes that every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a palper, reflecting on desire and restraint in pursuit of wealth or power. The line underscores moral caution about unchecked drive and self deception.
The note reflects that Mottier's Cook Book now costs much to acquire, more than in older times, yet its value remains high when considered in today’s terms.
A devotional style essay argues that want should align with real needs not desires. It cautions against pursuing wealth, luxury, or status beyond what brings true happiness. The piece stresses good reputation, a home, and measured wants starting in youth to avoid lifelong misery.
A historical note traces confetti origins from ancient carnival days in Naples to France and the United States. It details substitutions of colored paper in France, notes Mardi Gras usage in Paris, and cites a Paris press estimate of 1.57 million pounds of confetti sold over three days before Ash Wednesday, costing about 500 thousand dollars.
Mrs Edward W Burt of Salisbury North Carolina leads an effort to create a hereditary society from the American Legion Auxiliary. The plan would preserve war records within the Auxiliary and build a lineage from World War I veterans to future generations.
Robert Bruce MacGregor of Beattie Washington, at eighty years old, says his wartime battles are over and he will devote the rest of his life to peaceful pursuits. A World War I veteran with prior service in the Spanish American War Boxer Rebellion and Natal uprising, he bears twelve medals and four decorations. He battles unemployment in Seattle through the American Legion and has taken in a fifteen year old boy.
Clarence Reeder, star artist of a New Orleans newspaper, won the Legion poster contest for the American Legion National Convention in New Orleans. The design shows a doughboy sailor and marine looking at a guidebook titled New Orleans the Paris of the U S A with the French quarter below. The poster bears the Legion emblem and the slogan Oh buddy lets go. and dates October 16 20. Forty thousand copies will be distributed to Legion posts and displayed in railroad stations nationwide.
A Sun day school scene quotes a teacher asking children for the lesson from the downfall of Samson and a child replying to a barber, reflecting a moralizing tone in period journalism.
Prominent guests at the American Legion national convention in New Orleans October 16 to 20 include Medal of Honor recipients. Lieut. Sydney G. Gumpertz of New York, the first to accept, earned his award for heroism with the 132nd Infantry in the Bois de Forges on September 26, 1918.
Don ald Chase, 21, editor of the Nevada State Journal, rides 25 miles daily by day and speaks at Legion posts by night from Reno to Syracuse. He aims to promote what Legion posts are doing while touring through Middle Western cities and alerting about post activities.
Miss Emily W V Schupp of Duluth Minnesota known as Lada volunteers to dance for doughboy friends at the American Legion national convention in New Orleans. She entertained thousands of soldiers during the war and has performed in Minnesota cities. She will join a recital by the Duluth American Legion band which won first prize in Kansas City last fall.
Signs erected at all roads into Riceville Iowa guide to the American Legion clubrooms. Auxiliaries modeled on the Legion sign have formed in Canada and England. Eligible women are wives mothers sisters or daughters of veterans and assist disabled veterans and their dependents while aiding legislation to ease postwar burdens.
A snob scorns common sense and夏mer furs in heat show women's dedication. The era displays widespread cheap cynicism masquerading as humor. The automotive industry experiences a booming period with no setback implied.
An advertisement urges use of Red Cross Ball Blue in every home claiming it makes clothes white as snow and never injures fabric, endorsed by grocers as a trusted product.
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