Girl Gets Service Medal For Patriotic War Work
Miss Pauline Henkel a fourteen year old New York high school girl received a patriotic service gold medal from B W Galbraith Jr on behalf of Rankin Drew post The ceremony occurred before the Fifth Avenue public library The Little Colonel led a Marine guard of honor and had raised 3 330 250 in Liberty bonds while speaking for wounded disabled and unemployed servicemen and pledging continued aid to returning soldiers in America
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Pauline Henkel
New York
B. W. Galbraith, Jr
American Legion
Rankin Drew Post
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Henkel
Colonel
Marine Corps
Mertenants Miller and Gumpertz
Ser-geant Janssen
America
Miss Henkels
Connecticut Legion Adjutant Bannigan Elected Three-Year Term
Thomas J. Bannigan, Hartford businessman and war veteran, is elected adjutant of the Connecticut American Legion for three years and heads the department service division. He helped organize Rau-Locke post No. 8, served as a wartime captain, directed the Soldiers Sailors and Marines club in Hartford, and secured a permanent state Legion headquarters. He also serves on the national war risk insurance committee and chairs the Hartford Elks national soldiers fund committee.
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Thomas J. Bannigan
Connecticut Department of the American Legion
Mr. Bannigan
Utica
N. Y
Georgetown Academy
New Britain
Hartford
Bannigan
Rau-Locke
Legion
National Committee On War Risk Insurance and Compensation
Hartford Elks’ National Soldiers’ Fund Committee
Legion Post Adopts Creed in Somerville Massachusetts
Somerville post of the American Legion adopts a member written creed praising the Legion as a dependable community force. It upholds equality for ex service members, steadfast principles, and peacemaking, urging members to look forward and act constructively.
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Somerville
Mass
American Legion
Kansas Legion Sets 40000-Member Goal for 1921
With 24000 members at the end of 1820, the Kansas department of the American Legion targets 40000 members for 1921. The state’s potential membership is 60000. The department includes 14 posts of the Legion and 106 units of the Women’s Auxiliary.
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Kansas
Distributing Victory Medals To Ex-Service Members
Recruiting will pause for an undetermined time yet recruiting officers will keep handing out Victory medals to members of the American Legion and other ex service men.
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American Legion
Texas Legion to Turn Legion Memorial Hospital to State
The Texas department of the American Legion plans to transfer the Legion Memorial hospital at Kerrville to state control to enable the $1,500,000 appropriation to expand to 600 tuberculosis beds. The Legion will keep its hospital organization aiding state health officials, sanatorium leaders, and the board of control in overseeing funds. Charles W. Scruggs credits the governor for signing the bill and lauds the move as fulfilling duty to Texas veterans.
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Texas Department of the American Legion
Legion Memorial Hospital
Kerrville
Legion
State Board of Control
Charles W. Scruggs
The
Texas
War hero turned crook dies in Chicago police cell
Roy Little, decorated veteran of World War II with one arm paralyzed by shell shock, returns to Chicago after prison escape. He plans to meet his wife but is intercepted by detectives at Cottage Grove and Twenty-eighth. In a suicide attempt, he slashes an artery with a tin cup and bleeds to death.
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Cottage Grove Avenue
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Milwaukee
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Waupun
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Duluth
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Iowa News Roundup Highlights Storm Effects and Local Crimes
The report notes 26 746 silos in Melodooe Iowa storing 2 315 839 tons of silage, minimal storm damage near Charles City, Milford National Bank closings with deposits safe, and the death of horse seller Colonel Patrick McGuire in Holstein at 59. It also covers a Kansas City area man burned by a gasoline explosion near Hamburg, a manslaughter verdict in Fairfield, seeding progress in Floyd County, and various local incidents including a bank robbery outcome, immigration arrivals, sheep pricing, a courthouse plaster collapse injuring three, separations, and several accidental deaths and auto fine enforcement anecdotes.
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Floyd County
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Emmetsburg
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Hamon
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Okla
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Burlington
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George W. Kulhavy
Consumers’ Building ‘Material Company
Kulhavy
Grover Fountain
Conesville
George D. Lareau
Matt W. Daly
Dubuque
Robert William Brown
Reinbeck
Kansas Pacsca Laws for Legion
The voice of Kansas ex servicemen through the American Legion is shown by new legislation benefiting World War I veterans. The legislature enacted an adjusted compensation enabling act, equal rights for all ex servicemen, $1000 annual Legion expenses, emblem protection, tax exemption for Legion property, care of paroled industrial school boys, and a boxing bill.
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Kansas
Pacsca
Legion
American Legion
Auxiliary
Eight Bars on Victory Medal for Des Moines Avi member
George Leander of the American Legion post in Des Moines Ta. is noted for eight bars on his Victory medal.
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George Leander
Avigone Post of the
American Legion
Des Moines
Stranger in Liberty leads to arrest after grip contains Booze
In Liberty a stranger entered a restaurant and asked to leave his grip a moment. Officers kept watch as they lifted the bag and found booze inside. When asked what was in the grip the man replied it held Booze and surrendered the baggage. A small puppy named Whe was also involved in the curious scene.
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Excelsior
Springs
Liberty
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