Monument at New Orleans Dedicated to World War Fallen Heroes
The New Orleans memorial, one of the most interpretative since World War I, was designed by Charles L. Lawhorn and sculpted by C. A. Dodd. Local American Legion posts presented the tribute in a park bedded with red poppies, bearing the inscription in memory of comrades who made the supreme sacrifice.
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New Orleans
Charles L. Lawhorn
C. A. Dodd
American Legion
Americana
Army
T. Semmes Walmsley
Legion’s National Committee On Memorials
Walmsley
Legion Aid Secures Transport for WWI Veteran with TB
Paul P. Pinnell, a former gob baker in the U.S. Navy during World War I, suffers tuberculosis and has waited over a year for compensation from the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. In New York Seton Hospital he relied on American Legion volunteers until Bronx welfare leaders raised 450 to fund his transport home to California with an attendant nurse.
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Paul P. Pianel
Seton Hospital
New York City
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Pinnet
Bureau
American Legion
Walter T. Hamilton
Bronx County Welfare Committee
The
California
Hamilton
Bis
Legionnaires
Pinnell
Finnell
Thomas J. Bannigan
Americana Legion
New England
Connecticut Department of the Legion
Tie
Conneticut
Clifford A. Lafiln
St John’s Hospital
St. Paul
Minn
Lafiln
Seventeenth Field Artillery
Loyal Dada formed to aid veterans and Legion groups
A new organization called the Order of Loyal Dada is being created by Dad Foote of Fort Myers to cooperate with patriotic orders, especially the American Legion. Eligible include men whose sons served in war, with plans for a large network and support for disabled veterans.
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Women's Auxiliary
The
American Legion
Dad
St. Paul
Mion
Americana Legion Welfare Duresn
Pies Distributed to Sailor Boys by American Legion Auxiliary
In Seattle Washington the women of the American Legion auxiliary provided one thousand home made pies to four teen hundred sailors in a Pacific fleet parade. Additional rations were given out generously with the cooks noting the night as difficult.
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Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion
Seattle
Wash
Georgette Crepe Blouses Dominant In Latest Styles
Fashion notes show georgette crepe as the leading blouse fabric with bead embroidery and overblouse designs. Crepe de chine and crepe satin offer alternatives for less ornate pieces as weather cools, with trims featuring bugle and seed beads, soutache, and intricate girdles.
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House of Georgetta Crepe
Ln Toth
Faocier
Ag Georgette Crepe
Egotist Soloist Provokes Choir in Publicity Clash
The choir resents a self centered soloist who gets top parts. A member handles their publicity and fears no coverage, hoping to spite him. A newspaper blurb later teases that the soloist’s renunciation was satisfying, prompting the writer to defend mentioning the group.
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Bir Blank
Bayer Aspirin Warning Promotes Genuine Packaging
An advertisement warns to verify Bayer on the package or tablets to ensure genuine Aspirin. It lists approved uses including colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism and toothache, notes low cost boxes of twelve, and mentions larger drugstore packages. The Bayer trademark is stated for aspirin.
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Bayer
No clear news event in a Georgia watermelon quote
A brief quotation from the Albany Georgia Herald extols enjoying a thoroughly ripe Georgia watermelon chilled until its sweetness flows like a rivulet into a person, framing it as a light life joke. No specific people or events are identified.
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Georgia
Albany
Herald
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad Claims Proven Cure
An early 20th century ad promotes Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root as the top remedy for kidney liver and bladder ailments. It touts mild immediate effects and calls it a gentle vegetable compound available in two bottle sizes. Readers are urged to send ten cents for a sample bottle and mention the paper.
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Kilmer
Dr. Ilmer & Co
Binghamton, N
Temptation Provokes Persistent Earnest Search
A cryptic note reflects on the urge to seek temptation, suggesting many aims are blocked by doubt and persistence, and that desire often drives careful exploration despite obstacles.
Not Cherry Candies But Oleomargarine Dye Capsules
A shopper mistook a colored oleomargarine dye capsule for a cherry and bit into it. The capsule stained lips and skin bright yellow, ending the reader’s habit of sampling unknown items. The piece then shifts to a quip about marriage, money, and a debtor.
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LEGON
Qaoy
Amerizens Legion News Service
Walter Hamilton
Legio
Ilarry C. Brumbaugh
General Pershing
Information Force
France
World War Veterans’ State Aid of
Oregon
Brumbaugh
Legion Pubishing Corporation
Emery
Gresham
Galbraith
Col
F. W. Galbraith, Jr
Legion
Port Townsend
Victor J. Midler
St. Louis (Mo
Frederick W. Stuck
Hay
Miller
Fy AL Wood
Okmulgee
Okla
Wood
Kansas City
Natronal Convention
Americano Legion
Connecticut Department of the American Legion
State of
Connecticut
of the American Legion
New Orleana
Baltimore
Zloustop
Las Treoclaco
Ile
Georgette Crepe
Holland
Parker
Dromrristes
Rhea Manas
Standard Pub. CO
New York
St. Loos
O11 Investors Service
Huy
Wtocka
Smad
West
Nat Price
Boa Commission
Federal Farm Bureau
Washington
Chicago
Salt Lake City
Sheck
ASTOR
Gastoria
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