National essay contest judges named for 1926 Legion event
The American Legion selects Col Theodore Roosevelt Bruce Barton and Miss Mary McSkinnon to judge the national essay contest for American school children. The theme is The Patrols Flag Creed with prizes including a $1 scholarship first prize and $500 $250 awards for runners up.
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American Legion
Frank ©. Cross
Americanism Commission of the Legion
Cross
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Cyater Bay
N. Y
Bruce Barton
New York City
Mary McSkinnon
Brookline
Mass
National Education Association
Legion
Mer. Cran
Wionera
Kansas Department Probes Spanish Expedition History
The Department of Kansas through the American Legion plans spring and summer research into ancient battlefields and trails linked to early Spanish explorers before Lewis and Clark. Thomas Finigan announced the project after a St Louis manuscript described a 1620 Santa Fe expedition near Kansas City and a Quindaro massacre.
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Lewis and Clarke
Pacific Northwest
Department of Kaneas
American Legion
Thomas Finigam
Department
State Historical Society
Santa Fe
N. M
Fansas City
Quindaro
Loup
Flatte River
Nebraska
St Lovis
Paris Mbrary
E. & Blackman
Kansas City
State Historical Society of
Kansas
New York
Bureau Settles Long Claim for Insurance
The U S Veterans Bureau adjudicated the largest life insurance claim for a deceased World War veteran, with eighty four relatives in the permitted beneficiary class. The long list includes nine brothers six sisters six uncles six aunts and other relatives. thirty eight bear the surname Taylor and others such as Berch Barnes Broadwater Catopher Darts Goss Lemon Manning Ponder Thornton. The stepmother and fifteen siblings receive 192 dollars monthly for twenty years.
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United States Veterans’ Bureau
National Rehabilitation Committee of the American Legion
Washington, D
Bureau
Ninneteen Niccus
Taylor
Berch
Barnes
Broadwater
Catopher
Darts
Goss
Lemon
Manning
Ponder
Thornton
Steppbother
Sierra Unit Chartered First All Spanish American Legion Auxiliary
The Sierra Unit, the first all Spanish unit of the American Legion Auxiliary in the nation, was chartered at Castello New Mexico. It will be known as Sierra Unit in token of its high aims. The first all Indian unit, West Wind Unit, was chartered at Bullhead City, Arizona, not long ago.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Castello
N. M
Ita High
Auxiliary
Bullhead S. Ih
Kozwu
West Wind
Paris Couture Introduces Semi-Sports Summer Coats and Two Piece Dresses
Paris designers showcase two piece dresses and lightweight coats for midsummer wear. Details describe black satin coats with navy twill variants, jersey frocks with crepe de chine panels, and practical yet stylish semi-sport styles for travel and resort life.
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Paris
B. Leboutier
Sparta
Lke
Julia Nottomstey
Emeline Writes Farm News To Grandmother On Nascent Farm Life
Emeline on a northern farm shares busy days with her grandmother. She recounts rehearsals and self-made costumes for a school play, quilt making, chicken house fixes, house cleaning, music, grain prices, weather, and caring for four puppies. She notes roosters, hens, eggs, crows, and hawks, plus improvements to roads and travel. She loves farm life and rejects city restrictions on animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emeline
Emelne
Musile
Grannla
Riddles and Jokes from a Missing Magazine Page
A string of wordplay and groaners including puns about Tennessee and Milwaukee. Questions touch on honest carpenters, freight cars, catnip, chairs, hills and mills with a watch and a key nearby. Final lines rely on simple animal and object puns.
Mag meaning prefix stems from magnum large
The prefix mag denotes size or greatness as in magnificent or magnify.
Old Dutch Windmills Fade From Landscape As Modernization Spreads
The piece reflects on Dutch windmills being replaced by electricity, valuing the quaint tradition. It notes millers name their mills, mourn losses with blade removal, and align blade movements with church bells, highlighting cultural rituals tied to each family event.
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Dikes
Arithmetic Lesson Provokes Blockhead Pupils
A Chinese humorist recalls a master testing a pupil with a simple sum. The pupil initially confesses confusion but finally answers that “you and I” make two people, and calls himself a “blockhead” when mishearing questions. The vignette appears in Peking New Mandarin.
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Peking New Mandarin
Family board counts cited by Youth's Companion source
The fragment cites a set of relationship boards: 12 for the Miller family and parents, 11 along the cousins line, and 20 for the line to the children of cousins, noting the removal of one beard. It presents a genealogical listing in a genealogical or social taxonomy context.
Marvelous Archery Tau Caravan Touts Indian Trade Route
In Adventure Magazine J B Taylor recalls a caravan to India via the caravanera. The group, dark-eyed yet lighter than Chinese, travels with spears bows and latest firearms. They laager for safety and use primitive weapons to hunt game. A friend tests a bow, misjudges distance, and two archers hit a mark at eighty yards, proving legendary tales of Robin Hood true in his eyes.
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Tau
India
Laager
Robin Hood
Archera
J. B. Taylor
Adventure Magazine
Guide Helps Honeymooners Avoid Niagra Falls
A Locabile Courier Journal item describes Toofus guiding honeymooners as a comic caution. A man asks what to do when a relationship ends. Toofus jokes about Niagara Falls and guiding couples to prevent accidents.
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Wiluoter
Toofus
Niagera Falls
Niagara Falls
Locabile Courier-Journal
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Department of Kansas
Sierra Unit Chartered
J. Regney
Mary -Craham-Bonner
Grannie
Ter
America
Tennessee
Milwaukee
Stevent
Rickenbacker Worthy
Cannon Ball Baker
Rickenbacker
Elgin
Phaeton
Pace
Brougham
DeLuxe Cps
F.o.b
Detroit
Utah
Idaho
Nevada
And
Wyoming
Geurts - Schofield Inc
State ST. Salt Lake City
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