Europe Crisis Looms as France Britain Seek A Deal
The article surveys European tension with Germany Italy and Belgium. It notes Stresemann forming a new ministry and signals for a possible Franco British settlement while US Britain and France debate reparations and debts. President Coolidge backs limited involvement and domestic economic measures.
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Europe
England
France
Cuno
Gustave Stresemann
Belgium
Italy
America
Germany
Great Britain
Stresemann
Reichstag
Brunswick
Oreign
Curzon
Ruhr
Britain
United States
Robert Horne
House of Commons
Reparations Commission
Journal Des Debats
U S Envoys End Mexico Talks Return With Signed Records
Representatives FOHN BARTON PAYNE and Charles B. Warren report back to Washington with signed records from prerecognition talks in Mexico City including the two claims conventions and the Mexican view on subsoil petroleum and agrarian laws affecting American property. A plan to appoint neutral umpires for U S and Mexican claims commissions is included.
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Fohn
Barton Payne
Charles B. Warren
United States
Mexico City
Washington
Mexico
Payne
Warren
Permanent Court of International Justice
The
Hague
Mexican Claims Commissions
Legion Post Guards Flooded Arkansas City Aid Effort
Citizens of Arkansas City Kansas credit the American Legion Shelton Beaty post with organizing a guard around the flooded district to deter looting and support city authorities. Some 125 volunteers filled shifts for three nights while National Guard artillery recruited. The Legion underwrote a Chautauqua contract, now releasing it to support flood relief and future permanent aid plans with civic groups.
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Arkansas City
Kan
American Legion
Kansas
Shelton Beaty
Legion
National Guard
Legionnaires
Chautauqua
Memorial to All War Dead Erected in Oakland
A memorial in the Allied Memorial Center on Lake Merritt Oakland honors World War dead with 84324 American names in the crypt. Dr Leroy F Herrick funded the steel and stone monument and plans daily ceremonies with veterans groups as more Allied lists arrive.
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Oakland
Cal
Leroy F. Herrick
Allied Memorial Center
Lake Merritt
Herrick
American Legion
New Zealand
France
England
Belgium
Washington
Lincoln
Roosevelt
Wilson
Wins Coolie Labor Battle
The American Legion in Queens led a year long push against Chinese labor in Long Island City factories. Federal authorities arrested two hundred workers and sent them to Ellis Island for deportation, closing newspaper columns but prevailing under pressure from Legion posts.
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Pacific Coast
American Legion
Long Island
N. Y
Long Island City
Legion
Queens County
Blissville Post
Ellis Island
Dauntless Legion
Nebraska congressman Roberts G. Simmons profile
Robert G. Simmons of Scotsbluff Nebraska is described as a Democratic congressman who socializes with local American Legion members. The piece notes his Holstein cow, a popular touring car, and his rise from a homestead sod house in western Nebraska to his current political position. It recalls his early farm labor and frontier upbringing sixty miles from the nearest rail line.
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Lst
Coolidge
C. Bascom Slemp
Slemp
Virginia
South
Democratic National Committee
House
Robert G. Simmons
Nebraska
American Legion
Scotsbluff
Neb
Simmons
Younster
Nebraska Congressman and Legion Leader Portrait
A Nebraska congressman known for early odd jobs and college work as a janitor describes his rise from private first class to second lieutenant in the air service. As a lawyer and former county attorney, he led the Nebraska American Legion, backing laws including a $2 million endowment fund to aid needy veterans and pledging continued focus on relief for disabled ex servicemen.
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Hastings
Fort Omaha
Neb
Air Service
Simmons
Nebraska Department of the American Legion
Plan to Teach Americanism in Illinois Schools
Illinois will require every student to hear a weekly Americanism message under Illinois American Legion plans. Commander Charles W. Schick outlines that Legion posts in all 102 counties will assign members to speak in classrooms and schools weekly to promote citizenship. The program seeks faster alien assimilation and higher citizen standards with church and civic group cooperation for naturalization preparation.
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Illinois
Illinois Department of the American Legion
Charles W. Schick
Schick
Legion
Illinois Legion
The
El Paso Welcomes Legion Veterans For Border Trip
El Paso hosts a reception for American Legion delegates traveling to the San Francisco convention. Local groups including the Legion post, Chamber of Commerce, army officials, and railroads organized the welcome. Delegates may tour Juarez via the international bridge with cars provided.
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el Paso
San Francisco
American Legion
Tex
Legion
Only Auxiliary Baseball Team in Stanton Formed by Wives
Stanton Iowa unit of American Legion auxiliary reportedly formed the only women relatives of former service men baseball team. The Stanton nine issued a challenge to any other unit to match their team.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Stanton
Stanton Nine
Barnabas the Philosopher? No Barnabas the Philanthropist and Apostle
Barnabas, called Son of Prophecy, is shown as a generous Christian leader. He sells property to aid fellow believers and fosters unity between Jews and Gentiles. He mentors Saul, expands the church’s reach from Antioch, and helps establish the Christian identity and alms-giving among believers.
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Barnabas
Joseph
Simon
Peter
Saul
Paul
Antioch
Syria
Christ
Jerusalem
Christian
Woman Credits Pinkham’s Compound for Recovery
Mrs Posluszny of 106 High Street Bay City recounts illness after childbirth and backache. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with rapid improvement after the first bottle and continues use. The ad invites readers to request a free Private Text Book on ailments peculiar to women from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
God’s Eternal Universe Quotation
A short devotional quote stresses life as a nursery ground before joining God’s vast eternal universe as a spiritual journey.
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God
F. W. Robertson
Among Men and the Reluctance to Change
Quoted maxim notes that the weakest minded and hardest hearted men most resist change. It reflects Ruskin’s contention about human response to shifting circumstances and the difficulty of adaptation.
A Bad Paymaster Quote by F M Crawford
A terse quotation notes that the devil knows his own and adds that a bad paymaster is especially detestable attributed to F M Crawford.
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F. M. Crawford
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