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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1922
Page
2
A baby shows distress through cries restlessness and movement. The article promotes Fletcher's Castoria as a trusted remedy used for over 80 years by family physicians. It stresses Castoria is for babies not a cure for all and warns against unsafe usage for others.
A peculiar hermit crab habit uses shells of dead mollusks to shield its soft abdomen and grow into larger homes after moulting. The creature changes shells cautiously to avoid predators and injury.
An expedition in African bush emerges into a clearing to find a pile of empty whisky bottles. A Scotsman in the group boasts of first visit, but another voice quips that if a Scotsman had been there he would have taken the bottle back.
Charles J. Crozier of 518 Tully Street Syracuse leaped into the river after spotting a child's arm and rescued a seven year old boy. His act of heroism prompts his American Legion buddies to campaign for a Carnegie lifesaving medal.
Bonnie Jean Kelly of Tim Running post at Devil's Lake was the youngest member at the North Dakota American Legion auxiliary organization. She was adopted by the state department as a director of the auxiliary's affairs tomorrow. Bonnie Jean's father M. P. Kelly served as first lieutenant in the 93rd pursuit squadron of the First Army.
J. M. Buck of Omaha Nebraska received a medal recognizing his idea to place a gold star on the caskets of all war dead returned from Europe. The star was adopted nationwide via the American Legion with support from governors and notable civil and military figures. Buck led Legion runners at Omaha stations and supervised stars on caskets. Jesup Iowa notes its 130 Legion members in a town of under 600.
Captain Jackson of the Signal Corps led American World War I images from France to the return of soldiers. His postwar work followed Wilson to France and captured pivotal moments. Now a staff photographer for the New York Daily News, he remains active with the American Legion in New York City.
JI Nelson Jackson of Burlington VI, national vice commander of the American Legion, traveled to an annual British Legion meeting and delivered greetings on behalf of Commander Hanford MancNider. Jackson, a WWI Medical Corps veteran, earned the D C Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor, rising to lieutenant colonel. He urged strengthened ties for lasting world peace.
In Clay county Iowa a Red Cross and American Legion survey found 276 of 550 former service members with some disability. The Calhoun scout troop of Minneapolis was adopted by a local Legion post providing a home for 82 homeless scouts. A Cedar Rapids convention delegate praised being born German but American in spirit and noted two sons in service. The Legion asks Expeditionary Force members to return any Reims cathedral fragments. Medals for World War merit will be considered through April 1923 by a Congressional act guided by the Military Affairs Committee.
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