Bronze Tablet Commemorates Fred Eric W Galbraith Jr
A bronze tablet embedded in a large boulder memorializes Fred Eric W Galbraith Jr national commander of the American Legion who died in an automobile accident near Indianapolis on June 9 1921. The Boulder dedication was performed by Legion staff with National Commander Hanford MacNider and Mrs Lowell F Hobart in attendance.
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Frederic W. Galbraith, Jr
American Legion
Legion
Galbraith
Indianapolis
Hanford MacNider
Lowell F. Hobart
American Legion Auxiliary
Kid Corporal Shoemaker appointed to West Point
John Shoemaker a Phoenix high school graduate with Army service in France receives presidential appointment to West Point after a campaign by the Phoenix American Legion and Maj. Claude Jones. He served in a machine gun company of the Fifty-fourth Infantry during World War I and studied military tactics in Phoenix. Ex-Tommies at the British Legion conference in London cheer H. Nelson Jackson as American Legion leaders send goodwill messages to their British counterparts.
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John Shoemaker
France
West Point
Shoemaker
Phoenix
Ariz
Claude Decatur Jones
Major Jones
Young Shoemaker
Fifty-fourth Infantry
Phoenix American Legion
Jones
Charles Barrett
Legion
British Legion
London
H. Nelson Jackson
American Legion
Hanford MacNider
Earle Haig
Disabled veterans rally for second annual convention
World War I veterans in poverty and without government aid traveled by box cars and foot to San Francisco for the Dis abled American Veterans of the World War convention. Raymond Creelman and Robert M Smyth of the national staff reported the hardship and attendance.
Medals Awarded to Two Hundred Pennsylvania Schoolboys
Two hundred public and private schoolboys in Pennsylvania receive medals of merit for excellence in academics and athletics from the Pennsylvania American Legion. Secretary Weeks blocks breaking Camp Dix into small farms for World War I veterans as it remains a military training area.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania American Legion
War Weeks
Camp Dix
Faith in self key to disabled veterans' success says Maj Lent
Maj W F Lent of the US Veterans Bureau told the American Legion staff in Indianapolis that rehabilitation hinges on veterans faith in themselves. He stressed the Legion must instill confidence to cope with life and notes government will place veterans in paths to suitable work, not guarantee the exact position. He added disabled veterans can perform as well as, or better than, able bodied workers in many roles.
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W. F. Lent
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Major Lent
American Legion
Indianapolis
Legion
Legion Auxiliary
Flapper of 1776 Draws Crowds at Cardigan Showing
Miss Hilda Scheurer wore colonial attire including a white wig and hoop skirt to promote an Indianapolis American Legion sponsored historical film. The mass turnout at the theater demonstrated the effectiveness of the Legion and its auxiliary efforts to publicize Cardigan, a Revolutionary era movie.
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Indianapolis American Legion
Hilda Scheurer
Middle West
Stand-In Indian Gift During Hobart Visit
The Sioux equaw Standing Bear presented Mrs. Lowell B. Hobart, national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, with an Indian doll during Hobart's visit to the Sioux reservation in South Dakota.
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Standing Bear
Lowell B. Hobart
American Legion Auxiliary
Voyage to the Moon Prediction Sparks Space Travel Hype
In a Milwau kee Sentinel feature Esnault Pelterle of the Paris Aero club forecasts intra atomic energy enabling earth to moon travel in 49 hours. The piece notes a 31 minute first leg and a 48 hour 29 minute fall into the void with a Twain joke about falling.
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M. Esnault-Pelterle
Parla Aero Club
Mark Twain
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Covington (Ind
Congress
State Island
Whitlock
Staten Island
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U.S
MR. Dingle
Mrs. Dingle
Albert
Milwaukee Sentinel
Manners
Violet Robinson
Mobile
Fuure
Postum Cereal Co., Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
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