Expansion of federal quarantine area and warship program
Washington reports extended federal quarantine due to Europenac corn borer. Congress moves toward parity with Britain by passing a 140 million dollar cruiser and battleship rehabilitation bill. Other items include a $5,000 annuity proposal, Navy academy leadership change, constitutional reform proposals, and various tax, legal, and local civic actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Gore
Congress
United States
Great Britain
Senate
Petition presented at Geneva opium conference by Mrs Wright
Mrs Hamilton Wright presented an American petition at the Geneva opium conference plenary session claiming broad U S support. Dental authorities from Canada Europe and Australasia will speak at the sixty second Chicago Dental Society convention in Chicago January 21 22 and 23. Canada’s eight month trade total reached 1 244 000 000 down from 69 000 000 in the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta Lehmann
Chicago
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Hamilton Wright
Geneva
United States
Canada
Europe
Australasia
Ottawa
Iowa Leads the Legion at St Madison District Session
A strong push to claim the slogan Iowa Leads the Legion was voiced at Des Moines as the first district American Legion convention in St Madison opened. Iowa farm interests eye road-building plans with governors hints to aid agriculture and child welfare bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
George R. Kellogg
Story County
American Legion
St. Madison
Iowa Co-operative Livestock Shippers
Corn Belt Meat Producers Association
Des Moines
Iowa State College
State Department of Health
Adj
Louis G. Lasher
Congress
Good Roads Association
Kendall
Iowa Child Welfare Commission
Charles D Reed
Iowa Weather and Crop Bureau
Reed
Legionnaires to Tour Philippines for 1925 convention
A large American Legion delegation plans a 1925 Far East tour departing San Francisco January 15 aboard the Taiyo Maru. The journey includes Honolulu Yokohama Kobe and Nagasaki with stops in Shanghai Hongkong and Manila for the Manila convention February 11 to 14. The voyage concludes in San Francisco March 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
United States
Philippines
Manila
Orient
Leonard Wood
National Convention of the Legion
St. Paul
American Express Company
San Francisco
Honolulu
Hawaii
Moanalua Gardens
Pall
Fort Ruger
Naval Station
Museum
Waikiki Beach
Yokohama
Japan
Kamakura
Tokyo
Kobe
Kyoto
Nagasaki
Shanghai
China
Astor
Legionnaires
Hongkong
Peking
Manchuria
Korea
Tsondlulu
Kansas Auxiliary Aids Hospitalized Nurses
Disabled World War I nurses at Fort Bayard New Mexico received gowns gowns and accessories from a Kansas American Legion Auxiliary fundraiser. The group created a Lace and Liberty fund to purchase clothes and finery improving the spirits of the hospitalized ex service nurses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Bayard
N. M
American Legion Auxiliary
Department of Kansas
Youngest Man Heads Wisconsin American Legion Department
L Hugo Keller of Wisconsin, aged 30, is identified by friends as the youngest department commander in the American Legion. A Appleton native, Keller earned a law degree in 1917, served as a lieutenant in World War I, and later held multiple Legion posts shaping Wisconsin’s seventh-largest department membership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Hugo Keller
Wisconsin
American Legion
Keller
Appleton
Wis
Campion College
Marquette University
Milwaukee
Fort Sheridan
One Hundred and Shiftieth Machine Gun
Tebruary
Army of Occupation
Rainbow Division
The
Wisconsin Department
Modern Crusaders Rally for Universal Draft in Beloit Speech
R E Evans told American Legionnaires in Beloit Wisconsin that Legionnaires are modern crusaders for right. He said neutrality between right and wrong is wicked and praised James A Drain for a universal draft law mandating equal citizen service in war and peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. J. Evans
Beloit
Wis
Europe
Charles Martel
Sobieski
James A. Drain
Congress
Memorial Parkway plan honors Selma World War dead
The American Legion post at Selma Alabama adopted a plan to build a flower and shrub lined memorial parkway stretching for miles through the city to commemorate county heroes buried in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Selma
Ala
France
Getting Off Easy At Grade Crossing Accident
A Grade Crossing accident injures a person described as a lucky fool by the American Legion Weekly. The report notes a broken leg shoulder smashed ribs cracked and a crushed head, reflecting the severity of the incident.
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Chuggins
American Legion Weekly
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New York
House of Representaatives
Edith Bolling Wilson
Louis Moulton
Navy Department
Wilson
Naval Academy
Annapolis
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California
Joseph W McIntosh
Macomb, Til
President Coolidge
Henry M. Dawes
Smith
South Carolina
Underwood
Mbrary Board
Republic of Lithuania
Poland
Hoover
Hand
Charlies A. Stoneham
New York Giants
BR. M. Fuller & Co
Work
Osage Indian Reservation
Oklahoma
Great Falls
Mont
Jack Johnson
Youngstown
Col
Hiram Bingham
Connecticut
Frank B. Brandegee
Samuel Smith
Ike Eastwood
Nashville, Tenn
General Hospital
Woodrow Wilson
House of Representatives
Coolidge
Kansas
Kansas State Agricultural College
Manhattan
Kan
Bruce A. Shaw
Oak Park
George
Mr. Shaw
Robert Catherwood
National Civil Service Reform League
James A. Crain
Illinois Legion
United States Geological Survey
Health Department of New York
New York City
August Belmont
Sportsman
Subway
Mineola
L. I
Belmont
Eleanor Robson Belmont
Frederick Prime Delafield
Hawkins, Delafield & Longfellow
Page Morris
Minneapolis
Rochester
Minn
Carolina Putnam Ream
Norman B. Ream
Pomfret
Conn
Theodore Frank Appleby
New Jersey
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Martin H. Glynn
Albany
Hawkeye
State News
J. J. Wilson
Pella
Barnum-Bailey Circus Company
Lit
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