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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1922
Page
2
A clipped notice from an American Legion News Service release highlights a department’s copy for public distribution urging support and participation in veterans affairs. It signals organized outreach and community engagement.
Hayward Thompson of Denver Colorado, an ex service man, writes with both hands and can move one hand forward while the other moves backward. A head injury during the war left him with memory loss for his life before the hospital stay. The veterans bureau and Colorado American Legion are aiding in rediscovering his past.
A Baltimore foundling raised as Edsward John Evangelist Smith dies as a Marine in World War I. Recruited from Mount Saint Mary's, he served with the Fifth Marines and fell the morning the armistice was signed. Captain Wells Hawkes funds a monument to Smithy.
O Rolf of Toledo Ohio, a naval lieutenant and former executive officer of a merchant ship, was wounded in action after the armistice. His vessel was fired by a German submarine near La Palis France on November 11 1918. He spent months in English and continental hospitals before returning to Toledo to resume law practice.
A World War I appeal notes a soldier’s photo of Miss Harriet Flinn of Indiana found after battle chaos near Chateau Thierry or the Argonne. It asks the owner to surrender the image, promising a cherished reunion, and directs inquiries to the Legion’s Indianapolis headquarters.
Philip J. Burger, a Jacob Jones gunner’s mate, survived eighteen hours in icy water after aiding a shipmate when the destroyer was torpedoed off Lands End in December 1917. He receives the Portuguese decoration and the American Distinguished Service Medal and trains in Troy New York.
Fred W. Smith of Omaha offered to donate as much blood as needed to save a man in an Omaha hospital. The gesture came while he was out of work, supporting a wife and two young children, after years on a Nebraska farm, a packing plant job, and service in France.
At Grant's Tomb in New York a tree has been moved from the General's Missouri dooryard by the Legion and the American Forestry association.
The Douglas county Legionnaires of Omaha Nebraska coin a new meaning for the familiar army phrase SOL calling it Staying Outa Legion. The updated motto shifts emphasis to avoiding service options within local veteran circles.
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