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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1921
Page
7
A New York publisher recalls Margot Asquith describing a celebrated political figure as a lady-killer who handles women like fish. He notes her quip that in courting women one aims to make them rise, while in fishing one aims to make them fall.
A witty remark claimed by a neighbor about domestic life includes a punchline that Billy is not her husband but her poodle. The exchange plays on mistaken assumptions and light banter within a neighborhood.
A brief exchange centers on a mistaken injury as a victim says the weapon was a revolving door. The dialogue then shifts to social observations about class and character, with musings on toleration and humility.
B. M. Roszel of Winchester Virginia is named state historian and chairman of the Department Americanism Commission for the Virginia American Legion. He holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins and has taught physics chemistry and mathematics in Washington DC and at Shenandoah Valley Academy. He served eighteen months in the Army and overseas, discharged as a major, now holds a Reserve Corps commission.
Faribault Minnesota sees Miss Tillie Olsen named Queen of the Legion Carnival to help raise funds for post activities. The ceremony honors her role without association to any motion picture, as the event supports American Legion posts.
A. E. F. Play Library opens at 66 West Fortieth Street New York City for Legion posts. It offers the musical comedy Sittin' Pretty about a doughboy who poses as a girl welfare worker in France and saves soldiers from court martial and drownings while chaperoning two daughters of a French nobleman.
The Vermont Department of the American Legion reports the highest ratio of Legion members to ex service men in the state per National Headquarters records. North Dakota ranks second and South Dakota third in proportion.
Californian Legionnaires Van W Bishop of Los Angeles Post 8 and C G Allison of San Francisco Irwin Post 93 travel 1500 miles toward Mexico City on a goodwill march. They praise Legion posts in Yuma Tucson Bisbee Douglas for rest rooms bunks and club rooms as they near El Paso or Laredo to cross into Mexico.
Jacob Ternowitz a Chicago American Legion adjutant says he has changed his name to Jacob Legion Tenny to honor the service and promote an American nomenclature. A lawyer and former West Side Chicago resident, he served overseas with the first contingent of eighteen men and ran in a recent municipal primary as a Democrat.
National headquarters reports fifty one American Legion posts outside the United States. Seventeen foreign countries and three territorial possessions on four continents are represented. Territorial posts include Alaska towns and Pacific bases, while foreign posts span cities from Buenos Aires to Tokyo and Paris to Santo Domingo.
A brief dialogue from the American Legion Weekly describes a passenger asking how far land is and the captain replying three miles away. The skipper notes the water looks unclear and land cannot be seen, with nautical confidence fading.
A four year old asks about a sweater sent to Armenians, asking if ducks killed all Armenians. Her mother explains the Turks and Armenians issue, and the child mistakes Turks for ducks. The anecdote highlights childlike mishearing of near east atrocities.
Fragment from a humorous aside notes a slow horse at a mulroad crossing and a quip about the dead rising at Judgment Day. The piece blends a regional dialect with a punchline about a horse finishing fifth. The American Legion Weekly quote reflects a cautionary motto on decision speed and consequence.
In this brief fragment, Dickens emphasizes earnestness as superior to self-concern while a line notes excessive shirtwaist pressing causing rumpling. The text mixes authorial quotation with an aside on clothing creasing.
Joseph Lincoln recalled a Cape Cod settler story to show how in old New England times rum aided Work. A coffin was to be finished in two days while the man stayed busy with a boat. After drinking a bottle the craftsman made the coffin, left on two chairs, with a centerboard inside.
A quote from an Exchange editorial argues incompetence hinders progress and wastes resources. The piece stresses that skilled minds drive efficiency and that society bears high costs from costly, ineffective work habits.
A compact, reflective saying notes that the world is a prize for the man in earnest and warns that failure tends to reveal itself if one dwells on it. The passage attributes the thought to W Robert son and emphasizes diligence.
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