Illiteracy Stamped Out in Oklahoma Under Legion Plan
A state wide campaign led by the American Legion aims to educate 56 864 illiterates in Oklahoma including 5468 foreign born. Dr Frank H Mac Gregor chairs the effort using the Jones plan with principals clubs teachers and students as volunteers to provide reading arithmetic civics and American history instruction. Doctor MacGregor a Mangum resident served 22 months overseas including time in England and was regimental surgeon with the Scottish Highland division.
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Department of Americanism
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Okla
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Hell
Disabled Veteran Aid Pioneer Honored in Midwest
Hans Hunsdorf, an Aberdeen hospital resident in St Paul Minnesota, is noted for his extensive aid to World War I disabled veterans. Born in Norway in 1878, he served in the 186th Aero Squadron and is now permanently disabled by tuberculosis. He has helped hundreds obtain compensation, attended every local military funeral, and worked to recruit for the American Legion since 1923, writing 101 applications personally.
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Mid-West
Hans Hunsdorf
Aberdeen
St. Paul Minn
Hunsdorf
Eidsvold
Norway
Fort McDowell
Cal
Ilmnsdorf
France
St. Paul
Ilunsdorf
American Legion
Legion
Rrth
At-Arma
Howard E. MacDonald Leads Forty Hommes et Hult Cheveaux
Howard E. MacDonald of Seattle rose to correspondent national of the Forty Hommes et Hult Cheveaux, aiding its national reform after earlier Seattle posts merged. He served as assistant adjutant and adjutant, attended the first Promenade Nationale in Kansas City, and was repeatedly named to the top post after New Orleans. He also earned 22 months in the army and 14 months overseas as a sergeant major in Coast Artillery with the First Army.
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Forty Hommes Et Hult Cheveaux
Playground Society
American Legion
Howard E. MacDonald
Seattle
MacDonald
Third Legion
Rainier No. 21
Elmer J. Noble
Rainier Noble
Kansas City
Edward J. Eivers
Portland
Ore
New Orleans
Army
Coast Artillery Corps
First Army Artillery Headquarters
Legion Will War On Dope Says American Legion Chief
Garland W. Powell, director of the Americanism commission, warned at Indianapolis that 95 percent of dope peddlers are aliens or of alien birth and that if unchecked the nation could become drug soaked within 26 years. He urged immigration restriction and outlined cases of drug addiction among high school students and younger pupils, including an arrest outside a school.
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Garland W. Powel
Americanism Commission
The
American Legion
Andianapolis
Powell
Are you sure you will be happy with me all your life
A Boston Evening Tran transcript quotes a couple in a quiet exchange about lifelong happiness. He candidly admits that while he cannot promise constant joy, she is the one who makes him willing to risk unhappiness for a life together.
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Boston Evening Transcript
Walters Ready to Buck the Line with Tanlae
Floyd E. Walters of Kansas City testifies that Tanlae cured his digestive woes and ailments from indigestion to palpitations. He reports dramatic health improvement and urges readers to try the Tanlae treatment, noting it is sold by druggists with over 37 million bottles sold.
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Walters
Taniac
Floyd E. Walters
13Th St
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Kansas
Tanlae
Bungalow Origin Tied to East Indian Speech
The piece traces how the word bungalow entered English through East Indian dialects and cites 17th century references. It notes 1688 accounts of Bengali styled buildings for merchants and later 40 years hence notes “bengales or mall houses” for English company personnel onboard.
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Elliot
India
Sundip
Satgan
Streynsham
Quiet pianist defies clock to end practice early
A young pianist, unnamed to protect her father, began scales at five and asked to quit at five fifty five instead of the hour. The clock ran slow, but she was overruled and kept to the standard hour long session.
Diplomacy and Golf Banter From The New York Sun
A brief New York Sun gossip note recalls a boss inviting a person to golf next Saturday. The quip suggests curiosity about the boss's skill and a claim that Fred will imagine a different outcome before the day ends.
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Fred
New York Sun
Name Linked with Romance Clemence Isaure of Toulouse
Clemence Isaure a learned lady of Toulouse founded the floral games. Born 1464 she rejected a troubadour’s romance after he was killed in battle and renewed the festival distributing five flowers in metal to winners. The floral games lasted 500 years.
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Clemence Isaure
Toulousse
France
Clemence
Detroit News
Senator chides constituent over lawn maker joke
A back districts constituent wrote to the senator calling him a "lawn maker" and the senator says the joke was poor. A friend argues no joke was intended, suggesting the writer may simply want free seed.
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Statesman
Had brief time of glory for the Connecticut battleship
The Connecticut, flagship of the American armada, once led a world cruising fleet and served longer and more continuously than any other battleship yet never fired on an enemy. Now she lies in Puget Sound as a memorial relic, the sole survivor of the big 16.
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Connecticut
Dead Man’s Row
Puget Sound
Conny
United States Navy
Names and Meaning Through a Farmer’s Tale
The text ponders what a name carries and recalls Farmer Hoptoad’s explanation about naming his eldest daughter Isabel, noting the irony that she isn’t. A concluding proverb suggests balance as the cup fills.
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