Ranch for Ex Service Men Invitation to Visit Five Bar Mule Ranch
Col. BR P Dickerson founder and national commander of the National Loyalty League invited Legionnaires to his Five Bar Mule ranch near Springfield Missouri. He plans a playground for ex service men with riding fishing and hunting opportunities. Dickerson is a Spanish American War veteran who organized a World War I regiment of cowboys and later formed the National Loyalty League to promote loyalty through education.
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Col
BR. P. Dickerson
National Loyalty League
American Legion
Kansas City
Springfield
Colonel Dickerson
Missouri
Dickerson
United States
War Department
Rifle loans to American Legion posts for funeral ceremonies
American Legion posts may obtain obsolete rifles and blank ammunition from corps ordnance officers under an act of Congress. No more than ten rifles per post. state commanders must approve loan applications and blank ammunition sales. Bond covering penal value must be endorsed by the state commander. Transportation paid by the post. List of corps ordnance officers across nine locations.
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American Legion
Corps Ordnance
United States Army
Congress
Legion
Corps Ordnance Officer
Chauncey Street
Boston
Mass
Governor’s Island
Fort Howard
Fort McPherson
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Fort Creek
Neb
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Santa Fe Building
San Francisco
Cal
Valued Legion Man Hanley Led North Dakota Service
James M. Hanley of Mandan North Dakota has held multiple public roles including speaker of the state house state attorney Morton County senator president of the Mandan Rotary club and district court judge He served nearly four years in the military including a 1916 border deployment as a battalion commander major He fought in World War I in France with the 41st division and later with the Roth division A founding American Legion member he chaired North Dakota s first department convention and attended the St Louis caucus as a delegate
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James M. Hanley
Mandan
North Dakota
House of Representatives
Morton County
North Dakota Infantry
France
41St
Roth
Judge Hanley
American Legion
St. Louis
Foch Made Legion Man on U S Visit
Marshal Ferdinand Foch joined the American Legion during his U S visit signing the membership application on arrival in Washington D C He was greeted by George Washington Post No 1 officials at Union Station and presented with the Legion ceremonial badge.
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Ferdinand Foch
American Legion
America
Washington, D. C
George Washington Post No. 1
H. S. Fisk
Union Station
Howard S. Fisk
Ex Service Men Run Busses on Fifth Avenue
Fifth avenue Coach Company employs many ex service men guiding New York buses. The firm rehired all wartime staff, favors veterans for new roles, and launched a civility campaign to improve passenger relations, cutting complaints and showing two sides to most issues.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
Broadway
Brooklyn Bridge
Woolworth
Fifth Avenue Coach Company
American Legion
Joan A. Ritchie
Ritchie
American Legion Leader on Citizenship and Service
Harrison Fuller, first department commander of the American Legion in Minnesota, vows to promote Americanism through education of all residents in government principles and opportunities. He led the pilgrimage to France and organized 472 Legion posts in Minnesota. Fuller also serves as city editor of the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press.
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Harrison Fuller
American Legion
Minnesota
France
Fuller
St. Paul
Veteran lumberman counsels weary helper on cross saw
An eastern college graduate hired in a Michigan lumber camp works the far end of a cross saw. After an hour the seasoned lumberman halts the pair and warns the youth with a sympathetic tone that his erratic scraping feet hinder progress, urging him to stop.
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Eastern College
Michigan
Sonny
American Legion Weekly
Farmer’s 10 000 Debt Returns After Wedding
A farmer jokes about becoming $10,000 to the good after marrying a widow, but concedes he costs $2 for the marriage license, quipping about the net value with a dry smile.
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Seth
American Legion Weekly
Season of the soul and Christmas call to service
A pastor reflects on Christmas as a time shaping the soul toward kindness and patriotism. He cites wartime Christmas truces, global suffering, and the need for better instruments, urging a shift from profit to service in business and craft to build a nobler civilization.
The Christmas Dispositions and World Rebuilding
A reflection on how humane dispositions born at Christmas could transform society. The speaker notes the difficulty of eradicating wealth disparity, domestic tragedy, industrial friction, and international strife, urging continued cultivation of Christmas born virtues to rebuild the world.
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World Organization
The Christmas Spirit and the Dream of a Happy Home
A reflection on marriage vows and home life. The piece contrasts money and love, arguing that money builds houses while love builds homes, and cites Jane Welch Carlyle on the gravity of marital commitment. It ponders how to create a heaven-like home amid the realities of life.
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Jane Welch Carlyle
Motive of Profit Questioned as World Unrest Rises
The speaker argues the profit motive has failed, causing a world catastrophe and widespread unrest. He proposes testing a new motive by appealing to other driving forces beyond money and shows how industry and society might change if values shift.
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Belleau Wood
Argonne Forest
Nations must serve others in a Christmas shaped world order
The text argues that Christendom has pursued power rather than service and urges nations to adopt a Jesus like ethic. It claims real greatness lies in giving and risking for world justice and peace, envisioning a shift from sword and scepter to service. Nations should enter world life to give, not merely to gain.
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Christendom
Nietzsche
Jesus
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Foch
Legion Man
George Washington Post
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Evanston, HI
China
Armenia
Europe
Ernest Fremont Tittle
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