Legion Notes for Dalton Fourth of July and Miscellany
Legion offering limited National bonus blanks with fingerprinting at the Dug Out Sunday 2 to 4 pm. Stenographers Jenness and Mrs Meeder will assist, with Kinney handling fingerprints. Fourth of July events include a morning parade at 9 15 from Silent City to the grounds, program at 10 30, and free overseas caps for members. Also notes praise for the Women's Auxiliary, calls for new recruits, and a stalled Fourth District meeting postponed to a future date.
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Legion
Dalton
Scotch Jenness
Meeder
Jdr
Bob Kinney
Bugle Corps
Silent City
North Side
American Legion
Public Service Company
Michigan
Maine
Dalton Village
Homewood
Flag day honors and Elks parade at Grant Park Chicago
Paul Gall Post received high honors as Chicago Lodge No. 4 Elks organized a Flag Day ceremony at Grant Park with about ten thousand spectators. Color guard included Brookfelt, Bob Kinney and Wirtz. Johnny Thal pledged to attend all future posts. A separate Plainfield Joliet crash linked to John and an interurban car was reported by Joliet papers noting his American Legion membership and the Women’s Auxiliary reaction.
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Legion
Women’s Auxiliary
Auxiliary
Paul Gall Post
Chicago
Johnny Thal
John
Plainfield
Joliet
St. Francis Hospital
American Legion
Be Sure You're Right in Life’s Risk and Purpose
The adage urges self assessment before actions or expenditure of energy. It emphasizes aligning aims with genuine purpose to avoid wasteful risk and justify effort, presenting a Pennsylvanian grit ethos as the secret to success.
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Pennsylvania
Thought and Work in Daily Labor Reflections
A reflective excerpt quotes Thoreau on dignity in labor and simple earnings. It notes earning 75 cents for manure work and mentions a digging spade and turf knife as enduring symbols for posterity in a figurative coat of arms.
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Thoreau
Calumet City Local and Personal Notes
Storm damages front windows of Calumet City Hardware Co on 165th Place and Wentworth Avenue with over 200 dollars in loss. Local residents travel, recoveries reported. several families announce trips, visits, and health updates. Funeral for Mary Dumas Ensweiler noted. education board session held. various social updates across Calumet City and nearby towns.
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Calumet City Hardware Co
165Th Place
Wentworth Avenue
Hishon
Martin A. Dombowski
154Th Street
Frank J. Wachowicz
Pittsburgh
Schenley Lake
Penn
Wachowicz
Iuly
Josephine
Richard Enright
Forsythe Avenue
Mishawaka
Mudlaff
Ingraham Avenue
G. W. Proffet
Chicago
Mary Dumas Ensweiler
Douglas Avenue
St. Margaret’s Hospital
Ensweiler
Hohman Street
St. Joseph’s Church
H. O. Ressig and Son
J. E. Trescott
East
Canada
Virginia Farmhouse Wife Installs Running Water
A Virginia farm housewife installed running water in her kitchen after realizing she walked 140 miles yearly to fetch water and expended as much energy as two horses in plowing 11 acres of land.
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Virginia
Only One Mother in the Wide World Quote by Wiggin
A reflective quote from Kate Douglas Wiggin on motherhood noting that only one mother exists in the world amid many family and natural wonders. It emphasizes the unique bond of a mother compared to other gifts and relations.
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Rosea
Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Bugle
Eddie Brookfelt
Corps
Eddie
Calumet City
Ida Benjamin
West State Street
Waukegan
Benjamin
Board of Education, Dist. No. 156
Rose Fein
Maurice S. Riesenfeld
Warren Street
Jack Morton
Riesenfeld
Joe Gobitz
Ada Rubin
West State
Starved Rock
Ida Leffman
Garfield Street
Morris Diamond
Kenneth Pressell
Nathan Goldstein
Sweat
Union Mills
Ind
Bradley
Charles A ‘Coffin
Electrical Art
RAE
IER
EPR
Indir Aguver
Artei
Henry Jostes Sporting Goods
Michigan Ave
Roseland
J. O. Twichell
Iowa
Kansas Plains
Denver
San Francisco
Illinois
Bell Telephone Company
Bell System
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