Winchester VA man named state historian and Americanism chairman
B M Roxzel of Winchester Virginia is appointed state historian and chairman of the Virginia American Legion Department Americanism Commission. He also serves as historian of his post in Baltimore Maryland. He earned AB and PhD from Johns Hopkins, taught at the institute, headed Sewanee Grammar School, led Shenandoah Valley Academy, and served eighteen months in the Army as a major now in Reserve Corps.
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B. M. Roxzel
Winchester
Virginia Department of the American Legion
Horn
Baltimore
Roazel
Johns Hopkins University
Washington High School
Washington, D.C
Roszel
Sewane Grammar School
University of the South
Shennandoah Valley Academy
Reserve Corps
Travel Pictures for Posts Arranged by Legion and Bureau
The American Legion and the Bureau of Commercial Economics offer free exhibition of a 1000 film travel education collection. Posts receive a numbered catalogue, and only express charges are payable. no admission fees. State departments coordinate film distribution centers and catalogs.
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American Legion
Bureau of Commercial Economics
Nko
Legion
Fims
Bureau
Atte
Bureau of Commercial Economies
Francis Haley
Brreau
Legion Named Himself After American Legion in Chicago Meeting
Jacob Telnowicz adopts middle name Legion Tenny at an American Legion post gathering in Chicago. He argues for an American nomenclature standard and says he is the first to name himself after the Legion. Tenny is a lawyer, former Democratic municipal judge candidate, and served with the first contingent overseas.
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Jacob Telnowicz
Walter S. Poague
American Legion
Chicago
Jacob Legion
Tenny
Jacob
Legion
Leyion
West Side
Legion hikers greet hospitality on southern trek
Van W Bishop and G Allison, California Legionnaires from Los Angeles and San Francisco, travel 1500 miles from Los Angeles to Mexico City. They rest at Legion posts in Yuma, Tucson, Bisbee, and Loughis as they plan to enter Mexico via El Paso or Laredo, Texas.
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Southwest
American Legion
van W. Bishop
G. Allison
California
Los Angeles
Cal
Mexico City
Mexico
Bishop
Allison
San Francisco
Legion
Yumno
Ariz
Tucson Post
Bisbee
Jine
Loughis
Legion Post
el Paso
Larelo
Queen of Legion Carnival Honored in Faribault Pageant
Faribault Minnesota honors a young woman in connection with a Legion Carnival fundraiser. Miss Olen 6 is celebrated for her role in the celebration to raise funds and for not posing in a feudal days motion picture.
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Faribault, Minn
Olen
Queen of the Carnival Staged by American Legion
The Queen of the Carnival event in Faribault Minnesota, organized by the American Legion Post to raise funds for post activities and community projects. Local veterans and volunteers supported the event with proceeds aiding youth programs and local services.
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Faribautt
Fifty one American Legion posts abroad listed by HQ
National headquarters notes fifty one American Legion posts outside the United States. Posts span seventeen forests and three territorial possessions on four continents, with detailed listings in Alaska Hawaii and the Philippines plus foreign posts in Buenos Aires Brussels Rio de Janeiro Montreal Chuquicamata Shanghai Peking Havana London Guatemala City Paris La Rochelle Guevres Coblenza Tokyo Yokohama Kobe Mexico City Tampa Peru Balboa Cristobal Gatun Panama Warsaw and Santo Domingo.
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American Legion
United States
Anchorage
Valdez
Ketchioan
Juneau
Seward
Wrangell
Fort Liseum
Cordova
Nome
Haines
Fairbanks
Sitka
Petersburg
Alaska
Honolulu
Kenka
Hilo
A. L. E. Play Library Opens for Legion Posts
The A. L. E. F. play library offers posts of the American Legion ready-to-produce works. Featured is the musical comedy Sittin' Pretty about a dough boy who poses as a French welfare worker, saves AWL soldiers, chaperones two daughters, and rescues them from the River Og nac. Address: 86 West Fortieth Street New York City.
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Ognac
Bureau Ale
Libracy
West Fortieth Street
New York City
Legion Man Boyd Youngest North Dakota Representative
Robert J. Boyd twenty five year old member of Gilbert Grafton Post No 2 American Legion in Fargo is the youngest member of the North Dakota house of representatives. He was elected by a large majority at the last election. Boyd is a former president of the Fargo Trades and Labor assembly and active in the Presamen's Union. It is expected he will introduce several bills advantageous to organized labor.
Pinchot Praises Boy Scouts Forestry Program
Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania forestry commissioner, extols the Boy Scouts in a foreword for The Boy Scouts First Book of Forestry. He argues scouting builds real citizens, teaches forest conservation, and connects urban youths with the country. He notes badge growth from 158 in 1917 to 618 in 1919 and urges more awards in Pennsylvania.
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Gifford Pinchot
Terrestry
Pennsylvania
The
Boy Scouts
Dosoph
Hick Mid
Pennsylvania Department of Forestry
America
United States
Hoy Scouts Printing Merit Badge Drive Impresses Town
Scouts of St. Pauls Episcopal church printed for a recent event and earned praise as if from professional printers. The merit badge shows public printing interest with 200 scouts earning it in 1910, 85 in 1918, and 62 in 1917, as troops publish their own materials.
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Huntington Boy Scouts lead city safety and cleanup drive
The Huntington Chamber of Commerce launches a city wide safety campaign amid rising citizen carelessness about accidents and sanitation. Local Boy Scouts of America organize and direct the effort with a city clean-up drive involving all civic groups.
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Chamber of Commerce of
Huntington
W. Va
Clvic
Boy Scouts of America
Scouts Train With Racing Pigeons In Idaho
W. D. Sanford of the June loft presented Lewiston boy scouts with ten pairs of his finest northwest racing pigeons. The scouts will learn raising and training carrier pigeons and will use message carrying as a special feature, opening a new field of scout activity likely to attract other boys.
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W. D. Sanford
Northwest
Lewiston
Idaho
The Three Camels in a Big City Play
A trio of camels narrate their move from desert life to a city theater. They reflect on being part of a stage production, the role of actors and scenery, and how their presence adds meaning to the performance. They debate brains and skill, then settle into their stable for the night.
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Cainel
Camel
Camel Thires
Camel One
Camel Three
Comet One
Wah
Camel Two
Ike
Better Roads Better Road Maintenance Guidance
A period instruction stressing maintenance of concrete road joints. It urges cleaning and filling contraction joints with hot tar at least once yearly, ideally twice in heavy traffic areas, with April and October best for the work.
Woman Leads Double Life and Murder in Los Angeles
A nude mutilated body found on Los Angeles outskirts shocks police. The victim, Fay Sudow, led a double life as a conservative businesswoman by day and a nightlife operator by night. Police link possible drug ring and financial schemes as they search for a killer among several involved men.
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Los Angeles
Los
Ighit
Fay Sudo
Tex
Jynd Me. Hyde
Tal
Sudow
Hernan Salow
Persson
Heather
Join Thidsen
Lox Anegees
Aden
Hudson
Sete Ui
Cher
Arizona
Melting Point Tests for Tar Blends Describe Additive Adjustments
The document discusses determining tar melting points using the Yeubein water method, noting a melt around 10 percent above Fahrenheit. If the top termil melts too thick, creosote can reduce it. if too low, adding a component with a higher melting point than 105 degrees can adjust to the tested consistency.
Death Traps on Road Sides Against Ditch Style Highways
George C. Diehl criticizes current road ditches in Motor and urges underground drains. He says future highways should be wider with no deep ditches to improve safety and driver nerves. He advocates ditchless roads and wider lanes to reduce near collisions and enhance comfort for Sunday travelers.
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Viel
George C. Diet
Good Rowns
Anertea Automobile Association
Dealnage
Mr. Diehl
Farm to Market Highways Push by Illinois Farmers Group
Illinois Agricultural Association officials press a program to build better market roads. They favor a patrol system for large scale road maintenance and aim to match or exceed Wisconsin and Iowa in road quality and cost efficiency.
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Illinois
Agricultural Association For Better Roads
Illnois
Ulinois
Wisconsin
Illicois
Iowa
Bright Youngster on happiness and want in Stray Stories
In this strip, a humorous exchange frames a child asking what would make us truly happy. The witty reply notes that people desire the things they lack, highlighting a playful social observation from the Stray Stories feature.
Detriment to Rural Progress We Need More Good Roads
A call argues that poor roads slow agricultural growth and hinder rural progress, claiming no single factor harms rural development more than intolerable highways and urging improvements.
Seeking Information in a Classroom Dialog
A fragmentary dialogue shows a mother asking Susie and Bobby about a new teacher named Bobbie. Bobby deflects, noting the teacher asked his age while Susie worries about her dirty face as her aunt visits that afternoon.
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Bobbie
Susie
Bobby
Bert
Heroic Women Save Children in Tornado at Oconee Ga
Three women teachers risked their lives during a tornado in Oconee Georgia. They shielded children as the school building buckled and fell, creating a gap for students to escape. The teachers kept the youngsters safe before the debris trapped them.
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Oconee, Ga
Oconee
Pennsylvania Highway Costs For Maintenance And Build
The state spends about 5,000 dollars per nine miles for maintenance equating to roughly one dollar per running foot. Construction costs run around 62,500 dollars per mile approximately 12 dollars per running foot.
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Pennsylvania
Preparing for Improvements Across States Bond Plans Rise
Nearly every state in the Union is making preparations for extensive highway improvements and many states have authorized new bond issues totaling millions of dollars.
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Union
Revival of Good Roads Movement Gains Momentum
The article notes a strong revival of the good roads movement as business returns to normal after wartime strain. It highlights how the war underscored road importance and the value of improved transportation networks.
Brother killer held after 81 year old death in Stephentown
Thomas Silk aged 75 is arrested in Stephentown on suspicion of murdering his 81 year old brother Michael Silk after a fight. Authorities say Thomas admitted a dispute with his brother before the death. A separate report from Newark notes Rose Spade is accused of fatally shooting her husband George Spade.
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Stephentown
Thomas Silk
Michael Silk
Thomas
Newark
N. J
Rose Spade
George Spade
Humorous Fragments and Snippets Across a Far Cry
A garbled collage of quips and anecdotes riffs on editors sailors and townsfolk with playful lines about soda fountains bar fights and oddly timed conversations. The piece threads oddities and wry comments from imagined reporters and locals in a mosaic of humor without a single clear narrative arc.
Bard Banter Sparks Talk of Shakespeare Play
A local exchange centers on staging Shakespeare with Mr Stormingtom Tarnes arguing that nonfans won’t attend while supporters insist on quality theater drawing earnest audiences.
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Mr. Stormingtom Tarnes
All Wool Spring Suits Sell For Sixty Five Dollars
A fragmented item notes a price of sixty five dollars for new all wool spring suits and mocks the value of wool content. It mentions a humorous test of philosophy with Jeptha Tate and a chaotic street scene as a composer battles doorbells and honking cars for inspiration.
Quips and Quarrels in a Talking House
A collage of old jokes and exchanges shows a sharp wit, a wife’s ire over biscuits, golf chatter, a mock million-dollar case, and a blunt merchant’s disdain for middlemen. The tone mimics a social column with quick hits and sharp one liners.
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Sudew
Poties
Highway Authority
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Chu
Shanghai Daily News
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New York Evening Post
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