Minneapolis Sees Veteran Run City Hall Under Leach
George Leach leads Minneapolis as mayor with World War I veterans shaping the administration. The city attorney, Nell Cranin, and secretary Frank Cullen, both veterans, anchor a staff drawn from the Rainbow division and local American Legion posts. The vote followed a bitter contest with charges of disloyalism and a platform of straight Americanism and business.
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United States
Minneapolis
George BE. Leach
Nell M. Cranin
A. C. Jensen
Page
Frank R. Cullen
Leach Wan
Luke
Rainbow Division
Armisistee
Leach
American Legion
Marine makes 4000 mile hike to New York post
Charles E. Gilbert United States Marine Corps walked from San Francisco to St Paul covering 2200 miles in 12 days of actual travel and 4000 miles overall. He carried a 51 pound pack and was aided by automobile motorists along the route. He sought transfer to a New York post and received a fur coat for the journey. He arrived in New York recently in good spirits after a month on the road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Gilbert
United States Marine Corps
New York
Trais
San Frincisco
Gilbert
Lefelon
St. Paul
St. Paul Post
No. 8
San Francisco
Police Post of the Legion Formed by New York City Force
One thousand two hundred veteran officers from New York City join the General Lafayette Police Post of the American Legion in New York. Peter J. Masterson commands the unit as a lieutenant of police. The war dead include nineteen officers killed in action and nineteen awarded the Croix de Guerre. The post maintains a summer resort at Broad Channel, Long Island, for soldier policemen and plans an auxiliary this fall for the married officers.
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General Lafayette
American Legion
New York City
Peter J. Masterson
Polee
New York
America
Germany
Army
Broad Channel
Long Island
American Legion Actions From Arrest to Mount Hood Climb
American Legion members form a vigilante group after ex service man Herbert Delaney in Caledonia Michigan shoots a deputy. The Legion advocates land settlement, public funds priority for ex service men and retirements for sick World War officers. They plan Mount Hood ascent with Oregon officials and note air travel to address conventions. They assist others including a Has tings Michigan case, a Tangipahoa estate, and a Duluth memorial. reflect wartime loss, and describe Legion activity in Coblenz and Turkey as well as hometown community projects.
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Herbert Delaney
Caledonia
Mich
American Legion
American Legion of
Washington
John Winthrop
Yarmouth
Orst
England
James 1
Plymouth
Miles Standish
Salem
Boston
Bradford
Lfe
Handy
Gether
Holland
London
Payitan
Missachusetts Bay
John Josselyn
Boston and its Stump Tower a Lincolnshire Seaport Tale
Read about Boston Lincolnshire once a thriving port on the Witham river. The piece recalls the towering St Botolph church, the decayed town era, later revival via docks and warehouses, and the Pilgrim versus Puritan contrasts shaping its heritage.
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Oston
Lincolnshire
Boston
Witham
Shirbeck
Russia
Sweden
Norway
Boston Town
King's Lynn
London
Prlgrim
Corporation
Moder
St. Botolph’s
Engand
St. Michael's
Coventry
St. Botolph
Indy
Margaret Tilney
America
John Cotton
Cotton Chapel
Pendill Marries Gertrude Wollaeger in Milwaukee Ceremony
Claudius G. Pendill national vice commander of the American Legion wed Miss Gertrude Elizabeth Wollaeger of Milwaukee. Pendill rose from regular Navy enlistment in 1917 to ensign by 1918 and served as a lieutenant at war’s end. The couple, Michigan and Vasari graduates, will base their life in Boston.
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Frank M. Greg
Misschusetts Bay
Salem
Boston
Plymouth
William Bradford
England
Holland
Jones
Charles
America
Claudius G. Pendill
Milwaukee
Wis
American Legion
Gertrude Elizabeth Wollaeger
Lawrence
Pendill
United States Navy
J. G
University of Michigan
Mra Pendill
Vasari
Masa
Arlington Soldier Memorial Plan Aims for Global Beauty
Arlington plans to transform the national cemetery into the world’s most beautiful soldier memorial. American Tagton officials say the project will be presented to a congressional committee soon. Landscape gardeners of international fame will submit designs, and the best to embody the heroic spirit of the American dead will be chosen to complete the work.
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Arlington
National Cemetery
Waah Iogtog
Legion Men Fight Forest Fire in Minnesota Stand
North eastern Minnesota forest fires threatened towns and woods as 25 Legion fire filters led by the state adjutant battled the blaze. A backfire flared up in a wind change, trapping the unit in a 150 foot ring of fire while they wet handkerchiefs and lay prone to survive.
The First Ocean Cable and Writing on Writing
A fragmented article recalls the first ocean cable from Dover to Calais and its doubters. It contrasts early technical skepticism with later acceptance, then shifts to a literary critique praising Poe and Whitman for explaining their craft, noting American writers’ struggles to articulate their art.
Legion Scouts Tie Own Duty to Nation’s Service
The American Legion endorses and seeks to cooperate with the Boy Scouts in community projects after the war. Joint efforts could include citizenship classes, public reunions, and patriotic observances on Memorial, Flag, and Independence Day. Legion veterans are ideal to lead scout groups as instructors and mentors.
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Manna
Bruner
Kas
France
American Legion
Boy Scouts of America
Nasion
Legion
Boy Scouts
Loch
Baselon
Community safety drive marks dangerous holes in Shelbyville
A Shelbyville Indiana boy scout tragedy spurred Rotary and scouts to mark treacherous holes with signs and wire. They sold signs under Buy a sign and give a boy's life to fund safety work and cleared trash and dampness from the sites urging towns to adopt prevention.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Rotary Club
Boy Scouts
Rotarians
Boy Scouts Police Aides sworn by Essex County park police
Thirty six boy scouts have been formally sworn in as members of the Essex county New Jersey park commission scout police. The group acts as auxiliary to the county police, with leaders receiving direct instruction from Chief Gilhooly of the park police and wearing badges combining scout and park police insignia.
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Essex County
N. J
Park Commission Scout Police
Gilhooly
Park Police
Boy Scouts
Troop 19 Helps Orphanage Children Learn Games
Baltimore Scouts from Troop 19 visited the city orphan asylum to teach the youngsters simple games and foster friendly interaction. The visit highlighted the boys' goodwill as they engaged with the orphans, offering guidance and companionship during the session.
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Baltimore
Orphan Asylum
Fede
Mabe
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the Legion
Peter Masterson
Fin
Themerican Legion
Harding
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Ore
The
Mount Hood
Olcott
Oregon
Theodore Roosevelt
John J. Pershing
Tangipahoa Parish
Duluth
Minn
Constantineple
Turkey
Coblenz
Martin J. Maloney
Rockaway Beach
Maloney
Flanders Field
Manchester
N. H
Adhemar Letendre
Albert Thibeault
Kansas City
Guildhall
Connell
Spain
Jane
St. Spain
Market PLC
Longfellow
Boston Studf
Dover
Calais
Poe
Thoreau
Emerson
Whitman
BOY Scouts Police
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