First Women Pioneers Highlight Miss Mary O Toole’s Achievements
Mary O Toole of Washington Auxiliary is listed among Americas firsts for her trailblazing career. She became the District of Columbia municipal court judge the first woman to perform a marriage ceremony there and the first female director in several local bodies. A native of Ireland she moved to the United States at seventeen and pursued law while working as a court reporter and clerk in New York. She later joined the American Legion Auxiliary in Washington but declined the role of first vice president due to court duties.
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New York City
Wall Street
Government Forestry Service
Vincent B. Costello
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Man as Life Saver at Rockaway Beach
William Heineman, World War II veteran from Greenville New Jersey, saved six men and a woman trapped in a treacherous undertow at Rockaway Beach New York. Heineman used a rope and an automobile tire inner tube to reach the woman and then rescued the others. He declined medical aid and provided few details about his actions. He served overseas with the Sixty-ninth New York Infantry Forty third Division. He will wear a Carnegie medal alongside his Croix de Guerre.
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William Heineman
Helneman
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Engagement Of Charles H. Duell And Lillian Tucker
The engagement links Charles H. Duell of New York with actress Lillian Tucker who appeared in Three Faces East. Duell is son of the late Judge Charles H. Duell and a cousin of Elihu Root. He served on the destroyer Wilkes during the war and helped organize the Yonkers American Legion post in Yonkers NY.
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Charles IH. Duell
New York
Lillian Tucker
Paris
Legion Chief Warns Members To Shun Politics
Governor Edward J. Edwards of New Jersey told the American Legion convention that the organization will not be refused a worthy request but urged Legionnaires to keep politics out of their work and duties. The remarks condemned self serving motives and stressed non political service by the Legion.
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American Legion
Edward J. Edwards
New Jersey
State Order
Legion
Curran Wins New York Mayoral Nomination Over LaGuardia
Henry H Curran former Manhattan borough president won the Republican nomination for New York mayor with F H LaGuardia a close second Both are World War I veterans The campaign noted Curran led the Three Hundred and Second Engineers and organized its legion post LaGuardia a major in the air service pledged support after defeat John Purroy Mitchel a former mayor also served and died in the air service war record cited as context
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New York
Henry H. Curran
F. H. LaGuardia
Curran
Manhattan
New York City
Platteburg
Three Hundred and Second Engineers
American Legion
New York Board of Aldermen
Air Service
John Purroy Mitchel
Athletics Heroic Harry Maloney Leads Legion Team to Victory
Harry Maloney, longtime athletics figure from Stanford and Camp Fremont, commanded the American Legion Post in Fremont California after directing athletic entertainment in France and supervising the Eighth Infantry games. He led a team to a broad victory in major competitions during the postwar period.
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Fremont Post
World record holder William Wilson retires from Navy
William B. Wilson of Westfield Massachusetts retires after sixteen years of service and holding the world record in gun pointing with ten hits in ten shots in seventeen seconds at battle range. He served as chief torpedo man in the fleet and went around the world twice including a wartime posting in the Azores and as adjutant at Columbia University. He plans to settle as a family man after discharge.
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Columbia University
New York
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Equally True on Freedom and Marriage
A witty exchange in The American Legion Weekly notes that rising divorce rates show America as the land of the free, while steady marriage rates imply it remains the home of the brave.
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America
American Legion Weekly
Legion Ice Water Aid Draws Crowd at El Reno Fair
The American Legion post in El Reno Kansas distributed free ice water to visitors at the county fair. The effort helped veterans obtain Victory Medals and assist with government compensation claims.
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American Legion
Ten Seconds to Start in Ife The Magnate Declines
A young man with a new diploma pleads for a start in Ife but the busy magnate replies with a curt ten second ultimatum. The dialogue contrasts attitudes toward love and resolve in a gritty exchange cited by American Legion Weekly.
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Laalon Weekly
Scouts and Legion Join Forces in Service to Community
The American Legion supports the Boy Scouts of America and urges joint community efforts after the war. Cooperation could advance patriotic holidays, Americanization, citizenship classes, and local projects like pools, playgrounds, hospitals, and home-service bureaus, with legion veterans taking leadership roles in scouting activities.
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Boy Scouts of America
American Legion
Legion
Boy Scouts
Safety signs to mark dangerous swimming holes in Shelbyville
A Shelbyville boy’s death from an uncharted gravel hole spurs Rotary and Boy Scouts to mark danger spots around town. Signs and wires are placed, trash cleared, and the slogan Buy a sign and save a boy's life is promoted to urge other towns to act before accidents occur.
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Rotary Club
Boy Scouts
Rotarians
Boys sworn as park police aides in New Jersey county
Thirty six Boy Scouts are formally sworn in as members of the Bergen County park commission scout police. The boys will act as auxiliary to the county police to protect the parks and will receive direct instruction from Chief Gilhooly. They wear metal badges with insignia.
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Bsex County
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Park Commission Scout Police
Gilhooly
Park Police
Unique good turn by Troop 19 aids Baltimore orphanage
Troop 19 of Baltimore Maryland helped teach orphanage children how to enjoy outdoor freedom after the orphanage moved to the fire outskirts. Directors invited the scouts to guide the kids in play and new privileges.
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Baltimore
Prohibition Lesson Highlights From Israel's Drunken Fall
In a sermon on October 30 the lesson traces Israel's judgment for drunkenness, depicting Assyrian conquest as swift punishment. It notes priestly corruption, mockery of prophets, and the warning that drunkards will not enter the kingdom while promising restoration for the remnant through divine glory.
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Israel
Amon
Samaria
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Judah
Tabernacle
Ephraim
Tsiiah
Schwab at National Conference on Unemployment
Charles M. Schwab attends a national conference on unemployment in Washington. A daring photographer has recently discovered a remarkable rock formation near Mt Temple in Alberta showing a cliff that from a distance resembles a polar bear pursuing camera studies.
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Charles M. Schwab
Washington
Mt. Temple
Lake Louise
Alberta
Canadian Northwest
Brisk Demand for Stamps In England by American Collectors
London reports show American philatelists chasing early U S issues in British sales. The 1840 24 cent stamp with the Declaration image is valued at about £100 if inverted misprint survives, and the 1809 5 cent stamp with Lincoln fetches around £20. An avid buyer found an 1847 George Washington stamp on an old envelope, remarkable for its provenance.
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Abraham Lincoln
Ty Guindmother
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