Jack Williams Fargo Newsie and Legion Adjutant
Jack Williams rose from Fargo newsie to adjutant of the North Dakota American Legion Department. He earned popularity with his street cry Extra extra all about it and later worked in a newspaper press room before enlisting in the Third Engineers during the war. He rejoined service as a private and later became the department s first adjutant.
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North Dakota
Jack
Williams
American Legion Department
Willams
Vargo
N. Dy
Newsie
Vammuuis
Hiestman
Third Engineers
Fargo ‘Trades and Labor Assembly, & Post
Amertein Laglon
Beauty of Hazel Jordan Tops Northwest Picks by Legion
Miss Hazel Jordan of Everett Washington has been named one of the three most beautiful girls in the Northwest by the American Legion of Seattle The Legion cites her refreshing daily swims year round and active outdoor life as proof of Northwest beauty She is eighteen years old and resides on Puget Sound's eastern shore.
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Hazel Jordan
American Legion of Seattle
Wash
Great North
Northwest
United States
Legion of Seattle
Jordan
Everett
Puget
War souvenir shell kills Indianapolis man at home
Frank M. Kinne, an Indianapolis veteran who served in artillery demonstrations, nearly blew himself apart with a three inch shell he had brought back from France. His home was wrecked, but his mother and sister survived uninjured. The local American Legion post arranged a military burial for him.
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Frank M. Kinne
Indianapolis
Ind
France
Kinne
American Legion
Regular Army
Special Rates to Convention for American Legion Meet
Sixteen rail lines across 27 states offer one cent per mile to attendees of the American Legion's third annual convention in Kansas City from Oct 30 to Nov 1. Participating roads include Missouri Pacific, Frisco, Rock Island, Santa Fe, Burlington, and others within a bound zone from Denver to Port Arthur.
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The
American Legion
Kansas City
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City Southern
Frisco
Rock Island
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Wabash
Tilinola Central
Chicago Great Western
Chicago and Northwestern
Burlington
Chicago and Alton
Santa Fe
Peoria
St. Louis
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Union Poette
Denver
Minneapoli
Buffalo
N.Y
Savannah
Jacksonville
Fla
Birmingham
New Orleans
Port Arthur
Next Day Exchange Over Sympathy with Naggs
A brief exchange between Mrs Nagge and Naggs appears in an issue of American Legion Weekly. The dialogue centers on contempt for a man who becomes intoxicated nightly, with Naggs replying that such behavior suggests he is not seeking sympathy.
Excuse It Please Sunday School Teacher Nam Bere
Dear Little Ethel That they re all run American Legion Weekly.
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Nambere
Ethel
American Legion Weekly
Well posted Legion Man from Gallup New Mexico
Chapman, a farmer, tranper, dynamite worker, oil field worker, motion picture operator, bookkeeper, and lawyer, serves as commander of the sales department of the American Legion in New Mexico. He traveled across the United States and Mexico, practiced law, served in World War I as mechanic and chauffeur, then in an army balloon school, later in an officers training camp, and helped draft the non political clause of the Legion constitution. He claims membership in several fraternal orders and labels himself an Episcopalian and prohibitionist by law.
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Tran
We Chapman
Gallup
New Mexico
The
Amery Jean Legion
United States
Mexico
Chapman
America
Legion Work
Fo Bid
Tam
C. B
Tati
Notable British and Canadian Guests at Legion Convention
Decorations and titles won by distinguished British and Canadian guests at the third annual American Legion convention in Kansas City. The text lists General Douglas Haig, Admiral Beatty, and Sir William Currie with their many honors, and notes hopes that their participation in President Harding's disarmament conference would settle doubts about their presence at the Legion gathering.
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American Legion
Kansas City
Douglas Haig
Earl
Red Marshal
Admiral Beatty
Earl Beatty
William Currie
McGill University
Great Britain
Harding
National
Swale’s rise from dishwasher to Legion leader in Washington
The piece recounts Thomas W. Swale, commander of the American Legion’s Washington department, who shifted from a dishwashing role after a fight with a gang bully to later becoming a legislator and lawyer. It notes his WWI intelligence service, his education, and his work as a Seattle attorney.
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Thomas W. Swale
The
American Legion
Department of the State of Washingt
Ardmore Legion Salvages 2000-Book Library
George TR Anderson post of the American Legion at Ardmore Okla salvaged a library of about 2000 volumes discovered in a store. The library had been collected during the war to be shipped to army camps but was never sent. The word salvage remains in Legion slang and general usage.
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George TR. Anderson
American Legion
Ardmore
Oklo
Legion Pom
Legion Posts to the Rescue of a War Hero
A famed World War I sniper and Croix de Guerre recipient was found stranded in Columbia Ohio while returning to Ping Creek reservation. The American Legion posts came to his aid and arranged for his safe transport home, in a gesture seen as a vaudeville moment.
Not Entirely Eliminated Brings Wealthy Plot to Wool Trade
A fragmented dialogue shows Dustin Stax boasting wealth and vowing to curtail greed through wool industry. The tone hints at satire on avarice and social norms as characters discuss competition, a championship fight, and patience learned from long boardinghouse hours.
Growing Up and Political Talks Clash at Golf Course
A Louisville Courier Journal item satirically notes a character's struggle with focus as lines blur between personal growth and political discourse. Senator Sorghum jokes about a man who shifts from golf to politics, highlighting attention drift in conversations.
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Elis
Thad
Louisville Courier Journal
Senator Sorghum
Beyond Praise and Deference in the Exhibit Debate
In a crowded exchange the critic praised some works while denying praise to others. Senator Sorghum notes that the majority governs by votes, framing the political context of opinion in the exhibit.
Improved Roads Should Favor Narrower Main Highways
A publication argues eighteen feet should be the minimum road width rather than the maximum for main roads. It notes many highways were widened from forty to sixty feet wastefully, promotes well kept furrowed roadways for cleavages and safety, and warns that paving now may push future wear and costs.
Look to the Future Narrow Highways Warned
An editorial warns that roads now under three to nine meters wide will feel narrow in twenty years. It urges wider pavements, better drainage, curbs, sidewalks, and bicycle paths like in Europe. It compares canal and lock limits to highway planning and stresses avoiding railway congestion.
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England
France
Fance
Great Lakes
Atlantic
Road legislation opposed by industry and farmers
Industry and agricultural groups across the country unite against hurried road laws. Highway engineers, dairy farmers, fruit growers, grain shippers and truck operators fear higher license fees and restrictive rules. Illinois is pursuing a varied 64 section experimental road as a possible solution.
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Hlinots
State Highway Department
Roadway developments and traffic norms across regions
A brief survey notes progress in road surfaces in the southern states and beyond, with past scarcity of twenty five mile stretches giving way to many longer hard surfaced roads. It mentions India’s highway construction, and France’s consistent right side traffic with left side railway rules.
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France
Railway Unitic
Buy Pedigreed Animale Campaign in Neighborhood
A promotional plug urges buying pedigreed farm animals and argues for a campaign in the neighborhood to promote purebred stock on every farm. The note stresses there has never been a better time to invest in pedigreed animals and improve farm stock quality locally.
Longest Hard Road Through New England to Washington
A fragment notes the longest continuous hard surfaced road, about 700 miles, stretching from Portland Maine to Washington D C east of the Mississippi River.
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Portland
Washington, N
Belgian Count Serves as Apprentice on Version
Pictou to Panama in small boat shows the Comte Van de Stegen de Srleck lowering the flag on the Version's afterdeck. The count, aged nightown years, serves a four year term to become a fourth mate in the Belgian navy as Belgium builds ships using German vessels. He swabs the decks in his current apprentice role aboard the Belgian steamer.
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Comte van de Stegen de Srleck
Belgium
Alles
Worth Knowing World Snippets From An Age Of Curiosity
A mosaic of facts on women clergy in Norway, Cuba’s pineapple crop valued at four and a half million, British cathedrals never washed, and varied notes on Palestine Venezuela and Yugoslavia. Mentions nerves, ships, typhoons near Guatemala, declining post offices, and Burmese women and cigars.
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Vienna
Cuba
Norway
Southwark
London
Palestine
Vermont
Jugo- Slavia
Belgrade
Spain
Europe
Han
Took
Mich
Guaymas
Mexicn
United States
Burma
Indy
Champion Fly Caster Fred G Shaw Teaches Royalty Fishing
English champion fly caster Fred G Shaw, known as FG S, has taught European royalty the subtler intricacies of lure work. In America, he guides American sportsmen in delicate casting skills and is credited with aiding notable figures such as Sir James Barrie and the Duke of Wellington in their fishing success.
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Fred G. Shaw
Dsh
James Barrie
Szechenyl
Duke of Wellington
Shaw
British Yawn Calms Poles in Myslowitz Night Raid
In Myslowitz upper Silesia a British force entered the town to restore order. A deputation of Poles shouted patriotic phrases as a British officer in pajamas yawned and stated he must go back to bed. The incident echoed a famed Duke of Devonshire moment and highlighted tense postwar mood. In Tron River Michigan, Harry Mae Dermott won 4000 in a dog bite suit against Harry Duft, awaiting possible appeal to the Supreme Court. Missouri fares and services figures are noted but unclear in context.
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Myslowits
Upper Silesia
Berlin
London Daily Express
Duke of Devonshire
Cnem
Tron River
Mich
Mre
Harry Mae i Dermott
Harry
Duft
Supreme Court
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Army Intelligence
Seattle
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Herald
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Boston
Gage
Birmingham Age-Herald
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Esmear
State Highway Commission
Trailfornia
India
Hoboken
New Jersey
Jackies
Utah
Tower
Pictou
Panama
Wallace Scott
James Campbell
N.S
Peters
Bay of Fundy
William J. Burns
Willan J, Burns
New York
Bureauf Investigation
Department of Justice
Charles B. Sornberger
Holland
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