Plan big week at Omaha convention
The great American Legion convention in Omaha runs October 5 to 9 with a full slate of events. Features include horse races, a rodeo, street fair, play What Price Glory, Ak-Sar-Ben displays, parades with 100000 in line, military demonstrations, banquets, and nightly dances.
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Great American Legion
Omaha
Baseball Park
American Legion
Wisconsin
Creighton
Ak-Sar-Ben Field
Coolidge
War Mothers’ Memorial
Jackson
Douglas
Lake Streets
Capitol Avenue
Sixteenth
Twentieth Streets
United States
Naval
Marine
Air, Coast Guard
Signal
Red Cross
Discover Communism Is Taught in Schools
An investigation by the American Legion finds reports of schools in several localities training communist workers and missionaries. Frank Clay Cross leads the probe with a subcommittee including Frank Sieh John B Jessup and John Bullington. One school trains about fifty students sent to spread propaganda.
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Frank Clay Cross
Americanism
Commission of the American Legion
Legion Commission
Frank Sieh
Aberdeen
S. D
John B. Jessup
Wilmington
Del
John Bullington
Belleville
Ill
Hayes
United States
Russia
Four Cities Seek National Conventions for Legion
Florida aims to host the 1928 American Legion national convention after a semi annual Legion officials meeting in Orlando. Miami is the chosen bid by real estate interests with a pledged 50 000 dollars and more toward hosting. Philadelphia is favored for 1926 for the sesquicentennial, while Paris 1927 is being explored with French government interest.
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Florida
The
American Legion
of Legion
Orlando
Miami
Paris
France
Late Farm News Honors A. and M. College Leader Alvord
C H Alvord newly elected director of extension service at the A and M College succeeds T O Walton and begins duties with a warm welcome from extension staff He trained at Michigan Agricultural College earning BS in 1905 and MS A later He led college farm expansion and extension work in Texas and served as dean of agriculture before directing farm development for Taft Ranch His long career linked extension farming and livestock reporting across Texas and beyond and the piece notes Harry Warner's death as a separate obituary item.
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C. H. Alvord
A. and M. College
T.O. Walton
Southern Michigan
Michigan Agricultural College
C. D. Smith
Farmers’ Institute
Texas
Michigan
Alvord
A. and M. College of Texas
Yorrow
Breeders’ Gazette
Chicago
United States
New York
Lone Star
Agriculture
Taft Ranch
Taft
Harry Warner
Daily Press
Paris Morning News
Fortune
Woodchucks and Texas Talk Dominate Rural Column
The piece combines advice on woodchuck control for farms with a long aside praising Ex-Governor Neff and Texas prospects. It outlines eradication methods using bisulphide and cyanide gas with cautions, notes the need for farmer cooperation, and includes a reader letter praising the author’s empathy for rural readers and rejecting political ambition in favor of writing for the masses.
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Neff
United States Commissioners of Insurance
San Antonio
Texas
Pacific
United States
Atlantic
Port Arthur
Galveston
Houston
Hebronville
Junction
San Angelo the Great
Yacak
Uratda
Ice House Desirable for Milk Production on Farms
Ice houses on each dairy farm allow low bacteria milk by storing at least 1.14 tons of ice per cow, cooling and melting margins, with early winter optimal for construction. New Jersey College of Agriculture offers guidance and notes water quality and pond creation if no natural ice source exists.
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Department of Dairy Husbandry
New Jersey College of Agriculture
New Brunswick
World’s Swiftest River The Rhone Attains High Velocity
An OCR readout notes the Rhone is generally regarded as the swiftest river, reaching velocities of about ten times an hour in certain sections. The account emphasizes its rapid flow and notable sections where speed peaks.
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Rhone
Palm Fiber Palmer Reintroduced for Moisture Protectors
A note on palm fiber Palmer being imported to this country to be made into moisture protectors. The item highlights the material’s popularity in China for raincoat production and its potential use domestically for moisture protection purposes.
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Palmer
China
Stable Manure Benefits Gardener Says It Provides Plant Food
Stable manure offers a threefold value as plant food humus and beneficial bacteria. Though hard to obtain at times, it is essential to a garden of any size and can be supplemented with compost leaves lawn clippings green manures and commercial fertilizers. Rich in nitrogen and potash it can be boosted with about 50 pounds of acid phosphate per ton of manure.
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American Legion News Service
S. C. Hoyle
Extension Service Publications
A. and
M. College of Texas
M. D. Pirnie
New York State College of Agriculture
Ithaca
Mr. Pirnie
Orator
Rusk
Pirnie
Rusk County News
Dick Harris
Henderson
Harris
McDonald
Taniac
Charles McDonald
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