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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1921
Page
6
The American Legion forge post adjutant outlines a plan for a benefit, detailing loans and interest terms. Trustees oversee funds, with deposits and repayments moving to a savings fund for proper expenditure and security. Various posts in multiple states have requested guidance to base a systematic approach.
Ings Cayte, a former lieutenant and University of Washington standout, is described as a natural leader with a storied wartime record and service as a reading clerk postwar. Supporters claim he could become the youngest U S governor after the upcoming election.
The naval affairs committee of the American Legion will hold a conference in Chicago this fall to discuss problems of Navy men and ex-service policies. chairman Rowant B Spoford of New York announced the gathering date and stressed the underrecognition of navy veterans. He noted many exservicemen from the Navy and Army served in World War I and highlighted health concerns among sailors and submariners.
Twelve American Legionnaires in Jackson Mississippi answered a post seeking volunteers to save Welton A Crawford overseas veteran by blood transfusion after he was injured in a street car accident and is recovering.
Michael J. Nolen of Seattle aged 88 tried to enlist but was refused due to age. He later joined Canadian Dominion forces, served in France, and suffered shellshock and other illnesses. After hospital stay in Folkestone he entered the University of Washington for education, excelling in intellectual work while physically below average, later becoming notable among American Legion circles.
The text profiles multiple men named as chaplains across groups such as the American Legion and veterans organizations. It notes their postwar service, leadership in posts like the Thirty-seventh Division and local Scottish Rite bodies, and mentions a clash over a boxing belt reference amid wartime recollections.
Miss Ethelyn Meter of Benton Harbor Michigan, a dryad waiter and organizer with the American Legion, won the recent Belle Isle canoe carnival in Detroit. She drove a rocky skiff to victory, claiming she can paddle her own canoe both literally and figuratively.
Americans in China plan pil grittinges to Gen Frederick Ward’s grave on Memorial Day prompted by the Shanghai American Legion post. Ward helped lead the Ever Victorious Army against the Taiping Rebellion and was killed at Ten Ki during a siege, with a monument later erected by the Chinese.
A corrective note on balancing work life. The piece urges staying physically fit and alert, doing the grind well, and maintaining energy to advance in a job. It contrasts proactive performers with those who wait for others to rise. Success is framed as earned effort, not luck.
A history of the guillotine notes its inventor Joseph Ignace Guillotin and the German Lehmitt origin of the first model. It covers its adoption by the French National Assembly on March 25, 1792 and the execution of Pelissier, ending with Guillotin’s posthumous fame.
A brief exchange shows Myles asking about the boarding house and Stytes claiming high tone. Myles asks about hash and Stytes denies it, insisting on cozy meat croquettes instead. The dialogue hints at humor and social pretensions.
A vintage guide lists festive treats for Halloween and home cooks. Recipes include Melanises Candy Praline Chocolate Fudge Bread omelet and Chocolate Caramel with step by step proportions for sugars molasses butter and nuts. The notes describe shaping cooling and wrapping in waxed paper for serving.
An essay notes that visiting English observers criticize Americans as wasteful and lacking foresight. It defends thrift, highlights indulgent money spenders among the wealthy, and urges thinking, hard work, and thrift as essential for financial and moral survival into old age. The piece ends with a call for prudent living and self restraint.
Fragmented verse about love and time urging a speaker to confess feelings. References to new loves, enduring affection, and the idea of lasting happiness through steady, quiet days at Ingleside. Mentions enduring fame and the need to tell her she is loved.
The article discusses proper pluralization of units like spoonful and cupful, emphasizing that the unit is the spoonful not the spoon, and that the plural is formed by adding s to the entire unit word apocotul, noting exceptions when the unit appears within the spoon itself.
Children enjoy a hay ride, brook wading, and bicycle games before rain, then imagine an old garret circus and dress trunk adventures. A mother proposes a garret party using century old clothes, but the fragile costumes collapse as the kids pretend to be 19th century ladies and gentlemen. The tale ends with questions about what God does with old moons.
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