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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1920
Page
2
A wide range of items from milk price cuts in Columbus to a Lincoln press formation and a Gage county farming push. Reports cover university programs, county initiatives, fire, crime, and public works, with notes on rail, banking, and community clubs.
Lincoln Nebr roster shows about sixty percent of state lawmakers elected to the upcoming session have no prior legislative experience. All are Republicans except four. The long list names senators and representatives by district and town with multiple misspellings and OCR errors.
At a county meeting the Cuming county farmers union urged legislation for a state bank and homes building law to ease finance, abolish party circles on ballots, and utilize the state's water power. Dan Swanson reports state lands total about 1.7 million acres valued at 26 million dollars. The biennial review also notes the capitol and governor's mansion valued at 645,995 dollars.
Dr Helen Hielscher is elected state president at the first Minnesota convention of the Women's Auxiliary of the American Legion in Minneapolis. About four hundred delegates from 118 units attend, forming a state chapter to unite roughly 6,000 members as the national auxiliary forms its framework. Kansas heads toward a January convention with other states expected to follow statewide action.
A 40 member American Legion post has been formed in Warsaw Poland. All members are ex service men now on duty with the American Red Cross. Officers include H H Hall commander and Lee D Rowe adjutant. Posts are forming in Jerusalem and Peking as well.
Miss Marie Balzarini of Brooklyn was voted most popular girl at a Windsor Terrace American Legion post carnival. The contest, increasingly common at eastern posts, boosts post funds and provides amusement for members and friends.
American Legion members oppose blue law agitation in letters to national headquarters. National officers are urged to take a positive stand against measures that would ban cigarettes. The Legion defers the controversy, focusing on improving life for the disabled.
The American Legion, led by national commander FF W Galbraith Jr, reveals mis management in government care for disabled veterans. Over 20,000 veterans in hospitals face rising needs, with 2,500 more entering monthly due to tuberculosis from gas exposure. The Legion calls for a $5 billion remedy, vows to humanize patients, and mobilizes posts and auxiliaries to aid hospitals nationwide amid concerns of red tape and neglect.
Colonel Whittlesey, famed leader of the Lost Battalion and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, told Fatty Arbuckle he would be scared to death before a motion picture camera. He noted soldiers preferred film to danger, as his men relaxed in a Y hut after landing and being relieved in Billeting area while watching a five reel comedy.
A traveling salesman asks who runs the place at a farm where a set of the World's Best Literature is being offered. The farmer replies that the hired man is the boss, while he is merely the employer. The anecdote is attributed to American Legion Weekly.
London Answers argues brown-eyed people are steadfast, gentle, and romantic, while blue or gray eyes signal practicality. It cautions that opposites clash, warning that a brown-eyed dreamer paired with a blue-eyed realist may breed intolerance and misery unless both share eye color.
A description from the Export Trade and Exporters' Review explains how checks are cashed in Greece. The teller indorses in the presence of the customer, issues receipts, and uses a bronze disk with a number for the payee. Checks are verified by signature comparison, communications with other banks by phone or messenger, and bookkeeper records are updated. An auditor reviews the process, then the customer presents the disk, verifies identity, signs receipts, and withdraws cash. They fear the Greeks bearing checks.
Saigon stirred when the body of a young English woman who died on a Messageries Maritimes steamer was consigned to the sea after her husband failed to stop it. A petition to the governor of Cochin China protested burial at sea as an outdated practice and urged keeping the body until the first port.
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