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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1922
Page
1
Yeggs netted 120 dollars in Cedar Rapids robberies. Des Moines sees 35 residents driven mad by Labor Day heat. Ames reports crickets and crop damage as drought bites. Iowa Presbyterians meet in Davenport to discuss reorganizing services. Muscatine unveils a 100000 dollar drainage plan with two sewers. Lawrence Banning of Saylorville dies at 71 after 58 years in Polk County.
A bill by Representative Hoch of Kansas proposes replacing the railroad board with a disinterested tribunal to settle disputes. The Jowell pin for separate agreements between shop crafts unions and the roads faces strong opposition in Chicago policy committee discussions. Judge Wilkerson in Chicago extended the Daugherty temporary rail strike injunction by ten days. A Butte meeting of I W W delegates voted to walk out at mines to enforce a $6 for six hours wage. Despite strikes, overall U S employment conditions remain sound per the Department of Labor report.
The Treasury notes per capita wealth fell by 3.06 dollars over the year and 46 cents in the past month. Coal carloads rose by 49 to 28 487, and the rivers and harbors bill authorizing 37 million dollars for nationwide waterway work passed the Senate. Mrs. Harding’s health improves delaying surgery. Borgh's coal industry commission bill passed without a roll call. Linus Meredith nominated as U S marshal for Indiana, and 25 federal judges bill nears passage. Post receipts for August show an 10.8 percent rise in the nation’s eight largest cities. Interstate Commerce Commission priority in coal shipments to curb profiteering advances in the Senate. Walsh of Massachusetts chosen as Democratic campaign committee chair.
A bundle of brief items reports deaths of Col. Michael J. Hendricks and others, disasters, labor unrest, criminal incidents, strikes, and political shifts. Notable names include Belvin W. Maynard the flying parson. Col. Robert B. Lee Jr.. Ku Klux Klan activity in East Peoria. Franke Weeke robbery near St. Louis. Ford workers ordered to abstain from liquor. Miss American Mary Katherine Campbell crowned. and tensions in Greece, Ireland, and Mexico, among others.
Mrs Edward W Burt of Salisbury North Carolina chairs a plan to archive World War I service records in the American Legion Auxiliary to seed a hereditary society for daughters and granddaughters of veterans. The project aims to aid future genealogists locating granddads war records.
Robert Bruce Mac Gregor of Seattle a veteran of seven wars at forty eight says his days on the battlefields are over and he will devote the rest of his life to peaceful activities. He served in World War with the Prince Regiment which had 1003 men in 1914. Eleven of the 1083 are alive and only two can walk. He fought in the Philippines during the Spanish American War in China during the Boxer rebellion in South Africa during the Natal rebellion the Matabele uprising and the Jameson raid. He bears twelve medals four decorations and wounds. He has left the battlefield to fight unemployment in Seattle supporting the American Legion and has recently found jobs for 286 former soldiers. He has adopted and is educating a fifteen year old.
Clarence Reeder, staff artist at a New Orleans newspaper, won a 100 prize for a poster promoting the American Legion national convention. His design shows a doughboy, a caller and a marine before a guidebook labeled New Orleans, the Paris of the U. S. A. The poster features the Legion emblem and dates October 18-20.
A Sunday school teacher urges children to infer the lesson from Samson and prompts Georgie to respond. The scene also contains a dismissal of patronizing women and a stray reference to American Legion Weekly, suggesting a fragmented clipping with scattered phrases.
Lieutenant Gumpertz of New York became the first Medal of Honor recipient to accept the convention invitation. He earned the award for heroism on September 26 1918 during the Bois de Forges action, silencing machine gun nests and enabling his unit to advance.
Don ald F. Chase, 21, city editor of the Nevada State Journal, rode 125 miles daily from Reno to Syracuse to meet Legion posts. He spoke to 110 posts about Legion activities and later highlighted good works of posts along his route. A driver who struck his bike near Topeka failed to stop, and Chase reported the incident before continuing his tour.
Miss Emily V Schupp of Duluth Minnesota volunteered to dance for her doughboy friends at the American Legion national convention in New Orleans next October during the war she entertained thousands of soldiers in cantonments. She has appeared in Le Haie entertainments in several Minnesota cities. Milas Schupp also a vocalist is slated to perform at a recital during the Duluth Legion band’s appearance at the convention, a band that won a prize over 75 competitors in Kansas City last fall.
The article describes large American Legion sign boards along roads into Riceville and notes affiliate groups in Canada and England. It states women eligible are wives mothers sisters or daughters of war veterans and that they assist disabled veterans and push legislation to ease postwar burdens.
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