Legion Runs Hotel To Shelter Unemployed Soldiers
The American Legion of Chicago plans to convert the Grand Pacific into a soldier hotel for the coming winter. Soldiers will be housed fed and slept free when needed while paying when possible. The project will be run on a business basis to guard against fraud and ensure aid reaches those in distress.
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American Legion
Chicago
Grand Pacific
Legion
Chicago Legionaires
Legion Boys
Rippling Rhymes By Walt Maron
A humorous verse about vanity and cosmetic surgery, recounting friends and relatives who seek beauty across failed attempts. The speaker celebrates natural features and rejects cosmetic alterations despite costly promises from beauty doctors. The poem uses playful imagery of crooked noses and altered looks.
Organization and foresight urged for ex‑servicemen aid
The speaker urges organized citizen help like Chicago Legion members show. Ex soldiers in distress should be aided promptly without sacrificing self respect while government action is slow. The Chicago plan is praised as wise and timely.
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Legion Boys
Chicago
Congress
Carnival departure signals quiet before school starts
A town notes the carnival ends tomorrow and the chautauqua closes next week as residents anticipate a quiet period before school. The column then shifts to quirky anecdotes and public health tips about a supposed motor foot ailment linked to long car trips and urges giving up driving.
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Carnival
Groundhog Smimmy At Threshing Run Becomes Local Legend
August Newkirk chased a groundhog through oats in a lively yard race. The hog clung to August’s overalls, a new dance called the groundhog smimmy emerged, and August finally knocked the animal away to end the contest. The tale appears in the Williamsburg Journal-Tribune.
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August Newkirk
August
George Koster
George
Fool's Gold in The Iron Pyrite Distinction
The article explains tote gold or iron pyrite as iron and sulfur in nearly equal parts used in tanking sulfuric acid. It notes iron pyrite can be told from real gold by the sulfur odor released when heated.
W C T U Explains Stance On Hair, Home Brew And More
San Francisco officials say the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is not as intolerant as once portrayed. Dr Valeria Parker and Julia Dean discuss views on home brew bobbed hair rolled socks tobacco and other topics during the convention opening today.
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San Francisco
Cal
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Valeria Parker
Julia Dean
Iowa Plan Attracts Des Moines Farmers Grow Lead Statewide
Iowa Farm Credit Corporation reports strong interstate interest in incorporation plans and loan procedures. Inquiries come from Wisconsin South Dakota Minnesota Oklahoma Michigan Pennsylvania Ohio and California. The org states it is not a bank and will begin full work once the first million in capital is paid. stock allotments distribute 10 000 per county with bankers in eight counties already filling their quotas.
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Des Moines
Wisconsin
South Dakota
Minnesota
Oklahoma
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Ohio
California
Iowa Farm Credit Corporation
Iowa
Injunction Bars HypnotistActs in Ottumwa Public Places
District Judge Francis M. Hunter issued a temporary injunction against Albur tus the Miracle Man John Doe and the Rex theatre. They are barred from hypnotizing anyone in public or performing inhuman acts and from displaying a person under hypnotic influence on streets. The order follows a petition by the Ottumwa civic work committee of the Ministerial association chaired by Rev. R B Fisher.
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Ottumwa
Francis M. Hunter
Alburtus the Miracle Man
John Doe
Rex Theatre
N. W. Roberts
Civic Work Committee
Ottumwa Ministerial Association
R. B. Fisher
East End Presbyterian Church
First Stagecoach in America Emerges from Boston
Readable text notes the historic outset of stagecoach travel in the United States with an origin linked to Boston. Historic account highlights the early coach's departure and the pioneering route that opened inland passenger service.
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America
Boston
Tanlac Reliefs Peoria Man After Thirty-Five Years
Charles Smith of Peoria Illinois says Tanlac cured his chronic indigestion after thirty five years of pain and sleepless nights. He now enjoys eating and reports improved health, praising the medicine and local sellers Sherman Brothers Pioneer Drug Store and other druggists.
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Charles Smith
Smith St
Peoria
Holt Manufacturing Co
Taniac
Washington
Sherman Brothers
Pioneer Drug Store
Advt
Panama Canal Locks Run Like Clockwork Says Writer
Joseph Bucklin Bishop lauds the canal locks as flawless and reliable after seven years of use. He describes a high tech control room above Gatun and the single operator who manages the process with a model table and switches. More than 12 000 vessels have passed through without a defeat or accident, illustrating electricity’s role in modern industry.
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Panama
Gatum
Pedro, Miguel
Miraflores
Joseph Bucklin Bishop
Scribner's
Portrait of Gloria Caruso Inherits Father’s Estate
A terse portrait profiles Gloria Caruso as she is set to inherit a substantial portion of her father’s estate. The article notes her position within the family and the likely implications of the inheritance.
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Gloria Caruso
Peoria Fleecing Suspect Sought by Bondman
Gleason is wanted in Peoria on a charge of fleecing Henry F Kath of Muscatine out of 10000 early this year. He last night line by his bondsman W J Bryson of Davenport. He came here to visit his brother at St Johns hospital.
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W. J. Bryson
Davenport
Gleason
Peoria
Henry F. Kath
Muscatine
St John's Hospital
Austria Chides US Relief Cuts for Children
In Vienna on August 19 a survey of economic conditions prompts a drastic reduction in American child relief to Austria. The plan lowers feeding from many to about 200,000, focusing on Vienna and other cities with winter need. Sixty eight kitchens closed in Upper Austria as rural improvement grows.
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Vienna
Austria
Upper Austria
Fort Madison Evening Democrat First Paper Made Locally
Fort Madison newspaper notes its August 14 edition was printed on paper manufactured in Fort Madison by Junkin Paper Mills. It claims to be the first Iowa newspaper edition printed on genuine local print paper and highlights local production.
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Fort Madison
Evening Democrat
Iowa
State of Laws
Junkin Paper Mills
Con man Gleason arrested after five months search
Davenport reports C. J. Connie Gleason named as an alleged confidence man who was captured at the Manufacturers' Hotel in Moline after a five month global manhunt spanning two continents.
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Moline Davenport
C. J
Connie” Gleason
Manufacturers’ Hotel
Gentleman's Mistake Affects Elkhart Restaurant Man
Rufus Moran of Elkhart named as defendant in a suit for damages filed by dressmaker Mabel Adams. Moran allegedly struck Adams on the nose with a fist, claiming he mistook her for his wife in defense. Burlington Hawkeye.
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Rufus Moran
Elkhart
Mabel Adams
Moran
Adams
Burlington
May Have Swimming Pool in New York's Great Central Park
The 1921 heat drives New Yorkers to seek new swimming spaces. Mayor Hylan pushes Central Park pool plans, possible repurposing a reservoir, while showers appear in tenements and fountains attract crowds. Madison Square Garden hosts the world’s largest pool and dock diving remains popular. Greenwich Village crews build a wooden pool as locals watch a young woman teach swimming.
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Great Central Park
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America
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Central Park
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Hudson
Harlem
East Rivers
Greenwich Village
Postmaster in Des Moines Faces Complaints and Possible Succe ssion
Washington Aug 19 Post master George Huffman of Des Moines who will not finish his three year term is amid complaints about his management. A Republican candidate Dr Wilbur Conkling a World War veteran may replace him. Des Moines postmastership is the best paying job in Iowa.
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Washington
George Huffman
Des Moines
Huffman
Wilbur Conkling
Philippines
Lowa
Father rescues calves as daughter dies in barn fire
MARSHFIELD Wis Aug 19 Rheinold J Hendricks ran into a burning barn on his farm 12 miles south of Marshfield to rescue three registered Holstein calves his daughter was trapped inside the blaze claimed the child’s life. The tragedy underscores the danger of barn fires on rural farms.
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Here
Rheinold J. Hendricks
Burlington Doctor Dead After Stroke
Burlington August 19 Dr J W Holiday aged 75 one of Burlingtons oldest physicians and the youngest captain in Shermans army during the civil war died yesterday in the Burlington hospital after a stroke of paralysis He had more than forty years with the medical profession in Burlington and a large local practice He retired from active practice years ago and lived for a time in California He was a member of the Masonic lodge The funeral will be held Friday from the family home.
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Sherman
Burlington
J. W. Holiday
Burlington Hospital
California
Masonic Lodge
Local Passenger and Freight Train Schedules Listed
Daily local passenger Nos excluding Sundays. Local freight Nos 429 88 87 described with routes and days. H W Al No 231 and Passenger No 25 noted in timetable fragment.
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Fass So’ Wes
John Park
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