Memorial Day Proclamation and Legion Activities in Iowa
Iowa Legionnaires receive a Memorial Day proclamation from Commander Hanford MacNider urging observance of fallen comrades. Iowa posts raise funds for Oakdale veterans, bands perform at the state fair, and a midwest division reunion is planned in Des Moines. Delegations travel for service and compensation drives. auxiliary meetings set in Sioux City. 88th division veterans prepare for a St. Paul conference. The Wheaton transport brings 6000 fallen soldiers home for Memorial Day observances.
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American Legion
Oakdale
Iowa Legionaire
Legion Legislative Committee
Thirty Ninth General Assembly
Hanford Post
Cedar Rapids
Argonne Post
Des Moines
Morgan
Rainbow Band
168Th Infantry
Legion
Iowa
Monahan
Sioux City
Fort Dodge
H. H. Polk
St. Paul
R. Olmstead
L. R. Raiall
Tom Watters
Ralph Stuart
Hampton
Missouri
Minnesota
Nebraska
Illinois
American Legion Women's Auxiliary
First Unitarian
Committee On
Charles E. Snyder
W. J. Kennedy
State Legion Headquarters
Davenport
Towa American’ Legion
Burlington
MacNider
Barton
Women’s Auxiliary
Atlantic
Morday
Creston
Waterloo
Les Societe Des 40 Hommes Et & Chevaux
United States
Wheaton
Hoboken
America
National American Legion
American Legion Weekly
Legion Posts to Honor Departed Comrades in Iowa
The American Legion urges all Iowa posts to devote a day to reverent remembrance of fallen comrades. Navy retirees receiving Naval Retainer Pay should contact the Navy Allotment Officer in Washington with full name enrollment date rating class address current rating and payment details for each retainer pay check received and discharge dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
American Legion Weekly
Furof
Navy
Navy Department
Washington, D. C
Pickford curls vanish from screen in Suds promotion
The article notes Mary Pickford’s curls have been straightened for her next film Suds, shot for United Artists. It mentions the curls once sold for nearly 100000 in Liberty Bonds and describes the planned publicity in which Mary appears as a different character away from Pollyanna. She will appear at the Graham tomorrow and Saturday.
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Mary
United Artists Corporation
Mary Pickford
Graham
Presbyterian leaders denounce rag time methods in conversions
Delegates to the Presbyterian General Assembly in Winona Lake denounced sensational religious revival tactics and endorsed new methods for winning converts. The assembly also decided to raise 500000 dollars to cover a deficit from the World Interchurch Commission, in addition to the 12000000 dollar church budget.
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Winona Lake
Ind
Billy Sunday
Presbyterian General Assembly
Committee On Evangelism
World Interchurch Commission
General Assembly
Patched.Up Organ
The Boston Transcript quotes a prominent poetess who says her heart sings only when it breaks. She averages one such song weekly, highlighting a condition described with literary wit.
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Boston Transcript
Labor leaders praise churches and attack open shop media
Rev. T. J. Pettit of Fort Dodge urged religious groups to mobilize against militarism and support labor, praising churches for backing organized labor and denouncing newspapers for bias toward open shop interests. Brookhart urged labor–farmer cooperation and noted two eastern labor banks as models.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Long Federation of Labor
T. J. Pettit
Fort Dodge
Pettit
Des Moines
Dr. Kime
Kime
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Hanford MacNider
Iowa Department
Legionaires of
Grand Army of the Republic
Volunteers
C. C. Dowell
Horace M. Towner
State and Stripes
Marshalltown
Lieut. H. EK. du Jardin
Congress
Bill Dowling
Chadron
Neb
Samuel Gompers
Army
Manford Post
American Legion Club
John B. Stanton
Legion Post
Stanton
Weir
Mulberry
Kansas
State Legion
Postum Cereal Co,Inc
Battle Creek,Mich
aSates
Rade
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Roote
Panama
L’anama
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Seven Seas
Harding
Admiral Line
State St
New York
Seattle
Yokohama
Kobe
Longkong
Shi
Singapore
Manila
Hawaii
Matson Navigation Co
Baltimore
Havana
Panama Canal
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Tawai Munson
Weaver St
Shipping Board
Rio de Janeiro
Montevideo
Buenos Aires
Porto Rico
S. 8. Co
Broadway
N. Y
Pacific Mail S. 8S
Hongkong
Shanghai
Tientsin
Occa
S. S. Co
N.Y
Boulogne
London
Bremen
Danzig
Genoa
Naples
Cuba
Wall St
Alavana
S— Vigo
la Coruna
Santander
Gijon
FE Street
N. W
U. S. Shipping Board
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