Legion Notes Mark Season Opener and Honors
Iowa Legion units plan half holiday in Cedar Falls for the season kickoff with the mayor tossing the first ball. Frank Wagner of Des Moines becomes chef de train of the Seventh district Voiture, succeeding G C Parsons of Perry. Editorials praise Legion service and push for a memorial building.
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Cedar Falls
Legion Post
Frank Wagner
Des Moines
Voiture
la Societe Des 40 Hommes Et 8 Chevaux
Iowa
G. C. Parsons
Perry
Legion endorses roads in Linn County and aids Guthrie Center park
The Legion posts at Marion Walker and Mt. Vernon join Hanford Post Cedar Rapids in backing good roads for Linn County. Legion Auxiliary members beautified the Guthrie Center courthouse park in Iowa.
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Legion Auxiliary
Court House
Guthrie Center
Lowa
Legion seeks missing men and sponsors legion events
The Service Division at National Headquarters in Indianapolis seeks Robert Heinrichsdorf a former sergeant in field artillery with distinct features. Iowa Legion posts conduct student contests on community assets government and constitution. National Commander Hanford MacNider may speak at Sac City for a new 20600 building. Red Cross funds Aid Grundy Center project. Legionnaire Glenn Rhannéy from Iowa City plans a five year U.S. walk to promote the Legion. A telephone blitz in Dubuque boosted Legion festival results.
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Gion
Kansas City
T. Semmes Walmsley
New Orleans
A. E B. Hutchins
MacNider
National Headquarters of the Legion
Indianapolis
Ind
Robert Heinrichsdorf
Field Artillery
Grover Cleveland Branch
Co. D
Hanford MacNider
American Legion
Sac City
Jack Rhanndéy
Legionaire-globe Trotter
Iowa City
Iowa
United States
Legion
Des Moines
River Road
Legion opens employment bureau in Winterset
The Winterset post opens a Legion employment bureau as part of 1922 activities. The Iowa American Legion convention dates shift to September 7 and 8 in Waterloo with about 2000 veterans expected. Herman Miller chairs the arrangements committee with several section chiefs named for auxiliary cooperation finance publicity visitors entertainment and more.
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American Legion
Waterloo
Hanford
K. M. Landis
Kendal
Donald Macrae
Iowa American Legion Auxiliary
Herman Miller
Becker-Chapman Post
KB. L. Rohlf
Ralph Miller
Roland Nethcatty
Glenn Bowen
Bert Towne
Ed Brueher
J. BE. Brinkman
Leslie Lewis
J. F. Rosenthal
R. A. Barrett
Argonne Post Challenger Offers 30 Day Legion Contest
W A Stevens of Argonne Post Des Moines Iowa leads with 120 new members in a national individual Legion contest fended off by John Kass Detroit and Charles Coffee Fort Smith Arkansas who scored 104 and 134 respectively. The Detroit post hailed Kass as a world beater and Vergil Kepford urged Stevens forward while Fort Smith challenged both in Coffey’s name. News includes rumors that New Orleans opposed the national American Legion effort.
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W. A. Stevens
Argonne Post
Des Moines
Iowa
American Legion
John Kass
Charles A. Learned
Detroit
Charles D. Coffee
Victor Ellig
Fort Smith
Ark
Stevens
Kass
Coffee
Detroit Post
Vergil Kepford
Argonne
Coffey
Commander MacNider extends greetings to British Legion
H Nelson Jackson of Vermont national vice commander of the American Legion sent personal greetings to the British Legion at its London conference. The message was delivered during the conference to acknowledge shared aims and foster fraternal ties between the organizations.
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MacNider
American Legion
British Legion
London
H. Nelson Jackson
Vermont
The
Legion
American Legion Plans Newspapers for Veterans in Hospitals
The American Legion is developing a plan to provide daily and weekly hometown newspapers to veterans confined in government and private hospitals across the United States. The effort aims to brighten the lives of World War I sufferers through reading material from home.
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United States
American Legion
Legion to fly flags at half staff for late National Commander
Every American Legion club house nationwide will fly the flag at half staff on July 9 marking the death of National Commander F W Galbraith Jr He died in active service and was cut off in the midst of untiring efforts for the nation and the Legion stated national adjutant Lemuel Rolles
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American Legion
F. W. Galbraith, Jr
Lemuel Rolles
The
Legion
Veterans Picnic for 63rd Artillery in Iowa
All 63rd Artillery veterans in Iowa are invited to a Sunday picnic in Dexter on June 11. The gathering aims to reconnect former crew members and share memories from service.
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63Rd Artillery
Iowa
Dexter
World War I Ex-Soldier Seeks Location
Keosauqua Iowa asks for help locating James Burr Burton private Ord Dept 109th Tron serial 81441129 discharged at Camp Dix New Jersey on June 25 1919. Any information to Mrs E E Sherman Home Service Secretary American Red Cross Keosauqua IA.
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Keosauqua
James Burr Burton
Ord. Dept
109Th Tron
Cap Dix
N. J
E. E. Sherman
Home Service
A. R. C. Keosauqua
Legion Drives Training Camp Call and Hall Dedication
The American Legion of Iowa cooperates to recruit a large class of 17 to 27 year olds for Citizens Military Training Camp at Fort Snelling Minnesota in August. Applications go to C B Walker Des Moines Iowa. The Legion and Auxiliary at Livermore Indiana dedicate a new comfortably furnished hall. Commander Steck and Labor leader Lewis declare no lingering feud between The American Legion and Organized Labor in Iowa.
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American Legion of Iowa
Citizens Military Training Camp
Fort Snelling
Minn
C. 8. Walker
Care Chamber of Commerce
Des Moines
Iowa
The
Legion and Auxiliary
Livermore, In
American Legion
Organized Labor
Daniel F. Steck
J. C. Lewis
Iowa Federation of Labor
Steck
Davenport
Legion
Ours
America
Legion Delegation Plans July Invasion of France
An American Legion delegation sails July 25 to September 3 aboard the steamship President Roosevelt. The crew and captain are Legionnaires, and the itinerary visits historic battlefields on the French coast and inland.
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France
Roosevelt
Legion
Trees planted in Burlington honor Des Moines county WWI fallen
Twenty four trees planted in Cra po Park Burlington are dedicated to memory of twenty four Des Moines county boys who fell in World War by the Burlington Legion post and Auxiliary unit.
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Crapo Park
Burlington
Des Moines County
Burlington Legion
Calkins Family Losses From War Service
With the death of Alva Leonard Calkins of Hamburg who died in Denver Colorado of tuberculosis contracted in the war his father Alva Calkins Sr gave three sons to the cause for which America fought Marion died at Camp Dodge Iowa October 12 1917 and Claude was killed in France October 17 1918
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Alva Leonard Calkins
Hamburg
Denver
Colo
Alva Calkins, Sr
America
Marion Calking
Camp Dodge
Iowa
Claude Calkins
Fragete
Monahan Post Baseball Challenges For Iowa Legion Title
The Monahan Post American Legion baseball team of Sioux City challenged for the Iowa Legion championship. A. M. Thompson of Wyoming inhaled poison while serving in France and lost his health, detailing effects related to wartime service.
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Monahan Post, American Legion
Sioux City
Iowa Legion
A. M. Thompson
Wyo
France
American Legion aids veterans with barn loss and gear drives
Thompson, now a policeman, recovered after teeth removal. A fire destroyed a barn housing a Ford, grain, and stock owned by Perry Miller in Riceville, Iowa. comrades helped rebuild. Legion posts distributed baseball uniforms to veterans in Knoxville and organized outfits via the Iowa Legionaire appeal, with many posts and auxiliaries contributing.
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American Legion
Thompson
Perry Miller
Riceville
Iowa
Legion
Ex-convicts in U.S. government service claim
Washington reports three percent of federal workers are ex convicts. BEBE Pudding of the Prisoners Relief Society cites about 2000 ex convicts in civil service and notes a postmaster who is an ex convict. He argues some of the worst crooks slip into government service after release.
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Washington
United States
Leavenworth
Kan
Bebe
Pudding
Prisoners’ Relief Society
Civil Service
Yall
Senator Watson backs tariff first in bonus timing plan
Washington May 31 Senator Watson Republican of Indiana endorsed the Republican majority plan to first pass the McCumber tariff bill then push through a soldiers bonus bill. He said as long as the tariff is being dealt with it should be disposed of first and that both bills will be passed perhaps sooner than expected.
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Indiana
Washington
Watson
Joliet Driver Killed In Midget Car Race Crash
Charles M. Reynolds of Joliet Illinois was killed during the sixth lap of a 100 mile race in Independence Missouri when his car overturned, ripped through a fence, and he was thrown from the vehicle while leading the 100 mile event at speed.
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Independence
Charles M. Reynolds
Joliet
Reynolds
Reynols
Abbott dies after appendectomy in Washington
William T. Abbott of Chicago a member of the treasury tax simplification board and vice president of the Central Trust company of Hitnels died in a Washington hospital after an operation for appendicitis ten days earlier.
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Central Trust
Chicago
Washington
William T. Abbott
Treasury Tax Simplification Board
Central Trust Company of Hitnels
Kenosha Nurse Helen Lilley Found Dead in New York Harbor
Messages from Kenosha confirmed Miss Helen Lilley a former Kenosha nurse, age unknown, was found dead in Hoboken New Jersey. Her body was recovered from the harbor on May 26 and identified there after authorities traced her identity to Kenosha. She had left Kenosha in March for New York City and had registered as a nurse there.
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Kenosha
Wis
Helen Lilley
Hobboken
N d
Lilley
New York City
Plants Catch Cold Like Humans, Study Shows
A paper read in England at the Surveyors' Institution argues that plants respond to environmental changes and that trees, like people, can catch cold. The author notes soil conditions influence plant growth.
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England
Surveyors’ Institution
Tokyo bankers warn on Japan’s need for cautious lending
Bankers at a Tokyo syndicate meeting on April 21 warned against restricting advances to reliable firms as Japan faces shrinking specie reserves abroad deposits decline and a widening trade deficit. Bank of Japan president Junnosuke Irouge urged prudent action while vice president Seichiro Kimura cautioned the worst effects could be averted only by careful banking practices.
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Tokyo
Japan
Junnosuke Irouge
Bank of Japan
Seichiro Kimura
Bishop Attacks Dry Force in Prohibition Debate
Knoxville, May. Bishop Thoms F. Goeller of the Protestant Episcopal Church denounces National Prohibition as a farce and argues the current reign of terror and too much politics derail enforcement of the eighteenth amendment. He favors a different approach to prohibition than the present policy.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Thoms F. Goeller
Protestant Episcopal Church In America
Lve
Women’s Clubs Back Historic Exposition Restoration Plan
The Federation of Women’s Clubs endorses restoring the Columbian exposition’s Fine Arts Building as a women’s civic center in Chicago. Six thousand clubwomen in the Second district have begun restoring a wing and will launch a public-support campaign next week.
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Hliness Federation of Women's Club
Albion W. Headburg
Chicago
Art Center of America
Headburg
Federation
Will H. Hays
Moving Pictures
Government wins big in final trust dissolution suit
The Supreme Court upheld the government’s suit against Southern Pacific, reversing a Utah Federal court ruling. The decision requires the company to divest all stock ownership in the Central Pacific and end control held since its lease and purchase in 1879.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Southern Pacific
Central Parife
Great Trust
Federal Court
Utah
Daywald
Mghttern Pacific
Central Pacific Mines
Clubwomen Link Libraries Arts Parks to Civic Growth
Articles describe how state libraries owe their existence to clubwomen led by Miss Lida Haf Ford who gathered data on libraries and governance. Lima hosts an Art Museum association with over $1,000 in funds and family artworks. Georgia and Florida clubs promote civic work, cleanups, and tourism camps. Gainesville sold a $16,000 club house bond. San Francisco advances Child Welfare Week. Florida Federation owns Royal Palm State Park with 4,000 acres, including a large lodge and trails.
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Woman's Club
Charlotte
North Carolina
James Eugene Reilly
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Carolina
Lida Hafford
General Federation of Women's Club
Washington, D. C
Lima
Ohio
Galvin
Brice
Gordon Chason
Bainbridge, Ga
Georgia Federation
Georgia
Gainsville
Florida
State Federation
B. C. Riley
University of Florida
James Whitcomb Riley
San Francisco
Royal Palm
Florida Federation of Women's Clubs
John Apsahl
Larkin
United States
H. M. Flagler
Federation
Planes Go 2 Miles A Minute
Rock Island May 30 Paul Henderson second assistant postmaster general and Col O H Fogg arrived at Wallhice Field in two US main airplanes on a test trip. The flight from Chicago took one hour twenty minutes at an average speed of 120 miles an hour. The flyers will stay several days before returning to Chicago.
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Rock Island
Paul Henderson
Col
O. H. Fogg
Wallhice
United States
Chicago
Bryan presents Lincoln estate for hospital use
Willam Jennings Bryan announced at Methodist church pulpits in Lincoln that his ten acre estate "Fair View" will be presented to the Lincoln Methodist Hospital board. The Bryan home will be remodeled immediately for use as a hospital.
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Lincoln, Neb
Lincoln
Fairview
Lincoln Methodist Hospital Board
Willam Jennings Bryan
Methodist Church
Bryan
No Redrers for Coal Loss Brief
The Supreme Court ruled the federal government cannot be held liable for coal losses claimed by sellers who were compelled to sell at government fixed prices during the war. The decision underscores the government’s immunity in wartime price controls.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Tanlac praised by St Louis man for restored health
William Knorr of St. Louis describes severe stomach issues including loss of appetite and heart palpitations. After trying Tanlac he reports appetite return, better digestion, improved sleep, and renewed energy, claiming Tanlac "certainly fixes a fellow up." Advertisement notes Tanlac sold by all good druggists.
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St. Louis
Tanlac
Taniac
Advt
Heart as a Marvelous Pumping Engine
The human heart is a marvelous pumping engine. It works relentlessly from birth to death, pushing about 7650 cubic inches of blood each minute and more than 225 000 cubic feet annually.
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Winterset
American Legion Club
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Margaret M. Coulter
Laura M. Smith
Humboldt
Leon
Marshalltown
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Hoboken, N. J
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Secretary of State
Savannah
Willina Byrd
Brent Woo
Wayne County
King B. W. Moody
Chandler
Royal Dispatch
Bevins Motor Co
Chandler Motor Car Co
Cleveland
Knorr
William Knorr
North Sixth St
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