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...Samuel George Barker, a Jefferson, Iowa dentist, was happy as an autograph collector who has just discovered a Button Gwinnett in his own attic. In last week's Journal of the American Dental Association, he told all about...
Tonight at 7:30 o'clock the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society meets for the annual Spring Farewell Brawl. Extraordinary guests at this evening's clandestine meeting will include Julius Van Duerk, inventive genius responsible for the radically new nine-hole button guaranteed to stay on and frustrate all unemployed tailors. Music will be supplied by the Chicago Pianos, Inc., and Mr. John Walker, local toastmaster, has been invited to attend. Local Psychiatrist's Union 314 has been supplied with all further particulars...
...combat; death by accident had accounted for more than 34,000; number missing and lost by enemy capture: 56,000. By far the largest number of separations were honorable discharges, which have been given to 903,000. For them the War Department has issued a small gold-plated lapel button depicting an eagle flapping its wings...
Those Brass-Button Queens...
Those seagoing bellhops, those brass-button queens...