Word: moosehaven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, director general of the order, made an oration to the effect that men should not be "scrapped" at 50 but preserved by society for a useful old age. He described Moosehaven, the order's Florida home for aged Mooses, as a place "to live, labor and love" instead of "to loaf, linger and die." He went on for two hours?when a page brought him a note from his wife that it was time to stop...
...route; those who came to cheer remained to shiver; the Moosemen marched on. It soaked their hats, it trickled down their socks; a one-legged Moose from New Orleans, playing a trombone, hobbled along; barges bobbed, floats floated-floats showing life at the colony of aged Moose at Moosehaven; floats representing the training of the child, boy and man at Mooseheart; the rain fell. The Moose finished their march, elected officers, took rides through Green Spring Valley, dispersed...
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