Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1919 — MILLIONS GREET PERSHING IN NEW YORK CITY TODAY. [ARTICLE]

MILLIONS GREET PERSHING IN NEW YORK CITY TODAY.

New York City is jammed to the rafters today with Americans come to acclaim the greatest national hero since Grant. John J. Pershing arrived home today aboard the Leviathan, and New York is ready to all but smother Pershing, “commander-in-chief of the largest army America ever had; the man who led that army to victory in the war of the world.