Battlefields and Pontoon Crossing at Donchery Meuse
The narrative recounts brutal street fighting near Donchery during a Meuse crossing. Soldiers describe near annihilation in hand to hand combat, the pistol and dagger exchanges, and the harrowing effort to build and salvage pontoon bridges under French artillery and searchlights. A desperate river crossing yields heavy losses, cold, blood, and exhausted endurance as they push to secure the opposite bank and confront continued assault.
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Donchery
Meuse
Rive Bank
Soudan
Dragoon
Fou
Obituary of Eleanor Durham Skinner of Alliance Nebraska
Eleanor Theresa Durham Skinner, born April 1846 in Drummoneaville Canada, died May 1 1918 at her Alliance home aged 73. She married James Skinner in 1867 and moved to Nebraska in 1886 as an early homesteader. A teacher, church member, Red Cross worker, and patriot, she leaves a husband two daughters three grandchildren and is buried in Greenwood cemetery. Funeral held at First Christian Church officiated by Elder Stephen J Epler.
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Eleanor Theresa Durham
Drummoneaville
Canada
Alliance
James Skinner
Skinner
First Christian Church
Frank Woten
Red Cross
Maud May
Myrtle Leishman
Fay Turewiek
Ethel Hembrey
Harry Clark
Camp Bliss
Texas
Inside bathing with hot water and limestone phosphate
A home remedy advocates drinking a glass of hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to flush poisons from the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims benefits for constipation biliousness headaches and general vitality and urges starting immediately after waking.
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Belgium
Sugny
Vivier-An- Court
Mette
Lfe
Corps
The
Christian Church
Stephen J. Epler
Greenwood Cemetery
M. E. Holloway
Hupmobile Agency
Chandler
Schwabe Bros
Chadron
Holloway
East Third
Nicolai
Leslie G. Rice
West Third Street
Kansas City
Express
Express Company
Am -Pam
Herald Publishing Company
Nebraska
Lee Run
Natio
Goodrich Dealers Bay
Ame Geneich
Goodrich
Silvertown
America
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company
Denver
Court Place
Denver, Colo
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