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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1918
Page
21
Private Emmett McHugh lists wartime letters and notes from the front describing Lieuts Allan Winslow and Douglas Campbell in aerial combat. He recalls the French Croix de Guerre awards, rear-area duties, daily entertainments for soldiers, and Memorial Day observances in a French village near Anaconda, with references to mail, supplies, and American troops awaiting front action.
Richard Dorion, a mining engineer and zinc concentrator expert, left the Condent in the Ana conda Thursday evening. He had practiced in Mexico and stood among other Americans as Mexican snipers fired on the group. Dorion and his brother went to Canada and enlisted, signaling broader United States involvement despite uncertain intent.
A wartime notice recalls a Canadian regiment member killed in action, with a photograph showing his grave but lacking location details. It notes a brother enlisted in the same unit was gassed and wounded, now recovering in London, while the dead man’s cemetery remains uncertain.
Whitford Gillies, son of Donald B Gillies a noted Lutte engineer, departs for Pelham Bay naval reserve training in New York. He will undertake an eight week seamanship course then join Yale studies if possible, having passed the January physical.
At the New York polo rounds festival Lieut John Dullip Sousated led a band with 56 piccolos and 40 trombones amid other instruments. A colored woman near the rail laughed and urged departure saying Dixie would not feel safe near the elevated crowd.
A fragment notes a person preparing for departure to France with unclear details. The readable portion hints at travel or assignment abroad but lacks concrete names, dates, or places to identify the exact event or individuals involved.
A report details Charles W. Swinborne, son of C. C. of the Daly Bank, leaving tonight to assume a federal clerk position in New York via Washington. It notes his limited prior experience, the likely duties, and arrangements for his passport and state department handling. Also included are brief anecdotes of soldiers and a New Yorker who left a month of care for a pet dog.
A fragment from a newspaper page shows a playful exchange about a person named Vervahedge and a pet dog Fido. Johnson comments on a portrait pairing of beauty and the beast with a sly laugh, stroking Fido’s head.
In Butte on the usual day for overseas letters a small packet mail from France was not received as expected. Many households were disappointed when a missive failed to appear on Wednesday morning. Other letters were held up for reasons known to the department or army postal service. Howard Huffman of Warm Springs is now a corporal stationed at Camp Fremont in California undergoing intensive training.
Private Al G Shone of Mon ls saved Private Harry E Manning from drowning in an American lake on a recent Sunday. Shone swam into the lake after Manning was pulled under by two others, supported Manning until help arrived, and guided him to shore with the aid of a plank. Shone recalls gripping Manning’s wrist and keeping him above water while others struggled, then helped Manning recover before safe ashore.
A poem satirizes the overseas cap issued to soldiers, describing it as an absurd, hatlike object that masks fear and misery. The piece laments the mockery in camps and pleads for mercy, asking for a more fitting headgear to relieve the burden of care.
A fragmentary tale from an early Sunday school scene shows a superintendent guiding a child through a simple diagram to heaven. The boy watches as the path grows and a figure reaches the gate but is denied entry. The superintendent then delivers a moral in a solemn tone.
A fragment from a burgh volume notes that good deportment in gesture and speech is essential yet serious clownishness mars public behavior. The author, described as a high brow figure, critiques social performance as pretentious and impractical.
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