London to France to training with British Army
The narrative follows Arthur Guy Empey, an American in Jersey City, who travels to England to enlist as a private, trains in France, and serves on the front lines. He describes trench life, shelling, gas attacks, dugouts, and acts of recruitment and reconnaissance with fellow soldiers including Atwell, facing death, injury, and the constant threat of capture.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
No Man’s Land
Italian Children Give Pennies to American Helpers at Turin Red Cross Home
In Turin, Italy, a Red Cross visit to a former farm now a TB recovery home shows 75 children, led by Princess Lettitia, offering copper pennies to Major Taylor and American helpers. The scene blends gratitude with hopes the home, led by Colonia Profilattica della Principessa Laetitia, can expand to 200 children.
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Italy
Turin
American Red Cross
Garibaldi
Atlantic
Germany
Major Taylor
America
Cross
Africa
Lettitia
Rome
Firing Squad member recalls night at billets under drizzle
The narrator describes orders to report to divisional HQ several kilometers behind the line and to billet No 78 for quarters and rations. It was eight o'clock at night, cold and miserable with drizzling rain as he fell asleep in straw.
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Mackintosh
Empey Serial Teases Courage Tale and Holiday Car Scene
The installment promises a gripping story about a coward as the narrator notes a next chapter. A holiday week scene depicts a mother and child on a crowded car, the child asking for a gift for the teacher and receiving a sharp rebuke from the mother.
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Empey
Still on the Job Opportunity Says the Observer
The Observer of Events and Things notes that old-fashioned door knocks are out of style yet insists opportunity remains active. The remark frames a view on persistence and initiative in pursuing chances.
Time For Women to Act
A call to all women to serve the nation with three practical roles. Learn knitting for warm garments for soldiers, train for Red Cross dressings, and produce food to ease shortages. Emphasizes home effort, local cooperation, and statewide agricultural mobilization to boost wartime supply.
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Red Cross
Cistern Found During Park Street Excavation In Ashtabula
Old laborers unearthed a cistern spanning nearly the street with stone walls and rude masonry, about 30 feet deep. It disrupted work on a new pavement, forcing full filling before proceeding. Local memory lacks record of its use, though a nearby Lake and Park Street house may relate to its function.
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Park Street
Ashtabula
Lake and Park Streets
Unclear fragment about credit harming a girl
Fragment notes that getting credit is one of the worst things that can happen to a girl, implying social or moral judgment. No further readable context or specifics.
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Mer the
Firing Squad
Atwell
No Man's Land
New York
Royal Engineers
Royal Irish Rifles
Quivive
Old Pepper
Hubercular
Childrengoda I
Colonia Profilattica
Dells Principessa Laetitia
Torina
Italia
Urrezy
Tub
Uttous
Oss OM
Cdiers
Oliver Hyde Foster
The
Vigilantes
United States Department of Agriculture
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