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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1918
Page
14
An American Soldier recounts German trench signs reading code names as a morale test before the big push in June 1916. He details feints, smoke curtains, and a brutal bombardment that left many wounded and dead, including a shell strike that killed ten men in a machine gun company billet.
Arthur Guy Empey recalls a brigade order to cross into No Man's Land at night and seize two or three German gun crew prisoners. He details disguises, weapons, and brutal methods to extract information, plus star shells, trench raids, and the grim escort of stretcher bearers and medics.
San Diego, famed for mild weather and desert seascapes, has become a hub of wartime activity. The city hosts a $10,000,000 shipyard, air training at Rockwell Field and North Island, and daily drills. Army and navy personnel mix with movie stars and civilians enjoying a temporarily transformed, lively coastal life.
At brigade headquarters I overheard a G O C and division commander discussing an eight day bombardment and a big push starting July first. Later Old Pepper called for twenty volunteers for a trench raid to seize German prisoners for information, which I volunteered for with Atwell.
An aside from Bruce Burton's novel ponders why New York seems to drain its older residents. The narrator muses on where the aged go and why funerals are not conspicuously observed in the city.
The cliff dwellers lacked metal knowledge. Their knives came from polished deer bones. Household items were pottery jars and fiber casks coated with a varnishlike substance. Prehistoric cliff dwellers existed in many ages and regions.
A report notes 150000 Australian trade unionists enlisted with 45000 killed. It mentions India seeking to revive its indigo industry, a Providence Rhode Island schoolhouse in use 118 years, and Italian telephone links to Sardinia due this year. Also: loyalist women funded a privateer in the American Revolution, bees sold for high county prices.
Utah women grow 75 to 100 pounds of sugar beet seed per county to make sugar at home. County home demonstration agent trained 15 groups in shop use leading to high beet plantings and sugar goals. Women also produce 2000 to 2500 pounds of potato starch, saving about 400 bushels of waste potatoes.
A brief quip highlights barbers' talkative reputation with a poke about cutting men short. The exchange frames barbers as sociable professionals known for lively conversation.
Postal cards may not carry any message on the address side other than the address itself. Government cards printed or written with any message on that side render the card unmailable per post office department decisions.
A reflective adage compares passions to floods and streams, noting the shallow murmur and the deep being dumb. The quote echoes Sir Walter Raleigh style in discussing human emotion and intensity.
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