Empey Sails To England Enlists In British Army
Synopsis recounts Arthur Guy Empey an American from Jersey City who sails to England to enlist after Lusitania sinking. He trains in France fights in trenches encounters cooties learns hunger and danger, stages a play, and notes a German paper stake exchange with home front luxuries. He questions a German prisoner later in the narrative.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
No Man's Land
Tommy
Fritz
Berlin
Empey recalls battalion machine gun charge and prisoner encounter
The narrator volunteers for machine gun school then joins the brigade gun crew. He describes front-line routine, a successful raid that yielded 21 prisoners, a German captain and an officer killed in a No Man’s Land incident, and a farewell to a prisoner before the assault. He closes with a note that the next installment covers the successful but costly over the top attack.
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St. Omar
Suicide Club
Fritz
Tommy
Blighty
Hait
Interoffizier
No Man’s Land
Empey
Florence Nightingale the Lady of the Lamp and Founder of Modern Nursing
Florence Nightingale sparked modern nursing through Crimean War reform. Born 1820 in Florence, she organized nurses, scrubbed wards, and transformed Scutari hospitals. Despite illness, she led efforts to reduce mortality, founding nursing training and global Red Cross movements.
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Scutari
Red Cross Societies
Florence Nightingale
New York Sun
Florence
Europe
Egypt
England
Paris
Harley Street
Crimea
Bosphorus
Constantinople
Miss Nightingale
Sidney Herbert
War Office
Turkey
France
Marseilles
Longfellow
Russia
Nightingale Fund
Red Cross
Be Above Gossip says silence honors others
A New York Evening Mail editorial extols keeping quiet about cruel truths. It urges women to think twice before speaking and to offer cheerful, charitable thoughts to improve happiness and curb gossip.
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New York Evening Mail
Family farewell at Christmas with speedy goodbye
The household shows affectionate scenes as grandchildren greet and depart. Fred and Albert hurry to catch their train home after Christmas. Albert teases Fred, claiming his farewell is too slow.
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Fred
Albert
Washington War Effort Transforms Office Ranks
Frank Ward O Malley notes a surge from about 85 to nearly 35 hundred workers in the U S ordnance department as wartime expansion spreads through government. The piece alludes to broader government growth and social effects in Washington. A separate item mentions Century Magazine style affecting fashion and French women’s sore throats, linking low cut blouses to bronchitis and other illnesses among men per doctors in Paris.
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America
Ordnance Department
Washington
Manguillere
Paris
French throat specialist Mangulliere heals with winter remedy
Several American physicians in Paris confirm the French throat expert Doctor Mangulliere at the academy has announced a new winter remedy. The report states the method promises health benefits for throat conditions during the colder season.
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Paris
Mangulliere
Academy
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Vertie
New York
Carl Schmidt
Sixty-sixth
Bavarian Light Infantry
Coney Island
Hans Wagner
Russell
Germany
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Great Red Cross
Ministry of Pensions
Sloplivce Jv
MALLE
Frank Ward O'Malley
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