Empey Discovers German Prisoner Is From New York
The narrative follows Arthur Guy Empey, an American in Jersey City, joining the British Army after the Lusitania sinking. He trains in England and France, endures trench warfare, observes death, rescue efforts, and dangerous posts. Back home he writes a play, while his unit trades stories at the front leading to tragic losses and shifting diplomacy. Empey asks not who will win but how long the war will take.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
No Man's Land
Tommy
Fritz
Berlin
Carl Schmidt
Sixty-sixth
Bavarian Light Infantry
New York
Coney Island
Hans Wagner
Russell
Germany
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Empey's Over the Top Charge with a Bavarian Prisoner
In a two week machine gun course I rejoin my unit and take part in a daylight raid that captures twenty one prisoners. We earn a fresh crossfire in No Man's Land and witness a German captain die after a drunken wager on hanging his cap on our barbed wire. The next day we bury the captain and an unteroffizier as two lone crosses mark their graves. The story continues as Empey and his unit press the attack.
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St. Omar
Suicide Club
Fritz
Tommy
Blighty
Hait
Interoffizier
No Man’s Land
Empey
Florence Nightingale’s Lamp Shines Over War and Nursing
The article lauds Florence Nightingale as the Lady with the Lamp who reformed Scutari hospitals during the Crimean War. It notes her birth in 1820, her travels, leadership of 38 nurses, and sweeping reforms that founded modern nursing and inspired global Red Cross societies. It highlights her dedication, illness, and enduring legacy despite chronic invalidism.
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Scutari
Red Cross Societies
Florence Nightingale
New York Sun
Florence
Europe
Egypt
England
Paris
Harley Street
Crimea
Bosphorus
Constantinople
Red Cross
Be Above Gossip in Thought and Speech
A New York Evening Mail ethical note urges restraint in gossip. It condemns cruel truths told without need and praises turning a deaf ear, giving the subject the benefit of doubt, and speaking only cheerful, charitable words.
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New York Evening Mail
Family sends off departing grandchildren at Christmas
The family cherishes a warm ritual as grandchildren hurry to greet and bid farewell to relatives. Fred and Albert rush to finish dressing and hugging before catching their train home after Christmas, with Albert teasing Fred for being slow.
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Fred
Albert
Crowded Washington Becomes City of New White Residents
Century Magazine style remark notes wartime expansion of the ordnance department from about 85 staff to thousands, prompting a surge of new white residents in Washington. It also mentions Paris doctors blaming low-cut fashions for respiratory illnesses among French women this winter.
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America
Ordnance Department
Washington
Frank Ward O'Malley
Century Magazine
Manguillere
Paris
Parisians Echo Mangulliere On Winter Throat Health
Several American physicians in Paris corroborate the announcement by French throat specialist Doctor Mangulliere at the academy that the new winter throat health measures show promise. The report emphasizes professional agreement across national lines.
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Paris
Mangulliere
Academy
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Aun
Great Red Cross
Miss Nightingale
Sidney Herbert
War Office
Turkey
Marseilles
Longfellow
Russia
Nightingale Fund
Ministry of Pensions
Sloplivce Jo
MALLE
Nlmose
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