Empey and Company Over the Top in Costly Yet Successful Attack
Arthur Guy Empey, an American living in Jersey City, goes to England to enlist in the British army after the Lusitania sinking. He trains in France, experiences trench warfare, and serves on the firing line where comrades fall. A chaplain, digging deeds, and Empey’s unit endure No Man’s Land as they fight and endure.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
No Man’s Land
Relieved to Blighty After a Brutal Trench Stand
In a chaotic withdrawal and bitter combat, the machine gun company endured a near leave cancellation, a brutal six day trench battle, and high casualties. Soldiers recount mud, death, a severed foot used as a tool, and grim detachment amid shellfire before relief and rest billets.
Punishments and Stunts in British Army Life
The narrator notes strict British army discipline in France after enlistment. Deserters face death by firing squad or “up against the wall.” Other penalties include sixty four days in the front-line trench with raids and hazards, where survival is not guaranteed.
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France
Tommy
Deadly machine guns outsmart German gunners in new installment
Empey and his comrades show clever tricks to foil Fritz with their deadly machine guns. The next installment promises to reveal how German gunners are fooled. A lion tamer recalls a Christmas gift of three boa constrictors and five alligators sent by a friend abroad. The couple faced a night of chaos as two alligators escaped their boxes and wandered the bedroom, leaving them hiding on the bed canopy until morning.
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Royal Transportation Officer
Santa Claus
Tommy
Empey
Fritz
Jim
Amusement for Children Tear Paper Shapes
A simple guide encourages children to tear old newspaper into a two by four inch oblong, fold it to form a tent, chair, and table, and then create trees, balls, doll babies and other easy shapes for play.
America's First Aerial Victory Recounted by Hero
Lieutenant Alan F Winslow of Chicago recounts his April 14 1915 victory over a German plane with Lieutenant Douglas Campbell for which both men were credited. The duel occurred above their aviation field to cheers from townspeople and allied officers. The two German wrecks were displayed in the town square and the pair received Croix de Guerre and later DSCS consideration.
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Winslow
Campbell
War Department
Washington, D. C
Alan F. Winslow
Signal Reserve Corps of
Chicago
Douglas Campbell
Harvard
California
Doug
France
Bowie
Alors
Groundling
Eleven year old seeks Navy enlistment in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia eleven year old Rollo Jacobson of Landsdowne tours recruiting offices and pleads to go to France. He hopes to become a drummer boy with the troops after filling out a Naval Reserve application noting his sixth grade status and his baby brother Marcus as nearest kin.
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Philadelphia
Rollo Jacobson
Landsdowne
France
Naval Reserve
Marcus
Shaving Under Difficulties As Tuberculosis Fight Rages
A French Poilu who contracted tuberculosis during 18 months in a German prison camp fights to shave as the American Red Cross, aiding France in the tuberculosis battle, ships thousands of safety razors to Europe.
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American
Red Cross
France
Walnut timber offered for gunstocks to U S Government
Mrs Lucy B Reid of De Kalb county Georgia offers the federal government all her walnut timber and groves totaling several hundred acres for gunstock production at the government set price. She states willingness to let the government fix the price.
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Sam
Atlanta
Lucy B. Reid
de Kalb County
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Bocie
Aire
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