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Newspaper
Benson Signal
Location
Benson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1918
Page
2
Arthur Guy Empey, an American in Jersey City, travels to England and volunteers for the British Army. He witnesses frontline bombardment in France, endures trench warfare, and sees comrades fall while a chaplain and fellow soldiers earn distinction.
The narrator describes a brutal six day trench ordeal after a failed Blighty leave. German and English casualties mount as waves crash the trench, men haul ammo below mud and mangled bodies. A severed foot tribute and lurking rats haunt the survivor, who ends relieved to be withdrawn.
The author recalls strict British army discipline in France after enlistment. Severe penalties include death by firing squad for desertion or treachery, and sixty four days in the front-line trench with raids and hazardous duties. Survival through the ordeal is portrayed as luck.
A serialized wartime feature hints at German gunners being fooled in the next chapter. A separate tale recalls a lion tamer's bizarre Christmas gift of three boa constrictors and five alligators, and a frightening night as the reptiles roamed the couple’s bedroom.
Instructions for young children to make simple paper toys from torn newspaper. Folded oblongs form tents chairs and tables, while tearing shapes produce trees balls and doll figures for playful activities before scissors are used.
Lieutenant Alan F Winslow of Chicago describes in his diary the April 14 1917 air combat over the aviation field where he and Lieut Douglas Campbell shot down two German planes. The event drew thousands, earned Croix de Guerre with palm for both pilots, and sparked local morale.
In Philadelphia eleven year old Rollo Jacobson from Landsdowne visits city recruiting offices seeking enlistment to go to France. He asks for a drummer boy role and fills out a Naval Reserve application, citing his sixth grade schooling and his baby brother Marcus as next of kin.
A French soldier who contracted tuberculosis in a German prison camp is shaving under difficult conditions. The American Red Cross has shipped thousands of safety razors to France and other European countries to aid the tuberculosis fight.
Atlanta Mrs Lucy B Reid of De Kalb County owner of several hundred acres with walnut groves offered the government all the walnut timber to make gunstocks and stated willingness to let the government set its own price.
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