Empey’s British War Experience From Jersey City to Front Lines
American Yeoman Arthur Guy Empey recounts enlisting in Britain after the Lusitania sinking, training in France, and serving in trenches. He describes bayonet drills baths under tough sergeants, the brutal routine, and the heroic work of chaplains like Captain Hall who risked life to aid wounded under fire.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
Chaplain
No Man’s Land
Night trench dig brings heavy losses and costs of war
The narrator recounts a night raid into No Man's Land to dig an advanced trench. A covering party and diggers face machine gun fire, shells, and barbed wire as 68 casualties occur in their unit, with 21 killed and 37 wounded the next day. A London official notes it costs six to seven thousand pounds to kill or wound a soldier.
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Hall
Tommy
Fritz
Royal Engineers
No Man’s Land
London
Hay and Grain Market Prices Across Regions
Market list shows buying and selling prices for hay types including upland and prairie hay in Colorado and Nebraska, and Timothy and Alfalfa per ton. Also listed are straw, oats, corn, gluten feed, bran, flour, eggs, butter, and fruit box pricing with regional notes and grading details.
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Colo. Upland
Nebr
Upland
Colo
South Park
Gunnison Valley
Miscellaneous Market Prices for Metals
New York lead priced at 7.00 with 7.12 percent. Copper at 23.12 percent. bar silver 99.1 percent. Spelter 7.00 at 7.25. Tungsten concentrates 60 percent at 20.00 and 22.50 per unit. Crude ores 60 percent 22.00 25.00. 25 percent at 12.00 12.50. 10 percent 9.40 12.20.
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Daov
V.nivain Sale
Eac
New York
St. Louis
Boulder
Boston Wool Prices and Chicago Grain and Provision Quotes
Boston wool market details show fine and fine clothing lots with various blood percentages and prices from 1.50 to 1.85. Chicago grain and provisions report corn No 3 yellow 1.60 1.63 dollars, oats No 3 white 77 79 cents, barley 1.35 1.67, timothy 5 to 8 dollars, clove 27 dollars, lard 2. במש
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Boston
Texas
Chicago
Kansas City Produce Prices in 1918 Butter Eggs Poultry
Kansas City markets quote butter at 404 cents firsts 394 cents seconds 38 packing 29 eggs firsts 3 1 2 cents poultry hens 28 cents roosters 15 1 2 cents 1918 broilers 40 cents.
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Kansas City
Grain and dairy prices in Minneapolis and Chicago markets
Grain markets report Minneapolis prices for Rye Barley Bran Corn No 3 yellow and white Flax and Flour with declines in some items Butter Eggs and Potatoes steady or mixed in Chicago Creamery butter 35 to 42 cents Eggs range 32 to 34 cents Wisconsin Michigan potatoes 90 cents to 1.05 per bag and sacks 1.15 to 1.25 with small variations noted across markets.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Chicago
Wisconsin
Michigan
Cooperative Marketing Organizing Principles
The article from the United States Department of Agriculture highlights how co operative marketing should form from real need and specialized production. It outlines democratic governance limiting individual financial control, profit sharing by business done, and education as groundwork for future efforts. It urges preliminary community surveys to assess need, existing services, outlets, and supply sources before organizing.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Sheep or Dogs Which Keep Sheep Safe
A United States Department of Agriculture appeal urges counties to pass a dog control law to prevent stray dogs from killing sheep. The notice argues farmers cannot keep both sheep and roaming dogs in the same area and calls for action to protect flocks.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Farmers Write Insurance Co Operatives cover farms nationwide
Farmers cooperative fire insurance companies, about 2000 in existence, hold roughly 5.3 billion dollars in insurance in force. They insure more than two fifths of all insurable farm property in the United States and charge about 26 cents per hundred dollars per year on average.
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United States
How Good Cows Pay Rise in Milk Profit With Production
A study of 5 587 cow test records over four years shows income over feed cost climbs as butterfat output rises. From 150 to 200 pounds butterfat, income over feed cost grows from 21 to 34 dollars, then to 63 dollars at 300 pounds, and to 100 dollars at 450 pounds, illustrating higher production yields much larger relative profits.
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United States
War time dairy cows aid city army and soil fertility
The piece urges using profitable dairy cows to feed the armed forces and win the war. It condemns low producers as potential meat, but advises not to dispose of herds yet. The message calls for careful selection intelligent breeding and skilled feeding to enlarge and improve dairy herds for profit.
Harness Repair Tools and Facilities
The article explains keeping harness in repair uses simple, inexpensive tools. Much repair can be done with general tools, though a few special devices are desirable.
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Pick and Shovel Squad
S. P
Sanitary Police
Holy Joe
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Denver Markets
F. O. B. Denver
Carland, Price
Benverten
Seca
Denver
Navy
Lima
Boston Wool
Special Information Service
Western Fruit, Growers’ Association
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