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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1918
Page
26
A collection of WWI era jests from recruits and officers. A French soldier’s boastful miscue gives way to American wit. A guard at Camp Devens, medical exam humor, and frontline anecdotes illustrate morale and pluck during recruitment days.
A riding-master interrogates Smith about prior experience with horses. Smith admits extensive exposure yet clarifies he had no grooming or coaching duties and reveals his past work in a fertilizer plant. The exchange hints at discipline and role expectations in the new recruits.
A humorous wartime snapshot shows a recruit debating duty versus eating the war. A private jokes with a corporal about stripes and laziness. A wounded soldier explains he was hurt in the ankle, not the head, and a bandage joke ends the scene.
Out of the North comes news of rebellion and war as Lexington and Concord spark a national struggle. In Berkley Manor’s quiet churchyard rural folk recall a republic of the dead while a pastor proclaims may the Lord arm the right in a Sabbath of memory and resolve.
A fragment from a periodical listing multiple pieces includes Ladies of the Lovers by Charles D. Mitchell Follies of the Passing Show by Oscar Graeve The Harlequin Room By Thomas W. Hanshew Helen and Warren By Mabel Herbert Urner and Camp Devens Humor by Private Ted Stanley.
After two years in Flanders Private Thomas Atkins wins leave and marries. Returning home at Southampton he shows his marriage certificate to an inspector as a return railway pass. The official notes the mistake and jokes about a long, wearisome journey not on the South Western Railway.
A British gunner home on furlough reveals he is an army dentist in training while a civilian notices his hammer and tongs insignia. The exchange explains the hammer is used to help with chloroforming nervous soldiers, with pincers for extractions.
In a trench a Tommy digs into ooze while nibbling biscuit and cheese. One tormented by the mess, another laments losing his biscuit and cheese, saying it couldn't get worse. The exchange captures crude humor amid hardship.
A young officer, unfamiliar with New York, sought a bank in Times Square and paid a street urchin a quarter after the lad guided him to the bank. The boy quipped that bank directors “always get big pay in New York,” underscoring the city’s brisk pace and wit.
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