A Soldier’s Rest Billets and Cooties
The memoir recounts arriving at a training depot and receiving gear as a recruit. It covers vivid detail of marching orders and kit, rest billets in France, and a vivid portrait of cooties in barracks. It notes flea-like cooties, night shirt hunts, and improvised scratchers while soldiers endure damp, crowded conditions.
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Empey
Arria
Trarvel
Tommy
England
Patagonia
Eniwins
Renen
Llommes
Cheveaux
Jim
France
Trenches
Tomas Gimraatoes
Aassar
Sergeant Empey Realizes Ambition in First Trench Tale
The article recounts Sergeant Empey describing the realization of his ambition as he arrives in a first time trench and reflects longing to be back in Jersey City.
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Synopsia
Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
Tommy
France
Waying
United States Cavalry
Batman
Mancy
M. O
Empey
House of a Thousand Closets Delights New York Home
A New York area resident transforms an impractical dwelling into a model of storage. By adding numerous cubby holes second floor attic spaces and a cedar closet with sun and air she creates abundant organized closet space. A printed inventory helps track items and reduce frantic rummaging.
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New York
Harriet Sisson Gillespie
Mother's Magazine
North Carolina
New Southern Industry Opens Canning Plant For Green Sea Turtles
The New Orleans port gains a unique canning factory for green sea turtles with plans to produce 15,000 cans daily totaling about 700000 pounds. Located in Bay St. Louis after moving from Miami due to freight costs, the plant will process turtles caught in Central American waters into four products including clear and thick green turtle soup, Creole turtle beef, and callipee. A medicinal by product called turtle oil is also produced.
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New Orleans
Key West
America
Miami
Fla
Bay St. Louis
Fishing Gazette
Japanese Steel Queen Retires from Osaka Mills
Mrs Teruko Nakamura of Osaka known as The Steel Queen announces retirement and plans to tour the empire giving Asia education shows. She aims to educate factory town workers about other nations while criticizing American elites and has built a company from her late husband’s steel business into a stock enterprise despite inheriting debts.
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Teruko Nakamura
Osaka
Free Asia
Nakamuura
Hushaml
Wee Mary and Elizabeth's First Skating Invite
In a domestic scene Elizabeth, eleven, receives a first skating invitation while Mary, present in the room, reacts with excitement and reports that Elizabeth is about to meet a boy for the occasion.
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Mary
Elizabeth
California Syrup of Figs Promoted for Healthy Bowels
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs for sick crying children with signs like feverishness, crossness, or stomach upset. It promises gentle cleansing of the stomach and bowels, claims the syrup is palatable, and warns to demand the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company to avoid fakes.
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China
California
Caliifornia Fig Syrup Company
Adv
Remains Sentiment Echoes From Army Camp Tale
A Chicago Tribune anecdote recalls the first colored troops arriving at a U S army camp. An officer asks where the trooper wishes his remains sent. The trooper responds he plans to carry them himself, reflecting resolve and dignity.
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Chicago Tribune
Locust Eggs Used as Fertilizers in Med Countries
Locust eggs treated with sulphuric acid and lime are used as fertilizers in Mediterranean regions when locust swarms are large.
Unclear Iron Tonle Passage Prompts Irony and Frustration
Fragmentary OCR-like text references Tartess enils Shibran and Starouess the Ulver with malaria remedies and tonics. Mentions a general strengthening tonic for adults and a claim that living by word-chewing is cheapest, ending with a confession of weariness.
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Southampton
I J
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Peden Iron & Steel CO
Houston
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Texas Optical Co
Main Street
Tex
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Matoriventora
Hardway & Cathey
Long's Secret Service Company
ING
Veneral Norar Ai Boes
St. Louis
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