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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1917
Page
7
A wartime guide published by the Wheeler Syndicate offers practical advice for new soldiers. It covers training basics, discipline, and morale boosting tips aimed at improving readiness and resilience in early U S military service.
The article explains how a corporal gains authority in extended order, guiding new soldiers through discipline and signals. It covers maintaining control under fire, the value of encouragement, and adapting intervals in skirmish formations to reduce casualties and ensure readiness.
The article explains how a company may advance in rushes, by platoons or squads, to a new line. The squad on the right moves first with the command By squad from the right. The corporal leads the rush, soldiers assume prone or kneeling positions, and fire resumes on command.
A discussion on the military value of wounded soldiers versus dead ones and the strategic importance of cover in combat. It traces the use of cover from American Indian tactics through Civil War trench warfare to contemporary European fighting, emphasizing single file advances and precise firing from concealed positions.
The essay muses that beauty rises at sunrise and sunset, shaping lifelong views. It contrasts childhood romance with adult practicality and ponders future happiness in heaven through service, work, and social fellowship rather than idle ease. It recalls Puritan thought and Miltonic visions, stressing hopeful, purposeful anticipation rather than endless hymn singing.
The Indianapolis News reports officers at Ft. Harrison favoring candidates with business experience for the quartermaster corps. A young applicant claimed seven years of business experience, but when asked his age he answered twenty one and recited years of farm labor from ages fourteen to sixteen, insisting that “that means business.”
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for eczema rashes and itching with a free sample offer by mail from Boston. A brief film fun quote features a joke about a screen artist who can draw anything but a salary and living.
A manager and Mr. Erastus Pinkley discuss his illness and belief in recovery. Pinkley explains he stayed at work in a gasoline soaked garage because he felt unworthy to go to heaven and feared there was no chance of salvation elsewhere.
A witty exchange questions honesty among anglers. One amateur confesses to a fellow angler that he is a liar, provoking a humorous back and forth about truth in fishing tales.
A brief note on maintaining appearances through thrift in meals, aiming for occasional dinners while keeping expenses low.
Collodion provides relief from chigger bites and irritation by forming a colorless film on the skin after the alcohol ether evaporates. It is also an excellent treatment for hang nails. keep the bottle tightly corked.
A philosopher advises happiness through goodness, but a sensitive man counters that virtue may provoke envy and be misread as pretense. The exchange reflects social judgment and the risk of appearing insincere when one behaves well.
A man discovers the danger of clinging to a mistaken idea and learns a painful lesson when his confidence is scratched by reality. The line suggests remorse and a hard-won clarity about truth versus illusion.
Mary mentions carrots on gold and a saying about silver. The speaker notes a play on words with real silver and a cartoonish remembrance. The exchange reflects a humorous rural tone about value and memory.
A narrator complains about trespassers entering through a back window and trampling a potato patch. Scott is named as the gardener in the scene. The tone suggests a rural or domestic dispute with an accusing remark directed at intruders.
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