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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1918
Page
2
The narrative recalls a digging party location marked as an ideal machine gun emplacement. A comrade gasps at the odor of a decomposed body and the group retreats. The witness describes the nauseating, lingering stench and its impact on morale, followed by longing to return to combat duty.
The narrator recalls sixteen days of rest billets with road digging and drilling before returning to the front. An evening reveals a bomber is a general utility man in a section. The lieutenant asks for two volunteers to listen past night and names Empey and Wheeler as due for duty, creating unease about an upcoming turn.
In a rain soaked night on the western front two soldiers Wheeler and I creep between the trenches listening for German mining activity. They hear muffled thuds and footsteps as seven figures loom from the darkness before slipping away. A rain drenched relief comes, and they drift to sleep on the fire step.
The narrator moves into a dry roomy dugout near the advanced artillery observation post and places a signboard with name and number. Two Royal Field Artillery men from the nearby observation post can stay when off duty. Bombardier Son from Battery D 238 appears to become a regular occupant.
A New York Times snippet recounts Mr. Billtops weighing Mrs. Billtops during daily walks, noting weight stability within small ranges. The couple records gross and net weights, accounts for cloak tare, and even jokes about a coat removal while still on the scale.
A London Express editorial extols the "simple life" as postwar virtue. It argues people embrace restriction, walk instead of driving, eat less, and feel healthier, while a minority resist by seeking excess. The piece ties self denial to freedom, truth, and justice in wartime spirit.
The Almanach de Gotha once a Europe social register is now shunned and replaced by the Almanach de Bruxelles in France. The German edition allegedly served as an espionage conduit with officials worldwide feeding data on prominent figures, families, and military forces, some openly displayed and others likely stored in intelligence files.
The article notes France as the chief aluminum producer since 1896, supplying up to 89.2 percent of annual world output at the start of the war. It lists 10 electrolytic plants with 1914 production totals: Switzerland two plants 12.4 percent, England two plants 7.8 percent, Canada one plant 5.2 percent, and nine other plants contributing the remainder.
An old advertisement promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a cure for backaches and urinary symptoms. It warns readers of grave kidney dangers and urges visiting a druggist to obtain the product immediately.
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