Over the Top With an American Soldier 1917
In 1916 1917 American recruit recalls front line shock German signs read Fair Fate Fancy and Come on We are ready. He describes feints artillery barrages star shells night raids and a plan to capture prisoners using disguises persuade weapons and come-alongs as the brigade prepares to go over the top.
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Spigs
Fritz
No Man’s Land
Easil
Brooklyn
Atwell
Machine Gun Company
France
Jten
Old Pepper
Yank
Tommy
Whisky Street
Quiet Front Raid Volunteers in World War I Action
In the Western Front narrative, a brigade overhears plans for an eight day bombardment and a big July push. During a trench raid night Old Pepper seeks twenty volunteers to enter no mans land for German prisoner intel. The narrator volunteers and reports to the raiding party leaders.
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Old Pepper
Atwell
No One Is Old in New York Says Barton Hero
Bruce Barton in The Making of George Groton ponders city aging arguing New York drains away its older residents yearly. He notes few people appear over fifty on Fifth Avenue and Broadway and asks where they go. He compares funerals unseen to birds vanished in the woods.
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New York
Bruce Barton
George Groton
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Get Along Without Metals Cliff Dwellers Use Bone Knives
The text describes gio cliff dwellers who knew no metal. Their knives were bone from deer, polished and sharp. Household tools included pottery jars and fiber casks with a varnishlike coating. They lived in a pre metal age.
Mike Fink the Snapping Turtle and the Snag of Ohio Valley
The article chronicles Mike Fink a frontier legend known on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers for bushwhacking and sharpshooting. It notes his rough reputation and a notorious incident with his wife Peg on barges where he set a brush fire, then blamed her wink at rivals. It concludes with Fink as a necessary but harsh figure in early western history.
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Mike Fink
Mike
Louisville Courier-Journal
Allegheny County
Pennsylvania
Ohio Valley
Mississippi
Fink
Ohio River
Peg
Valley of the Ohio
Louisville
West
Boone, Kenton
Clark
Broadway humorist’s Paris letter on Miss Meredith
Tommy Gray recounts a Paris mission tale about Lois Meredith the actress and film star. On a voyage across, a life boat drill required life preservers. Meredith confessed she tried one but found it ill fitting and handed it to a stewardess for alteration.
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Tommy Gray
France
Paris
Lois Meredith
Gray
Pittsburgh
Meredith
New York Tribune
Rifle and Pick Emblem of Pioneer Battalions
The piece describes the insignia "Rifle and Pick" as central to pioneer battalions. Pioneers fight at the front, dig trenches and wire No Man's Land, and serve as infantry reserves for their division. They undergo intensive training before a push and sometimes replace frontline infantry. The exact primary weapon—rifle or pick—is hard to determine.
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Tommy
No Man's Land
Actor demoted to buck private in army
A motion picture actor is demoted in the army to the rank of buck private. The Birmingham Age-Herald notes the shift as a notable decrease in status.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
General and Lieutenant Exchange on Salute and Cramp
Dialogue shows a general asking why no salute and a lieutenant replying about officer's cramp after a review. No further context or names provided.
O'Malley and Peransky Quarrel in Subway Air Chamber
In a Williamsburg hospital Thomas O'Malley and Andrew Peransky, both subway tunnel workers, fought for 20 minutes inside a high air pressure caisson. Police halted the melee and doctors expect O'Malley to recover after rest, with return to work uncertain. Peransky declined to speak.
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O'Malley
Peransky
North Seventh Street
O’malley
Dalton
Angoras and Cats of Maine Coast Towns Draw Visitors
Summer visitors to Maine coast towns notice large numbers of long haired Angora and hybrid coon cats in homes of all incomes. Breeders in Penobscot Bay ship cats nationwide. An orange eyed white Angora can fetch up to 100 dollars. coon males with tiger stripes 25 to 50. Deaf cats with odd eyes still hunt well. Lifespan runs ten to fifteen years, cats favor fish over meat, and hair mats in the stomach can cause death.
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Ppancor
Maine
Mediterranean
Penobscot Bay
America
Bank Robbery Attempt Ends With Cash Stolen
Melvin Ripford, 26, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, entered the Atlantic National Bank on Broadway and Warren Street, opened a suitcase, and took $10,000 before fleeing. A $5,000 drop occurred in the corridor. he was arrested after being stopped by a traffic officer on Barclay Street. Ripford claimed to study money and its habits and said he bought the suitcase to collect specimens.
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York
Atlantic National Bank
Broadway
Warren Street
C. E. Smith
Joseph Baumel
Melvin Ripford
Harrisburg
Ripford
Kipford
Barclay Street
Greenwich
James Smith
New York
Bride's Dream Farm Ends In Trouble For Groom
A Chicago dressmaker Louise Haug married Bert Manning after a brief acquaintance found them in love but the couple's plan to retire at a farm unfolds into a suspicious scheme. Manning prepares to move, hides marriage, and arranges funds while detectives pursue leads from a newspaper notice.
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Bert Manning
Louise Haug
Chicago
Em Jane
Manning
Hammond
Revi
Josh Os
the Gan Mao
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Arthur Guy Empey
Frontier
Western Pioneer
Mississippi River
Maine Coast
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