Empey Recounts Lively Yet Grim War Service in Britain and France
Arthur Guy Empey, an American in Jersey City, joins the British Army after Lusitania’s sinking. He trains in London and France, serves in front trenches, and experiences gas, shellfire, and trench digging. He witnesses chaplain bravery, over‑the‑top assaults, and later enlists in firing squad duty.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
No Man's Land
Windy Lloyd and the English Draft to France in the Great War
A narrator recalls a wartime execution drill and the psychology of a timid recruit named Albert Lloyd. He rises from civilian fear to enlistment, endures training at Aldershot, earns the nickname windy for cowardice, and faces the draft amid harsh ridicule and moral conflict.
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Kitchener
Albert Lloyd
Lloyd
Aldershot
Windy
Lloyd's
France
Letters on Cattle Carts Mark Draft to Rouen Front
A WWI draft story follows Lloyd and other recruits as they endure transport by cattle cars in France to training near Rouen. After a week of trench warfare drills they head toward the front line, where fear and confusion grow as mortars explode and he retreats through ruined villages.
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Rouen
Frevent
Lloyd
Fritz
Best material for splints in medical use
An article claims galvanized wire netting is superior to wood for splints and plaster. The new splints are woven from tempered wire, easily pressed into shape, and can be bound closely on an injured limb to provide ventilation and support.
Daily Thought on Admiration for a Higher Ideal
A reflective snippet notes no nobler feeling than admiration for a higher power guiding humanity. The excerpt invokes a vivifying influence that persists across hours, contrasting human striving with Carlyle’s moral tone.
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Mia—Carlyle
Freezone promises relief for hard skin and corns
An ad touts Freezone as a cheap remedy for hard skin and corns with a tiny bottle and drops to lift away tough calluses. A hotel bellboy helps recover a diamond ring lost by Mrs. D. Scott when it fell into a hat left on a lobby column during a party.
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Lincoln Hotel
Ives
D. Scott
East Twenty-fifth Street
Indianapolis News
Over Development. Dont you think that fishing is good exercise
A compact dialogue fragment contrasts fishing as exercise with imagination as the reward. The exchange hints at a broader theme of perception versus activity in a past era. No specific people or places are named in the readable text.
Proper Treatment. Baltimore American gossip note
A short Baltimore American item remarks on a singer whose notes are described as guttural and implies such remarks should be curbed in public discourse.
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Baltimore American
Why Women Dread Old Age Ad Warns Of Vieled Frauds
An advertisement touts Haarlem Oil Gold Medal capsules as a cure for aging and senility. It claims the product cleanses the body, removes uric acid wastes, and restores vigor, promising renewed energy and vitality for aging women. It asserts only Gold Medal Haarlem Oil is reliable and available at first-class druggists.
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Wien
Haarlem
Adv
World record dive turns perilous at Sydney water carnival
Alick Wickham, a Solo Islander, set a 205 foot high dive world record at a Sydney water carnival for war relief. He remained conscious for 150 feet before losing consciousness, hit the water prone, and lay knocked out for over ten minutes. He was carried from the water bleeding from multiple injuries.
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Sydney
Australia
Alick Wickham
Wickham
Remark on Heirship Sparks Witty Exchange
In a brief dialogue Claire questions if Bob is only heir to his uncle. Jack responds that if the old man were alive he would suffocate in five minutes, delivering a sharp retort.
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Claire
Bob
Jack
Now Rises 600 Chickens in Health Work
A brief note describes raising 600 chickens to support health work. The passage emphasizes personal effort and dedication to complete duties, with the speaker expressing determination to manage tasks despite unclear context.
Quite a Difference in Slum Safe Keepers
A lady visitor asks Bill Bashem’s boy about his father’s fate. The boy jokes that Bill is not jailed for safes but for safe breaking, in a curt exchange that hints at criminal activity.
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Bill Bashem
Bill
Freckle and Tan Lotion From Lemons and Orchard White
An advertisement claims mixing two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White makes a quarter pint of a lotion that removes freckles sunburn windburn and tan at very low cost. It promises quick whitening of face neck arms and hands and describes the product as harmless.
One Lack and the Iron Man
A clipped exchange notes a man of iron yet not well tempered. The Cincinnati scene recounts a deaf and dumb barber who, aided by a phonograph, manages to pull through.
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Baltimore
Cincinnati
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