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earned. They all get viter out of hydrants set around the corn era,‘There ere ever no many one~h©rscshays* around the place. In fact, I have seen only about three or four regularwagons since ‘I came hero. One thin*:that noticed In particular was the absence of mon around the streets. There are lots of women, girls and boys and old men. but you hardly ever acea man of military unless ho has ona. uniform or part of a uniform. Women sweep the streets, run the stores and butcher shops and run the streetcars Later on we saw a lot of them in a t rouse re it eB working In a factory. All of the people were In town that day. at church, I suppose. All of the women wear runny little ln.ee caps and drive along in their two-whealed wagons as unconcerned as If they were In their homes. All over France you can »«e wom-n In black, most of them with longcrepe veils. The war certainly baa bitthis country herd.•'The French railroad coaches *r» notbuilt like American coaches, they aredivided Into compartments for eight
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Portland Sunday Oregonian
Portland, Oregon, US
Sun, Jun 02, 1918
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