American Troops Face Real War Near Front Lines
Don Martin reports in the New York Herald on American soldiers in France trading training camp dreams for the brutal reality of shellfire. He recalls a village near the front as French guns join German bombardment, a Missouri sergeant rescuing horses, and ordinary men from Chicago to Maine enduring fear with grit as the front lines glow with smoke and dust.
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New York
California
Maine
Florida
Montana
Ray
Missouri
Vlew
United States
Chicago
Elty
Grover Alexander
Bob Pitzsimmons
Myers
iBeday Roosevelt
Cal Aries
Mande
France
Miners Strike Over Slacker Exemption in Gebo Wyoming
In Gebo Wyoming a 200 member mining town conducted a 36 hour strike when an assistant postmaster was deferred from draft due to his job. Miners held a mass meeting and voted funds from the union to support his family during enlistment. Only four of the strikers were American born.
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Gebo
Wyo
America
Average an acre an hour in British tractor plowing test
London records show new government tractor school at Mossley Hill achieving 11.75 acres per hour on four furrow plows over 12 hours. Ground described as light soil level with slight rockiness, fuel use measured at 2.46 gallons per acre, testing two light tractor models for British requirements.
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London
Mossley Hill
Through Storm With Baby in Bald Mountain Shack
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania widow Margaret Kemp, mother of six, walked 12 miles with her youngest in her arms through snow to seek warmth. She pleaded for aid for her freezing family living in a shack on Bald Mountain. The mother and baby were sheltered at United Charities and relief was sent to the children who lacked shoes, stockings, underwear, and decent clothing, huddled under old blankets.
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Wilkes-Barre
Margaret Kemp
Bald Mountain
United Charities
Smallest Feet in the Army at Camp Meade
Arthur L. Bunn of the Twenty-eighth Engineers stands out for having the smallest feet in the U S Army. His socks measure size three and a half, yet his feet have room in the smallest shoes issued by Q M. The anecdote highlights pride and humor among fighting men at Camp Meade Maryland.
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Camp Meade
Arthur L.bunn
The
Twenty-eighth Engineers
Bunn
United, States Army
Retelling of Pettit View On Haig Retreat and Battle
First Lieutenant Roswell T. Pettit recounts nine days under heavy bombardment during the British Fifth Army retreat from St Quentin. He details night marches, forward positions, tanks, aerial surveillance, and close calls with shells, with vivid impressions of sunset, fear, and endurance before being relieved and assigned to the A M S, then ordered to Paris.
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Haig
Pleaidy
Roswell T. Pettit
Ottawa
Ill
J. W. Pettit
Chicago Tribune
Fifth Army
St. Quentin
Pettit
Verdun
Ostend
Zeebrugge
North Sea
Welchman
Russian Worshipers Devout in Quiet Congregations
Observers note the typical Russian worshipers enter with reverence and patience. Services run two to three hours, denoting steady attention even when all parts of the elaborate ritual are not fully understood.
Elk Tooth Coat Among Elks Collectors Treasures
A Steubenville dealer preserves a coat covered with 3,800 elk teeth valued at $10,000, while a Manitoba Canada war spear plus sinew shows a 28 pound relic with two rows of antelope teeth. The coat, worn by a prominent Elks member at conventions, features large elk-teeth lace in the wearer’s collection.
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Order of the Wks
Tare
Steubenville
Manitoba
Canada
Order of Elks
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