Letters from Hershey Soldiers Villa Des Roses 1918
Private Pink reports marching 75 kilometers through Flanders to a devastated No Man’s Land area and describes leveled towns, scarce sickness, and easier times after Armistice. He mentions meeting Norman Stahle in Ostroboseke, awaiting orders toward La Monas Brest voyage, and his return hopes. PAUL signs off from the Q M warehouse duty after combat experiences at Chateau Thierry and Argonne.
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Joe
Flanders
No Man’s Land
Norman Stahle
Belgium
Ost Roosebeke
Paul Zentmeyer Writes to Ed Foster from WWI
Paul Zentmeyer apologizes for not writing sooner while in action aboard the Olympia with 1400 Red Cross nurses and 4 to 5 thousand soldiers. He describes landing in England then Le Havre France, sees a Ford and Hershey Almond Bar wrapper, and longs for the United States.
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Olympia
Red Cross
England
France
le Havre
Ford
Bethlehem Today Mirrors Its Holy Birthplace Landscape
William G. Malcolmson recalls Bethlehem of Judea as little changed since Christ’s birth. He notes boxy clay houses on hillside, seven mile road from Jerusalem with signs of Zionist agricultural revival, olive orchards and grain fields, and a busy pilgrim economy centered on the Nativity sites.
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Bethlehem
Judea
William G. Malcolmson
Philadelphia
Christ
Holy Land
Rome
Beit Lahm
Jerusalem
Palestine
Bethlehem Scenes and a Golf Joke From Town Notes
A sketch of life in Bethlehem shows a simple boxlike room for cattle and a family area with dirt floors yet fresh faces due to outdoor air. The piece notes the Church of the Nativity and its grotto as the site of Jesus birth. A local Baptist minister quips about John the Baptist without denominational labels, and a golf tale ends with a joke about misinterpreting fore and five in an Irish accent.
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Bethlehem
The
Baptist Church
John
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hershey
Villa Des Roses
la Mons
Brest
Pvt. Pink
Chateau Thierry
Argonne Forest
Q. M
U.S
Paul
Paul Zentmeyer
ED. Foster
Saviour
John the Presbyterian
John the Methodist
John the
Brethen
John the Baptist
Pat
Furniture Department
Osborn Steel
Hershey Dept
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