Depew Wounded in Fierce Fight with Germans
Albert N. Depew recounts World War I service from navy to French Foreign Legion. He earns chief petty officer and marksman honors on Cassard before transferring to land forces in Flanders. He fights in a Dixmude trench, goes over the top, bayonets a German, and endures a Zeppelin raid.
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Albert N. Depew
United States Navy
Navy
France
Foreign Legion
Flanders Front
Dixmude
Depew
Charge Across Fire at Dixmude and Hold the Line
A wounded soldier recounts a bitter night assault near Dixmude. Despite heavy machine-gun fire and civilian horrors, their captain is wounded but returns, they retake a trench, and the unit endures brutal shelling as they pull back to fight again.
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Dixmude
France
Roche
Namur
Balbau
Guillaume
Germany
Legion
No Man's Land
Hospital Scene Shapes Depew View On War Fears
In a hospital setting Depew sees that fear in World War I stems not only from the Kaiser and the war system but also from German soldiers themselves. The scene hints at factors driving wartime dread.
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Depew
Kaiser and Hfe
TO BE CONTINUED A Real Compliment
Billy Sunday is praised by a Philadelphia prison inmate who visited Moyamensing. The housebreaker, impressed by Sundays talk, vowed to reform after discharge and said Sunday had a powerful, transformative effect on him.
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Billy Sunday
Philadelphia
Sunday
Moyamensinog
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Reader
A reader from Urbana Illinois extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women in midlife describing relief from nervousness hot flashes backache headaches and mood swings and recommending the remedy as "famous" for those passing through the change of life.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Mia
B. Orchade
Urbana
Ill
Fragmentary OCR News Snippet Offers Nonsense Line
A garbled OCR fragment notes a misread phrase about a smile and face, with unclear names or locations, providing no coherent event or identities to bind a fuller summary.
Duties of War Correspondents at the Front
War correspondents endure exacting duties at the front as they rush from headquarters to view limited action, compile notes from the wounded, and deliver a clear concise daily report under censorship rules. They face long days, shell fire, and fatigue while producing substantial, timely stories for early papers.
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H. Q
Gero
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U."5s. Navy
Ropes Legion of France
Cassard
George Matthew A
Bervics
I. Re
Etaples
Lord Helpna
Our Lady
St. Quentin
Lydia E. Pinkly
Pham
Red Cross
Post
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