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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1918
Page
3
Mrs Amelia Hill of Shillington near Reading testifies Tanlac cured years of indigestion and choking after meals. She describes severe headaches, gas and heartburn prior to treatment and calls Tanlac worth its weight in gold. The medicine is sold at L N Moyer's drug store.
Fisheries Commissioner Nathan K. Fuller refused bids for the Union City fish hatchery project, delaying construction due to high costs. The report details bids and a halt to work.
A WWI reminiscence describes improvised wooden scratchers used to scratch with a ribbed smooth surface. It recounts an Irish Hussar regiment washing shirts with trench tools, a cootie hunt, and a major writing love letters during a patrol. The narrative ends with a church parade and a football match back at billets.
The narrator recalls issuing small identity disks showing religion and battalion, worn as a neck or wrist token. He draws a comic disaster that choosing Church of England forces a Sunday parade while he bluffingly claims any religion. A sergeant berates him for not answering properly during muster.
The narrator and fellow soldiers march three days to reserve billets as gunfire nears. They witness an airplane being shelled and learn to identify shells by smoke color. They endure a baptism of artillery, reach a ruined village, and shelter in shellproof cellars amid rats and dampness.
A soldier recalls nights in a forward trench named Whisky Street under shelling and rain. He comforts himself with tea dixies, learns guard duties, and endures danger as mates share rations and lessons of trench ethics amid rat intrusions and a crucifixion punishment for a misfired warning.
Chronicle of a four day frontline spell ending with relief and a return to billets. The narrator recalls trenches, billets numbered 117 118 119, a stale stable smell from a manure pile, R A M C warnings, mess duty, bacon and tea, mud, hygiene drills, and cigarette trades among tommies as they endure hunger and rough discipline.
The advertisement proclaims Tonall a safe health tonic free from excess alcohol and poisonous drugs. It cites Prof Beck of Franklin and Marshall College providing a certified analysis, and claims Tonall contains all root, herb and bark ingredients. It touts Tonall as best for indigestion and stomach disorders sold at J E Charles Drug Store Lititz.
The narrator describes a day of mud, washing a dixie, letters home, chopping wood for the cook, drawing rations with the quartermaster, and preparing a hot tea meal. A quip from the cook emphasizes the laziness of the Yanks as the narrator fills water for the next morning.
In a wartime billet a lance corporal orders me to help draw next day’s rations. A quartermaster sergeant oversees entries and ration slips, while private soldiers wait their turn. I learn the first duty of an NCO is diplomacy as twelve men form a tight cohort and the system prevails.
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