77 Year Old Farm Foreman Beats Odds With Tanlac
David Wogan, farm foreman at East View Farm near Altoona, Pennsylvania, recalls overcoming stomach and kidney troubles after taking Tanlac. He claims the remedy restored his health, allowing him to work full days at 77, with improved digestion and sleep, and no more chronic constipation. Tanine, the Master Medicine, is advertised in the notice by Druggist L N Moyer.
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David Wogan
East View Farma
Altoons
Mr. Wogan
Tanine
L. N. Moyer
Reading Firm Grants 2 Million Pairs of Socks for Army
Reading hosiery manufacturers secure contracts totaling over 2 000 000 pairs of socks for the army as wartime production ramps up. The Bethlehem Steel Works Reading plant resumes Sunday work, rivets totaling 507 000 rushed to shipyards.
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Camp Hill
William H. Vogler
Nazareth
Schoeneck
Reading
Bethleham Steel Works
Sternberg & American Iron and Steel Company
Trench rations and Tommy’s front line life in France
A soldier recalls quartermaster led rations in a French billet with six loaves three tins of jam onions cheese butter and biscuits. The piece describes trench cooking methods coffee tea and the harsh rhythm of front line supply plus a soldier’s tribute to a fallen comrade Pete with burial details.
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Bermuda
Tommy
Wally Peef
Mick
Tam
Tory
Annather Rmupus
M. P
Royal Flying Corps
Starvision
Witz
Death by Mud and War in a Frontline Trench Tale
The narrator recalls a trench dubbed the Suicide Annex and Death by Own Action Ditch as rain, mud, and filth beset soldiers. He describes sleeping in waterlogged dugouts, the constant cold, cooties, and the daily routine from dawn to stand down as shells whistle overhead and a funeral ends with a private’s grave.
The Little Wooden Cross Chapter VIII War Memoir
In a British army march through a trench we reach reserve billets. I lead a four with Pete Walling who jokes to buoy my spirits. A distant shot mortally wounds him as I reach his side, his blue-tinged face fading in the flashlight glow.
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Yoice
Howe
Pete
Pete Walling
Peter
The Day's Work in the Trench Fire Duties and Sentries
The chapter describes trench routine as sundown starts real work. Two-man reliefs mount the fire step while a sentry, fixed to the trench, watches No Man's Land without turning. The rest stay alert with fixed bayonets ready for emergencies in nearby dugouts.
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Tommy Ir
No Man's Land
Vielnia
Purify the Blood with Tonall at Charles Drug Store
A writeup promotes Tonall a tonic said to cleanse the body and purge impurities from the blood. It claims to restore strength and health by removing stagnant humors and improving circulation. Sold at J. E. Charles' Drug Store Lititz.
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J. E. Charles’ Drug Store
Lititz
Over the Top Plan Revealed for German Front Trench Assault
In the trenches the officer explains a dawn assault with a wiring party at eleven to cut lanes, artillery bombardment from two to four, and three waves to follow. Tommies write letters home and prepare wills as part of the impending action.
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Tommy
England
Tomries
Invention of artificial comb foundation for bees
Frances A. Dunham patented a machine in 1881 to produce artificial comb foundation for beehives. It saves bees tenfold material, ensures worker-sized cells for worker bees, and increases honey production by reducing the need to build comb.
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Frances A. Dunham
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Keystone Exchanges
Sinking Spring
Thomas Lawless
Graystair
P. M. Sharples
West Goshen
Wilkes-Barre
France
New York
Chicago
Beloffees
Blair County
Foothills
First National Bank
Claysburg
Garfield Township
County Farm Bureau
Bank Directorate
F. J. Forker
Western
Pennsylvania
Peaik
Java
Oil City
San Francisco
Usb
Rottedam
Holland
James L. WeGonigal
Pottersdale
Susquehanna
Clearfield County
Lock Haven
Arthur Guy Tmpey
Atic
Army Service Corps
Thas
Britain
Eve
R.A M. C
Suicide Annex
Yank
St. Peter
Ueush
Tenisy
Delock
Warren
Waterloo Station
London
Fritz
Bliighty
Dny
Temmy
Wall Health
Conti
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