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“I think that I wrote you a letter after, arriving: over here. We are having ideal weather at the present time. We have been in the trenches. It was very wet at that time. We slept in dugouts about 20 feet under ground. Some of the French vil-ages are nice to look at but not very pleasant to be in A restaurant sign in this country is almost a joke; always a saloon connected with it, and \ery hard to get anything to eat as long as they can sell anything to drink. And when you do get it everything is served separate—first, soup, then potatoes, bread and butter, meat, salad, then jam, and at last, coffee. They drink a lot of red wine over here. 1 have not seen a Frenchman take a drink of water since I have been here. I have seen villages almost all knocked to pieces by shell-fire and airplanes. We can look out most any day and see a Ger-
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Newark Advocate
Newark, Ohio, US
Mon, Apr 22, 1918
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