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city was Aix-lcs-Iiains. the tirst Americun leave center In France. Here the French saw the Americans at play and vcre satisfied.“Alx-les-Beans” the American boys pronounce It, at the imminent risk of the name being shortened to “The Beans. Aix—u jewel, clear-cut, with brilliant facets set in a frame of gorgeous moonlight ami of wonderful opaline sunsets and sunrises. This is the beauty spot to which are sent the boys In ollve-drah, wearied by months In trench mud. under bursting shells. And this Is the story of the first permissionalres to arrive In Aix—the American soldiers’ Blighty.On a certain bright Saturday a cosmopolitan crowd gathered at the railroad station all In a high state of anticipation. One could easily pick out the persons of prominence, the mayor, the doctors, lawyers and others of small but assured Incomes. And It might be noticed that the older women kept watchful eyes on the Jeunne filles who, tense with expectancy, gazed up the iron road along which the first permissionalres were to come. For who could tell what romance might not be on the way, romance excusing the
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The Idaho Springs Siftings News
Idaho Springs, Colorado, US
Fri, Aug 02, 1918
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