Over the Top and a Soldier's Hidden Courage
A memoir fragment recounts Arthur Empey’s front line service in France, including a grim firing squad duty, reflections on cowardice personified by a recruit Albert Lloyd, and the emotional toll of executions, fear, and the call to endure in WWI trench warfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seer
Arthur Guy
Im Pey
Saerner
Jerse Ar Ga
Maarangen
France
Pey
Fokker
Empey
Tommy
West
Sulaera
No Man's Land
No Man's
Pais
British War Department
Albert Lloyd
London
Kitchener
Lloyd
Aldershot
Windy
Rouen
Frevent
D Company
The Coward Who Went Over The Top Finds Honor
A deserter Lloyd in a trench tale faces death for desertion under fire. He endures fear, hides in a cemetery, and, after a chance at mercy vanishes, joins a push with D company. A machine gunner’s saving deed and Lloyd’s loading lesson redeem him as he dies a hero, mortally wounded at 3:38.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fritz
Sen
Leavin
Lloyd
Pte
H. S. Wheaton
London
R. F
R. LP
D Company
Divise
France
Scaieon
Old Smith
Batt
Pany
No Man's Land
Ile
England
Albert Lloyd
Catarrhal Deafness Remedy Claim and Offer
An advertisement asserts focal ear applications cannot cure catarrhal deafness and that only constitutional remedies work. It explains deafness arises from inflammation of the Eustachian Tube mucous lining, with Hall's Catarrh Medicine claimed to act through the blood. a $100 reward is offered for any case it cannot reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Ea. & CO
Toledo
Thorough Work How Moulton Citizens Can Find Freedom From Kidney Troubles
A local Florence Alabama advertiser promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as a tested remedy for backache urinary disorders and kidney diseases. Endorsements claim relief after taking two boxes and note prior fatigue and back pain improved. product distributed by Foster-Milburn Co. Migrs. in Buffalo New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moulton
Dean
C.J. Phillips
Irvin & N. Cypress Sts
Florence
Ala
Foster-Milburn Co. Migrs
Bufiale
N.Y
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Arthur Guy Empey
Machine Ganner
Scott
Nature
Scott’s
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield
N.J
Thomas E. Kilby
Kilby
Sabors
Alabama
Eli the
Kilby Car & Foundry Co
Amnistom
Als
Blood Hounds
Courtland
Norwood
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