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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1918
Page
6
A wartime escape memoir recounts Pat O'Brien’s brutal hunger driven trek through Belgium and Netherlands. He scales rivers and canals, hides in barns, borrows clothes, and evades German patrols while detailing encounters with Belgian peasants who feed him and a haunting internal dialogue with a duplicated self. He abandons uniforms and keeps moving west, risking capture as he endures illness, cold, and fatigue.
The narrator recalls harsh Belgium travel, wading through two to three feet of mud in narrow ditches and swampy ground. He details failed ditch jumps, mud and water, and the need to pole through mud to avoid wasting time. He notes dangers from noise revealing his position, scarce horses, rubberless German vehicles, and observation of cow and donkey draft teams. He laments limited animal companions and food sources while wandering nine weeks through Belgium.
In Belgium after weeks of hardship and near recapture, O'Brien finds a man he believes is his friend. Hope of final escape spurs renewed courage for his heartbreaking trek through Belgium as the story continues in the next installment.
Maynard Owen Williams describes the Kremlin as a mighty whole built of unimpressive parts noting red walls, gates, and interiors fail to impress. He compares domes to India’s gopurams and laments surplus gilt, while a horse’s court mischief and a peanut education piece mix with other brief items in this fragment.
The Southwest emphasizes state and interstate highways as crucial to war effort and postwar prosperity. Public roads link states and counties, aiding commerce and mobilization. Communities are urged to support road building as materials and labor allow, noting no factor more vital to victory than good roads.
Roads behind the English army are built and maintained under Gen. Hen. Maybury. A lieutenant colonel, his subordinate, has directed road work for two years with 1000 to 12000 men on duty. From 25 to 80 percent of workers have been German prisoners. To keep traffic moving, up to 2000 tons of material are used daily, with broken stone at 7.50 dollars per ton. The effort emphasizes necessity over cost.
The toll day is passing as Pennsylvania takes over the old York Pennsylvania road. Toll gates have disappeared, pleasing drivers on this Lincoln highway segment. Earlier residents in 1093 sought a better road to Philadelphia and secured a log and plank route, now part of the Lincoln highway.
Government rules for motorists in national parks require driving on the outside of mountain roads on steep grades for safety and courtesy. Even during wartime, highway construction should continue to prevent waste of crops and labor. Chickens take seven months to mature, with feed shifting from bone growth to egg production as hens begin laying.
The fragment notes concerns about eggs destined for hatching being unsuitable or unsafe for that purpose. It discusses issues affecting hatchability and potential implications for poultry production and breeding programs.
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