Depew Wounded in Fierce Fight and Hospitalized
Albert N. Depew recalls Navy service reaching Chief Petty Officer first class gunner. After discharge he joins the Foreign Legion and serves aboard the dreadnought Cugsard before moving to land forces at Dixmude. He fights in trench warfare, survives a Zeppelin raid, and experiences frontline runner service.
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Albert N. Depew
United States Navy
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France
Foreign Legion
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Laid Up in France After a Fierce Frontline Charge
A war diary recounts a brutal attack near Dixmude with heavy losses. Captured moments describe brave leadership, the captain dying, and troops retaking trenches under bombardment. The narrator details hospital care in Etaples, nurses, physician care, and grim testimonies of German atrocities in St Quentin and Dixmude. The Belgian survivor relates evacuations, captivity, and a vow by a wounded German doctor amid shared hospital experiences.
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Rapsula
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Aurados
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Agein
Thoes
Rolny
Etaples
Dixmu
Legion
Scene in hospital shows Kaiser and German soldiers blamed
In a hospital scene Depew witnesses evidence that the Kaiser and his system, and the German soldiers, are largely responsible for the war’s frightful mess. Read about this scene in the next installment.
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Depew
Billy Sunday Praised by Penitentiary Crop of Convicts
In Philadelphia Moyamensing Prison Billy Sunday earned a striking compliment from a former housebreaker who said the evangelist’s visit transformed him. The inmate recalled Sunday’s calm influence and claimed the preacher could reform even a hardened criminal, describing the scene as turning him inside out and making him rethink himself.
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Raiway
Balbau
Guillaume
Belbyn
Billy Sunday
Tince
Philadelphia
Sunday
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Anuric touted as immediate relief for kidney ailments
A biased testimonial letter targets readers with midlife rheumatic pains and urges trying Anuric a strong kidney remedy. The note claims rapid relief from bladder and urine issues and urges readers to obtain a trial package via Doctor Pierce's Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo New York.
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Autter
Hi. P. Hacrisier
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J. W. Watson
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