Empey Chronicles Front Line and Gas Arm Experience
The narrative follows Guy Empey leaving Jersey City to join the British army. He serves in training quarters in France and fights on the front, learning the dangers of trench life. A gas exposure episode during a digging party exposes the brutal realities of war and the lingering resolve to continue.
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Lusitana
Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
Chaplain
No Man's Land
Tommy
Through No Man's Land to a Nightly Front Line Post
The narrator recalls a treacherous night on the Western Front as he volunteers for a listening post in No Man's Land with Wheeler. Rain-soaked, mud-bound, they hear distant German activity and an approaching patrol, endure a shelling scare, and eventually return to the trench soaked but safe.
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Red Cross
Ceutenant
Empey
Wheeler
Fritz
Jupiter Pluvius
No Man's Land
Bowies
Woolworth
Draft Exempted Men for Agricultural Army to Boost War Effort
An op ed urges America to mobilize labor for farming during wartime. The author argues in bold terms that the nation slept through prior warnings and now must quickly recruit exempted men and youths aged eighteen to consider to plant, cultivate, and harvest food to thwart hunger and support the war effort.
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Wort
Jocrtia
Patassia
Hindenburg
Draft Appeals to Fill Brother's Part in Camp Lee
The piece notes Paul Bergison appeals from Camp Lee Virginia asking to join the division in his brother Milton’s place. Bergison writes within two weeks to reinforce his request while officers strive to enable a full-blooded American recruit.
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Camp Lee
Milton
Paul Bergison
Bergison
Pittsburgh
Will we see the nation rise to work and help
A wartime call urges mobilizing twenty-one year olds not eligible for military service to work outdoors March through September. The speaker asks Americans to dedicate a million workers to farming, warning that idleness leads to regret and that waiting for others to act will force future hardships.
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George
Unknown Soldier Earns French Citations in WWI Hero Tale
An unknown reservist of the 79th Infantry fired from a ridge near Saint Hypre, pipe in mouth, drawing German fire for five minutes before being killed. His feat, witnessed by his unit, earned a Croix de Guerre but his identity remained undiscovered, leading to the citation in the name of An Unknown Soldier.
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Wes
Ministry of War
Paris
Saint Epvre
Seventy-ninth Regiment of Infantry
Morhange
Rosiceres-Aux-Salines
Saint-Hypre
Lunevillle
Seventyninth
Seventy-ninth
Soldier earns Distinguished Conduct Medal for 17 German captures
Sergeant Francis T. Fraser of The Black Watch captured 17 German soldiers at Sanctuary Wood during a raid despite being isolated and wounded. He advanced after dropping his rifle, using bombs to force surrender as the enemy exited a dugout. The Duke of Devonshire awarded the DCM and praised the feat.
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Battle of
Sanctuary Wood
Chicago
Francis T. Fraser
Sanctuary Woods
Lieut
S. MacDonald
The
Black Watch
Fraser
Hell
Duke of Devonshire
Bartlesville Jail Plans War Garden for Prison Table
Bartlesville Oklahoma deputies arrange a war garden for inmates. The jailer and under sheriff will take turns tending the plots to supply peas beans radishes onions and other vegetables for the prison meals.
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Bartlesville
Okla
Bartlesville County
House Stands 300 Years in Dedham Fairbanks Home
The Fairbanks house in Dedham Massachusetts built in 1686 is one of the oldest frame houses in the United States. Oak timbers from England around 1635 still support the structure while bricks arrived as ballast. Jonathan and Mrs Fairbanks from Sowerby Yorkshire settled here in 1623 and built the house. Motorcycles and bicycles grow in popularity across the country.
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Fairbanks
Dedham
Mass
Boston
Odest
United States
Agav
England
Jonathan Fairbanks
Sowerby
Yorkshire
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Lorraine
Jall War Garden
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