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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1918
Page
6
An American soldier recalls being behind the lines during heavy activity and constant troop movements. Supplies, ammunition, and guns poured in as preparations built toward a major push, described as the forerunner of a Somme sized battle and a spectacle hard to describe without witnessing it.
In a German siege, Albert Lloyd feared by duty and nicknamed cowards, defies his terror to load a machine gun and turn the tide for D Company in a France battlefield. He dies from a gunshot, hailed as a hero who redeemed himself. A cemetery procession mourns his sacrifice.
The narrator recalls late preparations near Somme time three weeks before the planned July 1 offensive. He observes vast Allied supply lines and mechanized gun trains marked Made in U S A while noting German aerial observation and trenches copied from Royal photographs. He details mapmaking, rehearsals, and strict security surrounding the modeled German line.
Isinglass is derived from swimming bladder sounds of fish. One ton of hake yields 40 to 650 pounds of sounds to make dried sheets and ribbons. An ounce clears 200 to 500 gallons of wine and a pound clarifies 100 to 500 barrels of beer. used in banking cement, mending glass, adhesive plaster, and textiles.
The tea plant in the wild grows ten to twenty feet, but is dwarfed to about three feet in cultivation for easy picking. Japan produces mainly green tea with substantial black tea exports grown largely on Formosa. Seedlings are planted on hillside terraces, resembling giant steps along slopes as harvesters, largely women, work downward during picking season.
A London naval attache reports about 50 American marines in hospital after German offensives. They remain cheered, eager to return to the front, and view German troops as long-range fighters who falter in hand to hand combat. Marines boast morale, vow to wipe Fritz from the map, and praise gunnery teamwork near a hidden battery.
Princess Mary the daughter of King George and Queen Mary begins duties as a Red Cross nurse serving as a probationer at the Hospital for Sick Children in London. The image shows her in Red Cross nurse garb as she starts the assignment.
James Welch reports his Manchester, Connecticut hen lays unusual eggs weekly. The latest example is a double egg eight and a half inches in circumference with a smaller egg inside its center, the outer shell tougher than the inner one.
London reports the Admiralty Salvage department, run by a commercial firm, has raised about half of the 400 British ships sunk in 2.5 years. New lifting methods and a powerful 16 inch rope system enabled salvors to recover vessels up to 2,750 tons, with many sunken ships towed near shore and repaired. Lusitania remains unsalvageable due to depth.
In France a British aviator dies in the arms of a Salvation Army supply driver Ransom Gifford as a French plane defeats the German attacker. Gifford, an 18 year old from Boston, aids the dying pilot after witnessing a three plane duel and a crash within feet of his truck. He notes the driver’s long service under arduous conditions with shoes worn through and a 21 hour stint under a truck on a later trip.
Shells dropped around the area throughout the day and into the night, intensifying the siege. Nearby residents reported continual explosions and reduced visibility as firefights continued.
A man bragging about profits on the war sparked a streetcar confrontation when a well dressed woman slapped him twice saying the blows were for his France sums. He endured the punishment without comment. In Wyoming, Elizabeth Rutledge becomes the first woman rural mail carrier between Pine Bluffs and Gallio.
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