Empey Narrow Escape on No Man's Land Patrol
An American, Arthur Guy Empey from Jersey City, recounts his enlistment in the British Army, frontline trench duties in France, and a perilous patrol in No Man's Land. The narrative covers brief training, early combat experiences, and a close call during a night patrol amid German fire.
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Empey
NO Man’s Land
Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Binpey
Xent
Staged Under Fire A WWI Stock Company Emerges
Three days after the incident our unit moved to rest billets behind the line for two months to rebuild strength. I formed a stock company with Tommy and others, writing a two act farce The Diamond Palace Saloon. We built a makeshift stage near our billet and cast about twenty volunteers, turning billets into rehearsal rooms and a Bowery setting for our stage show.
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Tommy
America
Secuge
Empey & Wallace Theatrical Co
Diamond Palace Saloon
London
David Belasco
Bowery
New York
Diaond Palace
Abe Gwiteh
Pes Oh Bem
The Wire Encounter of a Soldier Behind Enemy Lines
A frontline diary passage describes a British soldier slipping back to German lines by mistake. He crawled through gunfire, tore his tunic on barbed wire, then dashed to his own trench after shouting a password. The escape left him a nervous wreck for an hour until he drank.
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Bowie
Mount Vernon Gun Club Holds Third Annual Tournament
A third annual Mt Vernon Gun Club tournament took place on club grounds amid heavy rains that damaged gardens in Davison County. Other items note land and crop prospects, wartime mobilization, and local civic actions across South Dakota, including tax referendum talk, Red Cross funding, and militia recruitment updates.
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Mt Vernon Gun Club
Davison
R. Guthrie
Centerville
Mitchell
Guthrie
Vermillion
Hart Duxbury
Spencer
Duxbury
Liberty
Red Cross
Department of the State
Sterling
Washington
Big Stone Lake
Northwest
Custer Peak Mining Company
Custer
Pittsburg
State University
Supreme Court
Donald C. Cotton
Parker
Clinton J. Crandall
Pierre
Carlos W. Golta
Laurel
Nes
William FF. Hansen
Springfield
Herbert C. Mepperles
Wureka
Paul J. Manes
Aberdeen
Everett D. Roberts
Carl
Brook
Weaneste
Aen W. Mason
Eugene J. Wis
Hetland
Charles Canis
Douglas County
South Dakota
Council of Defense
State Game Department
Ite
Thut Ie
Cowan
Weak Nervous Mother Restored by Lydia Pinkham
An advertisement from Philadelphia promotes Lydia Pinkham Vegetable Compound to help weakened, nervous mothers during life periods. It claims a reader named Mrs Worthline used the remedy for three months and regained appetite and energy, with improved mood and overall health. The copy emphasizes headaches backache irritability and suggests the product restores normal health.
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Philadelphia
Ortmline
Lydia Pinkham
Mrs. Worthline
Price-Hostess House at Camp Dodge Instructs Recruits
A War-Work Bulletin recounts a phone exchange at the Price-Hostess House where a corporal seeks a chaplain and license to marry, with Mrs. Dunshe coordinating the arrangements. The piece also notes a drill scene where an officer urges recruits to show pep as they practice the sentry call.
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Pershing
AH. A. Andrews
108D Machine Gun Battalion
Manning Grimes
103D Field Artillery
South Dakota
Camp Dodge
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Scott
Shcotty
Scotty
Northwest Mounted Police
Dany
Balin
Qaarren Ron
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Jonas Eagle
Cheyenne River Reservation
National Army
R. L. Cheney
Milesville
Philip
R. EB. Smith
Brown County
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
North Dakota
Mr. Smith
United States
Bonhomme
Tyndall Territory
Tyndall
Martin McNutt
W. E. Fehlman
Black Hills
New National Army
Belgium
Fort Riley
Sta College
A. G. Granger
Kadoka
Watch Key
Na ‘Wilton
Hughes Bros
Hughea Bros
Jackson County
Lisut
Albert Kohler
Leste
St Toul
Toul
Dormer
J. C. Schultz
Madison
Kobler
Lydia E. Pinkham
C.J. Mustion Wool Ake Commission Co
16Th & Liberty Sts
Stock Yards Station
Kansas Cary
Daisy Fly
Ind Killa
Us Wool
HibEs Pont Roe Eee Praaoke
McMillan Fur
Wool Co
Nneapolis
National Hotel
Nashington
Second Ave. S
Minneapolis
Steam Best
Sotto Sacha
Farmer Soe Sda
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