Empey Writes and Stages Show Behind the Lines
An American in Jersey City joins the British army and experiences trench life in France. He notes firefights, a chaplain aiding wounded, and digger duty before a theater troupe stages a wartime production in a village billet with a makeshift venue and a comic plot featuring characters like Broadway Kate and Alkali Ike.
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Synopsia
Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Coutles
Empey
Chaplain
No Man's Land
Ikey Cohenstein
Abe
Ikey
Sambo
Tkey
Ae Porter
Senmon
Curtan
Diamond Palace
Rater Abe
Bambo
Broadway
Kate
Alkali Ike
Toethe
Dory
Tommies Gamble On Crown and Anchor In France billet
Amid rest periods in the trenches the Tommies gamble for amusement. A regular Canfield rules disputes over Watkins sixpence, and Crown and Anchor and House are popular bets with a high banker edge. House involves numbered cards and a franc stake, while Crown and Anchor uses a canvas board and three dice.
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Tommy
Houghton
Watkins
Enoch Buyer
Oret
Nolve
South Dakota News Tightens War Time Measures
The state council of defense bans the German language in schools and churches in three Davison County churches. South Dakota officers join the war effort with several local guards and engineers listed. Community efforts include bank payroll protections, school transport expansions, and large inland sales raising funds for war work. Reports cover farm weather, grain prospects, and local notices on military service and public safety.
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Davison County
Mitchell
State Council of Defense
South Dakotona
War Department
Herold Robinson Hanley
Custer
Leutenant
Avinton
Signal Reserve Corps
Clarence Durward Johnson
Spencer
John K. Myers
Bradley
Engineers’ Corps
National Army
Ad Martin Beach
Aberdeen
Leutenant National Guard
South Dakota
Rt. Rt 2
J. Lawler
Western
St. Paul
Ravinia
Treasury Department
Uncle Sam
Hijalmar Nelson
Joseph Conlon
New York
Mary Conlon
Black Hills
Performance Disrupted by Bottles and Mischief
The scene featured Alkali firing toward bottle targets while others smashed bottles to fake a good shot. A backstage fiasco erupted as boxholders released their distress, but the show overall drew praise and the writers planned to continue for a week with new troops entering between performances.
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R. O
Christ Dying for Our Sins Lesson Summary
A devotional study on Mark 15 is presented with Golden Text declaring Jesus as the Son of God. It reviews Jesus arraignment before Pilate, the crown of thorns, crucifixion, and reactions at Golgotha, emphasizing the vicarious atonement and the moment of Jesus’ death as a purposeful sacrifice.
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God
Christ
Jesus
Pilate
Israel
Simon
Golgotha
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Artesian
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Passchendaele
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Mobridge
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State Hospital
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Helmeth
John W. Kissack
Spearfish
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George W. Wright
Joseph Keller
Jacob Keller
Eighteenth Infantry
Davison Exonty
Uniforn International
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Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Son OF God
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