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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1918
Page
2
An advertisement urges using a daily fly killer to prevent disease and claims it kills thousands and lasts all season with a $1 offer from TH. Somers of Brooklyn. It also notes European invention of compressed peat sheets for insulation against heat and cold.
Arthur Guy Empey, an American from Jersey City, goes to England to enlist after the Lusitania sinking. He trains in London and France, hears big guns, meets cooties, and serves in front-line trenches where bullets fly and comrades fall, learning that death lurks in the trenches.
The narrator recalls marching to a reserve billet, losing comrade Pete Walling to a bullet in a trench accident. Pete's last words, letters home, and a handmade wooden cross mark a solemn burial in a shell-damaged village near a French chateau. His section honors him with a wreath and a final salute.
A narrator recalls a trench dugout titled Death by Own Action Annex, mud filled and electrified by rain and smoke. Gunners and bombers are labeled the death by own action Club as the cramped shelter sits twenty steps below the fire trench with dim lighting and cold, while men write letters and sing a French ditty.
Chapter X details trench routine at sundown with men on duty, reliefs, and sentry vigilance. Troops endure damp, cold, cooties, and constant motion as they wait for daylight while recounting caffeine and lies, with rapid fire drills and stand down orders shaping the men’s nightly grind.
An editorial urges buying Liberty bonds to fund World War I. It argues sacrifice is costly but necessary, weighing taxation versus bonds to finance troops and training. It emphasizes lending to posterity as a just method, warns against immediate taxation, and frames Uncle Sam’s requests as a test of national resolve.
A gun crewman recounts slipping past a machine gunner into the dugout and reporting to a sergeant. He describes a cold muddy trench shift, a relief at ten o'clock, and a quiet morning with silent rain and a rum issue at dawn.
In the latest installment Empey recounts his first over the top assault and a close hand to hand clash with a towering Prussian. He promises a continued tale of the thrilling charge and its dangers.
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