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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1918
Page
6
An old advertisement touts Freezone as a painless corn cure, claiming quick relief with a drop of freezone applied to the corn then lifted away. The copy credits a Cincinnati inventor and urges readers to ask their druggist for a tiny bottle at low cost.
American Arthur Guy Empey, in Jersey City, travels to England to enlist in the British Army. He recalls trench life, gas, digging No Man's Land, and a grisly dig site where a German body was unearthed. He and a comrade survive mud, shells, and a German patrol while awaiting relief in No Man's Land.
Six a.m. arrival at rest billets followed by sixteen days of fatigue and trench duty. The narrator fears volunteering for listening post duty as orders come for him and a companion after their lieutenant teases. A German machine gun bursts during a traverse, and rain begins, signaling a miserable night ahead for further front-line patrols.
The narrator enters a dry roomy dugout near an artillery observation post and claims a cot with a stewboard bearing name and number. Two Royal Field Artillery men visit off duty, with Bombardier Wilson forming a bond. He plans to recount Wilsons tale of a wartime stunt pulled on Old Pepper.
Empey notes in a forthcoming installment that despite strong targets men are not permitted to shell Fritz. The brief item hints at wartime restrictions and cautionary guidance for troops.
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