Alluring New Year Party at Waring Plantation
A vivid account describes a New Year celebration at the Waring Plantation near Pinehurst with a grand fire, mistletoe arbors, and an elaborate egg nog bowl prepared by Mrs. George M. Howard. The scene gathers veterans, families, clergy, and locals to usher in the new year with Southern hospitality and festive rituals.
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Cincinnati
Oklahoma
Kentucky
Gettysburg
Waring
Harry Waring
Pinehurst
George M. Howard
Outnumbered Ten to One Remembered at Ypres
The piece recalls four thousand five hundred Canadian troops buried near Ypres in a maple grove memorial. It narrates the April twenty-second night when General Alderson urged retirement, a stubborn reply from the Little Black Devils, and a sense of invincible resolve that helped turn the tide with tanks at the Somme. General French later credited the Canadians with saving the situation.
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Hohenzollern
Ypres
Canada
Maple Grove
Alderson
Somme
France
Berlin
French
Letters from the Front from the 101st U S Engineers
The reader is urged to send overseas news from the United States Expeditionary Forces. Charlie Mason, owner of a neighborhood peach orchard, reports from Somewhere in France with greetings from headquarters of the 101st Regiment of U S Engineers.
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United States
Charlie Mason
First Corps
France
101St Regiment of
U. S. Engineers
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New Years Party
Arisg Plantation
Phano
Donald Ross
Earload
F. O. B. Alphano
N. J. Alphano Humus Co
Battery Place
New York
Bray
Oxford
Stewart Sporting Sales Co
Fifth Ave
38Th St
N.Y
Pinehurst Jewelry
Carolina
the Outlook Publishing CO
Pinehurst, North Carolina
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