American Enlists with British in World War I
Arthur Guy Empey, an American from Jersey City, leaves for England after the Lusitania sinking and enlists as a private in the British Army. He trains in London and France, hears big guns, befriends cooties, and experiences frontline trench warfare including a first fire step, a desperate over the top charge, and deaths around him.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
Bombing School Tales From the Western Front
A veteran recalls volunteers joining bombing training in Britain during World War I. The account covers jam tin bombs, improvised fabrication, fuse timing, throwing technique, and the shift from jam tins to Mills bombs. It notes the danger, the humor of orders, and the Canadians and Americans excelling at bomb throwing.
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Fritz
Tommy
Blighty
Mills
Christy” Mathewson
My First Official Bath in War Creeks
In hot weather the company bathes in a ten foot deep creek behind their rest billet. Soldiers splash and run a shirt hunt while washing themselves and underwear. A Sunday scene ends as the sergeant major appears on the scene.
Divisional Baths At Creek Edge Described
A group lines up with rifles and bayonets for a bath drill after marching along a dusty road. They arrive at a squat frame building labeled Divisional Baths with a wheezy pump engine heard from a nearby shed.
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Divisional Baths
The Joys of the Bath Depicted by Empey
The narrative highlights Empey's illustrations of bath scenes, portraying everyday domestic ritual with a gentle, intimate tone. The piece emphasizes color, light, and the calm atmosphere of morning baths.
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Empey
War as Creator of Genius, Masefield Foresees New Luminaries
The poet John Masefield suggests war will spur new intellectuals like Darwins and Spencers and a modern Shelley after Europe’s conflict. He compares the wartime output to post Napoleonic era blooms and wonders if earlier wars also shaped Victorian and American letters.
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John Masefield
Europe
Carlyles
Shelley
Byron
Stand Alone Or Die: Warning Against Relying On Others
A writer in Success argues power comes from self development and independence. Leaning on others weakens strength and originality, and parents who over help their children may hinder their futures. Young people naturally imitate and need motive power to avoid becoming echoes.
The Kaiser as World Expander and Mockery
A Kansan City Star excerpt cites Professor Pate condemning the Kaiser as pursuing a Potsdam powered empire. It likens imperial aims to theft and displays of glory, calling the plan demoniacal. The dialogue then skewers a theory about male behavior with sardonic humor.
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Potsdam Imperial Gardens
Pate
Kansas City
Great Writers Shelly and Coleridge Compared for Laziness
The text contrasts Shelley's indolent waterborne poetry with Coleridge’s famed mind and laziness. It notes Shelley's poems crafted in leisure on a boat and Coleridge producing only fragments due to a lack of will to work.
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Shelley
Coleridge
Goat immune to dynamite shocks Western town
A Western household discovered their pet goat had eaten two sticks of dynamite. The animal was kept at a safe distance and tied to a stake. Days and weeks passed and the goat did not explode.
Woman Works Heavily Finds Relief with Lydia E. Pinkham Remedy
Peru Indiana testimonial from Mrs AMATERIANO aged 86 West 10th Street credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing severe backache and displacements. She says she endures 15 hours daily of housework and factory work, improving after use and now feels well. The account urges others with similar symptoms to try the root and herb remedy.
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Peru
Ind
Lydia
Ameteriano
West 10Th St
Lydia B
Pinkyham
Dr Pierce Pellets Liver Pills Advertising History
Advertising blurb promotes Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as the original liver pills from 40 years ago, claiming they regulate liver and bowels.
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Dr. Pierce
Boschee's German Syrup Ad Claims Fifty-One Years of Use
An advertisement promotes Boschee's German Syrup as a long trusted remedy for coughs bronchitis and colds settled in the throat. It asserts the product aids restful sleep easy morning expectoration and natural healing with over fifty years of American production and sales.
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Boschee
United States
Nature
America
Solé
Adyv
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