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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1918
Page
6
A Cincinnati inventor offers Freezone a few cent bottle that instantly relieves corns with a touch. The ad claims it stops pain without soreness and removes hard corns soft corns between toes and calluses, urging readers to buy from their druggist.
The garbled text references acquittal and a dinner invitation amid scattered phrases about legal matters and social banter. It mentions a “lost burden lifted” and stray lines about fishing, manners, and economy, indicating a collage of dialogue and observations rather than a single event.
A promoting pamphlet touts a tonic made from Golden Bear root Oregon grape root and Wild Cherry bark for Spring Fever. It claims to revitalize the body improve skin and eyes and ease neuralgia back pain and fatigue with Dr Pierce's Garden Medical Discovery tablets sold for sixty cents.
Synopsis notes Empey, a Jersey City American, joins the British Army after Lusitania sinking. He travels to England and London, trains in France, hears big guns, befriends lice called cooties, and soon enters frontline trenches.
A trench diary details brutal muddy conditions and a German trench mortar explosion that kills two men. The narrator recalls learning front line ethics, sharing rations after mates fall, and a sentry's crucifixion punishment for failing to relay firing orders.
A four day frontline tour ends with relief by the brigade as troops move through a cold wet trench. The unit marches eight kilos to billets near a French estaminet and finds Billet 117 an old stable with a foul manure odor. The next morning the sergeant major explains the hanging sign “Sitting 50, lying 20” marks billeting capacity in case of attack by the Royal Army Medical Corps.
A first person account details daily routine from wake up and breakfast to drill, inspections, and ten minute rest breaks. It describes trench conditions, fire making, cooking bacon, tea, and bread, plus the social scene of cigarettes, rations, and camaraderie among Tommies.
Returning from rest billets, Empey recalls a German bullet wounding his first trench comrade. He describes the moment and its impact as the narrative advances in the next installment.
The narrative describes narrow crowded streets inside Jerusalem walls where wagons cannot pass. Hillside steps hinder camels and donkeys after sunrise, forcing most portering to be done by men who bear astonishing loads, some described as 100 pounds or more, strapped to their foreheads with ropes.
Vegetables received in broker crates at New York piers are being used by a city kitchen housed in an East Side public school. The eight hour daily operation will later double. Cabbage beans potatoes beets and other foods arrived last week wasted by imperfect packing and are now repurposed for convalescent soldiers and general relief.
The President proclaims the war loan a sacrifice for liberty and justice, warns that German aims seek dominion and empire, and urges a united, forceful response to preserve democracy. He contrasts German military aims with America's ideals, pledging relentless resistance.
Major Noel Gaines announces evidence of ground glass in nine different food items shipped to the 40th division commissary at Camp Travis. Fifty officers' families and enlisted men are ill, and the military police of the 40th division are investigating.
Government inquiry into thousands of stories of glass in food found only one real instance. A Fort Smith Arkansas bakery employee, a disgruntled worker, put glass in a loaf sent to an orphanage, injuring some orphans. The baker, suspected of German links, shut his shop.
Two German raids on American lines north west of Toul were driven off before reaching trenches by accurate machine gun fire. Allied counterfire and a box barrage forced German units back after brief close combat, while gas shells were repelled by swift gas mask use and continued bombardment by Germans failed to break the American defense.
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