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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1918
Page
6
An ad touts a tonic composed of Blood root Golden Seal root Stone root Chi bark and other ingredients promising vigor for soldiers. It claims to sharpen nerves and stamina for marching and combat while selling through druggists for decades. The piece mimics historical wartime tonics and urges readers to buy for strength.
An unclear jumble of names and actions mentions EMPEY joining a so called Death by Own Action Club and a bombing squad. It references Guy Buipey, Tirigtinel, Jersey City, and events around American lives, with distorted phrases about recruitment and a furnace of confusion. The text lacks coherent facts, dates, or locations suitable for a solid summary.
In France and later, volunteers recount bombing training, from old tin devices to Mills bombs. The narrator describes the grim process of constructing improvised munitions, the striker ignition, fuse timing, and the perilous teamwork of a platoon. The Mills bomb is noted as the standard, its corrugated steel shell designed to scatter shrapnel.
The account describes a metal lever bomb thrower and throwing stance, comparing it to a baseball pitch. It recalls soldiers in training and a sense of loss as units move back to the front, with reflections on earlier baseball skills and a volunteer club.
In a hot spell the unit lines up for a bath behind a ten foot deep creek. Soldiers, rifles, and soap march to a squat building by the bank as a wheezy engine pumps water under a sign reading Divisional Botha. The drill ends with a brief, begrudging soak and return to billet.
The text discusses Empey depicting bath joys in a later installment and contrasts poets Shelley and Coleridge. It notes Shelley's fondness for water and leisure in a boat, and critiques Coleridge for laziness despite a great mind, with a suggestion of unfinished poems.
New York reports vegetables and other foods arriving in broken crates being repurposed by a city food aid initiative. The East Side kitchen will operate eight hours daily, later expanding to sixteen, handling cabbage potatoes beets and beans rushed from steamship and rail hubs. Additional notes mention Red Cross convalescent homes at Fort McPherson and Fort Oglethorpe for wounded or recovering soldiers with recreation facilities.
A Sunday School lesson details Jesus healing the blind beggar Bartimaeus as he asks for mercy with a definite request. The account highlights persistence in prayer, Jesus’s compassion, and the instant restoration of sight, followed by Bartimaeus choosing to follow Jesus.
Swift & Company credits its growth to meeting national and international needs for meat and by products. It highlights vast plant and transport networks enabling wartime supply, shipping up to 800 car loads weekly, and argues the modest 3.5 to 4 percent profit margins still sustain service. questions whether lower costs could be achieved by other means.
A garbled OCR fragment questions why someone moved from a previous location and asks why they did so. The text is unreadable and lacks clear entities or dates, preventing a fuller factual summary.
Fragmentary ad copy touts a facial treatment with a named ointment and preparation steps. Includes garbled addresses and numerical references, suggesting product instructions and a delegated notice.
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