Frontline Footnotes of Dunwar Meuse Advance Narrative
A fragmented wartime memoir describes marching to Dunwar Meuse, meeting German crown prince and staff, and quartering as Fifth Army allies. The account details trench warfare, mining, hand-to-hand, and daily patrols amid scarce men, occasional civilian visits, and frontline confusion.
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Dunwar Meuse
Accurm Petieley
Eta
Duomur Meus
Ned Crowe
Dudaur
Fifth Army
Germany
Verlay
Argonne Forest Action Described In Fragmentary Memoir
A World War II era memoir fragment recounts artillery bombardment and assault near Argonne forests. It describes nerve of French and Allied batteries, a tense attack at dawn, and the chaos as shells fell and wounded cries rose amid battlefield confusion.
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Argonne
Pinneers
Pepo
Terrible hand to hand fighting in Argonne trench warfare
In the Argonne forest a unit endures brutal trench combat and heavy artillery. Soldiers describe muddy trenches, waterlogged ditches, and constant shelling. They recount a hand to hand clash on January 6 1915, capturing eight French soldiers after heavy exchanges and rescuing a wounded foe.
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Argonne Forest
Monstels
Thene
Argonne
Cels
France
Fve Bundred
Hirshberg
Argonne Front Morale Struggles Amid Heavy Losses
In the Argonne fighting, morale falters as daily casualties rise. Soldiers urged to press on for families, while officers such as Lieutenant General von Mudra face hard choices. The Sixteenth army corps and allied divisions see scarce trust for leaders, with the Crown Prince and von Mülmann elusive behind the lines.
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Argonne
Crows Prince
Sixteenth Army Corps
Yoo Mudra
Die Argonne Forest
von Modre
Gia
Civs
Offield
Count von Ineseler
Sixteenth Corps
Rich
Unknown Front Journey Through Apremont And Chatel
Soldiers march to an unknown destination stopping at destroyed depots near Apremont and Chatel. Prisoners meet families, a wife fears for her husband two months in trenches, ruins glow in the sky and fear drives a haunting uncertainty as shells fall and fires burn. To be continued.
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Apremont
Chatel
Idaho News Roundup From Boise and Vicinity
Idaho reports appoint postmaster Charles A Higginson at Chesterfield and notes wartime shortages, a Caldwell Methodist district superintendent, and a public utilities protest. War savings lower in August, a water rights case set for December, and new resort plans near Montour. Local accidents, deaths in action, and school openings also featured alongside rail and streetcar wage talks.
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Charles A. Higginson
Chesterfield
Walter W. Wyatt
Joint Institute of the
Boise
Mock
Idaho
Pal
W. M. Ewing
Caldwell
Methodist Church
Jullinetta
St. Brose Hall of
Murtaugh
Twin Pall
Payette-Boise
D. W. Gale
Ense
Hot Springs
Montour
Thermos Springs
Nampa
Jerome
Charles
Thulin
Whateman
Uspital
Hoste Stut
Burley
M Burns
France
Booth
Red Cross Indies
Frank Wyman
United States War Department
Bert Pettinger
Netion
John M. Regan
Baler
Red Cross
Bolke
Germany
Blackfoot
Hyrum Geddes
Oregon Shore Line
Tees
Vera England
Milo England
Morsiand
Eve
Bishop
G. T. Moore
Nuimpa
Moore
State Normal School
Athion
Americans Drive Germans Back In Week Of Frontline Gains
American and Allied forces push German troops from the St Michiel salient and threaten Metz after penetrating German lines and capturing towns. French and British actions include gains at St Gothar and Mont des Singes as Haig presses along in northern France. Russia remains chaotic with reports of Petrograd unrest and conflicting claims about the former empress.
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France
Pershiby
St. Michiel Salient
Meta
Mota
Briery
Gertin
Pield Marshal Och
St. Gothaln Massif
Loon
Arlette
Algue
Mont-des- Singes
Annemont
Sancy
Chembn-des-Tames
Aisne
Haig
Huns
Marshal Hatz
Meuse
Cambrai
Marshal Haig
Trallin
German Food Prospect Poor
Amsterdam reports von Wadlow, head of the German regulation board, says the corn crop is only 15 percent above last year and the potato crop likely worse. Meatless weeks must continue to protect milk and fat supplies, with no prospect of improvement and no expectation of a decline in supply.
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Amsterdam
von Wadlow
German Regulation Board
Passengers Fight for Lives Aboard Bristol Bay Ship
Survivors recount a perilous voyage from Aleutian waters aboard a Bristol Bay Pack ing steamship. Three crewmen committed suicide en route to port, while 350 masked Trotian fishermen attacked for scarce provisions, forcing Americans to defend what little food remained.
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San Francisco
Bristol Bay Packing Company
Gal way Castle torpedoed and sunk with heavy loss
The Fetish steamer Gal way Castle, 9,000 tons, was torpedoed Sunday morning. The ship carried about 120 passengers, 36 naval and military officers, and 33 crew members were lost or missing.
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Trandon
Galway Castle
Americans Take Prisoners in St. Mihiel Breakthrough
American forces aided by French divisions trapped and destroyed the St Miblet salient over 27 hours, taking about 16,000 prisoners, more than 20 guns of all calibers, plus hundreds of machine guns and trench mortars.
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Washington
St. Miblet
German Prisoner Dies in Atlanta Penitentiary
Karl Buong a 75 year old former Hamburg America Steamsulpine managing director in New York and once German minister in Mexico died Sunday at the Atlanta federal penitentiary.
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Atlanta
Karl Buong
Hamburg-American Steamsulpine
New York
Mexico
Federal Penitentiary
Now Raises 600 Chickens
A fragment from an advertisement notes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound aiding a woman named Mrs Alters in Oregon Illinois. The testimonial claims restored health after organic troubles and urges others to seek advice from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
D. M. Aurers
R. R
Oregon
Ill
Lydia F. Pinkham
Soft Clear Skins Soap and Ointment Ad
Night and morning bathe the face with Cuticara Soap and hot water. If pimples appear smear them with Cuticara Ointment. For free samples address Cuticara Dept X Boston. Sold by druggists and by mail Soap 25 and Ointment 25 or 50.
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Dept. X
Boston
Ray of Light in Darkness
On a hot October day James X. Oylekan struggles with a puzzling problem and loses his hand in a surreal mishap. He realizes a forgotten letter from his wife, sent two weeks earlier, could reach its mother and arrive on its recipient’s first birthday, if mailed promptly. The strange scene ends with a self-wink.
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James X. Oylekan
Mall
Sufficient Reason and Rumors Spread in Chicago News
Fragmentary lines suggest gossip about a woman named Bess and her social standing. A man who stays out of debt and trouble is praised as above average. A note claims Poland lost 3,500,000 population due to the war, all from unclear Chicago News snippets.
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Woo
Belgium
Kiv
Whcelms
Ska
Idaho State News
Botee
Ada
Bimere
Valley
Get
Yayette
Cangin
Teutenant
John M. Regat
Prence
Regan
Knights of Colmbus
Abo
Loavecy Tate
Kaiser
Bob
Ray OF
Bess
Jtune
Chicago News
Poland
X bin
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