Empey in British War Tales Discoveres German Prisoners
The narrative follows Arthur Guy Empey who sails from Jersey City to England, joins the British Army, trains in France, and fights in trenches. He witnesses a captain and an unteroffizier killed after a drunken German bar bet, then discovers their identities by simple wooden crosses in a distant graveyard.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
Smpey
No Man’s Land
Interoffizier
Trench Life Echoes Through Hidden Exchanges and Sniper Jokes
A wartime memoir fragment recalls Tommy delivering London papers to a stake between lines and food parcels to Fritz. A German soldier, Carl Schmidt, shares New York memories, sniping payoffs, and jokes about English generals, while both sides trade small gifts and guarded banter before a patrol recalls them.
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Tommy
London
Fritz
Berlin
Bnglish
Chats With Fritz In War Time Machine Gun Training
A narrator recalls volunteering for machine gun training at St Omar, joining a brigade machine gun unit, and participating in a frontline bombing raid that yielded twenty one prisoners. The calm front trench routine is punctuated by heavy shelling as prisoners are sheltered in a dugout amid candlelight and tense nerves.
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Fritz
St. Omar
Suicide Club
St Unt
Tommy
Empey Leads Over the Top Charge in Costly Attack
The account follows Empey and his machine-gun company as they advance over the top into German trenches in a successful yet costly assault. The narrative promises further details in the next installment.
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Empey
Be Above Gossip and Seek Charity in Speech
A New York Evening Mall editorial urges dismissing gossip as a useless task. It counsels turning a deaf ear to cruel truths, granting the afflicted the benefit of doubt, and speaking only words that are cheering and charitable.
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New York Evening Mall
Potato harvest methods with digger sorter in field
The United States Department of Agriculture notes harvest timing depends on market prices and late varieties. It describes elevator diggers pulled by horses, in-field sorting with potato graders on sleds, two-screen top and lower openings, and a crew of three pickers per sorter. One digger and crew can harvest three to four acres daily.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Our Allies and Our Duties Address
Speech excerpt praising allies France Britain Italy Belgium and urging national resolve. Delivered as a wartime moral exhortation by Clarence Ousley Assistant Secretary of Agriculture urging strength, moral purity, and unity in facing the war effort.
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France
Britain
Italy
Belgium
Clarence Ousley
County Agents Teach Many During War Emergency
War driven program expands county agent work across the South. In 1917 crop demonstrations covered 2,857,485 acres reaching an estimated 1,650,000 farms about 60 percent of Southern farms. Agents advised on crops livestock feeding marketing and conservation.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Office of Extension Work South
States’ Relations Service
Boys and Girls Club Work Reaches Millions nationwide
A U S department of agriculture compilation shows over 2.4 million youths engaged in club work last year. About 350,000 filed complete reports with products produced and conserved totaling 10 million dollars. In the South emergency work reached 400,000 boys and about 1,000,000 girls creating over 4 million dollars in value.
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United States Department of Agriculture
War Work by County Agents in War Effort
County agents and home demonstration workers in the United States assist in food production and conservation and support multiple government departments. They conduct food and seed surveys, assist in seed distribution, obtain credit for farmers, sell Liberty bonds, eradicate livestock diseases, survey insect pests, promote product marketing, and manage priority rail shipments.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Department of Agriculture
Food Administration
Treasury Department
War Department
Navy Department
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Council of National Defense
Committee On Public
Plow to Destroy Weeds in Harvest Season
A concise claim that plowing stubble fields after harvest destroys weeds. Emphasizes practical reason for soil turning to prevent weed growth and prepare fields for the next grain crop.
Butler family witnesses wartime patriotism scene
In a flushed household Ellis Parker Butler and his family discuss wartime support. A father recounts past service and stamps campaign work while a child prompts him to act patriotically, reflecting a domestic snapshot of national effort.
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Johnson
R. No
Happines Geome
Lydia E. Pinkha
Lynn
Mass
Ellis Parker Butler
Flushing
Land
Mr. Butler
Dali
Brother
Butler
Fragmentary War Echoes in a Haunting Vivid Scene
A fragmented reminiscence recalls battle sounds and battlefield imagery with screaming shells, roaring guns, and ringing rifles. The voice mentions musicians and players briefly, hinting at a disrupted scene returning to practice after chaos.
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Alisha
Mysterious Exchange Sparks Flower Talk in Town
Fragmentary dialogue shows Mrs Urls and Mrs Litty Polks debating gardening etiquette with playful banter about planting and raising flowers. The odd exchange hints at local social chatter and humor in a small community.
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Unteroffizier
Rk. 1
Carl Schmidt
Sixty-sixth
Bavarian Light Infantry
Coney Island
Hans Wagner
Russell
Germany
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Pred
Albert
Maldd
Ellensburg
Ilantes
Franklyn
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