Bomber’s School and Hazardous Device Lore in WWI Trenches
Arthur Guy Empey narrates his WWI experience in England and France, joining as a private, training as a bomber, and learning to throw Mills and improvised devices in trench warfare. He details jam tin bombs, the danger of fuses burning unpredictably, and the shift from improvised to Mills devices amid trench life.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
Grenadier Guards
Ermans
U. S
Ian
Tommy
Fritz
Powers That Be
Mills
Fidence
My First Official Bath in the Divisional Baths
A WWI memoir recounts hot weather and a creek bath for a company. The sergeant major orders a drill style bath parade, outlining discipline and kit as soldiers march to a squat frame building labeled Divisional Baths with a wheezy water pump in back.
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Divisional Baths
Lafayette's Debt to France and Rise of a Young Hero
Pershing spoke at Lafayette's tomb invoking America's debt to France for independence. The article recounts France's aid in Yorktown, the large French force and fleet, and a $50 million loan. It chronicles Lafayette's youth, daring voyage to America, and initial congressional hesitation before granting him major general.
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Afayette
General Pershing
America
France
Lafayette
United States
Yorktown
Thomas Nelson
Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Rochambeau
York
de Grasse
England
Canada
New Republic
West
Spain
Charleston
Congress
Philadelphia
Lafayette and His Role in the American Revolution
The article traces Marquis de Lafayette’s leadership under Washington, his wounds at Brandywine, aid to France, and key actions against Cornwallis. It notes his return to America for Yorktown, his reception by Congress, and his lasting impact on Franco American ties and republican ideals.
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Washington
Lafayette
Marquis
Brandywine
Efe
Valley Forge
France
Great Britain
Paris
Noailles
Marquise
America
Benedict Arnold
Virginia
Cornwallis
Richmond
Pennsylvania
Albemarle
Yorktown
Congress
England
Marquis de Nonailles
St. James
The Bath Joys Illustrated by Empey
The next installment depicts the pleasures of bathing as described by Empey with vivid detail.
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Empey
Great Writers Shelley's Leisure Inspires Poetic Works
The text contrasts Shelley with Coleridge noting Shelley's fondness for water and leisure in creating poems while Coleridge lacked will to work. The passage reflects on their differing work ethics and life approaches.
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Shelley
Coleridge
Innovations and industrial notes from early 20th century report
The article highlights vast coal use by American ice factories and refrigerated plants. It mentions Bahamas potentially growing rubber from a Mexican vine. It notes a period without mail reaching Spitzbergen miners, and a New Jersey farmer's corn stalk loader. It reports France manufacturing cast iron shells at one million daily, and a sodium alloy hardening lead without color change, with two per cent sodium enough to make lead ring.
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Bahama Islands
Spitzbergen
New Jersey
France
Trawler Gut Heil Lifted After Five Years Sunken in Mississippi
A German tanker named Gut Heil, sunk on the Mississippi near Baton Rouge for five years, was raised and towed to a bank for examination. Five long wooden muffiers and other debris were found on the muddy river bottom, revealing the condition after the long submersion.
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Gut Heil
Mississippi River
Baton Rouge
Popular” Mechanics Magazine
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