Bombing School and the Making of Mills Bombs
The narrator details training for bombing at a British bombing school in France, describing jam tin bombs, improvised weapons, and the Mills bomb. He recalls the dangerous process, the rules for throwing, and how soldiers adapted to this deadly task, while reflecting on the toll of war and his own enlistment as a bomber.
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France
Enlish
Grenadier Guards
Ermans
U. S
Ian
Tommy
Fritz
Powers That Be
Mills
Christy” Mathewson
Empey's WWI Valor from Jersey City to British Front
American in Jersey City Arthur Guy Empey travels to England to enlist in the British army after the Lusitania sinking. He trains in London and France, learns trench life, hears big guns, and endures front-line combat as his unit goes over the top.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
My First Official Bath In The Divisional Baths
The narrator recalls a hot spell when their company used a creek for bathing and washing gear. A sudden drill-order forced a disciplined bath parade, with rifles and helmets kept at attention. After a dusty eight kilometer march they reached the Divisional Baths building by the creek.
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Bath
Divisional Baths
Lafayette and Pershing Salute Shared French Aid in Revolution
General Pershing honored Lafayette at his tomb and recalled France’s crucial aid in the American independence war. France supplied 4,985 troops and 99 ships, funded about 50 million dollars, and helped secure victory at Yorktown under Rochambeau and De Grasse. Lafayette crossed from France to join Congress, earned major general rank, fought at Brandywine, Valley Forge, and Yorktown, and later promoted France’s republican ideals as a bridge to Anglo American reconciliation.
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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
Paris
Franklin
David
Jonathan
Atlantic
Marquis
Brandywine
Valley Forge
Great Britain
Noailles
Marquise
Benedict Arnold
Virginia
Cornwallis
Richmond
Pennsylvania
Albemarle
Marquis de Noailles
St. James
The Bath Depicted in Empey’s Next Installment
The latest installment presents the joys of the bath, with Empey illustrating bath scenes and comfort. It suggests a light, domestic moment and emphasizes simple pleasures through descriptive imagery.
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Empey
Great Writers Shelley and Coleridge Compared
The passage notes Shelley's indolent vein and fondness for water with poems written during boat time. It contrasts Coleridge as lacking will to work and prone to idleness, highlighting differing lifeways and creative habits.
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Shelley
Coleridge
Ork
Far-reaching industrial notes and inventions appear in brief
The report surveys vast coal use by ice and refrigeration plants, potential rubber production in the Bahama islands from the Mexican vine, a New Jersey farmer's self-loading corn cart, and French manufacture of cast iron shells. It also notes sodium hardened lead producing a colorless hardening effect and a two percent sodium addition making lead ring when struck.
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Bahama Islands
Eh Aki Eae
New Jersey
France
German Tanker Raised After Five Years On Mississippi Dredge
A German tanker named Gut Heil, sunk five years earlier and resting on the muddy Mississippi bottom near Baton Rouge, was finally floated and towed to a bank for examination. Popular Mechanics notes the ship's machinery remained in far better condition than expected.
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Mississippi River
Baton Rouge
Popular’ Mechanics Magazine
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