Private Empey's trench life in World War I Guts and grit
Arthur Guy Empey leaves Jersey City after Lusitania sinking to join the British Army. He trains in London and France, hears big guns, meets cooties, and fights in front-line trenches. He digs in No Man's Land as comrades fall while a chaplain saves wounded under fire.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
Cordin
No Man’s Land
Fritz
Royal Engineers
Digging in No Man's Land Under Fire in World War I
A soldier recounts a brutal day involving baths, blankets, and a deadly trench advance. He describes sanitary police, chaplains, and the brutal cost of war as 21 killed and 37 wounded among 63 casualties, with the grim math of wartime losses.
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Tommy
No Man’s Land
London
Government shell loading plant largest in world at New Jersey site
New Jersey workers will load 52 000 shells daily at a government plant, part of four giant facilities, with 100 buildings and 2 500 acres. The operation employs 5 000 workers and 250 000 daily size and load markings. Mobile water trains provide drinking water for troops in France. Ensign Stephen Otter, a naval aviator, was killed in action after shooting down a German seaplane.
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Committee On Public Information
Washington
New Jersey
France
Stephen Otter
United States Naval Reserve Force
Navy Department
Ensign Potter
Potter
Hinder Light
Characteristics of God's Word and a Bible Study Example
An overview of Psalm 19's six descriptive titles qualities and effects of God's Word and a notable Acts 8:26-39 bible study. It outlines the law testimonies statutes commandments fear and judgments as guiding principles, and recounts Philip guiding the Ethiopian eunuch in personal evangelism on the road.
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Philip
Samaria
Millions of youths join United States Garden Army effort
Nearly two million girls and boys volunteer for the United States Garden Army in the interior department. Their service flag shows a crossed rake and hoe with U S G in blue on white with a red border. Enlistment pledges children to boost food production under a garden supervisor and report as required. The plan’s success is described as most gratifying.
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United States Garden Army
Department of the Interior
Garden Army
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Pick and Shovel Squad
S. P
Sanitary Police
Holy Joe
Scipa
Hall
Great Government
Medical Department
Army Medical Department
Connecticut
Maryland
United States Employment Service
War Department
Ordnance Department
United States Army
Colt
Industrial Service Section
Army Ordnance Department
Mount Holyoke College
Massachusetts
Kristine Mann
Gorgas
Veterinary Corps
Wst
Camp Greenleaf
Chickamauga Park
Department of Labor
Curtiss Airplane Company
Buffalo
Camp Lee
Grant
Petersburg
God
Rev
P. B. Fitzwater
D. D
BM Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
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