Empey Relives Frontline Duty After Lusitania Call
American Arthur Guy Empey stationed in Jersey City joins the British army after the Lusitania sinking. He trains in France and endures No Man's Land listening posts under rain and shellfire. A comrade Wheeler relieves him, they endure mud, patrols, and a midnight mine watch before sleep brings relief.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
Chaplain
No Man’s Land
The War Wound Journey From Front to Blighty
A survivor narrates the brutal, bureaucratic chain of care for a wounded soldier from battlefield to convalescence. Ambulances, trains, and hospital ships multiply staff and costs, while the author recalls a gas attack during a machine gun emplacement dig and the lasting, haunting odor of decomposed flesh.
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Red Cross
Othe
Volunteer Listening Post On The Front Line
Six in the morning arrival at rest billets followed by sixteen days of fatigue and front-line duty. The narrator is picked to volunteer for a listening post with Wheeler as Fritz opens fire, foreshadowing harsher shelling to come.
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Jupiter Pluvius
No Man’s Land
Wheeler
Fritz
Bowies
Woolworth
Niagara Falls
Empey
Entry to the machine gunners dugout near the advanced post
The narrator moves into a dry, well furnished machine gunners dugout near an artillery observation post and, after arriving first, marks his cot with name and number. Royal Field Artillery Bombardier Wilson from Battery D 288 befriends him, sharing old wartime exploits and a story memory.
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Royal Field Artillery
Bombardier Wilson
Insects and Potato Diseases Controlled by Spraying
A United States Department of Agriculture prepared notice explains spraying reduces annual potato losses exceeding 100 million bushels. It covers controlling Colorado potato beetle, late and early blight, flea beetles, leafhoppers, aphids, cutworms, and other pests with Bordeaux mixture, arsenate of lead, nicotine sulphate, and emulsions, plus cultural practices and crop rotation.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Colorado
Keep Farm Records to Show Activities and Profits
A guide urges farmers to maintain complete cash records for all farm activities to evaluate which enterprises yield net income. It stresses avoiding snap judgments, notes that small sections like poultry can be nearly as profitable as major crops, and warns against changing plans based on a single year. Yearly comparisons offer perspective and highlight necessary adjustments or failures due to unusual conditions.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Vagrant laws urged to compel work during wartime
The piece stresses government morale and compulsory labor during the draft era, urging citizens to report idlers to authorities and insisting vagrancy laws be strictly enforced to mobilize manpower for the war effort. It frames self respect and civic duty as duties for every age group.
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United States
Cities Must Help
Quote from Clarence Ousley, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, urging cities to mobilize workers to assist farmers during seasonal shortages as wartime nations have done. Prepared by the U S Department of Agriculture.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Clarence Ousley
Secretary of Agriculture
Farm Machinery Great Aid in Reducing Manual Labor
G I Christie assistant to the secretary of agriculture notes that modern farm equipment allows one man to do the work of two. He cites examples from the corn belt including two men with a two furrow plow, a teen driver on four horses, and a man spreading manure with forks, all showing machinery boosting efficiency and reducing labor needs.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Corn Belt
G. I. Christie
Secretary of Agriculture
Department
Ousley
Stamps for Fair Premiums Proposed for War Savings
The Lake Charles Louisiana bureau of agriculture and chamber of commerce urges prizes at state county and local fairs be paid in War Savings stamps. A resolution supporting the plan was adopted and sent to federal and state officials and fair associations for consideration.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Agriculture of the
Lake Charles
Louisiana
Chamber of Commerce
Bureau of Agriculture
Women Farming: Manitoba and Saskatchewan Leaders Told
A train companion, a returned soldier, lauds his wife’s pivotal role in sustaining a 1920s prairie farm. Clara and Beatrice Forward of Oak Lake and R. M. Hillman of Keeler are highlighted for successful large scale farming and stock, with Hillman owning fine Percheron horses and expanding her grain operations.
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Edmonton
Winnipeg
Canada
Oak Lake District
Manitoba
Clara
Beatrice Forward
Brandon
R. M. Hillman
Keeler
Saskatchewan
Miss Hillman
Forward
Canadian Prairies
Imagination and Romance in Married Life
She questions if marriage dulls romance while He doubts but suggests couples must be imaginative to explain and share everything. The exchange hints at how intimacy and communication evolve after tying the knot.
Freckle and Tan Lotion Made From Lemons and Orchard White
A vintage advertisement promises a cheap freckle sunburn and tan lotion by squeezing two lemons into three ounces of Orchard White to make a quarter pint. It claims quick results for freckles sunburn windburn and tan with a harmless facial massage as a beauty aid.
Mr Rental and Gert discuss an old fashioned man
The speaker debates Mr Rental's appeal noting his age and old fashioned ways. Gert argues the man is a self starter and deserves credit for initiative despite seeming outdated.
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Myrt
Mr. Rental
Gert
Comfort Baby Skin With Cuticura Soap and Ointment Ad
An ad touts Cuticura Soap and Ointment for red rough itching baby skin. Claims hot baths with the soap ease discomfort and promote sleep for baby and rest for mother. Free samples by mail from Cuticura Dept. X Boston. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.
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Dept. X
Boston
English Words on Increase Vocabulary Growth Noted
A brief note reports that the English vocabulary has expanded, highlighting the rising number of words in use. The article cites ongoing linguistic development and adoption of new terms across media and education.
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Tommy
Listening Post
Bureau of Agriculture of
Western
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