American Enlists in British Army After Lusitania Sinking
Arthur Guy Empey, an American from Jersey City, sails to England after Lusitania’s sinking and joins the British Army as a private. He trains in London and France, hearing heavy guns and meeting cooties, then serves in front-line trenches where bullets fly and comrades fall, learning death lurks near.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
The Death of Pete Walling in the Front Line
In a trench near France Pete Walling is killed during a march while aiding a comrade. The narrator helps carry Pete to a first aid post, attends his burial, and writes letters to Pete’s mother and sweetheart as the front-line gloom deepens. The section honors a fallen friend amid ongoing shellfire and grim duty.
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Pete Walling
Pete
Yank
France
St. Peter
Death by Own Action Annex A Troop Trench Diary Episode
In a muddy front trench I describe the Death by Own Action Annex eight by ten by six feet and twenty steps below the fire trench. The air is foul the waterlogged floor cold and lit by a single candle in an ammo tin. A letter writer asks how to spell conflagration while a trench ditty keeps spirits up despite rain mud and danger.
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Suicide Annex
Tommy
Yank
Front Line Trench Duty Amid Rain and Cold
A soldier recalls a night on the front line as a machinegun officer eyes him from the dugout. He slips past, returns to his section, and sits on a muddy fire step awaiting relief. The rain stops at ten, relief comes, and the men hope for morning and rum rations.
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Tommy
No Man’s Land
The Day's Work in the Trench Fire Zone
The chapter details a trench routine at sundown with sentries on alert, reliefs mounting fire steps, and sleeping attempts disrupted by damp cold, cooties, and routine rifle discipline. It notes the five rounds rapid fire drill before daylight and the nightly rivalry to fire first.
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Woolwich Arsenal
Tommy
Four Distinct Hay Making Methods Simplified by USDA
The USDA outlines four hay making systems: loading by hand, loading with a hay loader, push rakes and stackers, and field baling. Each method differs in equipment needs, labor demand, and suitability to regions, with loaders boosting capacity, and windrow baling expanding field efficiency under right curing and storage conditions.
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United States Department of Agriculture
East
Timothy and
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Iowa
Middle West
Empey’s first over the top charge ends in hand to hand clash
In the next installment Empey recounts the thrilling hand to hand encounter with a giant Prussian, marking the first use of the over the top tactic and promising a vivid continuation of the story.
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Empey
Help Farmers Urged to Release Men for Farm Labor
Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture urges towns to survey able bodied men with farm experience and pledge them to spend days away from town work to assist farmers during peak demand. The plan suggests replacing men like waiters and clerks with women to free men for agricultural labor when needed.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Chamber of Commerce
County Council of Defense
Clarencesfusley
PLAN PRODUCTS FOR MARKET STANDARDIZATION
The text argues that uniform containers in pack, appearance, and quality make each item an implicit advertisement and guarantee of brand standard. Fully compliant cans and jars reinforce consumer trust and spur repeat purchases.
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United States Department of Agriculture
The Making of a Famous Medicine In Lab and Bottle
A visit to the laboratory reveals the care behind Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Each year over 350000 pounds of herbs are harvested at peak potency, solvents extract the remedies, and all equipment is sterilized and the product pasteurized and sealed. Letters from women praising its effects accompany continued publication of its virtues.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Conscription of Wealth Opposed by Monetary Times
The Monetary Times of Toronto argues that conscription or confiscation of wealth must be abandoned in North America. It states that the western world will need investment capital at the end of the war to rebuild and grow.
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Monetary Times
Toronto
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