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city was Aix-les-Bains, the first American leave center in France. Here the French saw the Americans at play and vcre satisfied.“Alx-les-Beans” the American boys pronounce It, at the Imminent risk of the name being shortened to “The Beans.” Alx—u jewel, clear-cut, with brilliant facets set in a frame of gorgeous moonlight and of wonderful opaline sunsets and sunrises. This is the beauty spot to which are sent the boys In olive-drab, wearied by months In trench mud. under bursting shells. And this Is the story of the first permlssionaires to arrive in Aix—the American soldiers’ Blighty.On a certain bright Saturday a cosmopolitan crowd gathered at the railroad station all in a high state of anticipation. One could easily pick out the persons of prominence, the mayor, the doctors, lawyers and others of small hut as-
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The Idaho Springs Siftings News
Idaho Springs, Colorado, US
Fri, Aug 02, 1918
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