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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1918
Page
7
A prisoner recounts life in a Courtrai prison camp, detailing bread and pear rations, a rare banquet, and sporadic raids for food while sharing scant hope of escape. He notes a cosmopolitan mix of prisoners, guards’ cruelty, and plans ranging from disguises to a daring airfield theft.
The narrator recalls being moved toward a German prison camp on September 6 and planning a dramatic escape. After convincing a British officer, he nabs a map from an interpreter, hides it in his sock, and later leaps from a moving train at speed to flee toward freedom, injuring himself but securing possible safety far from pursuit.
Curiosities in sawdust types are discussed with emphasis on Spanish cedar sawdust used for packing cheap chemicals. Weight and freight charges are weighed, noting the long shipments and the need to balance transport costs with material usefulness.
The article explains that human ears detect vibrations at about 25 000 cycles per second while a whistle emits around 00 000 cycles per second. It notes age shifts the upper limit, suggesting a 60 year old reader might perceive different high frequencies.
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