Confessions of a German Deserter Chapter XIH
The deserter recalls the Argonne siege with German troops forced to endure brutal frontline conditions. Artillery, hand grenades, and dum-dum bullets mark a grueling winter campaign as crown prince Wilhelm tours Dun-sur-Meuse and officers push costly, deadly advances amid mud, water and constant losses.
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Dun-sur- Meuse
Germany
Argonne’ Forest
Argonne
France
Hirschberg
Prisoners Visit Their Homes Near Front Line
Descriptions from Apremont and Chatel show prisoners assembled at Apremont depot after a march from the front. Families linger in homes as husbands, wives, and children are briefly reunited under war’s strain. A young wife fears for husband in trenches while shells fly, and the sense of uncertainty deepens the horror of war.
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Argonne
Ir Ae
Sixteenth Army Corps
von Mudra
Argonne Forest
Hohenzollern
Apremont
Chatel
Boy cries for cinema night at gate
A small boy at a garden gate wails that his parents will not take him to the pictures tonight. An elderly passerby questions him as the boy alternates between tears and stammers about being taken or left behind. London Opinion.
Fragmentary verse on home life and animals
A poetic fragment notes people sleep like a log, chickens tended by a farmer’s kids, a boy who can run with a deer, a horse admired for work, a dog linked to pirate lore, and a house worn by consumption of time.
A Purpose in View From a Birmingham Cartoon
A facetious man asks about satisfaction in watching a thermometer hit 99 degrees in the shade while a crusty man replies he hopes others won’t remind him it’s a hot day. The exchange is a wry moment from the Birmingham Age-Herald with a humorous streetwise edge.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Oyster tonnage riddle hints at ratio of stew
A puzzle notes 14 000 oysters of full size inside a ton and deduces a boarding house stew would be one fourteenth thousandth of a ton. The text presents a playful arithmetic clue using ratio and measurement.
Rankin-Beanbrough argues against courtesy in odd tale
Biblical lore lampoons Samson Goliar Ananias as tall figures. Rankin-Beanbrough offers bizarre arguments about manners. Phyle questions behavior. Rankin cites a broken tooth from a car incident as motive.
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Samson
Old Goliar
Ananias
Har
Rankin — Beanbrough
Phyle
Rankin
Have you any objection to my inviting a friend to dinner
Conversation snippets from an entertainment column with quips about hosting, menus, and social manners. A child’s brightness is noted as unusually high given his parents, with jokes about modern comparisons and memory feats. A biblically themed remark about watches is debunked as nonsense.
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Mr. Meekton
Nippen
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