Empey’s WWI tale of trenches and courage across Europe
Arthur Guy Empey an American in Jersey City joins the British army after Lusitania sinking. He trains in London and France sees combat in front trenches fire steps and No Man’s Land. He serves on listening posts digs trenches faces gas attack and a firing squad before returning to rest billets and staging a play.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
No Man’s Land
British War Department
West
Albert Lloyd
Secret British World War I execution tale from a coward named Albert Lloyd
A narrator recalls witnessing a wartime execution and the remorse it stirred. The piece follows Albert Lloyd labeled a coward, from prewar fear through conscription to the trenches, revealing how stigma and pressure shaped his fate and the shell of anonymity given to those deemed slurs.
Drafted to the Front at Rouen and Plunged into War
Lloyd travels with a unit to Rouen for a week of trench warfare training drawn from the French road to the front. He marches to the trenches and, during a quiet night, flees the scene in fear as mortars begin, fearing capture and possible death in the front lines.
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Hommes 40
Chevaux
Rouen
General B
Frevent
Lloyd
Fritz
Best material for splints highlighted in 1900s report
The article promotes galvanized wire netting as superior to wood for surgical splints. It emphasizes its light weight strength non-absorbent and easy sterilization with ventilation. The splints are woven from tempered wire that can be shaped to fit and bound tightly to the injured limb.
Daily Thought Quote Reflects Admiration for Higher Influence
A Carlyle quotation extols the noble feeling of admiration for a higher force guiding human life. It frames this impulse as a constant, vivifying influence present at all hours.
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Carlyle
Public Service Reserve meeting presses food and war output
North Carolina hosted a regional gathering of Public Service Reserve county chairmen led by T. L. Bland with Harold Allen urging three essential aims to prevent disruption of food production war material and transportation. The meeting covered Reserve roles alongside the Employment Service and noted several federal appointments and local notices.
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Harold Allen
United States Public Service Reserve
North Carolina
T. L. Bland
Rocky Mount
Allen
Mr. Allen
Public Service Reserve
United States Employment Service
North Carolina faces auto tag law strain and charters granted
More than ten thousand car owners face fines for auto tag violations as North Carolina uses only 52 000 license tags though demand remains high. Secretary of State J Bryan Grimes notes many discs show License Applied For or lack full addresses, hindering mail delivery. Also announced are several new charters including Elwell Insurance, Lansing Mining, and Royal Company, plus reports from cotton manufacturers, mobilization planning, county commissioner meeting in Gastonia, welfare expansion, and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association adjournment.
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North Carolina
Secretary of State
Col. J. Bryan Grimes
Charlotte
Post Office
Raleigh
Elwell Insurance Company
Lansing Mining Company
Lansing
Ashe County
George W. Cook
Johnston City
Tenn
G. L. Cook
Nashville
G. L. Park
Jefferson
French Break Through On Picardy Front Advancing Lines
French forces attack between Castel and Mailly-Raineval pushing Germans from Castel and Anchin farm and penetrating over a mile. Allied efforts near Cantigny Hamel and Villers Bretonneaux noted, with southward push from Longpont to Corcy and Fa verolles region improvements. Austrian mutinies in Serbia and Turkish garrison killings in Asia Minor reported.
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Castel
Mailly-Raineval
Picardy
Amiens
Senecat Wood
Anchin Farm
Cantigny
Hamel
Villers Bretonneaux
Somme
Marne
Aisne
Longpont
Corcy
Petain
Chavigny
Faverolles
Ypres
Lys Salient
Albert
Serbia
Athens
Asia Minor
President vetoes price set for coming wheat crop
Washington In vetoing the 28 million dollar annual agricultural appropriation bill the President blocks the amendment fixing the minimum wheat price at 2.40 per bushel. He warns higher prices burden consumers and trigger Canada price rises while praising farmers for their patriotic effort amid wartime food concerns.
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Washington
Congress
Farmers of America
Canada
Hse
Germany
Prohibition Vote Postponed Until August 16
Washington reports the senate debated government control for wartime communications and set a postponement of prohibition legislation to late next month. Leaders announced an interim recess of three days ending August 26 amid the debate.
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Washington
Senate
Short Lines Taken Over by Government
Washington reports the government will take control of several rail lines including the Piedmont and Northern Aberdeen and Rockfish East Carolina and Durham and Southern. The Piedmont and Northern once operated by the government is being returned to private owners.
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Washington
Simmons
Piedmont & Northern
Aberdeen & Rockfish
East Carolina
Durham & Sotthern
Mne
Gov ‘ Oment
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Arthur Guy Empty
Uur
Tommy
Kitchener
Aldershot
Windy
Lloyd's Company
Special Dispatch
Grover Cleveland Hamrick
Shelby
Internal Revenue Bureau
J. H. Hardwood
Bryson City
Internal Revenue Service
Thomas Christian Lyon
Creedmoor
Annapolis
Stedman
W. L. Hardin
James S. Purcell
Maxton
HiWer A. Owen
Roseboro
Walter M. Morrison
Taylorsville
Gretta M. Smith
Sandersville
Lucy F. Winfield
War Department
James T. Barrett
Asheville
Department of Labor
J. M. Yount
Newton
C M. Tomlin
Statesville
T. A. Gwyn
Canton
Cottom Manufacturers’ Association of North Carolina
Keating-Owen
Junaluska Inn
Assembly Grounds
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Lake Junaluska
Thomas W. Bickett
P. P. Claxton
Cotton Manufacturers Association of North Carolina
Bickett
Claxton
A. J. Draper
A. M. Dixon
Gastonia
T. C. Leak
Rockingham
A. H. Bahnson
Hunter Marshall, Jr
Crowder
Young
North Carolina Association of County Commissioners
Winston-Salem
Forsyth
State Board of Public Charities
Board of County Commissioners
County Board of Charities and Public Welfare
Ass'n
Southern
Asociation
F. G. Bell
Savannah Morning News
Waler C. Johnson
Chattanooga News
Wilson
Picardy Front
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