Empey and Company Over the Top in Costly But Successful Attack
Arthur Guy Empey, an American in Jersey City, joins the British army. He trains in France and fights in the front lines where death risks every moment. He serves as trench digger and observer, sees chaplains aid the wounded, and later stages a successful play on return from the front.
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Empey
Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
No Man’s Land
Turned Back From Leave In War Torn No Man's Land
The narrator's unit returns from a promised leave to harsh reality. After a five hour delay the train fails to depart and seventeen men are killed in an ensuing attack. Back at rest billets the brigade fights in the trenches, describing brutal combat, mangled corpses, and the claustrophobic mud of No Man's Land.
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Tommy
Foot of a German soldier haunts a WWI trench tale
A veteran recalls six days in a frontline trench amid unburied dead in France. He describes a severed foot used as a hat rack, rats in the night, and a German lieutenant’s body near the parapet. Seven days of relief follow after heavy losses and repeated enemy counterattacks.
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Germany
France
Punishments and Stunts in British Army Discipline
The narrator describes strict British army discipline in France, noting seven million ways to break rules and listing penalties from death by firing squad to sixty four days in the front-line trench with no relief. Deser tion cowardice mutiny looting and other offenses trigger severe punishment.
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France
Tommy
German gunners fooled by surprising anti aircraft tricks
Empey and his comrades operate a deadly machine gun and perform tricks to torment Fritz. The next installment promises to show how German gunners are outsmarted by the soldiers' tactics.
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Empey
Fritz
Lion tamer recalls dangerous Christmas gift from abroad
A famed lion tamer recounts receiving three boas and five alligators as a holiday present from a friend. He and his wife slept on the bed canopy as the reptiles escaped their boxes in the night, and he feared the snakes might wake the boa constrictors next.
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Jim
Paper crafts for children using torn newspaper shapes
Instructions describe simple fold and tear activities for kids. Create a tent from a two by four inch paper oblong, fold to form a chair and table, then tear pieces into trees, a ball, doll babies and more easy shapes.
Offensive Strategy Emphasized by General Foch in Field Talk
In a Field journal excerpt, General Foch argues victory rests on taking the offensive, using organized reserves as a bludgeon to deliver a decisive attack. He warns against purely defensive battles and urges mass, surprise, and speed with careful reserve deployment to overwhelm the enemy.
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London
Foch
The
The Car Knocks Down Man Then Mixed Up Numbers
An old man is knocked down by a motorcar and rushes to a policeman claiming the car struck him. He reports the plate as 66, but another officer corrects him, noting the man was standing on his head when he saw the number and it's actually 99.
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Royal Transportation Officer
Santa Claus
R.T. O
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Tommy
Red Cross
Panama Canal
Work That Will Pass
A note from Girls' Companion urges readers to reject complacency and aim for their best. It argues that accepting imperfections is a mistake and promotes setting the highest standard, never letting defects pass without challenge.
Lew Wallace Found Devout After Ben Hur
General Lew Wallace said he had no fixed religious convictions before writing Ben Hur but as the Christ figure took form his life changed. After completing the work he realized for the first time he was a devout Christian.
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Lew Wallace
Christ
Mixed Messages In A Quack of a Saying
A playful remark cites changing attention as water off a duck’s back. The speaker notes shifting focus from prior guidance to indifference, using a light analogy to describe evolving receptiveness.
Sugar program broadened to allow larger canning limits
State Food Administrator Henry A. Page announces a new sugar program raising canning limits to five pounds for households and twenty five pounds on certificates for canning and preserving, with larger quantities possible by county approval. He urges non users to join a sugar abstinence roll while protecting home supplies and canning needs. Wachovia Bank aids western NC farmers with a soy bean carload at cost, and several NC districts approve or seek special school taxes to fund education.
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Raleigh
Henry A. Page
United States
Herbert Hoover
Cuba
Porto Rico
Mr. Page
Page
Food Administration
Bank
Wachovia Bank and Trust Co
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Bruce Anderson
Agricultural Extension Service
Forsyth County
Deserters Handed Over in Mitchell County News
Thirteen Mitchell county deserters surrendered and were turned over to Spartanburg authorities. Major Langston relayed a Justice Department telegram stating all deserters delivered themselves to him Saturday and were handed to camp authorities.
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Mitchell
Raleigh
Mitchell County
Spartanburg
S. C
John WD. Langston
Mr. Handy
Department of Justice
Handy
Rates to Remain After General Order No 28 Amendment
The North Carolina corporation commission confirms a Washington cable saying General Order No 28 will be modified to keep intrastate freight rates based on May 25, with a 25 percent overall increase applying to state and interstate traffic. Minimum charges on brick cement coal coke logs sand gravel and stone will be removed. Guilford war stamp drive intensifies with Thomas R. Foust leading Guilford County, Greensboro aiming $346 016, merchants plan coordinated support at Chamber of Commerce event.
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Raleigh
Corporation Commission
National Administration of Railroads
Washington
B. L. Winchell
Atlanta
Guilford
Greensboro
Thomas R. Foust
Guilford County
Chas. H. McKnight
Merchants’ Committee
Merchants of Greensboro
Chamber of Commerce
Date For Fall Fair Chosen In Raleigh
Dates October 14 to 17 set for the annual Fair of the Carolinas at the fair grounds. Directors plan to join with the Mecklenburg Poultry association for a large chicken show next fall to benefit both organizations and attract a major regional event.
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Raleigh
The
Carolinas
Fair
Mecklenburg Poultry Association
Poultry Association
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