Empey Narrow Escape On No Man's Land Patrol
The narrative recounts Arthur Guy Empey's WWI service with a British unit. He endures frontline trenches and listening posts in No Man's Land, aided by an officer's quick actions. A lengthy reminiscence details Old Scotty, other recruits, and perilous patrols amid barbed wire and night fighting.
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Empey
NO Man’s Land
Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Frontline Patrol Amid No Man's Land Reconnaissance
In chapter seventeen a patrol led by our lieutenant advances into No Man's Land armed with Mills bombs. The group of twelve men, including the narrator, departs at 11 30 pm to watch for working parties and observe enemy activity through the dark for two hours. They press forward about thirty yards from a German barbed line around two oclock in the morning.
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Wilson
Scott
Scotty
Northwest
Northwest Mounted Police
America
Rockies
Tye
Scotland Yard
Old Scotty
Mr. Atkins
Ananius
Deumatism
Tretcher
No Man's Land
Leutenant
No Man’s Land
Escape Through No Man's Land Under Fire
A soldier recalls crawling toward German lines, snagging on barbed wire, and a loud ripping sound. He dodges fire, slips back through the wire, and reaches his trench after a tense scramble, finally recovering with rum.
Stagecraft in the Trenches A Yank’s Homefront Revue
Three days after a frontline shift a U S Army unit rests for two months to rebuild strength. A Yank soldier stages a Bowery style two act farce named The Diamond Palace Saloon with twenty recruits repurposing attic finds into props while marching and writing a script from a makeshift desk of biscuit tins.
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Tommy
America
Empey & Wallace Theatrical Co
Diamond Palace
London
David Belasco
Bowery
New York
Diamond Palace Saloon
The
Abe Switch
Pumpkinville Center
Tenn
Tom Twistem
Fillem Up
Abe
Tom
Fillem
Governor Bickett Urges Vagrancy Conference in 1918
Governor Bickett calls North Carolina counties to meet May 29 to discuss enforcing vagrancy laws and to appoint delegates for a June 4 Raleigh state convention. He aims to pair jobless workers with employment and notes Federal interest and possible state legislative action. Santford Martin signs the proclamation.
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Raleigh
Bickett
North Carolina
T. W. Bickett
Drafting Doctors Form New North Carolina Selective Draft Commission
Governor Bickett creates a Medical Optional Selecting Draft Commission after a Pinehurst meeting of the North Carolina Medical Society. Dr. Cyrus W. Thompson Dr. A W Knox Dr M L Stevens Dr F R Harris and Dr R F Yarborough named to organize rules and draft guidelines for medical enlistment. The society places its members under draft provisions and 345 members have already joined the colors.
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Raleigh
Bickett
North Carolina Medical Society
Pinehurst
Cyrus W. Thompson
Jacksonville
A. W. Knox
M. L. Stevens
Asheville
F. R. Harris
Henderson
R. F. Yarborough
Louisburg
Medical Society
United States
Expell Trinity Council by National Judge Proclamation
The National Judiciary of the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics proclaims the expulsion of officers and members of Trinity Council No 307 in Trinity North Carolina for violating sections of national laws that forbid exploiting grievances through the press. The action follows a special Greensbor o session on April 20.
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Trinity Council
Washington
Order of the United American Mechanics
Trinity
North Carolina
Greensboro
Submarine Cable Wire Count To Moon Worth Remarked
An estimate claims the copper wire in all world submarine cables since 1857 would span from Earth to the Moon. The remark underscores vast scale of transoceanic communication lines.
Episcopals in Convention in Salisbury NC
The one hundred and second annual convention of the Diocese of North Carolina met at St. Luke's Episcopal church in Salisbury with Bishop J. B. Cheshire presiding. More than one hundred clerical and lay delegates attended, representing central North Carolina from Wilson and Rocky Mount to Statesville.
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Salisbury
The
Diocease of
North Carolina
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
J. B. Cheshire
Raleigh
Wilson
Rocky Mount
Statesville
May Day of Prayer Proclaimed by President Wilson
President Wilson designates May 30 as a national day of public humiliation prayer and fasting urging citizens to gather in worship and pray for victory and a just peace. The proclamation, issued May 11 1918, follows a Congressional resolution requesting divine aid for the war effort and ultimate peace.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
United States
Congress of the
Senate
House of Representatives
Woodrow Wilson
United States of America
District of Columbia
Convicts Released as State Railroad Labor Ends
The State Prison Board reports the surrender of the last twenty nine convicts involved in building the Elkin and Alleghaney railroad. Future contracted labor will pay cash to the State. Twenty five convicts are sent to New Hanover to aid the Wilmington road and shipyard project.
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Raleigh
Elkin and Alleghaney
State Prison Board
New Hanover County
Wilmington
Woodmen Meet at Wilson Convention in Hall of Enterprise Lodge
The State Convention of the Modern Woodmen of America met in Wilson with sessions at the Hall of Enterprise Lodge of Odd Fellows. Visitors were welcomed by Dr. R. A. Turlington, Chamber of Commerce president, and A. B. Carroll, Merchants Association president.
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Wilson, Wilson
Woodmen of America
Enterprise Lodge of Odd Fellows
R. A. Turlington
Chamber of Commerce
A. B. Carroll
Merchants Association
North Carolina Briefs Highlighted Legal and War News
Peter Youngblatt a Luxembourger faced a preliminary hearing on seditious utterances and was jailed for lack of a 1000 bond awaiting Federal Court in Charlotte in October. Governor Bickett to receive wool from President Wilson’s sheep to auction to NC buyers. In Zebulon Wiley S. Broughton 65 died after collapsing while lifting his wife’s body. Mrs Hyman Stadiem of Kinston lacks a son eligible to enlist, while her Manchester sister has seven sons in service.
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Peter Youngblatt
Luxemburg
Germany
United States
M. L. Flow
Charlotte
Governor Bickett
President Wilson
North Carolina
Zebulon
Wiley S. Broughton
Hyman Stadiem
Kinston
Americans Prepare to Join Allied Push in Northern France
American troops await deployment in France as they complete training in a zone adjacent to British forces. The forces may be brigaded with the British to meet the next German offensive along the northern front between Merville and Ypres, marking the fifth American sector on the front.
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France
Channel
Merville
Ypres
General Pershing
Luneville
Toul
St. Mihiel
Meuse
Montdidier
Picardy
United States
Third Liberty Loan totals and New York Red Cross drive
The third Liberty loan raised 4 170 019 650 dollars, over 39 percent above the 3 billion goal, with about 17 million subscriptions across all districts led by New York at 124 percent. President Wilson opened a Red Cross war fund drive in New York, greeted by crowds and joined by Col and Mrs House.
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Washington
Federal Reserve
New York
United States
McAdoo
Atlantic District
Treasury
RED Cross
Wilson
Edward M. House
Colonel Hou
Trial of Dr Lemuel Johnson in Richmond Virginia
Miss Mildred Taylor testified as the trial of Dr Lemuel Johnson for the murder of his wife proceeds in Richmond. City coroner Dr J M Whitfield said he found two tenths of a grain of poison in the dead bride’s stomach after analysis.
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Richmond
Mildred Taylor
Alice Johnson
Lemuel Johnson
Middlesex
N. C
J. M. Whitfield
bombardment hits American sector on Picardy front
The American sector on the Picardy front was heavily bombarded early this morning with a 45 minute cannonade. Aerial activity was noted yesterday and today under clear skies and light wind, with no signs of renewed German offensive. Troop movements behind German lines remain normal.
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Picardy
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Sec’y
North Carolina Briefs
Stars and Stripes
Flanders
Gritich
DR. Johnson
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