GUNNER DEPEW IN HOSPITAL DESCRIBES FRIGHTFUL WAR SIEGE
Albert N. Depew recounts his U S Navy service rising to chief petty officer first class gunner, then enlisting with the Foreign Legion. He fights in Flanders at Dixmude, endures a Zeppelin raid, is wounded, and saved by a nurse. A German doctor breaks a nurse’s wrists in a ward, provoking brutal retaliation by wounded soldiers. Depew argues Germans per Kaiser era reflect the war’s broader evil while noting the doctor’s complicity.
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Albert N. Depew
United States Navy
Navy
France
Foreign Legion
Flanders Front
Dixmude
Depew
Bocie
Kaiser
Gallipoli Duty And a Submarine Practice Cruise
After discharge I report to Cassard at Brest for sea duty. We escort the Dupleix to the Dardanelles and shell Turkish batteries at Kum Kaleh. I command the starboard bow turret’s two 14 inch guns as actions erupt, bullets and shrapnel tearing the ship. A junior lieutenant is mortally wounded, but I survive the harrowing stand and we depart for Brest with 15 casualties. A brief stop in Brest includes a submarine practice cruise under fire test and a Dutch merchantman sighting amid an eight-ship convoy.
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Gallipoli
Brest
Cassard
Murray
Dixmude
Dardanelles
Dupleix
Cape Helles
Cape
Kum Kaleh
V" Beach
Sick Bay
Yarmouth
Apacy
Limeys
Q. M
Garbies
Garby
Garbey
North Sea
Must Remain Awake
Uncle Eben warns that opportunity knocks at every man's door yet one may miss it by dozing and not noticing. The saying cautions against complacency and encourages alert attention to chances that arise in daily life.
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Eben
Dodson's Liver Tone Ad Promises Safer Liver Help
An old advertisement warns against calomel and promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless vegetable liver cleanser. It claims quicker relief, no sickness, and a money back guarantee, urging use by adults and children alike and noting wide parental and pharmacist endorsement.
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Dodson
Belgium Soldier Relates Child Bayonet Fatalities
A Belgian soldier at Haecht reports finding a three year old child with a bayonet wound in the stomach and says the child died in its mother’s arms. A Belgian refugee recalls a baby hanged by a door handle near Trever after Germans supposedly tore the infant from its mother.
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Kultur
Haecht
Trever
After Effects of Measles in Coal Creek Tenn
A Tennessee woman recounts her son James recovering from measles related diarrhea after using Thedford's Black-Draught three times daily for a month. She calls it their in-house doctor, praising its quick relief and urging neighbors to try the liver medicine. It is touted as a vegetable remedy aiding liver and bowels and sold by druggists.
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Coal Creek
Tenn
Relef
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Cure
A 19th century advertisement asserts catarrh is uncured by local applications and must be treated internally. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a blood-influenced remedy made from tonics and purifiers, with testimonials and free literature offered by F. J. Cheney & Co. The ad ends with a random quotation about politeness.
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Hall
Eic
F. J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
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Gunner Depew
U.S. Navy
Foreign Legion of France
Reilly and
Britton
Gallipoli Copaign
Calomel
Tennessee
Fletcher
Wright
Mars
Marine
Gilbert Bros. & CO
Baltimore, MD
Beaver Board
Stratton & Bragg CO
Petersburg
Virginia
Beaver Board” Distributors
Brame Medicine
Wilkesboro
N.C
Geaek
Guthura
Wintershite
MLL
TORN
Storst
Babek
Pepall
Kloczewski & Co
Washington
C. It. Griffing & Co
Macclenn. Fre
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