Trench Rations and Pete’s Last Letter in France
A British frontline memoir recounts a Lance Corporal overseeing daily rations in a French trench. The scene details bread, jam, bully beef, biscuits and tea while recounting the combat hardship and a friend, Pete Walling, mortally wounded. The piece closes with Pete’s burial and letters home from the frontline.
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Tommy
Bermuda
Ang
Raffles
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Royal Flying Corps
Fatioba
Tomany
Fritz
Tomy
Phi
Pngland
Goldier
Ava
Death by Own Action Annex Front Trench Memoir
In a trench memoir a soldier recalls the “Death by Own Action Annex” dugout eight by ten by six feet, waterlogged and muddy. Descriptions include a cold air shaft drip, sandbag fortifications, and the grim humor of troops as they endure mud, cold, and constant danger while awaiting morning relief and rum.
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Ani Rae
Azi
Pete Walling
Pete
Ingor Reat
Yank
Tommy
Witte
What He Wanted Canvases and a Yard and a Half Long
The artist is flattered by a millionaire visitor in his studio and is asked to present canvases Allegorical or landscape options are offered. Mr Newrich, a prominent contractor, replies he wants a yard and a half long by a yard wide to cover cracks in the fresco. The Florida Times Union notes shifting fashion and clothing topics in a separate tidbit about women and dress.
Whale Not Fat Swimmer Progress Limited
A whale's movement through water remains constrained to a speed of about ten to twelve miles per hour, offering a snapshot of its swimming pace and efficiency in marine environments.
Invention of a Self-Filling Pipe Echoed in Bedside Tale
A quoted anecdote recalls a pipe that fills as the tobacco burns, likening it to how Mark Twain might have valued such a convenience. The tale mentions young Clemens devising a pipe with a can of tobacco on the floor, connected by a rubber tube to light and smoke, ending with a note on bed exchanges.
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Mark Two
Mr. Clemens
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