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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1918
Page
9
A first person account from Arthur Guy describing life in a front-line trench in France. He recalls burying a fallen comrade Pete, daily routines, cooties, and the brutal bombardment before the assault over the top, with vivid details of mud, shells, and the uneasy calm between battles.
The narrator describes a muddy dugout called Death by own action Annex built below a trench. He notes foul air cold conditions and waterlogged floors as men slept and ate in mud while rain fell outside and a drip from an air shaft echoed overhead.
The chapter outlines trench routine at sundown with a stand to and relays. Sentries watch the No Man's Land while two reliefs guard the traverse and dugouts. sleep is rare amid damp cold gear and creeping “cooties.”
A Cincinnati authority promotes Freezone as a painless treatment for corns and calluses. A few drops loosen and lift the entire corn, root and all, without harming surrounding tissue. a quarter ounce costs little and is sold at drug stores. The ad warns against cutting or picking at corns as dangerous.
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