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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
3
A World War I diary recounts life in rest billets in France. Soldiers endure cooties and fleas, improvise scratchers from wood, burn clothing seams to shed vermin, and joke about digs while an aerial Fokker circles overhead during church parade before an afternoon of football.
In the trenches the narrator joins Ro company with Stewart as the line nears. The major, nicknamed Old Pepper, writes daily letters to Miss Alice Somebody in London during a night shift, even amid shell fire and cootie hunts.
The narrator recalls enlistment identity disks and a misassigned religion before a Sunday church parade. He witnesses German air activity and artillery, marks his fear turning to resolve, and endures his first baptism by shell fire as the column takes cover.
A wartime diary recounts marching into a ruined village named H- and taking shelter in shellproof cellars. The writer describes cold damp pits, rats, and the fear of frontline trenches called Whisky Street as bursts of shrapnel and German fire split the night.
A Cincinnati authority claims a new ether compound called froozons can be bought for a few cents at druggists. A few drops of Treezone on a tender corn or callus will make the sore vanish and the corn lift away with no pain or irritation. Women are urged to keep it on hand to prevent repeated corn discomfort.
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