Ex Gunners and French Legion News from the Front
Ex gunner and chief petty officer recounts marching with the Foreign Legion on the Western Front. He describes shelling, trudging through wrecked roads, witnessing chaplains and vows, brutal enemy strafing, wounded comrades, and a nightmarish trench rescue that ends with an advance order and a pale, scared narrator awaiting action.
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Foreign Legion OF France
Cassard
Teutenant
Leutenant
Bart
Darken Gray Hair With Sage and Sulphur Remedy
An old time beauty remedy promotes Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound to darken gray hair and restore shine. The ad claims a 50 cent bottle darkens evenly, removes gray by morning, and gives a youthful appearance without curing disease.
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Wyeth
Training the Little Children in Faith and Character
A 1918 Catholic-leaning essay urges parents to teach children the sense of God's presence, Froebel inspired methods, and home-based character formation to complement school learning. It stresses love, harmony, and responsibility, with notes from the U S Food Administration on grain movement and seed science inquiries.
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Jumping Joan
Froebel
Government price rule warns farmers on wheat sales
Farmers of the northwest are warned not to sell their wheat at prices below the government set rate. The notice emphasizes adherence to official price floors to support the market and ensure fair compensation for growers.
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Northwest
Inside-bathing Morning Remedy Promises Health Boost
A Victorian era health note urges a daily inside bath of hot water and vestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims this routine prevents constipation bilious attacks and nervous days, recommending limestone phosphate as a cheap demonstration dose.
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Bath
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Fritz
Frits
Legion
God
Jonah
Yellowstone
Pollu
Wy A
John Henry Hammond
United States Food Administration
Ladd
E. F. Ladd
Food Administration
Fargo
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General Pershing
Hoover
The
Ricultural College
A. L. Bolley
Agricultural College
Husebye Hardware
Williston
North Dakota
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