davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-06-07
Winchester Items.

Harry Johnson broke his right arm
while at play last week.
M. Connors spent one day last week
out of town on business.
Mercer VS. Winchester is the ball
game scheduled for Sunday.
Mrs. /. e. Jensen was Birch lake
visitor between trains, Thursday.
Mrs. T. Laha of Hurley, spent Sun
day with relatives and friends here.
Mr.. Daily of Vinegar, attended
town board meeting here Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Hyde left Sunday,
to visit at their old home, New Lis
bon, Wis.
Miss Cora Sewers is home after
spending the winter attending high
at Merrill.
Miss Gladys Owens of Vinegar,
spent couple of days last week with
friends here.
Miss Genevieve Morgan went to
Birch Lake Monday, where she plans
to spend the summer
Mrs. A. Hong of Tripoli, is visiting
her brother, Jim Cole of this place
and friends in Vinegar.
Three auto loads of dancers from
Spider Lake resort attended the dance
here Saturday evening.
Mrs. w. Nagley had the misfortune
to break her arm, while at work
with the women's crew.
Mrs. C. Honsowetz and son of Lam
sing, Mich. are guests of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Johnson.
Ed Laundire left Sunday evening
to enlist In the navy. Luck and good
wishes 60 with you Eddie.
Mrs. E. Erickson underwent sue
cessful opera tion at ST. Joseph'S Hos
pital at Ashland, last Wednesday.
A fine shipment of pike was made
Monday by Ben Zellen, who is spend
ing few days at his cottage on Birch
Lake.
Miss Edith Carlson left for her
home at Eagle River, Saturday. She
taught the McElrone school the past
term.
The Liberty Loan flag was hoisted
under Old Glory this week. We are
patiently waiting for our "Over The
Top flag.
DR.. Schlect and family of Minocqua,
arrived at the Peterson home Sunday.
DR.. will open his dental Office there
for few days.
D. Rogers left for his home in Mich.
Saturday evening. He has been look
ing over some timber for this Co. the
last two weeks.
w. G. Winchester, President of the
Turtle Lake Lbr. Co., of this place,
returned to his home at Grand Rapids,
Mich, Saturday evening.
John Gardener our congenial cook at
the boarding house, has gone to Mimi.
on business trip. Mrs. A. Laha is
doing the cooking during his absence.
Clarence Buck has been guiding a
party of four at Albrant's resort on
Fisher lake, the past week. He re-
ports some fine fish caught, also
fine bunch of bliSters.
j. Albrant has opened his summer
resort on Fisher lake, for the season,
and moved his family there this week.
He is booked up for prosperous sea-
son.
Tourists are commencing to arrive
at the resorts. Koerner's at Spider
lake report quite a party and more
arriving each day. We understand
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-06-07

FOR SALE Early Rose seed
potatoes. 25cts. a bushel at Gel
lar in town or will loan out to
plant and return in fall the same
amount. No sacks furnished.
N. l.. KINNEY.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-06-07
Go to L. j. Kuehne for a full
line of wall paper and paints

There's only one business col
lege in Wis, where students,
both young men and ladies have
gymnasium privileges and that's
Busheys' Of Appleton.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-06-07
It pays to go 200 miles to
attend Busheys' Business
College of Appleton.
Has q Good Opinion of Cham
berIain'S Tablets.

''Chamberlains Tablets are a wonder. /
never sold anything that beat them writes
F. B. Tressey, Richmond, KY. When troub-
led with indigestion or constipation give them
trial.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-06-07

ST. PETERS CATHOLIC CHURCH ].
Early Mass at 500 a. M. Mass at
1000 a. M, Sunday school at LOO p. M
FIR. TOPLAK.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-06-07

Using steel alleged with new min+
eral recently discovered in Colorado.
a resident of that state has made tools
with which he cuts the ardest woods
and shaves himself without sharpen
ing the tools between operations.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-06-07
LUTHERAN CHURCH

Sunday school at 900 a. N.
English Service at 1920 a. m.
German Service at HOO a. m.
No evening services.
Rev, HI. SCHM1TT, Pastor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08

ing rooms, if it were not for the Y. M. G. A.
They at the same time clubs and
stores. They offer refreshment, both for
the body and the mind They are we'll
stocked with useful things, such as soap,
tooth brushes and other simple toilet nee
essares. They offer also wide choice of
more attractive purchases from canned
fruits to picture postcards. And when the
soldier has bought what he needs or fan
cies, Or merely looked around and kept
money in his pocket. he can sit down. order
something to drink, meet his friends, read
the papers, write letters.
soldier said to me once: cts the Y.
NJ. c. A. that keeps us human"
1t does what no other organization is do
ing or could do. Amid the dreariness Of
the war zone, in the monotonous life of the
troops in the field, the Red Triangle shines
with steady comforting glow There could,
in my opinion, be no better way OF spend
ing hundred million dollars than giving
the Y. NJ. c. A. the fullest opportunity to
make the soldier more comfortable and
more contented with his lot.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08
At the Sign of the Red Triangle

can put in his pack and take with him into
the line to help while away the weary
hours of which there are so many in war.
J. have seen men come into a Y M. C. A.
library and tell the librarian that his books
have saved them from going melancholy
mad.
Next the soldier is for time ain sup
port; that is to say, in trenches and dug
outs short distance behind the front line.
Here he may begin to be indebted to the
Y. NJ. c. A. for other advantages. ] have
known Y. NJ. c. a. canteens to be estab-
Iished actually under the enemy's fire for
the benefit of the men in support.
Then comes 8 spell OF being sin reserve"
This is passed in some ruined town or viii
lage or in camp of tin huts. The soldier
now has plenty of leisure-what can ne do
with it? You know that one of the pleas
ures OF life is shopping. This is supposed
by many people to be a woman's pleasure,
but my experience is that men enjoy shop
ping, too. In ruined villages in hut camps,
there would be no shops, just as there
would be no cafes, no Libraries, no writ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08
By LORD NORTHCLIFFE

" ONDON, aug. 20 (By maiD Have
n you ever tried to picture for your
h 4 self the life Of the soldier in the
field? Let draw you an outline.
What ! describe | have seen during my
many visits to the Allied fronts.
While he is Gin the line" as he calls it,
which means holding the front positions,
he is fixed to one particular spot. He has
duties which occupy a large part of his
time. His recreation is limited to smoking,
chatting and reading How the men in the
line hunger for Something to read" how
they go through the magazines, daily and
weekly papers, even through scraps of old
paper; how they enjoy anything fresh which
will take them out of themselves" for
little while l could describe from personal
experience and illustrate by many pathetic
anecdote, but there is no need, you can i'm
agine it.
And then You can go on TO imagine also
the gratitude which the soldier feels to the
Y. M. c. A. for the loan of books which he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08

in the interval between scissors and
Noyon compelled the enemy to call in six
divisions at first, which then swelled to
ten and later to fourteen. On August 26
came yet another blow, still further
north on the Scarpe, and from three d.
visions there six, eight and finally ten
moved up at top speed to prevent a pos
sible collapse Of the German line.
Then was seen there general "blis-
tering" by the Allies, applied to the
German front. Since the failure of the
last German offensive, July Is to Is, this
"blistering' has kept up the congestion
already begun by German concentration
for that offensive. It has been possible
to keep up this clustering" because the
Allied forces, thanks to the continually
arriving American divisions, are con-
stantly increasing. The enemy has now
ute his forces. He has never been al
lowed to do SO. Although as yet he has
no prepared line, or at least no line fully
prepared, he has determined to retreat.
He carried that determination into effect
as we have seen, on the nights Of August
rs and 27. In theory, a force retreating
on long determined plan should be able
to get away. 1t can start unobse1ved,
especially under trench conditions, if it
escapes by night. 1t leaves but a thin
rear guard; it has already sent back its
heavy stuff; it breaks bridges and cul-
verts and blows up crossroads behind it.
But an attempt to retreat on a certain
sector when its flank is still held is in
practice difficult thing. Consider that
in retseating the great mass of your
troops are out of action. They are
marching in a column. Your artillery
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08

few prisoners and no guns to speak of.
Moreover, the two southernmost echelons
-7ere retired fourteen miles in eighteen
hours, and the northernmost echelons
were retired six miles in the last
half of these eighteen hours. All
went we'll. No bungler, however bad,
could fail in simple covered retreat on
a front of twenty miles. But what about
TANKS? The retreat of isolated armies
is one thing; the retreat of a line Joined
on ether flank to further lines hundreds
of miles long is quite another. The
first is like withdrawing your hand from
a closing door, The second is like trying
to withdraw part of rope the ends Of
which are fast. The moment the Ger
man retreat began Foch opened tremen
dous attacks above and below it. To the
north Byng's Third British Army struck
beyond the Somme and Albert. After
him Horne's First British Army struck on
the Scarpe. In the south Mangin, rein
forced by Americans, moved forward
again with vigor. What was the result?
The steady, orderly retirement conceived
by Ludendorff changed into the desper-
ate necessity Of saving his left and right
TANKS For note that if either the
French and the Americans on the right
and the south Of the retreat, or the
British on the left and north, had got
few miles forward the retreating Ger
mans in the centre would have been cut
off,
To prevent such disaster the enemy
command had to call back the men
sent onward in front Of the re-
tirement. He had to halt the retirement
and fight against his will. 1t matters
little what progress was made on these
wings. The British are at Eterpigny,
which means that in the north the enemy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08
T ess Than 1870 Hun Divisions
l. Are Available

The enemy, as we know, has rather
less than 200 divisions on the Western
front. It is said he has 1913 divisions,
counting the Austrians. These forces
he cannot seriously increase. These
divisions, Of course, are not all available
for first line work. The number Of
ayailables IS something between ITO and
1870. That is the only number that con-
Germs Us, because the remainder is only
fit for garrison work and such duties as
relief guard behind the lines. At full
strength these 10 or 1870 divisions would
mean from / $50 900 to 1920 900 men, the
uresent establishment of a German divi-
sion being three regiments of three bat
talions each, a battalion at full strength
being made up Of about 1000 men. This
force at present is short its full strength,
how far short we do not know, but it is
considerably depleted and will not be at
full strength again as long as 1t is being
subjected to its present ordeal.
We know that it is not at it's full
strength from a comparison between the
losses and the recruitment 1t has lost
since July 18-that is, in forty-four days
about 10000 men in valid prisoners
alone. 1t lost in three days Of its abor-
tive offensive just before that-an often
sive conducted with over quarter mil
lion infantrymen alone in the shock line,
quite apart from the immediate reserves
some $4,000 men. Although the num-
Der Of prisoners is large in this case COM
pared with the total casualties, yet the
total casualties cannot be less than
100000 by the end Of August. The
enemy has had to counter attack con-
FINALLY, his roads Immediately behind
The front having been subjected most Of
the tins to continuous bonbardment
from the air and from the artillery.
Moreover, he has suffered tactical infer
iority az wei as a numerical one from
tbs presence Of two new tactical instru-
mens-ths new tanks and the new
American contingents
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08
Eailmg to FIJI
l Up the Ranks

Now, when force loses thus If fills the
gaps by recruitment from depots, and
these deputs in turn are fed from two
sources, namely, from the hospitals,
which furnish men whose wounds have
recently healed, and new recruits who
have Just finished their preliminary
drilling. The former source comes
70 about sixty per cent of this
total casualties after q delay aver
aging from four to five months, count
ing the light cases, which are only mat
ter of days, and the severe cases, which
may mean a year or more. Whatever
the German losses we're in the great
battle in March, April and May-when
they missed their DECISIONS great deal
less than half that total has been re-
Claimed Of the losses since July Is
certainly not one-ffth have returned
meanwhile the second source of supply
IS only now becoming available. 1t con-
sists of lads Of the 1920 class-namely,
lhose born in the course Of tho year
l9oo- Not all Of them are yet eighteen
years Of age Their total Incorporated
number, excluding large proportion Of
ahdeVeloped boys who have just come
oack out Of the very youngest classes for
later examination, will be some 45O, 900
before the end Of the year. Mons Of
'nese has yet appeared in the field. but
Viii be there soon.
Under the circumstances we know that
mere are from 1870 to 1870 available Ger
: nan DIVISIONS on the West front, some
"''at under strength, though in exactly
"'ss degree we cannot tell. There may
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08

be 100000 bayonets against US. mavbe
few more or many less, but certainly
not full million and half.
over against this force the Allied line
now has clear, though not vet very
large superiority in numbers 1t is a
superiority which is rapidly growing
through the continual arrival of Ameri
can contingents. There, first, is the
crudest element in the situation-num-
bers. Now look at the second equally or
more important factor-ground. Here I
must ask the reader to look at any map
of France or Eastern Germany if he
would follow the argument The line
between the North Sea and the Swiss
frontier (now that Foch has reduced the
two great enemy salients at Montddier
and the Marne) runs in a shape which
may be compared to the back, seat and
front legs Of chair. There is, roughly
speaking, nrst north and south per-
pendicular, then an east and west hori-
zontal, then another north and south per-
pendicular. The first north and south
perpendicular, which is the back of the
chair, starts at Newport, on the North
Sea, and runs down past Ypres, Arras, Ba-
paume, Peronne to Noyon. The horizon
tai runs from Noyon past Scissors and
Rheims through the Argonne Forest to
Verdun. The last perpendicular, which
is the front leg of the chair, runs from
Verdun past Saint Mihiel and Nancy
down to the Swiss frontier in front of
Belfort.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08
WHY the Foe Finds Himself
w So Congested in the North

Now the interest-capital interest--ln
the present situation is from the Ar.
gonne to the North Sea, where on only
half of the line three-quarters Of the
enemy strength is drawn up. The only
remaining quarter, and that not the most
valuable in character, faces the Allies
from the Argonne to Switzerland. The
distance is virtually half the whole line.
This fact, coupled with the state and the
number Of either side and the shape Of
the line, determines all the present STRAIT
egy Of the campaign. The reason the
enemy finds himself thus congested upon
the north of his line and so i'll supplied
Oh the south is because he attempted a
decision in the north last spring and up
to July IS, and yet failed. Having failed,
he would have distributed his forces
but Foch, seized the initiative at once
and wouldn't let him. The Germans
were kept thus congested in the north in
spite Of themselves and sorely against
their will Every attempt to save men
by shortening the line and relieving the
crush In the north was met by a new
blow which compelled them to rush in
divisions to meet it.
The enemy was right in trying to win
in the north last March and April, at
Metz in June, and in July in front Of
Rheims. By victory in the north he
could have separated the Allied armies
and cut the great line Of railway which
is the lateral communication between
Calais, Paris and Nancy. This would
have threatened Paris. Of the two
hundred units he held the line with
half and the other half he organized for
shock, pursuit and relief. He struck his
great massed blows last, which fell on
July Is from Chateau Thierry to the Ar
gonne Il was this gathering of half his
whole available strength into sort of
club and the use Of that club always be-
tween the Argonne and the North Sea that
produced the congestion in the north.
When the club missed its mark and the
wrist and the hand that we're holding it
were suddenly gripped by a counter Of
fensive on July Is, the congestion was
maintained at our dictation against the
enemy's desire. He was prevented from
redistributing his force and looking to
the weakness beyond the Argonne.
First, in the Marine battle from July
10 TO August l he was compelled to
throw in quite sixty divisions to save
himself from disaster. Then came the
sudden blow at Tardenois on August 8,
when sixteen divisions on the defensive
had rapidly to call for aid until from
first to last forty divisions were engaged
by August II. AS that action stabilized
with the calling in of such forces, the
blow fell again on August II in The
north. The further calling Of divisions
there to save disaster and Mangin's blow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08
Keeping Most of the Hun Troops Con-
centrated in the Sector From the
North Sea to the Argonne Forest
BY HILAIRE BELLOC
of Elements of the Great War; Most DISTINGUISHED
Military Critic

TUST after my last article was COM
peted, in the night between August
~ % and August 27, the main Ger
man retreat began. 1t has not
proceeded as the enemy intended. 1t has
been checked in spite of his plan. 1t has
already proved disastrously expensive.
It is not accomplishing its purpose. The
details of the movement have engaged
public attention, especially the recovery
Of ruins the names of which are familiar,
such as Roye, Chaulnes, Bapaume and
others. But these details tell us nothing
unless we understand the whole scheme
of operations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08
a lied Concentration Where
a Blows Will Be Most Felt

The great bend, or knee, of the SOUTH
ern half line, with the corner at Verdun,
either side of which the Allied command
can strike at pleasure, is still unfur-
nished on the enemy's side and is in
creasingly well furnished by the rising
American tide on our side. To keep tbs
enemy north of Rheims is the whole
meaning of the great battles now pro-
ceeding between that town and Arras.
So long as he is kept there 1t matters
little what other ground is gained.
Suppose the enemy makes a sharp re-
tirement on line now over hundred
miles long. Then he loses inordinately at
least in men and material because of the
superior force which is intact and over
laps his retreat. Suppose he holds on.
Suppose he is compelled to hold on. Bet.
ter still. Then he leaves his left flank
from Verdun westward vulnerable and
clusters his men in the north to prevent
disaster there. He uncovers the south
flank. The tune of the strategy is de-
cided at Allied headquarters. There Is
determined the form of battle, and it
will continue to be determined there.
Besides, the Allies have a continually
increasing force at their command. while
the enemy, VINO has never done anything
without a superiority of numbers, has a
force which is decreasing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-08

NNRlVATE S., back III England
f. with bullet in his knee, told me
n this story about q man in his
battalion. It gives one a glimpse
OF the kind of men who met the German on
rush toward Rheims at the end of May.
His real name does not matter. He was
always called "Jobs." He was never idle
The only time ne was not doing job or
looking for one was when he was eating or
snatching an hour or two for sleep. His
idea Of job as something that it was his
own particular duty to do is worthy of in
cluson in new war dictionary, most
people have another name for the kind of
things he did.
At the end of May the battalion had had
g pretty rough time in the Juvincourt
salient. They had been forced to retire IN
face Of the German numerical superiority.
One Of the most astounding qualities of
Jobs was his unfailng cheerfulness. He
always found something to do, and he never
had any sympathy with fellows who started
to argue over the position Of affairs.
"Look here" he would say, "all the
arguing in the world, under it and over
it and on both sides of it, won't alter
things bit. We're just here to do what
there is to do, and we've got to leave it to
other people to settle all that stuff you're
gassing about. Get hold of job and stick
to it-thats what you want to do"
And he would go OF. cleaning his rife
scraping his puttees.
At first it made one q bit depressed TO
keep on retiring, until we saw with our
own eyes the price the Germans were pay
ing for bits Of shattered ground and ruined
villages. Once we saw crowds of them
coming up winding road, quite close, and
the guns got on to them with open sights
That sort of thing made US grudge the
round a little less than before. Well, one
lay we found ourselves in what seemed to
the remnants Of a wood. There were
stumps Of trees about the torn branches
lying all over the place. 1t was full of she'll
holes, too. We got into the shell holes and
we We're told we'd got to hold on with all
our might as long possible. We got some
wire up and the Lewis guns chose good po-
s.tions. The Smelling never stopped. We'd
bad precious little sleep for two nights and
not much food, and it looked like being q
bad time there. Jobs was quite unmoved,
as usual.
At night they sent over q storm of shells.
and we guessed there was going to be trou-
bic soon.
"We'll all have job soon now" said Jobs,
pulling his rifle through, his clay pipe stuck
in the corner of his mouth, and somehow one
couldn't think of him standing three years
ago, behind counter, exhibiting socks and
shirts and collars. After they'd done their
worst with the shells they attacked in mass
and we had our work cut out / don't think
they'd expected the wire. Anyway, there was
confusion when they came to it, and after
that the sting went out Of them But we
knew we hadn't finished with them. Our
guns were at it all the time, but we our
selves didn't quite know where they were
massng. There was O machine gun that
seemed quite near. and if man popped his
head up he got nasty warning from it