davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-09-23

Fred Merkle hung up two notable
records in the late lamented world
series. .Merkle is the only player who
has taken part in world series with
three different clubs He also holds
the records for number of world series
games in which any player ever partI-
cipated. He has played in 81 games
in the annual shows.
Jack Barry hung up a record of %
games in 1915. Last year Collins broke
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-09-23

'Tt is worse than shortsighted for any
manufacturer to adopt the attitude that
because at the present time the de-
rnand is greater than his ability to sup
ply, 1t would be foolish for him to ad-
vertise. Such manufacturer forgets
that advertising has a greater func-
tion to perform than merely selling a
product. a
1T has got to sell an institution. It
has got to build UP an investment in
public goodwill. Every manufacturer
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-09-23

Well there was one nice thing
about the world series this year.
There was plenty of room Tor every
body.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-09-23

Bob Bescher, picked up by Cleve-
land after the season was under way,
finished the 1918 season in fifth place
in the league batting list.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-09-23

No matter what effect war may
have on sports this winter there won't
be any ban on snowballing, coasting,
cutting stars, etc.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-09-23

There are a lot oft@ticket scalpers
who have thrown away their pockers--
ful of unsold tickets and have sworn
off on world series business in the
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-09-23

FOOTBALL Ar KENTUCKY @UR.
Il Lexington, KY, Sept. 23.-The Unt-
versity Of kentucky will continue
football Informal announcement was
made that the schedule will be played.
even if intercollegiate games are dis
continued by the government.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-09-23

should bear in mind that peace will
inevitably reverse his present position
and he will be confronted with a sup
ply greater than the demand. Then
when he does take up advertising, he
will find that his competitors, through
advertising, have invested in public
good will, to his loss.
HE will need the demand one day
and need it very badly. To insure that
full share will come his way, he must
be forehanded. He should act now
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-09-23
SAILORS TO HAVE ELEVEN.
(By. Associated Press.1

Detroit, Mich, Sept. 23.-Plans are
under way for organizing a bluejack-
ing station, adjoining the Ford Eagle
plant at River Rouge About 75 of the
sbluejaekets responded to the call for
football candidates. Among them were
colleges and on the Pacific coast navy
eleven
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-09-23
Sport Snapshots
(By Jack Keene:)

Professional boxing continues to
flourish in England despite the war.
Twenty-Five championship contests
have been held since the war broke
out. These fights have embraced. ey-
cry class except the lightWeights. The
fact that Freddy Welsh, holder of the
Lord Lonsdale belt, emblematic of the
lightweight championship, is in the
United States has caused the lack of
interest in that class.
Bombardier Wells still holds the
heavyweight championship of Great
Britain. Sergt. Maj. Dick Smith has
who have thrown away, their pockets
to the middleweight title.
fancy Lee is the featherweight
and Jimmy Wilde, a. private in the
English army. is the fyweight cham
pion.
If anyone should announce Sailor
Simon w. Thompkips at the ringside
at one of the war benefit boxing
shows few fans would pay any atten-.
tion to the announcer-until they saw
Thompkins. For Sailor Thompkfns is
Peter Jackson, one of the greatest col
ored boxers in ring history. He is
yard and hopes to go across Soon.
Jackson failed to win a champion
ship in his long career, but was a
clever fighter and always gave his
four rounds when Joe held the Welter-
weight Championship of the world
but sporting critics at the time did
not give him the .welterweight crown.
believed he could make more money
in that line than in any other game.
He is 40 years old now, but appears
ODE in good condition. 81
Joe shugrue, former lightweight
boxer, who makes his home in Water
bury, Conn, recently, was rejected by
the army surgeons at Camp Devens,
Aver, Mass, because of defective eye
Five or six years ago shugrue was
cne of the leading boxers at his weight
in; the country and enjoys the disttnc-
tion of being the only boy ever to
and Leonard met when both were new
at. the. game and Joe knocked Benny
cold in four rounds. Joe, who then
claimed Jersey City as his home,
boxed often when at the height of his
career. and it was said that his sight
was affected by repeated blows which
he sustained over the eyes. : For a
time he was threatened with perma-
nent blindness.
During the season which has just
closed Matty's Reds had most sue
cessful home stand, but once they hit
the trail to their opponeats' lair they
found the going rather tough. While
on their own lot Matty's warriors won
more than two-thirds of their con-
tests, but away from home they were
only able to win a little more than
one-third of the amount of games
played. OF the 20 games played in
Cincinnati the Reds won 46 and lost
a. On their opponents grounds they
won 81 and dropped 36. They won the
seasons series from the Giants, Rob
ins, Cards and Phillies and lost to the
Braves, Cubs and Pirates.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-09-23

THE BUREAU OF ADVERTISING American News
paper Publishers Association 8O6 World Bldg New York.
has just issued booklet, "Everytown.' Manufacur
ers should write for it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-11-20
A Ned Ivey Letter

intense interest to them. They rev
ell in aeroplanes and fight in the "Y''
lines awaiting their turn. We have
our ''unwritten laws" about sucn
things as to VINO and when a man
may go to the head of the line. One
chap told me today of an awful hike
they had-8 miles with packs. POOR
cuss. | didn't have the heart to tell
him Of our 25 and 80 and then some
mile hikes that we have had. He was
elated that he was now at the front
when as a matter of fact we are some
20 miles back. Someone sent gang
of them out hunting for buried Ger
man rifles, when the Germans maven I
been on this ground for nearly three
wears. others complained as they
only had two blankets, overcoat ana
sIicker while we have no overcoats
and most of the boys one blanket I'VE
get a new issue shortly so altogetn-
err they furnish us with good enter
tainment. Then of course they tell
Of conditions back in the States Whlcn
we are interested in. 1t, must be a
s.funny old place" with its war
clothes" on. OF course home to US
is still a place where pies abound
and cookies, pancakes, candy and Ice
cream grow on every bush. Last
night I dreamt / was in civilian
clothes and eating a chocolate banana
split with some matted milk on the
side with Roy and Alex in John Pen
dleton's restaurant where Toms
clothing house now stands. Now
what do you know about that? Ha!
Ha! Pretty good for little shaver,
Ell? Sure sign we are going home
soon!
/ A plane dropped us news today
that Bulgaria had quit and Austria
had served 48 hours notice on Ger
many, which sounds good but prob
ably some propaganda, in hope that
the Allies would ease up on the pres
ent drive. That kaiser has some
queer notions about our gullibility.
We don't get any papers where we
are so don't get any authentic news.
Micky and Shoekert went up ahead
today to see if there was any mail
for us. Hope so.
We get U. S. sugar. French civilian
sugar looks like fine rock salt and
amber cOlored. They get it from some
island. That's one thing, father, you
can tell your customers that we are
getting the -four and sugar. Some
times transportation fails us for a
Gay or so and we go short but it's not
because of any shortage in the COM
missary. The vast Importance of the
immensely of the transportation is
beyond ones imagination. For a week
now nearby road has been solid
rnacc Of trupkc pOiOp RI fhn front A
One-way-only road. Day and night
the roar of motols is continuous. If
a truck stops for any reason whatso-
ever. an NJ P. is right there. The
driver has FIVE minutes to repair and
be on his way, if not over goes his
truck and load into the ditch regard
less OF it's contents or value. Traffic
must not be blocked as lack of sup
plies means battles AMI lives lost.
know of an instance where division
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-11-20

him how to stick it on the wall for
the morrow which he gladly did. To-
morrow | will give him couple OF
sticks to send home to his children
and teach them the American habit
of gum as they have US the Vim. Botn
are equally good or bad as one thinks
for.
Did / tell you of the two Collat
girls in Wassy who had never seen
chewing tobacco? Well / had brought
a plug up to the house for Paul who
had spent some time in New York and
could Parlez bit of American. The
girls looked it over, smelled OF it and
thought it strange stuff to chew, so i
opened the plug and showed them the
juicy leaf, told 'em it was sugar and
to try it. So one did and wish you
could have seen the transition of ex-
pectant wonder to rank disgust and
the move to the door and splitting and
suffering. All good fun for Paul,
Grandma and l. So shortly Luce's
friend came in and she went through
the same ordeal. Ha! Ha! But /
squared myself with pound of hard
candy which l was fortunate enough
to own. | tried to give it to Grand
ma but she would not accept gift
Of that price (French value would
De some 10 to Is Francs) but with the
assistance of Paul / convinced the
older girl (sister) Jeanne, that it was
right and proper for her to accept
it, Luce (2O) is engaged so wouldn't
dare offer it to her. How / do strain
their conventions to the limit. They
also insist that l spend my "Permis-
sion'' with them. Grandma has three
sons in the army, another is a gov
eminent tax collector, Paul works in
an ammunition plant, CASTOR, IS, a
widower and father of Jeune, Fl,
Luce. 20. and Germaine, 8, believe
is a city official / told you in a prev
ious letter of the dinner and how the
women, folks all cried, including a
neighbor lady who happened in, when
| bid them goodbye and told them
where we thought we were bound.
Believe me, i liked those people and
wanted to bid them goodbye in real
American fashion but all got was
a warm hand-clasp and | guess when
one understands the French heart
and customs it bespeaks more sincere
friendship than some of our more
demonstrative affections.
hand outside of the home letters and
as matter of fact | haven't even
enough paper on hand to reply to all.
This came out of salvage heap Of
u. ST. French and German stuff. Such
heap contains everything imasin-
able Here's what I selected: A Ger
man overcoat, paper, a couple OF
candles, few buttons, an auto tire
from which l cut rubber bands, a
clip of rifle cartridges and few 45s,
handkerchiefs and sox for other
chaps, photos to decorate our hut, a
dish towel, two fine heavy leather
straps and some anti dimming dope
for gas mask goggles. Such heaps
contain thousands of blankets, over
coats, trousers, sox, underwear, tents,
guns and all sorts and manner of
equipment If | could only carry it
or mail it could clean up thousands
of dollars as it is or take what we
need and let the rest lay. The Frogs
got a newspaper today which stated
that Austria and Turkey want peace
Continued on next page.)
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everv chap who has been through the
mill. 1t O'ershadows previous am
billions for business and monetary
success, glazes DER the sights and
things of No Mans Land, the rats and
the coolies, torn clothes and friends
passed on and the continual whine
and rumble OF the guns, the bed on
the wet, cold ground I've tasted the
"ery concoction" these people seem
to think essential to make men fight
but il ever / go over the top, give me
a letter from home-"a hand from
across the sea"-and / know | can
traverse hell and back again with
naught before my minds eye but
home and the folks who go to make
it.
From the newspaper clippings en-
closed note that you know of our
moves and doin's. We always seem
to take the center, the backbone of
every sector, and have never failed
to gain our detectives. Often we could
have gone on but orders are orders;
all moves are systematic and with a
definite reason in view.
We absolutely control the air in
this sector. We see scraps every
day. Personally L like to watch the
enormous searchlights at night play
ing in the heavens searching out old
Jerry with his motor that persistent
Iy drones out I'm Hun, I'm a Hun, "
just like bee in May-time. They
like to drop propaganda onto the
poor unsuspecting Yanks." 1t al
ways tries to influence the Yanks of
Teuton lineage especially, but paper
is scarce on the front and we have
other uses for it, rather than to car
ry around in our pockets assimilating
the honest facts" about Wilson'S
seen from the German point of view.
The rotten, Icing, ignorant pups; if
thought it would pass the censor
I'd send it home.
So you are having gasless Sundays.
Pretty tough on the folks with cars
who work all week, but we must
have the gas. L'Essence, the French
call it. (Kerosene is PetrOl) With
out it we would starve and be whipp-
ed inside of 48 hours. If Uncle Sam
says conserve, why there's a reason.
Mrs. Hickok has reason to be proud
of her son Donald for pulling down a
medal, for he has a real mans job,
one requiring brains and study to
handle such a gun efficiently.
First we are on the offensive and
always will be, therefore machine
guns are not in exceptional danger.
They are too unwieldy to use in a
| charge; our boys use the bayonet If
we were on the defensive then the
machine men would come in for their
share, but first the boche dough boys
must come through an intense bar
rage of American 75s, 1855 and 81
millimeter guns, second they must
face the best riflemen who don't know
what retreat is, then the Hun could
get at the machine gun nests and
clean up but we "ain't bothered"
That's where artillery comes in
strong, and why infantry must not
get out of the protective range of the
big guns. Now the boches use a diff
ferent system in meeting our attacks.
First. Fritz won't face American bay
onets; second, they can't afford to
lose the men incident to the artillery
barrage sent over preceding our boys
going over the top, so invariably
their infantry retires and they rely on
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-11-20
France. Oct. l. 1913.

Dear Father
Am doing hitch on guard duty to-
might so will spend it writing. Four
of us were left behind to guard the
instruments when the Echelon adj
Vanced so we are on two hours and
off four until they come to get us.
Mine comes 8 to 10 and to both
a m. and p. m.
We are in a shack and have a tiny
stove, a charcoal burner in reality,
but we choke wood down it's throat
and get by. The instruments are in
the next room and l can hear the
mice nibbling away so guess there's
no danger from a clumsy frog. Had
to stop just now and give Nicklas my
candle and iodine to paint the bites
on his ankles. Then Grill had to get
UP and make an inspection-says he
feels 'em." Schoekert says, ooh,
H, go to Sleep" He knows he's
got EN-; he picked number this af-
ternoon, large gray ones and tiny red
ones. Sometimes l think have them
and then decide that 1 haven't. Just
now don't think have, at least / feel
nothing and have no bites.
You make me hungry continually
talking about the good things in your
gardens, but that will soon be over
as old Jack Frost is nearby and will
catch you mapping. The nights are
getting real cool here and the band
anticipates being sent back into the
s. o. S. (service of supply to play at
a hospital or training camp. We can't
play at the front in cold weather as
our fingers won't permit The valves
and slides on the horns freeze up at
the least frost. We are useless at the
front but can do good work back in
civilization. AS for transferring out
OF the band I've given it up as a bad
job. I'm here and here I'll have to
stay and quit my grumbling.
1t is evident that up to August 18th
at least you people still believed us
snug back in Alsace. Ha! Ha! OF
course / can't say much but will say
that our half minute division has been
furnishing you reading matter the
whole summer. We've rested one
week and the rest of the time we've
either been at Jerry's heels or beat
ing it over to fresh section to take
"a new wallop at him. I could name
town after town that you would lecol-
lect as important points. I'll venture
to say that the number and doings Of
our division is better known in France
today than it is in the States We take
off our hats to no troops in Europe
but most of 'em bow to u.s. The news
papers give you the news straight
I'd get shot at sunrise if wrote such
Information. If 1 were back in the
S. o. S. with part of our regiment,
could give you the name of the city,
but we are always in the zone of ad-
vance and are under different re-
strictions. We were we'll trained,
drilled and hardened. The boys knew
their work and / say they are show
ing up now. Many of the draft boys
are moving up on the front now and
we have coolies of questions to an
'swer. Every move and noise is OF
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-11-20

machine guns to meet our doug boys.
Often the men are chained to their
pieces and naturally that means al
most certain DEATH
Glad to hear Of Marcus Bakers
success. Several of our chaps knew
him at the university. Sent you a
French flag, the largest and Oest /
could get in the town Trust it came
through o. K Wish / could get per-
mission to go to your orphan Marius'
home and give them a regular Christ
mas. That would be real fun. His
letter is Enthusiastically French.
Received several letters from Roy.
Wish you folks could read them. Be-
lieve me, it's me for dugout if that
boy lands in France because he's sure
going to shoot up everything in sight.
Monday-Got a lot of -four, pump
kin, lard, milk and spices from the
commissary this a. m. Now we are
going to have pies, doughnuts and
dumplings. Pretty soft for us, I'll
say. There are Ii of US all told
guarding regimental property and we
have fine cook.
Oct 18th.
Well this is rainy Sunday eve and
Nat and | are left all alone. Five Of
US had been back to guard the in
struments, ETC., and today they came
and took most of the stuff and Nat
and | are remaining in the balance.
We are in the midst of a French camp
and our especial friend has just left.
He had supper with us. We keep him
in smokes and he gives US a nip from
his canteen in return. He brought us
some "Cognac Militaire" this. a. m.
which is cheap white wine (mild vim
egar) loaded with alcohol. 1t is is
sued to them in the morning and they
use it in the coffee. Tonight he
brought us Vim Rouge or Pinard they
term it. 1t is also issued and each
man gets his " litre or one pint,
sometimes one or two litres daily at
S p. m. 1t is watered and mild and
II ost of us have learned to like it
"C'est bon pas zig-zag." But that isn't
my SUBJECT for tonight. What / wish
to picture &C you is regular man OF
some 40 years learning to chew gum
Ha! Hal Well the old boy came ov-
er with his Vim and loaf of bread
which thew always cut with a pocket
Mill z dS luCJ SdI H. DIS VIZ w Win d!I
apple. Each man is issued his half
loaf every day and carries it. We get
our la Americana from the chef de
cuisinere, a slice at time.
We opened a can of tomato, sardine,
salmon and mustard and that with
the bread, vim and coffee made our
supper. So then l got out my box
of cigars, cigarets, gum and matches
all of which are luxuries in France
Right away he lit his cigar and at the
same time discovered the gum
Whats that?" That's gum" What's
it for?" ITO chew" ''How do you do
it?" take off the wrapper and tin
foil and chew the stick inside" Nat
and 1 demonstrated, so he tackled a
small piece of it and his face lit up
in surprise. "Ah-bon-sucre." Don't
swallow it." why not? "Cause it's
made to chew only" "Oh." So he
chewed in determined silence few
minutes, not in our unconscious way
of chewing, talking, laughing, ETC.,
all at once but in an earnest manner
and must needs keep his mind upon
his work. Ha! Ha! Then l showed
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of dough boys had to retreat three
kilometers to get ammunition. Then
they had to retake the same territory,
as matter of fact they took seven
kilometers, all for the delay of one or
two truck loads of ammunition. Same
thing happens occasionally where the
dough boys advance and have to re-
treat because of shortage of artillery
dope to back them up. Again on food
a dough boy told me of lbs. of Corn
Willy selling at SIS a can up i'll the
front line where the continuous shell
two or three days. These are little
Excerpts from He'll" Nevertheless
there's plenty for all but dependent
upon transportation with plenty of
trucks and the finest roads in the
world.
Nick is singing wonderful song
and Grill is eating milk toast. 1t all
sounds good, so me too. Well that
was fine and a new idea. Borden's
condensed milk and toast fried in
bacon grease which is good, also
coolies of French fried potatoes. We
get the potatoes out of a Frog garden
nearby and grease we drew as ra-
tions when the outfit left We ran
out of candles so took a condiment
can, punched a hole in one end, in
serted the wick from a cigaret light
er, filled her with bacon grease and
80 and behold, there was light"
Nick is now reading his sox," looking
for bugs
Saw Ray Groenier the other day
but not to speak to him. Took an in
slant to recognize him through the
layer of white dust on his face and
clothes. Haven't seen Joe Turner
or any of the home boys for long
time.
Sunday, Oct. 9Th.
Well yesterday we made a pilgrim
age to the nearest town where our di-
visional commissary it located to try
and get some JAM, milk, etc., but were
out of luck, as found we are temper
arily attached to division of regu-
lars, firing for their dough boys, so
we could get nothing as that division
has no commissary nearby Our ar
tillery brigade SENS to be popular
one as so far we have been attached
to four distinct divisions, regulars,
guard and draft, but don't get err
roneous ideas as whenever our home
boys Ego in" we are always Johnny
at the rat hole. Dough boys as a
rule want their "own" artillery. What
they want they get, tout de suite ?
So we got no extra chow but we did
get mail-20 letters and some papers
for this boy alone. Got me all ex-
cited and forgot all my troubles. They
date up to Sept. 9th. Believe me it's
a grand and glorious feelin' to get
mail, cartoons, home pictures and
such after being practically outside
the realm of civilization the livelong
summer. Just sunshine and mud,
soldiers, horses, numbering cannon
and avions on high, here and there
the desolate ruins of town and new
er the sound of a woman's voice. How
mems spirits maintain under such
environments is a wonder but God
in His mercy seems to have inflated
in each and all of US the instinct
which we call hope, which seems to
persist in spite Of all things. The
hope of home and friends-these
things seem paramount in the mind of
.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1918-11-20
1O7 Cattle 1O7

48 yearlings, mostly white faced;
80 head 2-year-olds with quality that
nobody has got any better; 10 cows
ranging from 3 to years old; four
2-year-old heifers; q ripping bull
calf) IA spring calves.