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Selling is a 1918 magazine article about: Fighting Lice during WWI
Title: Cooties and Courage
Author: Herbert Corey
Subtitled \"The \"cootie\" is not a pleasant topic to write, talk, or think about; but the seriousness of this menace to the health and comfort of our soldiers-a menace which scientists are exerting every effort to minimize-warrants the publication of Mr. Corey\'s unexaggerated account of the chief pest of all fighting men.”
Quoting the first page “Last night I heard laughter as I stumbled along a dark street in a dark village in northern France. I say \"dark,\" but the word does not properly set forth the conditions. There was no moon and there were no stars. It had been raining and in a few minutes it would be raining again. The street had once been paved-about the time of the Roman occupation, perhaps-and a few rounded cobbles were still imbedded in a soggy mud that sucked at one\'s boot-soles as one walked.
No light came from the windows. One knew that inside the houses American soldiers were gathered about the candles, reading or \"shooting craps,\" or wondering why the Y. M. C. A. was not performing total impossibilities in getting its chocolate-and-cigarette-laden trucks over roads that were gummed and cluttered with the camions of an army in movement.
The windows were curtained, so that not the slightest gleam escaped. In this part of France the peasants favor solid wooden shutters outside the windows, and inside the soldiers had tacked up blankets. Hostile airplanes are always on the hunt for villages in which soldiers may be bombed. This particular hamlet was within range of the Germans\' big guns and no chances might be taken.
Only those who have been lost in the midst of a forest on a rainy night can properly appreciate the utter blackness of that street. I ran head-on into a soldier.
\"Visibility low,\" he remarked, in grimly humorous quotation from the report often made by the aerial observers.
The laughter came from the one room in which the officers of the headquarters company were bedded. I knew that room. In it the beds were laid so thickly on the rough brick floor that they overlapped like shingles on a roof. Only the man who slept next the door could get to his bed without walking over the beds of the other men. All others walked over his bed in going and coming. They were distinguished from each other by the names of the owners chalked on the dingy wall.
When an American \"outfit\" enters a town in which it has been newly billeted, it finds that the billeting officers have preceded it. Upon the doors of houses…\"
This is an account of World War One that most history books have ignored. Lice, fleas, delousing etc.
7” x 10”, 15 pages, 10 B&W photos
These are pages from an actual 1918 magazine. No reprints or copies.
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