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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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eral of Massachusetts that youare the mother of five sons who have diedgloriously on the field of battle. I feel howweak and fruitless must be any words of minewhich should attempt to beguile you fromthe grief of a loss so overwhelming. But Icannot refrain from tendering to you the con-solation that may be found in the thanks ofthe Republic they died to save. I pray thatour Heavenly Father may assuage the anguishof your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, andthe solemn pride that must be yours to havelaid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of free-dom. World Autocracy The Kaisers Letter His Majesty the Kaiser hears that youhave sacrificed nine sons in defense of theFatherland in the present war. His Majestyis immenselj^ gratified at the fact, and in recog-nition is pleased to send you his photograph,with frame and autograph signature. Frau Meter, who received the letter, hasnow joined the street beggars in Delmenhors-Oldenburg, to get a living.
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From the Boys Over There The following letter is from Private IrvingLathroum of the 117th Trench Mortar Batteryto his sister, Miss Rowena M. Lathroum, of theoffice of auditor of passenger receipts. Mr.Lathroum was formerly employed at Mt. Clare: Dearest Sister—So many things have happenedsince my arriving here that I do not know justhow to put them in a letter. We arrived here July6, about 4 a. m., and made our camp in a clump oftrees located about seven miles behind the lines.That night the first platoon left for their posi-tion, where they were to man six guns. A fewdays later they were followed by the secondplatoon, who also had six guns. Our positionswere located on a sector which was of vitalimportance. For six days everything was asquiet as a Sunday on the farm. At 12.05 a. m.of the fifteenth, the Huns artillery broke loosefor the largest drive ever attempted by them.A poor description of the racket would be ofabout twenty thunder storms cutting loose over-head at once and con

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