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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Railroads -- Employees -- Periodicals Railroads -- United States -- Employees
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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amed from thestory that the daughters of Louis XVwalked this road when they went fromChateau de la Boivre to visit the Countesseof Narbonnc. This road is a natural strong-hold and was the scene of great militaryoperations during the war. Here ourtroops from New England, with the French,were attacked viciously. All the villagesin this vicinity were reduced to ruins. From 1914 to 1918 the Germans werecontinually hammering at the towns alongthe Chemin des Dames. The roads of France are wonderful.Many of them, particularly in SouthernFrance, seem to be of solid stone. A greatnumber are the same roads used centuriesago by the old Romans. Rheims and Its Cathedral Rheims is a cjuaint town. The greatestthmg of interest, of course, is the famouscathedral with its rose window, which waspartially destroyed by the war, and theequestrian statue of Jeanne dArc whichstands before it. It was noon before we arrived in Rheims.Our first duty was to eat. After that wewere to make a visit to the cathedral
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THROUGH THE DEVASTATED REGIONS OF FRANCE 1. The Bayonet Trench, where unknown French soldiers sleep upright, with their rifles in their hands. 2. Delegates pause a moment and bow theirheads in memory of those who died in the Bayonet Trench. 3 and 6. Scenes from Fort Douaumont, typical scenes throughout the Devastated Regions. 14- Delegates assembled at the gates of Romaine Cemetery, the burial ground of thousands of American soldiers, whose graves are marked by the whitecrosses in the distance. 5. American nurses teaching the mothers of France to cire for their babies. 7. The magnificant statue ol Joan of Arc, before,. the Rheims Cathedral. 8. The bridge across the Bloody Marne 52 Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, August, 192J While waiting a few minutes for seme ofour part), we discovered a delightful littleshop next door to our hotel, where wepurchased hairnets and necklaces. Theypresented each customer with a littlepackage of perfume as a souvenir. A littlefarther down the street I met

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