McKinley High School - Nugget Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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THE CARNATION THE BATTLE OF CHATEAU THIERRY Thls account of the battle IS grven as l saw xt ln fact l took a small part ln lt Whlle ln rest bullets ln th 'Vlarne Dlstrlct we suddenly received orders to entram lmmedlately We had heard rumors that our dlvlsxon was to go to ltaly so we concluded that we were UOIHQ there but after rldlng ln box cars for thxrty hours we unloaded at a small town dlrectly north of Paris We began a twenty mlle hike whxch led us back to the front Refugees were streammg back and we knew that the Hun was makmg another drlve When we reached the French artxllery they had thelr guns removed from the pits ready to retreat A French general told our own famous commander General Le uene lt was txme for us to retreat but General Le uene answered retreat hell we just got here When we reached the French mfantry everythmg was confusron as they had been drlven back that mornmg 'lhls country was one vast wheat Held with many small patches of woods ln It Without orders of any knnd we plunged mto the fight on une l 1918 All that day and nlght we held the Germans back ln these woods were hundreds of machme gun nests whlch ramed a deadly fire on us l saw many of my comrades o buddles fall Fortunately the enemy had their machme guns tralned low expectmg us to be lymg rn the wheat and most of the wounds were nn the legs On the nlght of une 2nd we began a llttle drlve of our own and the next day we captured Bouresches a small town Thls town was not so easy to take as the Germans had established machme gun nests thruout the town Each nest had to be wrped out mdlvxdually The Germans were very stubborn fighters but we soon convlnced them xt was useless to resist On my elghteenth blrthday l was caught out m a large open wheat held and l dldn t dare to get up untll It was dark l had lost all sense of dlrectron and Instead of Jolnlng my own company l wandered lnto a company of marmes from my d1v1s1on Thelr Lleutenant dlrected me ln the wrong dlrectlon and l ran lnto a squad of Moroccans so l declded to go back agam ln the other dlrectlon l knew l would be reported mrssmg so l reported to the first P C l came to l hnally found my outfit whxch had thought that l was knocked off On uly 3rd we captured a tovxn called Vaux ThlS was the worst scrap l was ever ln It was a larger town than we had taken so far On the nlght of uly 7th whxle rn the outsknrts of a small town whlch was to be captured a German soldler threw a hand granade at me It pltched me up nn the axr and l landed on my shoulder Lucklly only a few pieces of shrapnel hlt me After the town was captured l reported to a dressxng statlon and was evacuated to the rear Charles L Brohammer Enllsted at St Louis ln May l9I7 Statloned at efferson Barracks x month Re C8lVCCltl'Eill'llI1gll'1 l-ortR1ley Kansxs Moved to C amp Merrltt N -I Salled on the S S Tenadores Landed xt Brest Went to the front m February i918 Was evacuated to the Unlted States lh September l9l6 comm back on the S S Great Northern Landed at Hoboken went to Fort Des Moines lowx to Fort Snelling Nlxnn to Camp Taylor Ky Discharged February l9l9 OIL THE PRESENT GREAT INDUSTRY Never ln the hrstory of the Umted States has there been such a great movement of speculators and mvestors as that whxch has been occurring IH the last two years ln the petroleum lndustry lqven the dlscovery of gold ln Qalxfornra IH l849 cannot be compared with the great oxl lndustry whxch lS now taklng hold of some of our southern states , . , . Q ' . , , Q 0 X , . , , g ' . , J , . J .. . Q. y 1 - - , v - t J , . l 1 - 1 I v - q - 5 . . v , . V - f . , . . 1 A 1 v O . K . .. ,- J , , . - t . . , . - ' J ' t . - ' , ' 3 , , , , . . . . .. 4 , , . ' K - I ' ' , - ' O . A , - . D - - ' , . z ' . . ' rs V , Q V t 1

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THE CARNATION my appreclatlon to the judges of the Short Story and Poetry Contest MISSCS Dockery Donelly and Hawken and to the members of the Art Commlttee MISSCS Barbee and Regan and Mr Flarllng for thelr klnd ald The staff JOIDS me ln thanklng Mr Hoffsten The Carnatlon s able sponsor whose untlrlng efforts have alded so greatly IH the reallzatlon of all our hopes A TRIP THRU A ROLLING MILL A group of boys under the dlrectlon of Mr Card VlSlt6d the Na tlonal Enamellng 5: Stamplng Works at Granlte Clty llllnols Saturday O t I8 The party was escorted thru the plant by lVlr J W Nlllls asslstant superlntendent The process of maklng Shlp plate and tln plate there IS essentlally as follows Plg lron scrap steel and llmestone are shlpped ln by rall These ma terlals are proportlonally mlxed and out lnto charglng boxes whlch are plcked up by a charglng machlne and fed lnto an oll burnlng open hearth furnace where they are melted at a temperature of 2800 to 3000 I7 Xvhen the metal IS melted It IS allowed to run out of the furnace lnto huge ladles holdlng 65 tons The llmestone serx es as a flux gatherlng all the lmpurltles of the lron and steel causlng them to float on top of the molten mass A powerful electrlc crane plcks up the ladle and carrles It over to the moulds whlch are on small cars The metal IS poured IntO these moulds and allowed to cool for about 45 mlnutes The moulds are then removed by speclally equlpped cranes leavlng solld lngots I5 X24 X5 6 The lngot IS then reheated and taken to the rolls where It IS rolled out lnto a sheet of the deslred dlmenslons The one we saw go thru was rolled to 3 I6 X5 x30 Durlng thls operatlon salt I9 thrown on the metal and when It comes ln contact Wlth the water whlch IS belng contlnually poured on the rollers an exploslon occurs thus keeplng the metal free from scale The steel IS then passed thru smoothlng rollers marked and cut to length and then to wldth by rotary shears The lndlvlclual plates are 2-utocnatlcally welghed and then carrled to the stock plle by powerful magnetlc cranes ready to be shlpped to the shlpyards to be put lnto the hulls of boats In the maklng of tln plate the plates descrlbed above or sllghtly heavler plate IS sheared lnto what IS called tln bar whlch IS 6 to 8 lnches ln Wldth and of the same length as the Wldth of the tln plate to be made These tln bars are then reheated ln a coal flred furnace and then rolled ln PHITS untll they are about 4 feet long and of the deslred Wldth The heavy sheets are placed ln palrs and rf-heated and passed thru the rolls agaln comlng out about 8 feet long and the same wldth as the orlvlnal length of the bar These sheets are then doubled together maklng a pack of lron of 4 sheets ln thlckness reheated agaln passed thru the rolls drawlng the sheet out about 8 feet ln length Thls pack whlch IS 4 sheets ln thlckness IS reheated maklng the pack 8 sheets ln thlckness They are then replaced ln the furnace reheated and agaln passed thru the rolls gIVlHg them the flnal thlckness and length deslred The sheets are now 8 plv about 32 gauge thlck and 6 to 8 feet long The wldth of the sheets belng the length of the orlglnal bar whlch IH turn was the wldth of the sheets deslred These packs of sheets are then squared by shears and the men separate the sheets Wl1ICl'l are conveyed to the plcklers where they are plckeled a 7 sulphurlc 3CId solutlon after whlch they are put lnto a furnace and annealed for I2 hours and removed and allowed to cool for IZ hours They are then passed thru cold rolls to pollsh and then plckeled ln a sulphurlc acld solutlon to remove all surface lmpurltles The plates are then dlpped lnto molten tln passed thru a set of felt rollers and pollshed Wlth pulverlzed bran The tln as It IS erroneous ly called for It IS ln reallty sheet steel plated wlth tml IS taken to the as sortlng room where It IS sorted and packed for shlpment 1 v 1 1 . , . . . . . .. . 1 -1 . , . , I . . Q . . 1 - 1 ' . 1 1 1 C . . . . . , 1 - ' A 1 . ' ' , . 1 1 . ' 1 1 , . r . ' ' ' ' ' H N 1 fr 1 . . ' v rr f 1 ' ' ' ' . . - 1 1 . v 1 - Q 4 . , . , 1 1 L 1 Q . 1 :1 1 , 1 1 - 1 , . 1 1 1 ,1 Q, v . ., - , l. . .1 . I, . . . . , ln 4 , . 1. . 1. . . . . - 1 v -

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THE CARNATION Wlthln the last two years everybody lncludlng Vvall Street has turned hls attentlon to oll stocks Not only ll lve spetul ltors bet ome lnterested but also lnvestors 'X few years ago Wall Street md the publlc had no lnterest what ever ln Oll stocks although they were aware of the fact that the Oll com plnles had been xery successful and the stockholders had recelved large proflts The large oll companles dld not Wlgh or deslre Wall Street or the publlc to partlclp lte ln thls gre It lndustry for varlous reasons The recent publlc partlclpatlon ln the great boom has been chlefly caused by the war and the great IHCYCHSC ln the consumptlon of Oll News paper and magazlne STOTICS whlch related how the Oll proposltlon had changed poor men lnto mllllonalres also had a great deal to do Wlth the great attractlon towards the lndustry After readlng these storles people who had never thought of lnvestlng ln OIT dld so Oll flelds are found ln the extreme eastern southern and southwestern parts of the Unlted States The Chlef OIT flelds and those WhlCh have been arouslng the most lnterest at present are those whlch are found ln the north central plrt of 'l exas Oklahoma and central Kansas The Burk burnett held whlch IS located ln the northern part of Texas IS one of the largest oll helds On IU average It produces about l90 000 barrels a day 'Vlany uses are made of petroleum Perhaps the greatest use IS that for TLITDYICATIOU as up to thls day nothlng else has been dlscovered to take ltS could hardly do wlthout It The newest use of petroleum I9 for shlps The uslng of Oll as a fuel for shlps has lts advantages The oll takes up less room than coal or coke lt reduces the cost of labor and lt lS more qulckly and easlly loaded An other use of Oll ln regard to ShlpS IS that of a calmlng agent When the sea I9 rough oll I9 strewn on the water and thls makes navlgatlng easler From crude petroleum many other substances whlch are useful to nlanltlnd are made such as kerosene gasolme benzlne and naptha Qonslderlng all these flcts Oll ls and always wlll be a great necesslty to manlclnd r MNXP f!.f' ' E' I 4: 5 mm 1.N,,l,,.ll. Lllllfllgq of fo SGI-lWARt1 I 7 ' . Q , f . z '. ' ' . - ' ' 2 ' ' AV 2 ' . ' . Ta I T ' k 1 . . , , , f . - . z A . ., ' 1 . '- ' g . . 2 .K . , . l ' ' . ' ' , ' . 5 . . place. As a lubrlcant, lt IS a necessity to the mechanical world, and we V . ' . I . ' ' 5 . . I , v ' T 1 I N . . A i . .K K . A . D. L. I ,V y - X .S 1 l -qt T r rx . X , 1, . ' T7 1 , -' ' ' -- , . if , Y: l ,.,i ,Iv V-V if - . iffQ Z, ,N ' .I f,. : ,I-1 l . -vu ,jg ,A ,f