Saturday, October 18, 1919

From the day

Perspective: The Teenager · Tactile

I sit on the floor in my stiff wool breeches, the rough fabric scratching my thighs while I mindlessly notch these miniature redwood Lincoln Logs together into a fortress. It’s totally over the top how many of these little timber pieces are scattered across the rug, but it’s better than listening to the old man drone on about the Bolsheviks and the fighting in Petrograd. The crackle of the fireplace competes with the gramophone playing "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," the tune drifting through the house like a dream I can’t quite catch. I run my thumb over the smooth, notched wood and wonder if the boys coming home from Siberia find everything back here as small and toy-like as this house I’m building.

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The Headlines

ANTI-RED FORCES NOW IN PETROGRAD, STOCKHOLM HEARS; Yudenitch Said to Have Entered Suburbs on Thursday Afternoon. BRITISH LACK ADVICES But Official Reports Show a Heavy Attack on a Wide Front South of the Capital. MOSCOW TELLS OF FIGHTING Bolshevikl Place the Scene of Action 35 Miles West and 16 Miles South of Petrograd. Doubt That Kronstadt Is Taken. Petrograd Taken, Washington Hears. ANTI-RED FORCES NOW IN PETROGRAD 1,500 of Our Men Leave Siberia. DENIKIN AND POLES TO JOIN. His Left Wing Advancing to Meet Their Right. KOLCHAK EXPRESSES REGRET. Deplores Flogging of American Soldier by Irresponsible Officers. FRENCH CRITICISE BRITISH. Russian Reports Not Pleasing to Some Circles in Paris.

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