Soldiers Letters from the Front in Wartime Notes
Wartime letters recount private Sunday dinners for soldiers, address changes, and updates from No Man’s Land and France. George Mackey, Ray Baldwin, and Bob Miller share views on rest, letters, and hopes of returning home for Christmas. Red Cross informs Mrs Case of son Sylvester Case’s death from pneumonia in Brest France.
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Bob Miller
France
Hamburg
Bud Richie
Robert Miller
Remembering a Soldier Son in a French Cemetery
A nurse describes devoted care for a gravely ill soldier who died after combat service. The letter recalls his cheerfulness, grip injury, a friend named Ike Clary, and a September 24 burial at Kerfautras Cemetery. Chaplain Yates led a ceremony with French and American attendees. Flowers from the YMCA and a fir from near the grave accompany the message of sympathy.
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May B. Miller
City Hospital
Springfield
Ohio
J. Studebacher
Ike Clary
Kerfautras
Yates
U. S. Army
Mary OC. Frost
Runaway Boys Captured After Chase Near Tabor Arch
A Mills county farmer pursued three boys from the State Institution for the Feeble Minded at Glenwood. The youths, 15 or 16, wandered from the institution, claimed to be headed home to Tabor, but were chased across fields until cornered in a Gregory farm cornfield. They were returned to Glenwood via Buick with the Hall and Hunt parties receiving $15. They had slept in a haystack and subsisted on corn.
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Tabor
Arch Hunt
Mills County
State Institution
Glenwood
Hunt Farm
Mr. Hunt
Morgridge
Gregory
Hunt
Arch
Harry Hall
Hall
Mr. Hall
Spirit of Co-operation in Fairfax Amid Influenza Measures
The article notes heightened cooperation in Fairfax during the Spanish influenza epidemic with local officials and enterprise leaders stepping in for regular staff. In rural areas, farm households show even greater solidarity as communities respond to the public health crisis.
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Fairfax
Farming concerns as disease cripples crop yield
The Fairfax Forum notes a fashionable illness disrupting farming. One farmer, unprepared for a livestock surge, ran out of feed as his family fell ill. Neighbors braved rain to husk corn and extend sustenance until conditions improved.
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Fairfax Forum
Not a Total Loss After Georgia county race defeat
John Wilson, a Georgia gentleman, reflects on his county commissioner primary loss with a humorous campaign expense ledger. The itemized list cites sleep lost, teeth and hair sacrificed in personal feuds, gifts to supporters, babies kissed, miles walked, people shaken hands with, and revival meetings attended, ending with a note of defeat.
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John Wilson
Georgia
Harding Holds His Stand On Language Question
Governor Harding reiterates support for an American language policy. In a November 26 statement he defended the one language proclamation, arguing Americans should speak English after the war as well as during. He emphasized the proclamation aimed to promote the native tongue and national unity.
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Harding
America
Glasgow Tributes and Suicide Recall War Talk in Shenandoah World
Alien Glasgow a dealer in Iowa and Nebraska farm lands died by drinking carbolic acid in an apparent self inflicted act. His body found in an outhouse near his ranch after his wife reported him missing. He leaves a wife five children and several relatives. Funeral in Dallas Center cemetery.
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Ainsworth
Nebraska
Glasgow
Chicago
Chicago, Was Found Upon His Body. Mr. Glasgow
Charles Glasgow
Dallas Center
New Market
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Merchants Exchange Bank
Iowa
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J. F. Baldwin
R. A. Clayton
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Joplin
Butterfield Table
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Bell and Mutual
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