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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
8
The item presents publisher credits for The Jasper News with Arthur F. Drake as publisher and an imprint noting Jasper, Missouri and a 1899 postmark. The fragment indicates the paper’s historic branding and filing details, typical of old issue headers.
Advertising rates listed for full page front space and inside pages at ten cents per inch per issue. Local notices priced at six cents per line per issue. Insertion copy due by Tuesday evening. Respects cards of thanks and obituary poetry billed by the line.
A wartime letter from Davis at Battery A U.S. Artillery Camp Pike Arkansas dated July 25 1918 recounts arrival in camp aboard a long train with 50 troops and 500 fed on the way. He notes Red Cross and YMCA kindness, a parade in Grundy Center, a lunch stop in St Louis, quarantine ahead, and plans for new barracks and vaccinations.
Fred Cline describes his July 30 1918 journey to Fort Hancock New Jersey detailing a two day three night travel through Illinois Ohio western Maryland and New Jersey. He mentions vaccination sickness, Red Cross hospitality in towns, a Washington visit with President Wilson, a March past, and a Delaware River crossing near Trenton, noting Washington crossed there in 1778.
A wartime letter from France recalls ocean bathing, quarantine for two weeks, and a note home from Fred P. describing Fort Terry, Camp Lowe, and New Jersey friends. The writer mentions Jasper News from France, Dec or Decoration Day memories, and hopes to see Jasper soon while detailing YMCAs, church services, and a camp canteen amid military life in 1918.
Lemuel Thomas writes from France describing daily life in July 1918. He notes cooler weather than Missouri, crops and food in good supply, work handling horses, and that he has received five letters but few replies from home. He mentions drafts in New York and hopes friends back in Missouri are well.
A stream of short town notes reports illness and critical condition of Russel Hill of Arkansas, family visits, moves to Gohr farm and Zaerr properties, typhoid cases, and sympathy for the Earls family. Numerous visits by Sunderland, Sweezy, Campbell and others fill a busy social page.
Mrs Evelyn Hall and Mrs Helen Thomson of Oklahoma visited Homer Wampler Saturday night. Gus Campbell and family attended the circus at Joplin Journey with Homer Wampler. John Ferguson from Illinois visited niece Mrs Ben Janney. Ja Etter and Mrs Waney Sweesy and daughter Wilma visited W J Sweezys. Robert Gresham and family visited Vernie Gresham in Springfield. Ruby Bull and Pearl Alexander stayed at Robert Gresham’s. Mrs Lloyd Winder and daughter Pauline visited Mrs Frank Miller. Ra Kearney spent time with Lloyd Winder. Harley McClintock and wife visited Adam Malone. Roy Harris and wife visited J H Harris in Jasper. Mrs Kearney and others visited Mart Kline and Oscar Fuskin. Earl Alexander visited Robert Gresham.
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