The Jasper News Item Fragment
The fragmentary notice from Jasper Missouri lists a local item with a price and unclear text. Names, events, dates, or places beyond Jasper are not readable, leaving an incomplete public notice or brief announcement.
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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1918
Page
8
The fragmentary notice from Jasper Missouri lists a local item with a price and unclear text. Names, events, dates, or places beyond Jasper are not readable, leaving an incomplete public notice or brief announcement.
Advertising space rates listed include ten cents per inch for last and inside pages per issue. Front page space is sold out. Local notices priced at five cents per line per issue. Insertion copy due by Tuesday evening. Resolutions of respect cards obituary poetry and bank cards subject to charges by the issue.
Sergt Charley Kitterman writes from France to Jasper area readers. He reports Red Cross efforts and local support, mentions fellow soldiers Tanderbaugh and Keener, and notes mail delays while saving funds for a homecoming after finishing service. He asks to locate missing Jude Hill and sends best regards to all at home.
Orville V Andrews, serving with Co M Casual Dept A P O 713 A E F France, reports from Clvres France on July 1. He says it is a beautiful day, enjoying barbering work, staying in good health, hopes to locate home friends soon, asks family to write back, and sends love and greetings.
Dear Folks at Home reads as a personal travel note from France dated July 18. The writer describes a lengthy journey, illness at the start, subsequent recovery, and eagerness to return home while noting companionship in hardship. The tone is reflective and domestic throughout.
Pvt. Arthur Leroy Snyder writes from France about learning French with his unit and the pride of French people in U.S. soldiers. He notes daily life, study efforts, and hopes to tell his family more upon return, promising to stay safe and to reply as orders permit. He signs with unit details and location in the A E F.
Dyson Roberts writes from Camp Funston about two weeks in the army, detailing the reception and medical exams, laundry fees, vaccinations, inspection days, and visits. He notes dust, sand storms, barracks life, restrictions, meals, and entertainment at the Y M C A, while expressing mixed feelings about camp routine and the war outlook.
The undersigned was on July 17 1918 appointed guardian of the person and estate of Henrietta Gohr adjudged insane by the Probate Court of Jasper County Missouri. All persons with claims against the estate must exhibit them for allowance before the Probate Court within one year from publication or be barred. J T Lannom Guardian Edith Kerr Probate Clerk First published August 4.
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