Jasper Soldier Writes Home From France Front
Private Howard Gresham in Company C A E F France recounts long train rides, rough bivouacs, and meals. he meets Jasper mates Leater Goddard and Harry Tabler in the same division. He notes German souvenirs, artillery activity near Paris outskirts, and a nurse from the Nevada Hospital visiting. The Jasper Junior Red Cross displays at the County Fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Gresham
Jasper Boys
Prande
Parentes Wilkey
Mani
Leater Goddard
Fireet
Jasper
Harry Tabler
Wong
Paris
Qth
The
Junior
Red Cross) Society of Jasper
Farm stock and equipment for sale with multiple animals
Listing includes 8 horses and 8 mules with weights and ages, breeding mares, a Shetland pony and a yearling filly, all mares bred to a jack. Farm machinery for sale cover wheat disk drill, binder, sulky, harrows, plows, cultivators, mowing and raking gear, wagons, cream separator, incubator, and brooder. Listings emphasize gentle animals for women and children buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Farm Machinery
Surrey
Allied sugar sharing amid wartime rationing worldwide
The United States urges a voluntary two pounds per person per month sugar ration as Allies face severe shortages. England and France limit to two and a half or fewer pounds monthly with hotel service often sugar free. Italy tightens control via State Sugar. Germany maintains cheap home sugar. Wholesale prices abroad run 10 to 26 cents per pound versus 7.5 cents in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
England
France
Italy
United States Food Administration Bes
Germany
United Sttates Food Administration
When the Cowboy Fainted on His First Western Visit
A humorous exchange unfolds as a young visitor asks about saddle gear. The cowboy explains the rope used for catching cattle and horses, while the lady queries the meaning of “balt.” The frontier banter highlights practical western life and curious visitors.
Turpin Legend and Swift Nick Nevison Alibi Tale
The note compares Dick Turpin the highwayman with Swift Nick Nevison, stating Turpin rode to York on Black Bess and that Nevison, in 1676, robbed a sailor at Gad's Hill and reached York the same day to establish an alibi. It records Turpin’s birth in Hemel Hempstead in 1705 and his execution for murder at York on April 10, 1789.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Turpin
York
Ainsworth
Rookwood
Swift
Nick Nevison
Gad's Hill
Turpin
Hemepstead
England
Salesmanship and the universal act of selling
A compact reflection on sales as a universal human act. Every man has something to sell whether merchandise experience work or bluff. The writer catalogs roles from clerk to banker to hawker noting the trader’s reach in daily life.
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Lovingly
Rvt
Howard Gresham, Co
C, and Engineers
Mise Shanks
Nevada Hospital
Dora Hastings
Ee County
Live Stock Commission
Link
Fasken
Jasper County
Dell W. Hubbard Commission CO
Kansas City
Henry Covert
Covert
Carthage
Poland
China
Walter Dodd
Nntes
AW Radford Auctoone
Henry
Auto Tire Shop
Gates
Dan Johnson
F. B. Dunning
Sunflower Sacks
Kansas Cerfient and Material Company
Burgner-Bowman Lbr. Co
Jasper, Mo
Jay Good
Mgr
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