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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1918
Page
3
Citizens fund and distribute thousands of Lucky Strike cigarettes to U S troops in France noting soldiers in trenches crave tobacco nearly as much as food and munitions. Doctors nurses and officers back the campaign urging steady supply as Kentucky Burley tobacco adds solid satisfaction with less effort.
Route Number 2 notes how the rainy spell gives farmers a chance to finish chores from the crop start rush. It lists many local visits, illnesses, and social calls, including Ed wards family, Hale and Letsinger households, and a Red Cross auction upcoming. A letter from J W Edwards mentions Mrs Edwards eye operation. Hawks hunting and Liberty Bonds closing line.
The text urges a diet tailored to age and occupation and advises those with weak stomachs to eat slowly masticate thoroughly and keep bowels regular. It endorses Chamberlain's Tablets to strengthen the stomach and aid bowel movement, noting ease of use and pleasant effect as an advertisement.
An advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Tablets for constipation aiding appetite and digestion. It also notes Owl Hollow items with wind and rain, a church gathering, and Mc Gee's Baby Elixir for infant stomach issues, touting it as a safe, pleasant remedy sold by dealers.
Frequent showers in Midway prompt hopes for rain relief and drought avoidance. J B Carter visits from Seymour and travels with Merian Blankenship. Marion Branstetter and Elsie Hedrick wed at Rev Thomas Todd’s, returning to the groom’s parents. The piece notes local weather, road conditions, farming activity, and wedding cheer.
Advert reads Chamberlain s Cough Remedy praised by Mrs J B Roberts of East St Louis Ill for easing whooping cough and coughs in winter. Mentions remedies for colds croup. Also notes local social updates and small ads for Sanol kidney bladder relief and Sand Prescription skin tonic with drugstore sales pitches.
The first contingent of Wright county quota for the second national army left Friday evening for Camp Funston Kansas. Fourteen named soldiers departed including Francis Lee Dorris St George Clarence Barnett Norwood Elmer McKinley Cannon Manes Troy Oliver Perkins Rolla Kansas Harry E Wheeler Miami Oklahoma Oscar Alonzo Denton Astoria Elwood Hester Cedar Gap Lee J Grantham Picher Oklahoma Clyde Lowry Mountain Grove Harry Harrison Hight Springfield Guy H Sellers Hartville Thomas J Strong Mansfield Richardson L Ferguson Norwood Arthur H Hilsabeck Dawson The substitutes were Charles Walter Beach Mansfield Charles W Alexander Norwood William Otis Keeling Mansfield The Nugget gave a matinee that afternoon admitting the soldier boys free at the depot a crowd watched T J Strong was married before departure to Miss Della Coday.
The Wright County Local Board thanks the Nugget for courtesies shown to soldiers enroute to Camp Funston. Mansfield is praised for its cozy up to date theatre. Entries from local business and civic voices encourage Liberty Bonds and advertise remedies including Chamberlains Liniment and Borozone with assorted prices.
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