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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
4
A WWI era poem by W M C decries wartime shortages in daily life. The speaker complains of wheatless and heatless days, lack of coffee and stockings, and absence of YMCA visits, ending with a strong anti Kaiser line.
Lutesville residents mingle with town on Tuesday and Monday as turkeys and chickens flood markets. A wave of visitors including Ben Schulte George Holzum Marvin Jackson and others frequent merchants while Goodwin & Jean ship forty two coops of poultry. Local teachers and workers travel between Advance Glen Allen Chaffee and Sikeston area as Christmas poultry market heats up.
A sale notice advertises auctioning buggies hacks farm wagons surreys harness gear and livestock including a 5 year old Percheron stallion weighing about 1600 pounds among other items.
Readable items describe an AUCTION SALE COMPANY event and local notices from Marble Hill dated December 29 1917. Included are a sale invitation by J A Taylor and Limbaugh Alfred Gout Attd og, a report of U S military manpower and barracks status, oblique tributes to late local residents, a November government allowance schedule for enlisted soldiers families, odd anecdotes about grocery fare and rat feet in meat, a state probate notice granting letters testamentary for Robert Vangen nip Jr and Alfred Vangenni p, and a probate judge’s seal dated December 7 1917.
Fragmentary text notes that under the above allotment and allowances the government provides aid so that no wife child parent or dependent sailor or officer need suffer financial hardship.
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