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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1918
Page
1
Fragmentary letter describes crossing to a frontier area with French locals, noting simple farming, wagon teams, and humorous haywire harness. The writer observes weather, language attempts, and plans for prayer as a soldier writes home about daily life and longing.
A serviceman writes from an American camp in France noting a warm welcome, good meals, and rest. He describes the town as one of France’s oldest with European farming nearby, reports calm travel, and hopes to reach Berlin and home soon while staying informed via newspapers.
Fragmentary OCR text mentioning personal messages and local names, with unknown dates and places. The legible elements reference a person named Chasalier and a camp, but most content is garbled and lacks coherent event or context for a solid summary.
The text lists unit sizes and command ranks in a military structure. It specifies infantry division about 19000 men, Lafoutey brigade around 7000, infantry battalion about 7000, company 250, platoon 40, and various support units with sizes from 20 to 1300. It also assigns leadership: major commands battalions, captain heads companies, lieutenant heads platoons, sergeant below lieutenant, corporal as squad officer, with generals at army and corps levels and colonels and lieutenant colonels in intermediate roles.
The Begley Rice Farm forecasts a crop worth about 50 000 dollars on 275 acres with potential yields of 15 000 bushels this year. Government price expectations range from 215 to 225 per bushel, and flood and frost considerations are noted as factors in production. The farmer highlights strong facilities and regional advantages for rice growing.
Tax collector L. T. Krinder lists dates and locations for Bollinger County taxpayers to meet about current year taxes and delinquent prior-year taxes. Scheduling at Zalma Greenbrier Bessville Sedeswickville Alliance Patton Marble Hill in October and November with specific midday or afternoon times.
Local board announces 21 men entrained for Camp Pisce in Arkansas on the seventh of October. Names to be published next week as the board called in additional men.
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