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❖S32SWHITES FROM FRANCEsiill* Ball received the frl-*glt;**ng Interesting letter from his mm*, M. Olive Grabor, who is a nurse . *. 73. 8 Base Hospital No. 32, in v-im-a ce ■d }em Neph wCutTing received a letter from you,. *rJt« ftKi.ii- Well. Ronald, I jtaj- *-ing some of the war now. We jRTvir* luite a number of patients and a: 5j Hinds. ' 'ill ill the hospital for I , 3*2, Allies ini ' hav- eleven different , mdPonaiities We surely have some 11 •• 'ices i am on night duty, but U ftt.h of \hiH month my time will I v 3*- *o and I will not be sorry. 1 have I n 2'\'t usttents and of course some are j g rt w Jesant. 1 have an African col-r priest. When I say colored 1 3-,. .3B real black and he wears a small **, ’• ,n oi whiskers on his chin and car r • on a string around his waist two -Ji. leather bags and a horn. White .. somewhat superstitious, he ^ !' intelligent and will say every- j d - r rtf: over after I say it. I call him aey arrot. In civil life I shoull be jutr.'-j'd of him, but here I do not mind W;’. at all. 1 have several different \ of Algerians, Arabs, and Mo_j j. irt.mmeian». My parrot came in to-siy hi with his picture and said “for|w fan a souvenir,*’ end 1 would nci ia'Ai anything t'cr it. I have Fren h j {c nni\ a Belgian soldier also. One poor -if iglaB came in and gave me some titrUonn and oth -r aitle souvenirs.He was to sad, and when I asked hirn r-nstt the trouble he told rn«- hisjth ’aJber, mother, brother and sisters a» r»- taken prisoner by the Germans j t he beginning of the war and he j |n, Bti n^rcr been able to get any word J t0 frcm them since ar.d does not know f iney are living. The horrors of|rolt; * ».at the Germans detis surely terri-and think of the sorrow. He gave tjJ( an /.is picture and you will see that I ev( ,h*T dice shows riiriov , and there are p •aundreds here like h'm row. | |,((They are getting in many Ameri-,jfif at the other Bum Hospital new ■ cave received tw i nirfleld bovs.-i nstine boy and a Nelson boy. t - iv. Iot my orderlies now Guy Woel-?y.- and Milton bart'ior. both Unit It Guy Wodhof m-.v you millt;Pr-orge very well. I 'ice them very c m i as they are p..:,.! to work an i ..... to the patientlls.ivey Ga-tm-i doing out Jde - • servi-.have some thing fo- you. union*, e.»'ir s. dandy knit . I cannot t -I.1 lt;■ i wnere it came from nor the hi:--rv ol It, nor how I happened ti get now 1 first .bought I won) I - ml i out act we do not g •* • ik mail only v»r.ni every three welt;*k . and some e- not at all, rather thn run the nances of losing th-i. I -.t wait i ti! 1 get hack. My the* time this « r reaches you, von will be Inv r.:' voui vac ation Mi' Thompson, o if nurso, in w»**l nIio has Knx-is* patient wi mJ !!k**s * heiu very. i •' rheard today a famous tenor i tiKtr at the theater. He only snips *i the Metropolitan Theatio* in N. Y *r*.: jc now iu Pare* inakitu; a tour, a was wonderful * a Kieiodi operacl• per lie sounded like Caruno. i want to tell you that the Aineri-uan comrades arc- bonnie ” (that -i• -m•.IK good) ami they are some gdierh J guess they they arc- sur irnmg the Germans, but I shall he glad when the boys iu khaki can go oack to our own U S AAs this is 3 :iu a m , I will close • i Y love 1o allrocwlt;w j 1die a I pai las; rai: the pa r flai ed mu Su r ISchforancthe at ( at the 0 8:0 Obeevei.SS. V sorn Ichu The Con Fat I v. f-i v
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Fairfield Journal
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Sat, Jul 13, 1918
Page 8
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