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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Mar 28, 1918

Page

7

Home Folks Editor frets over job as soldiers seek help

Civilians in San Antonio rush to answer requests from soldiers from other states to locate and contact old friends. The Home Folks Editor offers free, private help, inviting soldiers to send names, hometowns, and addresses. Responses pour in from Alabama and Massachusetts as people seek to reconnect, with many lettersfrom Camp Travis and Kelly Field.

San Antonio Jike Home Selks Ham Alabama Kelly Field King Birmingham Montgomery Epworth Worth League Alaboma Massachusetts New England Enteg Springfield Mass Tas Byth San Antoninn Travis Sandy South Boston Roxbury Hester Camp Ayer Dalimor Sue Madehe Haman Taven

Letter from a girl seeks a temporary big brother for a soldier

A girl writes to her father from Fort Sam Houston asking for a Mason soldier to act as her big brother while her own brother is in France. She wishes for a new companion and fears finding one may be hopeless, as her father weighs the request against notes from other soldiers seeking responses.

France Fort Sam Houston

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