Americans in France Describe Travel and Life Amid War
A letter from Corporal D B Kirk recounts a voyage to a French port, rail journeys and French villages. He praises the courtesy of French people, notes German prisoners at work, and explains wartime censorship. He ends with optimism about American soldiers and asks readers to stay hopeful.
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France
D. B. Kirk
W. J. Kirk
East High Street
England
Hoya
Courtenay
Three Delegates Named for Springfield Sunday School
Three delegates to represent M. E. S. S. were chosen to accompany Mrs. Paul Turner at the Springfield Sunday school convention later this month. The delegates are Mrs. Thurlow Burner and Mrs. Ky Conprd.
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Springfield
Paul ‘Turner
Thurlow Burner
Virginia Sapp Carpenter Dies in Washington
Telegram from friends announces the seventh Wednesday afternoon at Washing ton for the funeral of Mrs Virginia Sapp Carpenter born May 11 1852 in Mt Vernon educated at Wesleyan Female College Delaware married to Zachary T Carpenter Apr 2 1875 moved to Washington with no children prominent in social affairs as an longtime member of the Congressional club. Funeral Friday at 2 30 p.m. in Washington. Road to Happiness urges readers to use Chamberlains Tablets for constipation relief and better digestion.
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Washington
Virginia Sapp Carpenter
Carpenter
William Jt
Sarah Harper Sapp
Mt Vernon
Wesleyan Female College
Delaware
Zachary T. Carpenter
Consnecticut
Local Social Notes From Monroe Center
Monroe Center residents host and visit neighbors over the weekend with varied calls on families including Grubbs, Needs, Scott, Braddock, and McNutt. The community shared attendance at a Fredericktown funeral and welcomed a new car purchase while reminders of Remedy for Whooping Cough appear in a Mrs. Roberta Kant letter endorsing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
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Hedding Chapel
Len Scott
Family
Willard Rinehart
Frank Jobson
Family Moniday
Jay Scott
Chamberlain
Roberta
Kant
Lane
Fredericktown HI to repeat student play this weekend
The Rentors of Fredericktown High staged the student play Kick ed out of College to a large crowd Wednesday evening in the new bleh theater. The entire 20 member cast performed and the show will be repeated Saturday night, with a call to support the Red Cross to help fight suffering.
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Fredericktown
Predericktown
Soldier poetins hopes of going back to France
Washington May 2 The war story of Thomas Skeyhill a blinded veteran from Gallipoli who regained sight after a vertebrae displacement was treated at a Washington hospital He announced plans to rejoin ANZAC forces in the trenches overseas and his return to health followed a successful eye restoring operation The piece notes his postwar lectures and Red Cross work amid his recovery and future aims.
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Phe Henner
Washington
Muir
Ani
Lrenchow
Gallipoli
Thomas Skeyhill
Angie
Dardenelles
Constantinople
Hiltons
Atti
Skeyhill
Skey Hill
Australia
Hina Holter
Aids Red Cross
Wimttaranenenson
Reno
Suitbake City
Denver
National Capital
Skoyhiil
Nheli
New Knox County Registration Details 215 Men Included
Knox County plans for new registration indicate about 215 men, roughly 21 percent, now age 21 to 23 since June 5. Registration offices will be open at Canterbury Gambier Han Ville Mredericktown and in this city. Carlos Arquilla, slated for induction next Monday, is exempt under Emergency Fleet provisions and will not be marked at this time. Public notices urge support for the Red Cross and continued charitable giving.
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Knox County
Canterbury
Gambier
Han Ville
Mredericktown Sud
Maralal
Carlos Arquilla
County Quota Sets War Bond Drive Goals
The county’s quota in the war savings drive totals 120000 dollars with state committees allocating 15 million dollars total. Knox and other counties see specific targets such as Coshocton 90000 and Licking 195000, as local officials promote participation.
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Knox
War Savings
Columbia
Knox County
Mopabil Ean
Mae
Coshocton County
Licking
Wlohn
Wayne
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