Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1917 — Preferred. [ARTICLE]

Preferred.

At a certain camp the soldiers have been complaining recently about the scanty fare of meat that** is often served up to them, and the corporal was walking around at the tea time recently, and, noticing a tea leaf swimming on the top of a comrade’s pot, he remarked: “Ah, I see we’re going to have a strafiger today!” To which a Tommy replied “Aye, and let us hope that it will be the butcher!” Pearson’s Weekly.