Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1918 — SMOKES MADE 3 TRIPS BEFORE TRUTH KNOWN [ARTICLE]

SMOKES MADE 3 TRIPS BEFORE TRUTH KNOWN

Pittsburgh, Pa. —Three times during the last two years a box of cigarettes was sent to Sergeant John Graham, with the Fifth Regiment Royal Irish Rifles in France, and three times the cigarettes came back; but it was not until the last time that the sender, Thomas Graham, knew ’ his brother was dead. A letter from the English government came with the cigarettes the last time. It was said that John Graham had been killed in action December 5, 1916, one day after he went into the trenches.