Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1918 — SMOKES FOR WOUNDED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SMOKES FOR WOUNDED

,J A few wounded American soldiers in a United States hospital in France are receiving their “smokes” from an American Red Cross worker. The soothing taste of tobacco helps the boys to forget their pain and all their troubles go up in smoke. Tobacco is the greatest essential for the comfort of our soldiers both onthe line and behind. From letters ’received from boys “over thete” it appears that the Yankee cannot smoke "the detestable stuff” that the French smoke and American tobacco received with ' open aims.