Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1918 — THOSE WAR TERMS. [ARTICLE]

THOSE WAR TERMS.

One of the rear-end-of-the-street-car regulars -boarded the car at his accustomed corner after an absence of about two weeks. He was looking “peaked” and one of his friends asked: “Where have you been for a couple of weeks, Brown?” "Oh, I had a slight touch of pneumonia,” Brown answered. “Touch!” said the first speaker; “looks to me like you might have had a direct lilt!”