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        "Artillery",
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    "ocrText": "Dear Besst\nThasent heard from\nyou for five days and I\nam getting territy uneasy.\nFam to thine you today\nif I gat a letter\ndhdu't feel well and I have\nlast Tuesday saying thatyou\nyou mere morse. Lope that\nSeen expecting every I day to hear\nyou are not and that should he\nthing is all as it\nThase n & Reard from home\nfor a neek either. They played\nme a had trick at the Lank\nup there the o then day They good\nfriend Boo th called a $ 4000 as\nloan on me. may he you think\nI didn't untu den my mind\nhim on him I am going to show\na thing or some of\nthese I ment days. out to fine the a other\nthe registment officers and by\nday along with all the restof\nSome Look or crook I has un-\nlucky enough to ofsense mou\nshops conectly than anyone else\nPOSTMARK DATE 2-16-18\nand now I hase to fine next time.\nI in seared green because gen Berry\nin his Loots. Capt was second and\nHis very expert at making a person shake\nalways eatsem alive after they five\nLt Patterson ma third. There was en\npapers be cance you know sey well\ndently some mistake in grading the\nthat a person with a half laked eye\neight like mine couldn ee more shots\ncorrectly than one with real eyes. Rugmay\nI'm the goat, I gyess its sery good\nexperience though.\nIf Idon of hear from you very soon\ngoing Q. L and finding out\nI ml going to disgrace the seinie by\nwhat's the matter There was some\njoyne in life when I get letters from\nto show my ignorance before the whole\ncomy from Lankas and Iam andered\nand from you but when they\nregiment, there not much left If\ncould only see you I'd Le all Vin Leasen.\nyans absamp Havey\nUNITED STATES OFAMERICA\nSPECIAL\nU.S.POSTAGE\nDELIVERY\nLAWTON\nSERIES\nSecures\nimmediate\ndelivery atany\nUnited States\nFEB16\nPost Office\n12-30P\n19\nDO XWOTENCENTSU\nOHI A\nSCENTS3\nMiss Bess Gallace\n219 Delegare St\nIndependence\nmo\nMO.\n1918\nREC'D"
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