Child's multicolor notebook with WWI-era jottings
Child's multicolor notebook with WWI-era jottings
Child's multicolor notebook with WWI-era jottings
Child's multicolor notebook with WWI-era jottings
Child's multicolor notebook with WWI-era jottings
Child's multicolor notebook with WWI-era jottings
Child's multicolor notebook with WWI-era jottings
Child's multicolor notebook with WWI-era jottings
[manuscript notebook]

Child's multicolor notebook with WWI-era jottings



1917-1918 manuscript notebook with pictorial cover and multicolor textblock, about 10 pages of writing. 8.25 x 5.5 inches, bound at the top edge. About Very Good with soil and wear; signature to cover, E. Bessie May (Moller?) One of the few entries regurgitates American WWI propaganda and advertising in a nonsense stream that reads like radio seeking: "My dear friend, I reached my camp place yesterday morning. Please buy a United States government bond second liberty loan of 1917 US treasury will pay your interest every sip you are liberty. Your fore fathers died for... You can fight your money can buy liberty bond call someone will do the rest Sign your country pledge to save the food chance of time." (Approximate transcription).


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