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From the Morgue
The Southeast Missourian's resident historian Sharon K. Sanders blogs about interesting pieces of local history pulled from the newspaper's morgue -- the place where our old editions are kept.
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Uncle Sam called John Brown in 1917
Posted Thursday, August 23, 2012, at 12:00 AM
Charlie Herbst and his uncle, Bob Herbst, were kind enough to help me gather information on a relative of theirs, John Leonard Brown.
What stirred my curiosity was this front-page story about Brown published July 20, 1937:
Brown died March 12, 1948 at the Veterans Hospital in Danville, Ill., where he had been a patient since May 1946.
His survivors included his wife, Mrs. Lydia Brown; twin sons, Jack and Jerry Brown; a foster daughter, Mrs. Charles Herbst of Cape Girardeau, and two grandchildren.
Curious to know the names of the other men Uncle Sam called to military service July 20, 1917? I was. Here's how the story was presented that day in The Daily Republican (now the Southeast Missourian):
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