TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PINE BLUFF DAILY GRAPHIC MARCH 15, 1918 P. 5
E. B. Bloom, Secretary,
Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Dear Sir:
Mr. Thompkins presented me with a “smileage book” from you and told me about writing you for statistics on the state of Arkansas and of your reply. I wish to thank you for both, and feel sure that I shall enjoy the shows and the smiles, but we appreciate the information even more, for we are having it round and round with men from other states.
We are now using as pointers that Arkansas is third in cotton, second in rice, holds the largest pine mill in any state, the only diamond mine in the United States, a spring town of international reputation, the largest cotton planter in the world and produces the best apples to be found, together with the facts that she is the proud possessor of the largest peach orchard in the union and that 90 per cent of the bauxite in the United States comes from that state.
Well, Mr. Bloom, to say the least of it, for the past two weeks we made many a man sorry he has not been that way in the past and resolved that when the war is over, he shall be “Arkansas bound.”
Again thanking you for your information and smileage books, I am.
Yours truly,
C. ARNOLD.
Co. 357, Motor Truck Group,
Camp Hill, Newport News, Va.
NOTES: This letter was written by Carl Arnold.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
E. B. Bloom, Secretary,
Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Dear Sir:
Mr. Thompkins presented me with a “smileage book” from you and told me about writing you for statistics on the state of Arkansas and of your reply. I wish to thank you for both, and feel sure that I shall enjoy the shows and the smiles, but we appreciate the information even more, for we are having it round and round with men from other states.
We are now using as pointers that Arkansas is third in cotton, second in rice, holds the largest pine mill in any state, the only diamond mine in the United States, a spring town of international reputation, the largest cotton planter in the world and produces the best apples to be found, together with the facts that she is the proud possessor of the largest peach orchard in the union and that 90 per cent of the bauxite in the United States comes from that state.
Well, Mr. Bloom, to say the least of it, for the past two weeks we made many a man sorry he has not been that way in the past and resolved that when the war is over, he shall be “Arkansas bound.”
Again thanking you for your information and smileage books, I am.
Yours truly,
C. ARNOLD.
Co. 357, Motor Truck Group,
Camp Hill, Newport News, Va.
NOTES: This letter was written by Carl Arnold.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT