Sometimes it’s the tiny wee snippets in newspapers that speak volumes.

We loved this newspaper story about how the romantically-inclined munition workers (munitionettes ) during World War One put little, romantic notes inside the ammunition cases that were sent to the soldiers at the front.

Western Daily Press – Thursday 27 February 1919

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