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Hingham Mutual Fire Insurance Company
INCORPORATED IN 1826
HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS

IRA G. HERSEY PRESIDENT                                  
WILLIAM B. FEARING VICE PRESIDENT
ALAN F. HERSEY SECRETARY
WINTHROP J. CUSHING TREASURER

TELEPHONES
HINGHAM 0841-0842

BRITTON & BLAKE, AGENTS
9 FREEMAN STREET
STOUGHTON, MASS.

4-23-31-

Dear Sidney and Doris,

It is some time since I wrote you but have been pretty busy. Doris mother was in the office about an hour ago and was quite worried about her father but said he had to see everything she wrote and so she couldn't write just what she wanted to. Her father has been complaining about his head for a couple of weeks I guess or since about the time I wrote you that he was not feeling just right Monday he started out with the assessors on the road but felt so bad that he had to give it up and go home. He had Ewing call and he told him to give up his work and rest and this morning when he called he told him or told your mother that his blood pressure was 240 and that a man his age there wasn't much he could do for him. She asked if it meant a shock and he said