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dropped my pen & it has covered the length of the whole sheet with ink. I have received a letter this week from Georgia Briggs, & she asked if you were coming up home this summer. Alice will stay down east during the hot weather, & then go back in the fall I think. but really she must feel all alone except for Georgia & should think another winter in Ohio, they would all dread, as there was an epidemic of Flue there last season, so the climate is not as good as it might be, if it is a country place. seven funerals in one day Alice told us. they were all down with it & were very bad, but managed to pull through but she


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had lost a good deal of flesh. I have not been down to Sues for a long while we saw by the Brockton Enterprise that her cousin Hattie Packard slipped on the stairs & broke her ankle. I tried to call her up yesterday but the line was busy, I was going to tell her. One day this week Stanley brought us a radio & set it up. So far it seems to be working all right, Pa did not pay much for it. A loud speaker, & five tubes. I was listening in last evening to it, as I was here alone. it is company all right when you are tired & dont feel like work. there is a new family moved into the tenement accross the way. Stanley was moving his chicken coopes away yesterday afternoon.