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Mrs Barry is going down this afternoon to visit her cousin Mamie Kate. Guess its [[it's]] the last visit to her in Stoughton as Mamie has sold out all her furniture at half price (all new) and is going to live with old friends in Wenham everybody says she must be crazy & a good many tell her so. but she is trying to find happiness in so doing & she never will, she is being punished for not treating Oldon right & people know it. he was a respected citizen in Stoughton & they know how she treated him. he had the biggest funeral of any body in town & should have been held in church instead of the funeral home where the could'nt all get in but had to stand out in the cold.             

I hope you have enjoyed your trip south but cant see for the life of me what the attraction could have been Niggers and pigs seems to have been all there was to see after you got there, the journey must have been tiresome. I wrote Lena a good long letter & tried to make up for not answering her before & Mrs Barry sent her an Easter card. I got two boxes of nice chocolates & an Easter lilly & several Easter cards. The candy I made over to Mrs Barry, as no candy agrees with me & I dont care to make myself sick eating it. Kate Dykeman & Ballentines gave it 
               
It seems that our darn fool presidents speech accross [[across]] the water took with the foreign nations. I felt ashamed when I read it but if they liked it am glad. hope it does'nt cause war its something they know that the U States won the world war & thats something. they fear. Ma Take life cause if you can easier if you can dont hurry 
        

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