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[[circled]] 745 [/circled]]
[[stamped]] JUL 28 1924 [[/stamped]]

[[letterhead]]
Methodist Episcopal Church,
Clinton and Allerton
Paul R. Schriver, Minister.
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Clinton, New Jersey, [[underline]]July 25th[[/underline]] 1924.

"Prize Contest"
Answering the question "What Burpee's Seeds have done for me?" found on page 10 of Burpee's Annual, 1924, of W. Atlee Burpee Company, SeedGrowers, Philadelphia, Pa. This letter written as to my Mother

My dear Mother:-
 Brother Frank brought me home one Sunday Morning. Nothing to eat in the house and only bread in the auto, we visited the garden and secured Burpee's Golden Bantam Sweet corn, Burpee Fordhook Bush Lima, potatoes, Fordhook Mainstay cabbage, Burpee Iceberg Lettuce, Burpee Oxheart-carrot, Sunnybrook beet, Burpee Fordhook Muskmelon. Everything was ripe, sweet, juicy, luscious and fresh from my own garden. 
  My delight was sweet peas and Roses, and though I have not neglected them, my loyalty and devotion is now for gladioli, For

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@siobhanleachman:- I've received a reply from TC via twitter @transcribesi about this issue. They say "YES put No./Date at top or bottom (sep from txt) - AAG wants this text searchable BUT we also want coherence of letter"