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Dickinson admires it &says "He doesn't like this stuff that's going in here"  Stop over in front of Higgins studio but see no light so don't go up.  Leave D at 34th St and walk home.

Tuesday 25 Mar.  Jerome and Teresa up early and see out of the windows the soldiers from France forming for the parade.  Jerome remarks with great glee how the soldiers take off their steel helmets and sit on them.  Got check in mail from Vose & it proves a life saver.  Stop at Mrs. Sherwing to see if she can endorse it for cashing.  Says she can't as her endorsement doesn't seem to be very [[scribble?]] good.  One of her roomers in bookstore on 8th St says they'll sell some of my papers.  Tells me Bruno is with Frank Harris on "Pearsons" & that each has so much "on" the other they can't break away.  Says one of their dodges is to get a picture sent to Hs office from a 5th Ave dealer & have it disappear.  Dealer sends for it & Harris says Bruno took it for a debt H owed him  Dealer goes to [[strikethrough]] Brno [[/strikethrough]] Bruno who says he had to have some security for debt of 500 but if the dealer will pay him (B) the 500 he can have the picture.  The book chap says they seem to work.  Pretty sharp game.  Book chap is like Seymour  tortoise shell glasses & slow speech & drowsy voice and sad stooping presence.  Stop over at the Avenue

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& 13th St in jam of crowd.  Parade going by first, [[mounted?]] in autos then big gap then in state "O'Ryan" well set off by staff all on horseback.  See it all pass then get through 8th St to cash check in Brooklyn.  Nan out in parade.  Stop in to Millers  John comes in in uniform with another soldier [[out?]] of Johns USA motor car.  They have dinner with me - its the soldier's day.  They seem to enjoy it as much as I do.

       NE Hist & Gen. Reg   July 1916
p 233   Reminiscences of John Davidson. A Main Pioneer
        Comm. by Alf Johnson LTD.  Brookline Mass.

begin on p 168     Davidson gives fits to Col. Goulthwit Thos.  must be Goldthwait.  D tells of famine of [[ammunition?]] at Belfast Maine  takes a trip to Windham to his fathers  "The next Spring April 1780 I bought a small farm in Windham in goulding rowe and it cost me as much as five hund. & nine Dollars hard money  the building [[was?]] miserably poor  Tho we moved into the house uncomfortable tho it was & lived there  we were bet. 4 and 15 years in the house  we had three sons & two Daughters  Even in that house & without much repair and there us were a very poor family and in debt for my land & could scarcly [[sic]] raise provisions so as to supply this family   I was obliged to build a small barn.  not a long time after this there was a [[vandow?]] in Pelham not far from our house and I attended and old [[image of 4 dots]] Mr James Brittan Esqr. was master of the werke and a very good frend of mine  I informed him 
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