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ARNSTEIN TRAIL LEADS TO MURDER OF BANK MESSENGER
Binkowitz, Who Fled with $178,000 in Securities, Slain by Hired Assassins. WOULDN'T GIVE UP BONDS Details of Crime Learned Through Information Given at Bankruptcy Hearing. VICTIM LURED FROM CITY Stabbed to Death When He Refused $3,000 for Securities Hidden in His Coat Lining.
WILSON TO MAKE PEACE RESOLUTION A CAMPAIGN ISSUE
Determined to Join It with Treaty and League in Democratic Fighting Program.CUMMINGS ATTACKS KNOX Declares His Proposals Are Evidence of Republican Party's "Moral Leprosy."SAYS THEY URGE DISHONOR Democratic Chairman's StatementIs Believed to Have Been Inspired by President.
May 3, 1920
Dear Frank:
I'm just as sorry for you as I can be with all this old blood poisoning. Since we first heard of it, Gertrude and I have thought about you a great deal.
You've always been such an active lad that I can imagine just how hard it is to lie there and suffer. Do they
give you what you want to eat or do you have to diet? Poor kid! I wish I could see you. Baseball season coming on too-but never mind. Keep a good, strong heart. That is the important thing.
Three of my little girls, all except the youngest, are down with the measles today. They are blotched up for fair. They look like little painted Indians. They have just nicely gotten over the flu and chickenpox, but I told them to hurry up and get over the measles for they've got the mumps and scarlet fever to have yet and they won't have time to have them all this season if they spend too much time with any one disease.
Your father must miss you on the farm these spring days. Is he at home now?
I wrote that you could be here near New London and join one of our boys gymnasium classes. Do you remember Mr. Young, our physical director who came out to Earlville with me at time of Donald's wedding last summer? The boys here think everything of him. He is planning for summer camp now. May dare you plan to come out here as soon as you get to feeling better and then there is next month go out to our YMCA boys camp. It is near here. Last summer I spent a week there in camp on social stunts. Minstrel xxxx xxx and I had a grand good time. I think that you would too. Better plan on it. I heard from Stuart Young the other day. He is the only one who has written me of the scout troop in sometime. How are all the other fellows?
Well we shall watch the mails anxiously to hear of your improvement. Remember me to all your people.
Sincerely,
Clyde
PS We appreciate the calendar that your people sent. It came when we were all sick in bed with flu and the scene was just what we needed. It's a beautiful picture.
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