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"Our business has been junk for past eight weeks"–May 19, 1921


 




MINGO CITIZENS, LED BY CLERGYMEN, ARM FOR DEFENSE

Business and Professional Men Ready to Meet Expected Rioting Today. 500 ALREADY ENROLLED Residents of Williamson, 250 Strong, Volunteer to Shoulder Rifles at Court House Meeting. GOVERNOR GIVES AUTHORITY Forces of Order Determined to Suppress Mine Field Disorder Through Vigilante Control.


CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE IS DEAD AT AGE OF 75 AFTER AN OPERATION

 

New Park Hotel

Geo. B. Shores, Prop.

Rates $3.00 and $3.50 Per Day

Towanda, Pa.


May 19, 1921


My Darling:

Your letters written Tuesday and Wednesday were waiting for me when I arrived here at about six

o’clock tonight. Was delighted to hear from you. Have had a tough day working in four or five towns with no business. I have called on an old customer here tonight and sold him an order for $104.25. Must work here in forenoon and then will go down toward Wyalusing and may stay there over Sunday. It’s a neat town of about 600 souls. When I read what you said about Elizabeth I decided I would stay out the three weeks and go to Syracuse Friday night and take her home Saturday, June 4, but on reading the letter again I take it that she will not want to go home in middle of week. I don’t know how she can come in car as I don’t want to break into a week.

I have a lot of work to do out here and feel its best to hang to the binder for these three weeks. Our business has been junk for past eight weeks and I would like to catch up a lot of these little towns before July. Hope you have a good meeting tomorrow. Sorry I couldn’t have had more time with Vic and Lill.

I rather think I’ll be in Mansfield, Pa. for Sunday. Get a letter there anyway.

It’s way past my bedtime and I must rest.

Love unmeasured,

Jack

 



Editor's notes




If you're new to this project, please consider going to our site and catching up with a few letters from the 1900-1910 era. The letters only take 3-5 minutes to read and you'll find the characters more fully develop if you read the letters chronologically.


John has excellent handwriting. However, in some instances, I cant decipher it. If I can't, I simply mark the spot with "xxx"s to signify thank the word isn't decipherable.


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