[Headlines from The New York Times (page 1, above the fold) to place the letters in context of the world around them.]
HARDING VETOES ELABORATE INAUGURAL
TIME TO SET AN EXAMPLE OF THRIFT
CEREMONY SIMPLE, BALL ABANDONED
$27,205,283 LEFT BY WOOLWORTH IN A 200-WORD WILL
Widow, Long Mentally Feeble, Receives Entire Fortune Without Restriction. IN ADMINISTRATORS HANDS Hubert Parsons and Her Daughters Placed in Charge of Her Affairs in 1918. WILL DATED 31 YEARS AGO Founder of Great Chain of Stores Was Then a Poor and Struggling Young Man
The Park Hotel
Mrs. Cora Arnold
Proprietress
Prattsburgh, N.Y.
Jan 11, 1921
My Darling:
I have just realized that I am to be away from home on your’s and mother’s birthdays.
Will try to write mother but you give her my love and tell her I will be thinking of both of you on your birthdays. One is the 14th and other is the 15th but I’m not sure which is which.
I reached this lonesome town tonight and can’t get out of here until tomorrow night at six o’clock. I have four orders for today for $117.90, $39.56, $80.65 and $158.65. Am not covering much territory just now. These orders came out of Cohocton and Avoca, towns I had partly worked yesterday. You see I am way behind my schedule. Please ignore previous mail and that this one enclosed.
I think I shall spend Sunday in Perry. It is not a good place so far as a hotel is concerned, but that’s about as far as I can get. Will get to Avon tomorrow night if all goes well and hope to find a letter there from you. Am leaving forwarding slips and hope that I’ll not miss some of your letters. Have enjoyed re-reading your last one.
Must get to bed.
Love for each
John
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