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Hot and Dandy- Letter Home-Mar. 1, 1921


 

Many Fatalities in Series of Riots In Florence and Other Italian Cities

MILAN, Feb. 28.—Another sanquinary Sunday disgraced numerous Italian towns yesterday through bitter strife between Nationalist and Communist factions.


12,000 IN GARDEN UNDER POLICE GUARD ATTACK FRANCE

While They Boo Wilson and Decry 'Anglo-Saxonism' 2,000 Veterans Meet Outside. DOZEN LEGION MEN OUSTED Led Out After Crying 'Remember the Lusitania'

 

The Osborne Company New York Chicago London

Osborne Art Calendars

Central Offices and Works

Newark, N. J.

“Wait for the Osborne Man”

Binghamton, N.Y.

Mar 1, 1921

8:15 p.m.


My Darling.

Those sandwiches were great. Hot and dandy. Well 8:15 and you finally got rid of me in a hurry. I


leave here at 8:30 tonight for Bath. Have decided to go there and backup to Elmira sometime tomorrow. Guess I had better order a suit of clothed before I get back home. Don’t know how it seems to be without a farm. It’s too soon to tell but guess it's alright. Can tell better about the 25th of March [when the farm sale goes through] after all those fine cows and calves are sold. I am leaving all the arrangements for lunch for the auction to you and to the Lloyd’s. I wish you would make out a farm check to W.C. Crouch for $505 the amount of note and interest for two months. Please do this. Train is right here.

Jack

 



Editor's notes


I don’t understand why John is writing a check to Mr. Crouch as I believe he is the buyer of the farm.


In administrative news, over Christmas my other brother--not the one storing the original trove of hundreds of letters from my great-grandfather--gave me a box filled with letters from my grandfather, Red Dolan, to Marion, my grandmother. The letters seem to start in 1922 (although I haven't gone through them yet) and cover the very first love letters to Marion, when "Red" appeared at her boarding house in Millville, through their romance in the twenties, when he was an investigative reporter for the New York Post, their marriage in 1923, the birth of my mother 's birth in 1925, and the breakdown of their marriage 6 years later, due to alcoholism and mental illness. I'll be looking for someone to narrate the part of Red Dolan on my weekly podcasts so let me know if you'd like to audition!


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.


Check out our article in the New York Times!


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