[Headlines from The New York Times (page 1, above the fold) to place the letters in context of the world around them.]
POLICE GUARD PUT AT GATES OF CITY TO BAR CRIMINALS
Enright Orders Special Details to All Entrances in New Move to End Crime. ACTS OF VIOLENCE CONTINUE Shootings, Burglaries and Highway Robberies Reported Despite Intensive Werfare. ENRIGHT TO VISIT JERSEY Will Confer With Officials at Trenton on Interstate Co-operation to Meet Situation.
CALIFORNIA WILL SATISFY JAPAN ON NEW LAND LAW
Kahn Tells of Solution Reached to Bar All Alien Ownership. TOKIO TO STOP EMIGRATION House Members From California Will Meet Tomorrow to Discuss Negotiations. SENATORS ARE CONSULTED State Department Obtaining Informally Also Views of Representatives on Treaty.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—The solution of the perplexing Japanese question, which has been delicate because of the adoption of the referendum in California forbidding Japanese ownership of land, is approaching a satisfactory conclusion through negotiation.
The Central House
Mrs. J.M. Loomis, Proprietor
Rates $3.00 per day
Heated by Steam
Electric Lights
Walton, N.Y. December 28, 1920
My darling,
I was delighted to get your good letter. Hardly dared to expect one so soon. I got a good rest last night
and was up early for business. Worked as faithfully as I know how, and was all but skunked. It's a crime! I sold a little order for art calendars for $56 and two renewal orders for business calendars for $43 and $60 and that's all I have to show for the day. I am not the least bit blue or discouraged. When I work and do the best I know how, I'm not going to worry–when I can help it. Guess you had better have Lloyd dispose of the calf. We have all the bulls we can feed now.
Watkinson had a wonderful first day. 28 orders for $7000. Can't comprehend how a human being can do it. Several others with several thousand each. Must get to bed.
Love unbounded,
John
Editor's notes
The hotel stationary John uses usually has the name of the proprietor, as well as a few of the amenities (steam heat, electricity), on it. When it does, I include it in my transcription. This is the first letter in which I’ve seen a woman listed as the proprietor.
I've included a picture of some Christmas present tags as they were mixed in among the correspondence.
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