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Home Buyers are Stingy–Letter Home–Feb. 3, 1921


 

[Headlines from The New York Times (page 1, above the fold) to place the letters in context of the world around them.]

PALMER PUTS BAN ON WHOLESALE LIQUOR RELEASES

Attorney General Practically Restricts Them in Future to Wholesale Druggists. OTHER PERMITS CANCELED Decision Expected to Interrupt Activities of at Least 3,888 Wholesalers. CUTS OFF BOOTLEG SUPPLY Officials Also Believe New Regulations Will Stop Manufacture of Alcoholic "Tonics."

 

Windsor Hotel

Wratschko and Eppich, Props.

Gloversville, N.Y.



Feb. 3, 1921


My Darling:


When I reached this town tonight I found a letter from you but it was the one you wrote last week. I was glad to get it just the same. I have found Elizabeth’s letter to Marion.

I have been writing a long time and am tired and its past my bedtime. I am sending a letter from Mr. Hastings I wrote to him two days ago and have answered tonight the letter I’m sending you. I know that if I go ahead with sale at Earlville there’ll be a lot of details that I have to look after and it will require quite a lot of time from me. Hastings is slow and will leave a lot of things undone and it will drag out same as our other proposed sale. I don’t know what is best to do. You and Clayton and Ed Billings all seem to favor Syracuse. He figures out $600 but I know that there would be a good deal of extra expense not figured in those items. I think the commission is 10% at Liverpool. You see if my stock at Earlville should bring $6,000 his items of expense would figure just 10% and that would not cover entire cost by any means. I know that my sale is not sufficient quality to draw buyers from any distance and home buyers are stingy. I must get to bed. Ill be thankful when this whole thing is wrapped up. Do you really want to sell some household stuff?

I have two orders today one for $88 and the other for $537.00 The letter is from Mr. King on monthly service.

Your loving,

Jack

 



Editor's notes


In the letter of January 25th, John had a dream about his cows and mentioned that he was thinking of selling the farm. You may recall that the farm is his dream. He really want to be a farmer. In previous letters we've heard about Frank going out to cut a huge Christmas tree and getting lost, about the family camping all summer on the farm and one of the cows sticking her heard in the tent. As millions of families do, John is now making a decision between how he wishes to live and what is best for his family. The farm has to go.




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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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