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Ida Chronicles - Final

This consists of several paragraphs from other, windier letters. My cousin Dan suffered a great deal of damage from the accident (drunken driver) but is doing well today. Aunt Ida was one of the few to write things down. Hope you enjoyed: I must have been a pretty good sized ...

Ida Chronicles 12

Hi Dan, I knew it. What. That I would end up being sorry I didn’t go to the Buzz Martin Concert and dance Sat. Hi I hear it was good and well attended. Had we known you were going to be there we would have gone over though we were ...

Ida Chronicles 11

Hi Dan, Great Grandpa had a set of false teeth that he carried in his pocket, more than in his mouth. They didn’t fit very good. One day he had them wrapped in a piece of paper, on a table in his house. (To get this straight, he and Great ...

Ida Chronicles 10

Hi Dan (Photo of large number of people) My picture this time is going to be a little different. The cute little fellow down in the front row with the suit and hat in hand is your dad. The little guy next to him with hat on is John. How ...

Ida Chronicles 9

Hi Dan, Since you are going to be home weekends I’ll be writing you just one letter a week. You’ll have the chance to keep up on the present day news and I’ll keep digging up the past. Our church was built in 1921 and the 1st mass was Christmas ...

Ida Chronicles 8

Now hear this:---Ida is about to spout off again. Hi Dan, Don’t mind me. I’ve always been this way. It took Ernie quite awhile to get used to me. The news of you is so good. I am so glad you are trying so hard. To all of your kin ...

Ida Chronicles 7

Hi Dan, Monday We’re not sweating around here today. It started out beautiful and then that old fog started rolling in from the ocean. It is now overcoat weather. Ernie is clipping pasture and Sam and Pete are desperately looking for field mice. They aren’t doing so good this year. ...

Ida Chronicles 6

Hello again, Dan. In Switzerland Grandma and her brother Louis, as kids, fished for trout in the spring. They had to keep them alive in water. They sold them to a restaurant where they were kept alive until someone ordered one. How’s that for fresh fish on the menu. And ...

Ida Chronicles 5

Ida Chronicles (Drawing of Two fish on the top of a page). The fish are running on their tails. “Hey Herk, if we swim fast enough, maybe old Nick can’t catch us. OK Jerk lets try anyway. If he catches us he’ll give them away and Ernie and Ida will ...

Ida chronicle 4

Hello Dan. (Funny Picture off to the side.) One day little Herkimer was late for school and the teacher demanded to know why. “Well teacher,” he said “it’s like this. Someone or something has been stealing our chickens. Last night Pa heard noise in the hen house. He got up ...

Ida Chronicles 3

Hello Dan, If those darn calves of ours would stay where they belonged we wouldn’t tire ourselves out going up Horn Creek After the. We “dood” it again today. Or maybe if Hurlimans came on our side of Horn Creek and patched the fence we wouldn’t have to. Farming with ...

Ida Chronicles No 2

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Ida Chronicles

Immigrants to the US in the early 1900s

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