Dear Pauline,
Received your letter and three
from Harrisburg,
and getting no place fast. I need some
more of your help, and will explain and send you contents of the letter from Harrisburg. When I inquired about your birth record I took
a stab at the date November 1909. I
guess you’re like the rest of the women: you’re 18 until your married, then
you’re 20, then you’re 18 again. Will you do me another favor? Go to our church and get my birth certificate
and have the priest make it out like you will see the way I have it made out on
a separate sheet of paper. I also wish that you will write to Harrisburg for your birth record. The midwife, or whoever else is responsible
for this mess, has certainly gummed things up. I have to have a bonafide
record from Harrisburg,
so a church record alone won’t hold up. Will you write for your records and
explain the fact and dates? When you receive a reply, send me the full details.
Do this as soon as possible. I’m glad to hear ma liked the new gift and the
money I sent. I’m in appreciation for
the time and trouble spent for my benefit. It was meant for a family chicken
dinner. If you still have it, you can use a dollar to get your birth records or
buy a canary or something. Well Pauline, how are you and the rest behaving? Everything O.K.? Say I got to compliment you and Frank on
your taste of furniture. You two evidently have a swell little layout, neat and
tidy as a pin. A guy
don’t mind coming home to a place like that. You don’t by any chance
want to sell that bed do you? That mattress would cure anything that ails you,
from rheumatism to corns. Are any of you guys and gals having any luck lately? One of the boys at the shop hit the number Wednesday, 608 for
$1.05, lucky stiff. The day the number 111-117 came out they broke two
houses. Some of the fellows haven’t got paid yet. I went to Toledo, Ohio
last weekend. It’s
60 miles north of Detroit.
There’s a big gambling joint on highway
25 called Webster
Inn. Its open all day and
night, never closed. You can make a bet
on horses, roulette wheel, black jack, and dice. I tried them all and went out
talking to myself.
The race track here opens up
Saturday. I’ll get a chance to see some of the nags I’ve been betting on. Maybe I’ll hit the daily double. My luck is about due to change. We haven’t
received our insurance money yet. I am
working 4 days a week. There has been a
lay off last week another coming next week. If they don’t get me in the next I’ll be good
‘till the final layoff in July 15th.
Will you write to Harrisburg and answer soon?
Your
bro,
-Pete
P.S. – best regards to all