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