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  Remsen must be getting to be quite a stirring place again. Does I.W.R. intend to open the store in his own name? Do people think yet that he really failed? Is it not quite a temptation to have candies &c in the P.O.? Do Obie and Johny go to school yet? What is Fred doing? By the way, Eddie, have you collected those school bills for me? I think Father has the names. Now I can remember only a