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penciled note at top:17 Friday Oct 25, '95 Dear Papa and Momma, I have been very busy all day today. No one has come in, and I haven't been out. Yesterday they came and put up our stores, winter supply. Large coal stoves in the dinning room and back part of the front-hall and a small wood stove in our bedroom. It made a most awful mess. The blacksmith put them up and he was certainly very obliging and nice but such