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John N. Calhoun family letters, February 1941-April 1945
1943-02-06 Page 1
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Burlington, Ia., Feb 6, 1943 Dearest Daddy:- Rie'd your letter that was written Feb. 4, this morning. You see how much better your mail comes through don't you since you have been up there. Thanks for the checks and I will cash them and use them to pay on the bills that are coming up soon. I had a very busy day again today and I am just exhausted again tonight. I took in over $19.00 today and $22.00 yesterday. My week was short this week though, as I was off three days with my leg. It is almost midnight, but I am sitting up to watch the furnace. I have been having a heck of a time with it lately. It refused to go on at all tonight. When I came home from work, the furnace was filled up with black coal. It wasn't burning it up and kept feeding. I finally got Kirkpatrick to come up & he started it for me, but didn't seem to do much about the other and after he left I got the instruction book that came with the furnace and am trying to regulate it myself. So don't dare go to bed until I see that it is going to be O.K. I believe it is now. We had talked of driving up to Fairfield to see Dorothy and my Dad tomorrow but will depend upon the weather in the morning. It sleeted & snowed on
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Burlington, Ia., Feb 6, 1943 Dearest Daddy:- Rie'd your letter that was written Feb. 4, this morning. You see how much better your mail comes through don't you since you have been up there. Thanks for the checks and I will cash them and use them to pay on the bills that are coming up soon. I had a very busy day again today and I am just exhausted again tonight. I took in over $19.00 today and $22.00 yesterday. My week was short this week though, as I was off three days with my leg. It is almost midnight, but I am sitting up to watch the furnace. I have been having a heck of a time with it lately. It refused to go on at all tonight. When I came home from work, the furnace was filled up with black coal. It wasn't burning it up and kept feeding. I finally got Kirkpatrick to come up & he started it for me, but didn't seem to do much about the other and after he left I got the instruction book that came with the furnace and am trying to regulate it myself. So don't dare go to bed until I see that it is going to be O.K. I believe it is now. We had talked of driving up to Fairfield to see Dorothy and my Dad tomorrow but will depend upon the weather in the morning. It sleeted & snowed on
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