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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, 1945
1945-06-18 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 1
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817-19 St SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa June 18, 1945 Dearest, A pretty day. I met a 'poor feeble-minded client & her two boys outside the Hi-Way Tovern Hotel Bldg. You know the dive on the corner of 1st and A Ave NE and the apartments over Elmer's Tavern. She lives on 3rd floor of that bldg. Her old age pension husband fell in the river last summer. I'm moving the kids from the Mission to Van Buren School so they'll be with older children. It is hard to get some of the average parents to go along on plans; and it is a double proposition to explain and actually get done in cases like this. At any rate, what I meant to say was I met them at 7:20 and toted them to Van Buren School. Then brought her back to the Montrose Laundry all before 8 o'clock. Then I went to the office and got the mail that had come while I was in Des Moines. Then had a cup of coffee at Garnets (had the first installment of breakfast at home). Then to the relief office, read a couple records, talked to the kids, and most important of all, I fixed up the dog that is the barometer of mail from you. I put the strings so that is snorting along in the most brisk fashion. When you come home we will get the dog from the relief bulletin board. You remember the snap-
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817-19 St SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa June 18, 1945 Dearest, A pretty day. I met a 'poor feeble-minded client & her two boys outside the Hi-Way Tovern Hotel Bldg. You know the dive on the corner of 1st and A Ave NE and the apartments over Elmer's Tavern. She lives on 3rd floor of that bldg. Her old age pension husband fell in the river last summer. I'm moving the kids from the Mission to Van Buren School so they'll be with older children. It is hard to get some of the average parents to go along on plans; and it is a double proposition to explain and actually get done in cases like this. At any rate, what I meant to say was I met them at 7:20 and toted them to Van Buren School. Then brought her back to the Montrose Laundry all before 8 o'clock. Then I went to the office and got the mail that had come while I was in Des Moines. Then had a cup of coffee at Garnets (had the first installment of breakfast at home). Then to the relief office, read a couple records, talked to the kids, and most important of all, I fixed up the dog that is the barometer of mail from you. I put the strings so that is snorting along in the most brisk fashion. When you come home we will get the dog from the relief bulletin board. You remember the snap-
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