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Conger Reynolds correspondence, July 1918
1918-07-19 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3
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gratulation meeting. We foresaw the press section sumptuously installed in a Real Joint, and we were half wild at the wonder of our find. Alas! We gloated too soon. Next we went to call on the French town major, who regulates such things as the quartering of military units in the town. As soon as he heard what we had planned, he put his big foot squarely on it and crunched. They were saving that mansion for some mythical army staff that might come to town some day. That we should take it was simply "amposseeb". He doubted whether we could come to the city at all. On this latter point we soon convinced him that we had the necessary authority. But he had us on the house proposition. So after a lengthy
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gratulation meeting. We foresaw the press section sumptuously installed in a Real Joint, and we were half wild at the wonder of our find. Alas! We gloated too soon. Next we went to call on the French town major, who regulates such things as the quartering of military units in the town. As soon as he heard what we had planned, he put his big foot squarely on it and crunched. They were saving that mansion for some mythical army staff that might come to town some day. That we should take it was simply "amposseeb". He doubted whether we could come to the city at all. On this latter point we soon convinced him that we had the necessary authority. But he had us on the house proposition. So after a lengthy
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