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PAGE 38 Buxton.
My youngest sister Laura married at age 18 and before eight years had passed she was the mother of eight children without twins and from there on she never got much out of life for see was always pregnant so without any Doctor or medical advice she would perform these abortions herself and perhaps she was successful the first or second time the most of them may have been complete failures. She always talked to me confidentially and explain what she was doin but it was all wrong unless one is trying to committ suicide. The grand total had risen to 14 abortions and with eight children of which four is alive. I only make this known because some girls or women may learn something from past experience. It is hard to understand how anyone performing on them selves would do anything blind folded of a dangerous nature. Even though a profession Doctor performs this service I do believe it lessens ones longevity; at any rate I am going to ask a Doctor. My sister lived to be 50 years old and was still able to be a mother; but there was not part of her body that was not entwined and spread completely with cancer. 
I know such little about Politicks that I should keep both my mind and mouth shut but it cramps my style when I see everything going wrong. To begin with I believe we are the most greedy Country on earth. That did caus the inflation. Nobody revoked the Taft-Harley Law. Congress passed that law to put a curb on inflation. Now the only way out is to freeze prices and wages. How many hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved and how many billions of dollars if those at the helm had guided us to act accordingly to the sentiment expressed by: The late Hans Morganthau; Historian and Scientious warned: in one of his book:
Never put yourself in a position from which you cannot
retreat without losing face, and from which you cannot
advance without great risk. 
Jack Williams, the Pharmacist's Drug Store was less than a block from our home and with quite a family: Tom his oldest son; Jessie his oldest daughte who was an artist and painted pictures exactly like Famous Nell Brinkley years ago; walter the same age as mine and we played together for several years; then Hazel; Howard and Grace. When Buxton was nomore in Oct. of 1922 Tom went to Chicago and was employed as a Chemist in the Drug Department; Jessie, the artist went into Illinois and was married; Walter went to Gylispie for the Consolidation Coal Company as a book keeper; Howard committed suicide; Hazel the last I heard was in the middle of a singing career, and Grace who was another fine artist by drawing and painting an ear of corn so perfect that the Shetland Pony tried to bite it. Jack Williams had a fine and unusual family and they were friendly to everybody except the family next door that were named Hiram Williams because they had a son about 16 years of age that shot Jack williams pet crow out of the tree that stood in front of their house so Jack saw thecrow fall, went over, picked it up, then hit the boy over the head wit

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PAGE 38 Buxton. My youngest sister Laura married at age 18 and before eight years had passed she was the mother of eight children without twins and from there on she never got much out of life for see was always pregnant so without any Doctor or medical advice she would perform these abortions herself and perhaps she was successful the first or second time the most of them may have been complete failures. She always talked to me confidentially and explain what she was doin but it was all wrong unless one is trying to committ suicide. The grand total had risen to 14 abortions and with eight children of which four is alive. I only make this known because some girls or women may learn something from past experience. It is hard to understand how anyone performing on them selves would do anything blind folded of a dangerous nature. Even though a profession Doctor performs this service I do believe it lessens ones longevity; at any rate I am going to ask a Doctor. My sister lived to be 50 years old and was still able to be a mother; but there was not part of her body that was not entwined and spread completely with cancer. I know such little about Politicks that I should keep both my mind and mouth shut but it cramps my style when I see everything going wrong. To begin with I believe we are the most greedy Country on earth. That did caus the inflation. Nobody revoked the Taft-Harley Law. Congress passed that law to put a curb on inflation. Now the only way out is to freeze prices and wages. How many hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved and how many billions of dollars if those at the helm had guided us to act accordingly to the sentiment expressed by: The late Hans Morganthau; Historian and Scientious warned: in one of his book: Never put yourself in a position from which you cannot retreat without losing face, and from which you cannot advance without great risk. Jack Williams, the Pharmacist's Drug Store was less than a block from our home and with quite a family: Tom his oldest son; Jessie his oldest daughte who was an artist and painted pictures exactly like Famous Nell Brinkley years ago; walter the same age as mine and we played together for several years; then Hazel; Howard and Grace. When Buxton was nomore in Oct. of 1922 Tom went to Chicago and was employed as a Chemist in the Drug Department; Jessie, the artist went into Illinois and was married; Walter went to Gylispie for the Consolidation Coal Company as a book keeper; Howard committed suicide; Hazel the last I heard was in the middle of a singing career, and Grace who was another fine artist by drawing and painting an ear of corn so perfect that the Shetland Pony tried to bite it. Jack Williams had a fine and unusual family and they were friendly to everybody except the family next door that were named Hiram Williams because they had a son about 16 years of age that shot Jack williams pet crow out of the tree that stood in front of their house so Jack saw thecrow fall, went over, picked it up, then hit the boy over the head wit