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Thursday November 19.1925 Dear Dairy. What do you think I have 'gone went and done now' Nothing more or less than Life Insurance. I took out a $2,000 - 20 year endowment policy, with the North Amercian Life. I know so very little about Life Insurance - and this all happened rather suddenly, but the main fact is that in 20 years I will have 2000 dollars- plus what profit may accumulate, which will be probably $700. It will mean I'll have to save my money, but
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that won't hurt me any. Nothing doing today at all. Spent the morning fooling --- wrote to Happy & Lance - Received a big letter from Happy. Sometimes I wonder if I do really play fair there. But I do think Happy knows that there can never be anything but this perfectly splendid comradeship for us. And it is a splendid friendship - I build ever and ever so much on his letters. They help me a very great deal, and I never want to lose them or this friendship which has lasted so long.
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Friday. Nov. 20.1925 Dear Dairy- Slept this am until 10:30 am Rather scandlous-- but why worry. Fooled around until noon- then went to Misses Callards for lunch. There was the dearest old lady there - "Caroline" somebody. She has helped Mrs. Callard look after Annie and Gussie when they were babies. Had a lovely lunch - and a nice talk for most the afternoon. Came home for supper-- Florence had brought me a hand-bag or hat bag. She really is the dearest and most
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good natured youngster. I am going to keep the hat bag. One going Home tomorrow night to wait for the certificates there. Mr. Martin came up to see Brownie about insurance - but no luck. He drove us all to Church to hear Ralph Connor. I wasn't so dreadfully fond of him - But I was almost too tired to enjoy him anyway. He spoke about Matthew being called by Jesus- and how wonderfully he went. -Also went to W.J.S. for my health certificate. Met. Manly instead- and he asserts I am free from all veneral or communicable diseases- Very nice of him
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Friday Nov. 27.25 On Board WolverineDear Dairy It's desperately hard to write on a train I never tried before, but I never thought it would be this hardThe above was a start I made between Buffalo& St. Thomas. But it wouldn't go very well, so I gave up. This is Saturday Nov. 28.25 and we have arrived. But I am going to start a whole week ago, and catch up. I went Home to Listowel- Saturday night, a week ago. Brownie & Beattie were to phone when the birth