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Envelope:

Mrs Lawrence Roudebush
Pawnee City
Nebr

Letter:

F. B. J.
Goff, Kansas
12-30-31

Dearest Alice,

I received your good letter this P.M and was pleased to hear from you.

I have a pair of pillow cases for you and Lawrence and I hope you like them, it is just a little hard to know about sizes but hope they aint to large for your pillows.

I hope you had a nice Christmas, I had a ver nice Christmas, seemed very lonesime with Gilbert gone for he always was with me that day for the last ten years before -

Every time I turned around I would think of him and when I sat down to eat. I could hardly eat for a few minutes.

Alice, I received many very nice Gifts, and your I do appreciate so much for I do like a nice clean hat brush that isnt used on clothing to brush my hats and I do thank you very much.

Mary and Clifford sent Doctor and I a pyrex dish, something I have wanted for a long time just fits a silver casserle I have. I always before used a porcelain pan but how much nicer the pyrex dish will be for I scopple so many different things.

Doctor gave me a real fox fur. I sure am happy over that and too I needed a fur for my coat as it hasnt fur on it.
I called your Dad soon as I read your letter told him you returned home OK.

Yes Alice I have a sister living there in Pawnee City. She lives on the highway going east out of pawnee. the 3rd house not a very large house on the south side of the road going into town. Her name is Howard, her husbands name is Fred.

They stopped here on their way down home. I told Lottie you was living up there. She has a big fat sweet baby. He just sits and laughs.

Alice call Lottie up over the ????? I know she would be glad to have you come over. And I know you kids would like both Lottie and Fred.

Well Alice I am just about to run down. I received a big box of this stationary for Christmas enough to last me till 1932.

I am mailing you your package this evening.

Lots and Lots of love from

Mickey

Alice I hear wonderful things about your housekeeping and cooking and how nicely you set your table and how wellyou do. sure does please me to get those kind of reports.be sure to come see us the next time you come home. M.

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Hello Alice: I was wondering where you were this Christmas Mary dropped in yesterday and so we found out. we were sure glad to see her. She said you expected to go to Goff Christmas wish you had time to come down. We are all well. Merry Christmas from all of us.

Gustia

Observations:

I cannot read the name on the card or the envelope. I am not sure if it is Gustia, Austin, or Austia.

At some point after Christmas of 1931 and before Christmas of 1932 Alice moved to Clarinda, Iowa.

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Box 56
Goff, Kans

Mrs Lawrence Roudebush

Pawnee City

Nebraska

Letter:

Thursday

Dear Alice,

I rec’d your pkg. this morning and I certainly thank you for the pretty handkerchiefs. I think they are so pretty. I ahd your pkg. all ready, but thought you might come home & I could give it to you. so I told Jake when I rec’d your pkg. I guess you werent coming home so I am mailing it to you this morning. I rec’d a pkg. from Mary and Clifford but haven’t opened it yet becaue they didnt want me to open it until Xmas. They had a nice programe on at the theater last night. I ddint enjoy it as much as I did last year though, because your mother, Mary, Clifford & you & I were all together.& last night I was all alone & felt pretty blue over it. I suppose Martie wrote you all aboutshe and your Dad going dow nto see Mary & Clifford.
Well Alice I just havent time to write more this time I sure am busy. I will write more next time. I just rec’d your pkg & I thank you & Lawrence much. We wish you both a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.

Lots of Love

Mrs. Shumaker

Observations:

At first I thought this was a letter from Mary to Alice, talking about a package, and hten I saw that she talks about Mary and Clifford. I have no idea who this is!

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Envelope:

Box 38
Frankfort
Ks.

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Roudebush
Pawnee City, Nebr

Card:

Dear Folks: as I dont know whereyou will be Xmas, we are sending your package to day, and hope you will both get a lot of good out of it. This is you Xmas present, will send wedding present later. I see this card is soiled a little but it is the only one that I have & want to get ready for Bob to mail at so will have to do. Bobby’s out of school this week - is very much much enthused over santa trying to rain again this morning. Why dont you and Larry come here for Xmas dinner it isnt very far and gravel all the way Don’t want to do anything to ???? your dad but would like to have you some here. Mother and Pauline are here & looking for Allen & his wife & Frances will be here too. Love to all Crilla.

My Questions:

When did people start using Xmas as the term for Christmas?

Observations/Notes:

I am not sure if the part that says “santa trying to rain again” actually says that considering that makes no sense to me…

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I was trying to find letters to get this site started. So I thought, ah hell lets try ebay. To my excitement, I found hundreds of letters that I could purchase for use on my site!

So i bid.

And I waited…because out of the search query that I had, something like:

correspondance letters -book -”correspondance set” -”correspondance school” - course

The auctions at the time were like 4 days out.

So I watched and waited…

I was outbid on a couple, I looked into my wallet, and outbid them. And waited.

I am in college, and have alot of things going on with that and work, so I dont have all day to sit and watch my ebay auctions expire. So I was outbid and lost like 8 auctions.

Frustrated, I looked into the times when the last bid was placed … Out of the 8 auctions that I bid on, 6 were won in the last 5 seconds, 4 of which were won in the last 3.

So I put in another bid on a different auction, and considered the time it takes to bid:

1. Click bid now
2. load the page
3. type in the amount to bid and submit
4. load the page
5. confirm that you in fact want to bid this amount
6. find out if you are the winning bidder or not! - hooray!

Just the load times take at least 5 seconds, which means that these people had to start inside of the last 10-20 seconds of the auction. This means they planned to, or just happened to come across these auctions at the last second (literally).

Then I remembered, that back in the day a couple ebay sniper services popped up around the intarwebernet… I thought that ebay had stopped this foolishness and shananigan-ery by their 3-5 step process of confirmations, etc. I guess not.

I am really sick and tired of using ebay, only to be sniped at the last second, and I wonder if there is anything that I can do about it…???

Probably not I am assuming.

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