SentLetters

From the Lawyer’s Notes Collection on EvidenceOfHistory.com

Byrdstown, Tenn. Aug. 7, 1919

Mr. C J. Cullem, Atty.,

Livingston, Tenn.

Dear Sir:

I enclosed check for $50.27 in full settlement of the two following cases:

Federal Chemical Co. -vs- Fate Rich et al.

Federal Chemical Co. -vs- John Robbins Sr. et. al.

Judgment in former $26.49, latter $16.62 with $5.00 Attorney fee in each case.

I retain $1.57 out of each case.  Bob Peteet has 50¢ cost in Robbins case which is included in check.

This is a  settlement of four of the matters sent me and the other is stayed.

Yours truly,

W. J. Chilton

From the Lawyer’s Notes Collection on EvidenceOfHistory.com

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Louisville Credit Men’s Adjustment Bureau,

Louisville, KY.,

Gentlemen: In re Federal Chemical Co. vs. Fate Rich et al.

” ” ” ” John Robbins et al.

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Referring to above claims will say that I have to day collected them in full. I have deucted my fee and am enclosing to you the judgement and interest together with $1, fee in cash case.

I have not divided the fee collected with you in one and two thirds. I had to pay a lawyer in the vicinity of where these parties lived and have deducted part from mine and part from yours and figuring yours as collected with out suit and basis of $3 minimum.

This settles all the claims I have from you except the Ed Whittenburg note and it has been placed in judgment and we will not have to unnecessarily writing about it till that time passes.

Yours very truly,

From the Lawyer’s Notes Collection on EvidenceOfHistory.com

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“I was half hoping you would say to hell with soldiers, crowds, adn governmental requests and thus give me an excuse for coming (not a good one I grant you that - but an excuse nonetheless”

“particularly after seeing that movie short (which really prompted my last letter) and this week’s Life”

Norma talks about the oil shortage and how they have to keep their home extremely cold, sometimes rooms get as low as 20 degrees. Man that is frigid!

She talks about a movie short, and this month’s issue of Life as if they are talking about something very important. Ideas?

I really like the “For Victory Buy War Bonds” stamps at the bottom of every page. Does anyone know what the “Office of Price Administration” is?

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Sometimes this project is frustrating and exciting, but especially frustrating right now as I am posting these letters from an unknown time. I am posting them out of order from the rest of the letters. So I am getting a sneak peak of what is to come, but it makes absolutely no sense to me yet. Its like someone continuing a conversation from the middle that they started with someone else 70 years ago! I wish I knew more about what is going on here. Only time will help me find out.This project creates little historical mysteries for me, that inevitable leave me scouring the internet for clues. As I get into the meat of this collection of letters, I hope to find more clues as to the time in which these letters belong, so I can get more information about what they are talking about in the letters!

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This audio player will play a radio broadcast from WNYC. They are “talking about stumbling upon the past in unlikely places”.

They start out on top of a landfill in New York, discussing the history that is contained inside.Then they talk about a place in Egypt, where two Oxford Archaeologists in the late 1800’s found some sand dunes that looked irregular compared to the other ones in the area. They found the “mother load … of rubbish heaps”, that are as old as 10 centuries old. They found thousands of pieces of papers in the trash heaps. The most amazing part of this, is that historians are still piecing the papers back together. In one century, they have pieced together 1% of the pieces.The audio is from WYNC Detective Stories.

Side Note: Wouldn’t it be amazing if I had letters like that to post on this site!!

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