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2 money of any illegible except what she earns. She boards Mother Annie Joanna her three children a young lady who attends
school receive sufficient therefore to to get a living her clothes also Grace s who helps her do housework Joanna did want
to find other quarters but I persuaded her to try and live with Sarah for the sake of helping her They all live in my house
for which I charge her no rent keep telling her not to consider it a debt I guess Annies money is all used she makes considerable
money by selling fish scale jewelry to the ladies. Manufactured? by a Miss Moore her health is very fair Mother helps her
when she is in need. Joanna is all right Walter Sends her plenty of money so she pays her way in no stinted manner. Walter
his Bank has passed the crises? is making money, with a bright prospect. in margin: 01506 3 letterhead in margin:
2nd? Portage, Wis. .189 .. as for John Reid Maggie you know all about them. You wrote me to send them? some money last
year but we were very hard pushed ourselves all of last year. the hardest I ever was. Ever since Jno Reid left Portage I have
paid his life insurance for Maggie s sake in case anything might happen to him, which with some other things I paid for him
amounts to about 1000.00 beside this when he wrote me in desperation in Dec 1889 I borrowed? 500.00 sent it to him. I never
could decide whether to charge this to you or not because you wrote me not to send money for the land but for Maggies necessities