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01302 Crete, Neb. Mary stricken word 2.nd 1888 My Dear Bro John. I hope you are all well. that you are not working
writing stricken word too much. I suppose your cherry harvest is over the trees here have only come into bloom. another cold
winter has passed. we have had a windy hard spring. it seems as if March winds keep on blowing still, though warmer some fo
the time. John is still in Kan. expects to come home a while in about two weeks or when he gets all his crop in will leave
things in Harry's care a while. A man by the name of Sherril who has been in