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1 Portage, Wis. Jan 9 / 95 My dear Brother John I write to thank you for your kind remembrance and the New Years gift
that you sent me. I intend to use it in a way that will bring a great deal of pleasure and be a lasting benefit. Do you remember
the old clock that you and I bought together more than thirty years ago? Well, the shelf that it stood upon, I put up myself,
the screws at the upper part of the brackets proved to be too short and unnoticed, worked loose and so some weeks ago the
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