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Christina McLennan Diary, 1906-1915

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<td style="height: 13px;" width="208">&nbsp;Sunday, Easter, our church was nicely decorated with flowers, at least the pulpit and organ, Not many in church
 
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<td style="height: 13px;" width="208">&nbsp;Fine day I washed a few things</td>
 
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<td style="height: 13px;" width="208">&nbsp;Very fine day, To 2 1/2 yds cotton 25, I took a pair of spectacles from {Willies} to try them </td>
 
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<td style="height: 13px;" width="208">&nbsp;Lovely day. Pa had little boys sawing some old {illegible}25 yrds {Alick Mc Donald? }paid 5 dollars for two months rent, yesterday {illegible} Murdy boiled Uncle {Pandy's?} {illegible} and there is over a gallon short. 1 1/2 gall short</td>
 
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<td style="height: 13px;" width="208">&nbsp;Murdy left for Cornwall, I went to see Mary The papers today give an account of an earthquake in California yesterday, the city of San Francisco will lilkely be utterly destroyed
 
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The water mains were broken and fire broke out in the fallen building, and there was no water, so they burned.
 
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<td style="height: 13px;" width="208">&nbsp;The account of the earthquake today is that there are now 200.000 people homeless and hungry, every kind of {provision?} has been burned</td>
 
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<td style="height: 13px;" width="208">&nbsp;21</td>
 
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<td style="height: 13px;" width="208">Some rain. To {illegible} B. {Tea} 25. soda 5. raisins 13.{two?} eggs</td>
 
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<td style="height: 13px;" width="208">&nbsp;Fine day, a pretty good congregation Mrs Urquhart called in the afternoon</td>
 
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<td style="height: 13px;" width="208">&nbsp;Cold and raw, Ann Hallcame to wash I did not expect her, for she was burying her sister Mrs Alick MRae of Lancaster, passed on Saturday, Rev Duncan {last name} called in afternoon, on his way to Donald {last name's} he was preaching at</td>
 
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<td style="height: 13px;" width="208">&nbsp;Murdy went {for? to?} Cornwall last night, and came home this evening, Ann Hall {illegible} day {20?}</td>
 
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<td style="height: 13px;" width="208">&nbsp;Cold day,to {illegible}25 I am trying to finish the {illegible} </td>
 
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26 a little rain in morning. Fine but dull the rest of the day. Mozes {Baumheier} had a raising bee Tuesday. George Whiltord was hurt at in the {forearm?}, he had to have a doctor Our boys were at the bee in afternoon Pa had a little boy helping him saw rotten posts, 15de I dug the parsnips, the most of them were half rotten, I think the frost injured them, since there was so little more Mrs Brown called in the afternoon
27 To 1 gall {kind of oil} oil 20 20
28 Jimie got hay, Murdy gave some money for it. Rev D.H {Mclennan} called on his way to the {Farins?} Point. Murdy to Lancaster, got {soaked} wheat 50 to To 2 1/2 lbs {mutton}/2 1/2 per lb 32 82
29 Very fine day; J. {Pand Bridie} was down Not many in church,the roads are pretty good. Archie McLennan made us a {food} this evening
30 Ugly day gloomy cold wind, looks now 4 P.M. like snow. Murdy pan bread and {piece?} boiled ham. In this month Vesuvius was in violent rupture some towns and villages destroyed, and around the last of the month, there was heavy rain which made mud of the ashes and it destroyed what the lava left. And on the 18th the earthquake in San Frisco destroyed a great part of the business section of the city, it was followed by fire which {consumed?}
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