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James Ross Diary, 1914-1917
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1914 |
Rosmead Diary |
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August |
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1056 4 |
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continued Friday Forward got in May $4.25 paid Nichols for new {?} paint got 40 cts paid to Mc. Hardy. Willie got {?} valve at station {?} Belt cost 25 cts {?}, Willie did odd jobs fixed binder canvass etc. drove sick sow also sow with 3 pigs bade to sand mill pea field to get pease off stubble. |
1689.89 |
241.21 4.25 .40 |
718.52 .25 |
97.12 |
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Fine s Saturday Fine sunny day. Willie at Maywoods thrashing {threshing} AM I plowed and {?} No 6 barn field sod. PM Willie spread stooks in No 7 and we hauled {?} in 4 loads then finishing the field they were not quite dry some of them Mary turned out some of the wet stooks in No 3A I stooked them up again at night. Willie down town in evening got pair boots for me $3.50 bread {?} 19 cts (Willie paid boots with cheque R.B.) |
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3.50 |
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Sunday Fine day sunny and cloudy thunder and lightning around the horizon in evening. I stayed at home AM. Dr Hay preached AM from “The summer is {?} and we are not saved” and in evening from Joel 2:28. Ch coll 50 LA 10 |
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22 1088 |
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Monday Fine sunny cool day. N. D. up all day pulling flax. We put load wood on waggon (gravel box) Willie took it down home then went to station got the tanks of coal oil from Columbus to gave cheque J B 16100 got at stals {?} seed 25 tomatoes 35 at Nichols tanks 5 We cut half of oats in No 4 also took in 2 loads oats from No. 3A {?} {?} brought his bugs at night. Paid Arthur {?} $6.00 cheque 7 B {?} of thrashing 412/2 gal {?} {?} 6.50 tank 6.60 {?} {?} $3.50 |
1689.89 |
.35 3.00 249.33 |
13.00 .30 6.00 741.57 |
97.72 |
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