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Courtland Olds Diary, 1896

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January FRIDAY 17 1896

Worked this forenoon at sundry jobs. Went down to the saw-mill this afternoon and got a load of basswood lumber and took it out to Port Dover afterward There I left it with my unckle George Matthews. Found the roads rather better owing to the present warm spell. It is even geting muddy.

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January SATURDAY 18 1896

Took Got up a couple of loads of wood this forenoon after whick I went out to Port Dover to attend his birth-day dinner. Found Maggie and my mother went with me Found quite a gathering of our friends and relatives gathered together to celebrate the occasion. My unckle has arrived at his Seventy first birthday.

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