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Courtland Olds Diary, 1896

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March FRIDAY 27 1896

Have been very buisy as usual, to day. Worked this forenoon at sundry jobs. but this afternoon have been prepareing wood for Summer use. Weather is cold again and sap don't run very much. W.H. Walls was to dinner with us and whild here hired George Awford for the Summer. There seems to be an unusual number of men this year.

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March SATURDAY 28 1896

Worked at spliting wood, this forenoon at the woodhouse. This afternoon I went out to Dover Takeing my mother with me. The roads are very {cut off} and yet my mother stayed going home with W. J. Carpenters necessitating my return to morrow Found my friend H.G Morgan laid up with lumbago so {cut off} his office {cut off} to be run by his friends.

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