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Canton, O Apr. 8, 1903

My dear son,

Alma started back to Oberlin this morning on the 7:10 Wheeling and L.E. and I have been so lonesome that I can’t do the work that I ought to, so I thought I would try writing.  Your letter was received yesterday and the thought of you going so far away makes me blue.  I hope if you do go, that you will get a leave and spend as much time with us as you possibly can.  It seems to be a very short notice, you certainly haven’t much time to pack.  If there is any thing you want taken care of until you return send here.  There was an article in the Army + Navy Journal two or three weeks ago, telling what you should take and what you should not take.  I thought it was quite interesting.  I suppose you have a good deal that you would not want to take, but don’t sacrifice it, but send and we can store any thing down at John’s.

James McKinley is in the Philipines.  He preferred going there to being on some General’s staff in Washington.

Mrs. Braden came down Monday afternoon and returned on the 7:30 train.  We had a pleasant visit with her.  She will never get over her great sorrow.  I believe she thinks more of you now than of any other one of John’s friends.

Byron and Homer are still in Charleston W. Va.  They have not been home since they went down there to work.

That was quite an an honor to play chess with a real live baron.  You must have enjoyed it even if you did get beaten.

Alma is going to board at Talcott this term, but I suppose she has told you.  I wish she were through, as it seems to keep you short of money.

Write as soon as you know for certain whether you will go, and if coming what time.  I will not do as Alma did start a letter for you.  That is quite a scheme of hers, but it will spoil you.

Good by

Your loving

​Mother
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Alma started back to Oberlin this morning on the 7:10 Wheeling and L.E.
Wheeling and L.E. must be the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway, still in existence.
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I hope if you do go, that you will get a leave and spend as much time with us as you possibly can.  It seems to be a very short notice, you certainly haven’t much time to pack.
Will wrote to Alma on 4/17/1903 while on the train crossing the country, so apparently he did indeed get very short notice on going to the Philippines.

3.
I suppose you have a good deal that you would not want to take, but don’t sacrifice it, but send and we can store any thing down at John’s.
I assume this was Margaret’s brother John Provines.  Margaret had a nephew John Hicks but he lived in Michigan.

4.
James McKinley is in the Philipines.  He preferred going there to being on some General’s staff in Washington.
James McKinley would be James Fuller McKinley 1880-1941, son of William McKinley’s brother James.  He served in the Philippines from 1899 to 1903 and from 1901 to 1906.  And, of course, the McKinleys were from the same area of Ohio as Canton.

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Mrs. Braden came down Monday afternoon and returned on the 7:30 train.
Mrs. Braden was originally a neighbor of the Stokeys in Canton.  There is a Non-Family page for the Bradens in this website.

6.
Alma is going to board at Talcott this term, but I suppose she has told you.  I wish she were through, as it seems to keep you short of money.
It sounds as though Mama Margaret had no idea that Alma would go for a PhD after she finished her undergraduate work.  But then, Alma hadn't planned that far ahead either.
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