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Mama Margaret is visiting Will and Kathleen in Atlanta.  And Alma has bobbed her hair!
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Atlanta Ga.
[written over:March]  April 4

Dear Alma,

I received your letter today and will start but can’t write much as it is almost time for dinner.  This is a wet day.  It commenced to rain in the night and has rain more or less all day, consequently the children are in the house.  

9.25 P.M.

Have just been listening to a good concert of Hawaian music from 8 to 9 o’clock.  Will put a radio set in my room (Billy’s room) so I can have music at any time.  There is something nearly all the time.  Will has another set that he gets stations every place.  The one in my room is a crystal but we get a longer stn range here but I sup I have not changed mine so don’t know how long a range it might be.

I didn’t tell them about your bobbed hair until your letter came today.  I gave the letter to Kathleen to read.  She laughed about it and when we told Will he said he was glad that she had enough hair to bob.  There are a good many bobbed hair here.  Margaret thought you would not look so well.  Hers has been bobbed since she was in Woods Hole.  It is short but it needs it again.

Two men came today to fumigate the rooms, Kathleen had cleaned up everything but did not close up and burn candles +c so it has to be done before they could get a permit to go to school.  They will go on Monday.  Margaret went to her music lesson today the first since they were quarantined.  Will has taken Billy to the barber and Kathleen has gone to do a little shopping.  This is the first time she has been out.

I don’t know whether Eva would receive my letters before you would get away or not.  It is so hard to write or to get them sent after I do write.  There is only one mail delivery here and we never see the postman.  It has been so cold but I think it is getting warmer.  It seems cold all the time, it was down to 20° but did not do any damage.  In my last letter I told about the bungalow.  It is very pretty both outside and in.  Everything seems to be good and well built.

There is a vacant on each side of us and in front there is a wood and a ravine.  We hear the birds singing, have only heard robin that I recognize.

They got a lot of eggs and have a number of little chicks.

Margaret plays quite well, she has a good voice too, Billy is taking lessons from his mother and is practising every day.

Kathleen told me a story this after noon.  She made it up.  It started about a boy and girl who went to get their hair bobbed.  Billy was then at the barber that started her on that.  Kathleen is very pretty and her eyes sparkle when telling her story.

I am to get another radio set.  When Will heard I was coming he sent to Kathleen’s brother at the Westinghouse in Pittsburg.  I will have to learn something before I go home as it is to be sent here.

I must close as it is time to eat dinner and I want this to give to the maid to mail it when she goes home.

With lots of love from Mother

Give my love to Anne.
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Atlanta Ga.
[written over:March]  April 4
There's no year here, but it has to be 1924, because in April of previous years, Will and Kathleen were in Cincinnati, and Mama Margaret died in May of 1924.

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I didn’t tell them about your bobbed hair until your letter came today.
So was this the first time that Alma cut her hair short?

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Two men came today to fumigate the rooms, Kathleen had cleaned up everything but did not close up and burn candles +c so it has to be done before they could get a permit to go to school.  They will go on Monday.  Margaret went to her music lesson today the first since they were quarantined.  Will has taken Billy to the barber and Kathleen has gone to do a little shopping.  This is the first time she has been out.​
It sounds to me as though the whole Atlanta family came down with some serious illness that was going around.  Flu, maybe?  When I googled the first thing I saw was typhoid, but I doubt it was that.  Anyway, I speculate that they sent an SOS to Mama Margaret, and she came down to Atlanta to help while Kathleen was sick.

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I don’t know whether Eva would receive my letters before you would get away or not.
Was Alma in Philadelphia for Mount Holyoke's spring vacation, visiting Eva and also her friends Mabel and Lil?

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​In my last letter I told about the bungalow.  It is very pretty both outside and in.  Everything seems to be good and well built.
Will and Kathleen moved to Atlanta in 1923, so this would be the first (and only) time that Mama Margaret saw the bungalow.

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Kathleen told me a story this after noon.  She made it up.  It started about a boy and girl who went to get their hair bobbed.  Billy was then at the barber that started her on that.  Kathleen is very pretty and her eyes sparkle when telling her story.
This Kathleen would be Kay, five years old at the time.  Not yet planning to become a reporter, but clearly that's where she's headed.  The next sighting of Kay Stokey, Aspiring Reporter, is here:
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​I am to get another radio set.  When Will heard I was coming he sent to Kathleen’s brother at the Westinghouse in Pittsburg.  I will have to learn something before I go home as it is to be sent here.
The brother in Pittsburgh is Cecil Farmer, who is in the section for the Farmers and the Grays.
The radio must be the one that Laura want to give to Mama Margaret's sister Rebecca Provines Taggart after Mama Margaret died.  See:
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​Give my love to Anne.
This must be Anne Starr, who has a non-family page on this website.
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