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This letter is from Rebecca Provines Taggart, Mama Margaret's younger sister. She has heard that Laura was sick and her mind affected. I haven't read anything about that anywhere else. What was it about?
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Nov. 15, 1927
Washington, Penna.
Dear Alma,
I received your card some time ago, but as I had just written to you a few days before, thot you would probably write again. At that time I thot we could have your river [???] patch quilted but after we got one done for Margaret we had a few days of winter. So the next thing was to get the ashtie soots [???] and everything fixed up for winter. And as the girls never had done much of that kind of work I had to oversee. Now we have everything in for the regular winter, which some say will be a long hard one. But we will have to take it as it comes.
When I wrote to you I think I told you Laura had called to see John that was the last of July and I was so glad to hear she was looking so well again.
But the last letter (Oct 18th) he said Mrs. Sponseller [???] told him, she had herd Laura was sick, and that her mind was affected. I felt so sorry my heart ached she has been working to hard helping others and forgeting her weakness was not strong enough for much work.
I still hope she may thro rest recover. She has past thro so much the past few years. hard on her nurses I should think John has not seen Sallie Ballard since last Christmas. he said so he goes out so little does not hear only what Sponsellers find out.
said Tall [???] had bought Mrs. Housens share in the house and he has it rented she has gone to Cleveland
Margaret and son coming nex Saturday be here for Thanksgiving so will not get any quilting done for some time so I think I will send both to you I allways forget to ask if I could send them by Parcel Post of by express, if by express whose is your post office.
Send no money all bills are paid. Pleas write soon anxious to know how Laura is.
Yours with love
Aunt R.P.T.
P.S. great excitement in Pittsburgh a gas tank explosion said to be the largest gas tank in the world 21 died and so many cut by glass as so many houses had windows blown out and as some going in from here saw it and it looked like a ball of fire going up in the air then exploded came down then taking every thing. No telephone all wires down. You will see it in papers.
Washington, Penna.
Dear Alma,
I received your card some time ago, but as I had just written to you a few days before, thot you would probably write again. At that time I thot we could have your river [???] patch quilted but after we got one done for Margaret we had a few days of winter. So the next thing was to get the ashtie soots [???] and everything fixed up for winter. And as the girls never had done much of that kind of work I had to oversee. Now we have everything in for the regular winter, which some say will be a long hard one. But we will have to take it as it comes.
When I wrote to you I think I told you Laura had called to see John that was the last of July and I was so glad to hear she was looking so well again.
But the last letter (Oct 18th) he said Mrs. Sponseller [???] told him, she had herd Laura was sick, and that her mind was affected. I felt so sorry my heart ached she has been working to hard helping others and forgeting her weakness was not strong enough for much work.
I still hope she may thro rest recover. She has past thro so much the past few years. hard on her nurses I should think John has not seen Sallie Ballard since last Christmas. he said so he goes out so little does not hear only what Sponsellers find out.
said Tall [???] had bought Mrs. Housens share in the house and he has it rented she has gone to Cleveland
Margaret and son coming nex Saturday be here for Thanksgiving so will not get any quilting done for some time so I think I will send both to you I allways forget to ask if I could send them by Parcel Post of by express, if by express whose is your post office.
Send no money all bills are paid. Pleas write soon anxious to know how Laura is.
Yours with love
Aunt R.P.T.
P.S. great excitement in Pittsburgh a gas tank explosion said to be the largest gas tank in the world 21 died and so many cut by glass as so many houses had windows blown out and as some going in from here saw it and it looked like a ball of fire going up in the air then exploded came down then taking every thing. No telephone all wires down. You will see it in papers.
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we got one done for Margaret we had a few days of winter.
Must be the Margaret who is mentioned later as expected to come with her son for Thanksgiving, maybe Margaret Agnes Taggart who married John Paul Watt.
She is mentioned in a 8/10/1934 letter from Eva to Kathleen.
2.
So the next thing was to get the ashtie soots [???] and everything fixed up for winter.
I’m wondering if soots is suits.
3.
I should think John has not seen Sallie Ballard since last Christmas
Didn't Aunt Sallie die in 1922? Maybe it was a daughter Sallie. I should check.
4.
Send no money all bills are paid.
Sounds as though Alma sent money before.
5.
great excitement in Pittsburgh a gas tank explosion
from Wikipedia:
The Pittsburgh gasometer explosion, or Equitable Gas explosion, was an accident that took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the morning of November 14, 1927. A huge cylindrical gasometer, the largest in the world at that time at 5 million cubic feet (140,000 m3), developed a leak, and repairmen were sent to fix it. The exact cause of the explosion is not known, but some of those repairing the leak were using acetylene torches. There was a loud explosion, and three gasometers at the site exploded. A "dense mass of dust and smoke" rose from the ruins before igniting into a ball of fire reported as 100 feet in diameter, which rose further before burning out at a height of 1000 feet. Most buildings within a radius of half a mile were damaged, with windows being broken a mile away, causing upwards of $4 million worth of damage. It was reported that the explosion "caused lofty downtown skyscrapers to tremble and sway as if hit by an earthquake". 28 people were killed and hundreds were injured.
we got one done for Margaret we had a few days of winter.
Must be the Margaret who is mentioned later as expected to come with her son for Thanksgiving, maybe Margaret Agnes Taggart who married John Paul Watt.
She is mentioned in a 8/10/1934 letter from Eva to Kathleen.
2.
So the next thing was to get the ashtie soots [???] and everything fixed up for winter.
I’m wondering if soots is suits.
3.
I should think John has not seen Sallie Ballard since last Christmas
Didn't Aunt Sallie die in 1922? Maybe it was a daughter Sallie. I should check.
4.
Send no money all bills are paid.
Sounds as though Alma sent money before.
5.
great excitement in Pittsburgh a gas tank explosion
from Wikipedia:
The Pittsburgh gasometer explosion, or Equitable Gas explosion, was an accident that took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the morning of November 14, 1927. A huge cylindrical gasometer, the largest in the world at that time at 5 million cubic feet (140,000 m3), developed a leak, and repairmen were sent to fix it. The exact cause of the explosion is not known, but some of those repairing the leak were using acetylene torches. There was a loud explosion, and three gasometers at the site exploded. A "dense mass of dust and smoke" rose from the ruins before igniting into a ball of fire reported as 100 feet in diameter, which rose further before burning out at a height of 1000 feet. Most buildings within a radius of half a mile were damaged, with windows being broken a mile away, causing upwards of $4 million worth of damage. It was reported that the explosion "caused lofty downtown skyscrapers to tremble and sway as if hit by an earthquake". 28 people were killed and hundreds were injured.
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