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AMES. IOWA
SUNDAY JULY. 10. 1881.

DEAR PAPA.
I WILL
BE GLAD TO HAVE YOU
COME HOME.

THE PASSENGER TRAIN
WENT TO DES MOINES
YESTERDAY BECAUSE THIRTEEN
BRIDGES ARE BROKEN
DOWN BY THE RAIN
BETWEEN AMES AND
COUNCIL BLUFFS.

IT RAINED AGAIN
LAST NIGHT AND OUR
SIDEWALK WAS
WASHED A WAY AGAIN.

IT RAINED 5in, 48 -
' MAMMA TOOK ERNST
AND ME TO THE BARBER'S
AND OUR HAIR IS SO
SHORT NOW THAT YOU