Letter transcription:
MRS. R. S. YEGERLEHNER
KENTLAND
INDIANA
2-11-43
Dear Daddy – It is fair and colder. Had snow flurried this a.m. but not much snow fell. I would rather have the cold now than the warm days like we had the first of the week. I am hoping we have an early warm spring. Should have good lawn this summer if the rain & snow of this winter will help. Mark is writing to you. John is talking to D. D. didn’t sleep much until after his 2 P.M. feeding then woke when Mark came home. He chewed his fingers like a tooth may be coming thru but I won’t believe it until I see one. If D. does everything J. & M. try to teach him he will be a super – quiz kid. John is trying to get him to patty cake now.—Had an accident – that is J. & M. did – Mark was using the ink and was writing on a chair with the ink on the floor & John upset it – I had to mop up so my hands are stained. Just wrote Mead’s thanking them for the 5 lb can Dextri & Pablum. Haven’t been out much this week so short on news. Papers didn’t come today (as usual). Mr. Boomershine leaves for the Navy tomorrow. He got a (j.g.) I don’t know where he is to go – except someplace in the East. Will write all the details you ask for in a registered letter but you may be slow in getting it – will try to explain things fully. Must send Jim something for his birthday – that is – sending something for Mother. I sent him a card. It is too cold to take D. out today so will go to town in the car.
Love Mother
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“If D. does everything J. & M. try to teach him he will be a super – quiz kid.” I think I learned far more of lasting value from John, rather than Mark. In the long run I bonded more with John than Mark.
The ink on the floor was not a good idea. An accident waiting to happen.
LOL. I didn’t know what “Dextri & Pablum” was (perhaps you mentioned it in an earlier post) so I Googled it and guess what… A lot of your “Genealogy Lady” posts came up! But now I know its formula… There are apparently vintage cans on sale, too, on ebay.
Old Man Jack told me another “j.g.” showed up on his island during the war: Richard Nixon.
…and it is amusing to read about the spilled (fountain pen) ink… Today, we freak out when your kid gets a permanent marker in his hands. 🙂
Lol! To the ink and the formula. And very cool about Nixon. I think we forget that historical people had lives before they became well known or famous.