[Received by a Birmingham concern.]
Dear Sirs and Gents: Would say this lady i got the Range for had applied
for a divorce and was to marrey me but she has taken her soldier husband
back again and changed her notion so i don't think it right to pay for a
range for the other man. let him pay it out if she will live up to her
bargin i will pay and could have paid at the time but was afraid this
would happen as it has she has never rote or communicated with me since
i left there dont think it right or justice that i pay for it and
perhaps never see her again had they of rote to me i would have kept up
the payments can first see the parties what they expect to do. Very
Respect, etc.
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You have observed the skinned-rabbit hair-cut. The barber achieves a
gruesome effect by running the clippers half-way up the skull. But did
you know that it originated in Columbus, O.? "Yes, sir," said the
Columbus barber to Col. Drury Underwood, "that started here. We call it
the two-piece haircut."
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