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21st week and I the next This is her week. So as soon as I had eaten my dinner I sat down to my sewing. I was doing some mending. After supper Mollie Folsom came in of an errand and we made her stay and play for us. Owen and I went home with her. Came right back I sewed some more after that. Tuesday February 17th 1874. I sewed all the forenoon and after dinner I cut and basted Mother a new wrapper sewed all the evening. Wednesday February 18th 1874. I went to town in the morning. Did considerable shopping, got home at ten oclock and ironed till noon. Sewed all the afternoon and evening. Thursday February 19th 1974 I sewed all the forenoon and just finished Mothers new wrapper and it is a hearty. After dinner I cut four shirts for Rob, and sewed a little on them
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21st week and I the next This is her week. So as soon as I had eaten my dinner I sat down to my sewing. I was doing some mending. After supper Mollie Folsom came in of an errand and we made her stay and play for us. Owen and I went home with her. Came right back I sewed some more after that. Tuesday February 17th 1874. I sewed all the forenoon and after dinner I cut and basted Mother a new wrapper sewed all the evening. Wednesday February 18th 1874. I went to town in the morning. Did considerable shopping, got home at ten oclock and ironed till noon. Sewed all the afternoon and evening. Thursday February 19th 1974 I sewed all the forenoon and just finished Mothers new wrapper and it is a hearty. After dinner I cut four shirts for Rob, and sewed a little on them
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries
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