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[File Folder] Irene Dixon Bamford Diary August 30th 1899-January 18, 1900
[Stamp] Queen's University Archives Locator 50034.4 Box File
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Wednesday Aug 30th 1899 A very hot day & dry smokey
#3 [stamp: Date 1899 Sealed with Gulfwax] Interesting
Thursday Aug 31st 1899 [left margin tape has covered writing down the entire page]
A beautiful dry hot smokey day. [Grace?] goes to Kingston 8lbs butter at 2.50 per pound. Hubert came up for me said his ma is sick and wants me so [?] hitches up Bess and away I go and find [her] in bed with pain in side and shoulder cant move. So I doctor her with burdock leaves & hops & vinegar & salt She gets better towards night and can [get] up and walk some but it would [not] mattter if she was going to die why [?] would have to suck and maul her around and [?] thin as a skeleton. I churned and [?] the butter [?] down cellar and set top the cellar steps and the cellar [?]
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Friday 1 September 1899 Stay with Eveline all day she is better but will persist in doing work but I keep her quiet as possible. A fine day. Willie working for Geo R. They are threshing for Niles.
Saturday 2 Sept 1899. A fine day. Stay with Eveline all day and help her all I can. Eveline gets well to fast: her ambition greater than her strength poor dear girl. We fill a straw bed at the stack with new threshed oat straw and then Eveline & the children and I go to the garden to see the vegetables - cucumbers, tomatoes, melons, squashes, beans, corn, pumkins, cabbage carrots, potatos, [? leash?] Dan to
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