“Thursday Mother, Stanley & I went to Wichita with hogs, Had a lot of trouble with car, before we got to Haverhill it died and couldn't get it started & Mr. Sawers[?] came along pulled us and the trailer to Haverhill gargage, worked on it awhile thought we had it fixed and run keen for a couple of miles & begin to miss out, finally got to Augusta with it had Bud Miller garge put on a new fuel pump, started on worked keen for a couple of miles & begin to miss again, so this time Everett Satterfield came along & offered to hitch the trailor to his car and take the hogs on over, Jessie and Stanley rode over with them and I went back to Augusta and put some pressure on the gas line and blew it out and it has been all right since.”
-- Letter from my grandfather, Leonard Reeves Brown, age 49, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, age 18, Cape Girardeau, Mo., Sunday, July 18, 1943.
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