Mon, Jan 10, 1944: puppies

"Stanley tells me (with tears in his voice) to tell you that we will probably have to give away some of the puppies.  He'd like so well to keep them all....
"Raymond Clark is home and has been honorably discharged because of some ailment to his back.  He will probably get a job again at the White Eagle.  Guess he is glad to be home."
-- Letter from my grandmother, Jessie Maybelle (Berger) Brown, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Sidney DeVere Brown, Cape Girardeau, Mo., Monday, January 10, 1944.  White Eagle was an oil refinery in Augusta, Kans.  My father's brother, Stanley, was 10 years old.