Letters, 1917

Containers:
Box 2, Folder 11
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1917 March 28-30 Ruth attends a King's Daughters convention in Terre Haute, IN.

May 11 Preoccupied with war news, Ruth begins volunteering with the Red Cross.

June 1-8 Ruth and her mother spend a week visiting relatives in Cincinnati, OH, and Greensburg, IN.

June 9 Having rented out their house again, Ruth and her mother take a room in a home just outside Indianapolis, for four weeks.

July 11 Ruth's brother Lyman marries Lucille Thomas.

July/Sept Ruth and her mother vacation at Leland, MI. They hear that Lyman has been drafted and Harold and Suzanne have arrived in Washington, DC, where he takes a position in the War Department.

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