{"id":67,"date":"2013-11-21T23:48:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T23:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/?p=67"},"modified":"2014-03-30T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T18:58:00","slug":"1919-january-10th-grosmaischeid-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"1919-1-10 – Gro\u00dfmaischeid, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

reference to letter written the day before\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

cost of living references<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cY\u201d Army of Occupation stationery \u00a0w\/ cover<\/em><\/p>\n

from:\u00a0 Serg. C.M. Cummins, Hdq. Co. 324 F.A.<\/p>\n

[something][flound?]<\/p>\n

to: Mrs. Olive Cummins, New Waverly, Indiana, United States<\/p>\n

postmark: U.S. Army Post Office MPES 734, 1 11 19 [looks like the \u20189\u2019 is upside down]<\/p>\n

censor: A.E.F. passed as censored 1399, O.K. and signature handwritten<\/p>\n

Gro\u00dfmaischeid, Ger., 1\/10\/19.<\/p>\n

My dearest Olive:<\/p>\n

Just a line or two today. I said something about sending some money to you and now I have the money order for the letter. I am sending 100f or $18<\/span>24<\/sup>. One hundred f is equivalent to 18<\/span>34<\/sup> but the money order cost 10\u00a2. This will pay your board three weeks, get you a couple pairs of shoes, or some new clothes, all depends on what you most need. It is not so very much but it all counts in time.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote you a long letter last night and nearly wrote myself out. Took a bath today. They have a shower apparatus fixed up here which very well serves this purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are going to get some mail today and maybe my Xmas package is in it. That box is certainly delayed somewhere, but others have not yet received their. Had a very good dinner today. boiled beef potatoes with jackets gravy and coffee.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0I have a good bed to sleep in.\u2014a feather tick for a cover. That is something I never saw in America. They do not seem to have much use for covers like ours here. We also have a food stove in our room and plenty of wood to burn. Really we have but little room to kick\u2014only the eats do not at all satisfy me and it would be much better home. It is an anxious time for us all, but such is life in Germany. It was an honor for us to come into Germany but that is wearing off now and we would consider it more of an honor now to say howdy to the Statue of Liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can consider this a belated Xmas gift. Better late than never.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Yours affectionately,<\/span><\/p>\n

Clyde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

reference to letter written the day before\u00a0 cost of living references \u00a0\u201cY\u201d Army of Occupation stationery \u00a0w\/ cover from:\u00a0 Serg. C.M. Cummins, Hdq. Co. 324 F.A. [something][flound?] to: Mrs. Olive Cummins, New Waverly, Indiana, United States postmark: U.S. Army Post Office MPES 734, 1 11 19 [looks like the \u20189\u2019 is upside down] censor: A.E.F. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","category-germany","category-letters","category-ww1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cumminsclan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}