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let! {felt like reminiscing. . So she wrote about her ‘strong-willed, indomitable | grandmother, and about the ‘early days in Indianapolis— “days of hard work, but happy, "when saloon

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“I REMBER my grandmothter's house,” Mrs. Collins wrote, “It was built in 1859 on 8. Meridian St. between Palmer and Karcher Sts, “A large swamp willow stood in the corner of the yard. It was a haven of shade and peace

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BY THE FOOT—Grandma collected for storage of the rails.

in those days. Many a weary soul found comfort beneath its branches. “Then, there was the pear tree, tall and majestic. It bore no fruit, but when my grandmother grafted a rambling rose on its trunk and the rose bloomed, people gathered to see its beauty. . “Grandmother was tall and stately, blonde as honey, with blue eyes. She stood almost six feet, and had beautiful skin. When she married James J. Griffin, my maternal grandfather, she was 15 and he was 45.

bore seven children, but only raised three. The others died in childhood. Her husband died, too, long before she did. That's when she moved from north of Washington St. down to 8. Meridian, and bought the house where I was raised. “She used to tell me about things that happened in that neighborhood before my time. She knew about all the troubles, because she supported her family by nursing sick people in homes. “One time,

workmen were

putting in pipes along Meridian .

St. for gas lights. Somebody lit a match, and there was a terrible explosion, One man died on a comforter on my grandmother’s front porch. Another time, a girl wearing a beautiful hat was riding in the summer time on one of the open-air streetcars. Her hat blew off, and when she reached out for it she fell and was killed. on = ” “THERE WAS a boy in our neighborhood who went West. We then came back, all the girls were thrilled with his

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adventures Then he tried to ride a lively horse, and his leg and some ribs were broken. After. that, he had feet of clay. “The Halloween pranks the boys played. “Once, new car tracks were being laid ,to Adler St, and the young men put all the loose rails in grandmother's front yard. The next morning, a man in a silk hat and a black coat knocked at the door He was from the streetcar company, and he' told my grandmother, ‘I came to have the boys take the rails out of your yard’ But grandma told him, “Those rails will cost you three

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cents a foot, for storage’ He was mad, but_he paid.” EJ » ” “THERE WAS a railroad policeman wno lived near us He was very mean, and would never give back a ball if the

boys happened to throw one in his yard. Everybody, in those days, had a small house pn the back of the lot. One Halloween, the boys decided to turn his over. Poor fellow, he was in it, “Then there was a blacksmith who kept complaining one winter because coal was disappearing from the coal bin outside his shop. He drilled a hole in one chunk, put in some dynamite, and planted the chunk in the bin. The next day, the roof blew off a nearby house.” In her letter, Mrs. Collins said she was almost blind with cataracts. And she added ‘this at the end: “P.8. Pardon my script, for I

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