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Dearest folks:-
Well the election is over and it did not do any good for Everett and me to go Republican. We will see what the next four years brings us.
Ruth is still in bed and look awfully bad. Everett took her to her doctor yesterday and she has to go again next Wednesday. That is my U.D.C. day but I do not expect to go. Just do not feel like it. Ruth wants you to come down next weekend. She is sure she will be over her cold by then. The doctor gave her sulfa* tablets to take every four hours for a time and two other prescriptions.
Dr. Thelen read the note from Dr. Carlson. He gave me two prescriptions. One some kind of liver medicine, the other for my heart. I am to go back in a month. My head pains have not left me entirely but am having trouble with my back. Dr. Thelen said I needed building up. He said the head pains were the direct result of the ful also my sore tongue. He said he could see no reason that I could not live to be 90 if I took care of myself.
Mrs. Burnside was here last week. Her mother had died the week before age 97 years. Seems strange to think I have aonly a few more years.
I am anxious to learn how Mrs. Eccles is. I do feel so sorry for her. Some way I can not think she will ever get up again.
Miriam had a letter from George. He said go ahead with the divorce if she liked and he would pay the cost but could not give her what she asked - $100.00* a month for the two girls and herself. He will continue to send her the $2500.00* a year.
Virginia has a better job paying her more than $50.00* a week. She is with the gas & light company. She works 5 days and has a woman who works five days a week. The children like her and she likes them. She pays her $18.50* a week.
Dorothy's friends, who went to Santa Ana with her, liked you very much, Betty, and thought you were charming. Thank you for your nice letters, Betty dear.
We are having wonderful weather. No wind or fires. Read of the brush fires and the damage in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Ruth sends her love and hopes to see you next weekend.
Lots of love to all of you, Mama
Mary, honey: I have some mystery books for you. Dorothy picked them up around the apartments. Kiss the babies for me.
Remember me to all my friends.
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Conversion of amounts mentioned in letter to 2009 purchasing power:
$100 in 1948 = $891 in 2009
$2500 in 1948 = $22,300 in 2009
$50 in 1948 = $445 in 2009
$18.50 in 1948 = $165 in 2009
Sulfa background from Wikipedia: Sulfonamide drugs were the first antimicrobial drugs, and paved the way for the antibiotic revolution in medicine. …For several years in the late 1930s, hundreds of manufacturers produced tens of thousands of tons of myriad forms of sulfa. This and nonexistent testing requirements led to the Elixir Sulfanilamide disaster in the fall of 1937, during which at least 100 people were poisoned with diethylene glycol. This led to the passage of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938. As the first and only effective antibiotic available in the years before penicillin, sulfa drugs continued to thrive through the early years of World War. They are credited with saving the lives of tens of thousands of patients including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (son of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) (in 1936) and Winston Churchill. Sulfa had a central role in preventing wound infections during the war. American soldiers were issued a first-aid kit containing sulfa pills and powder and were told to sprinkle it on any open wound.
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