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Letter to owner of Grandma's Kitchen telling her to close shop or leave the business for reasons stated in the letter.
Stationary reads, "Jesse Edgington. M. D. County and Health Officer. 903 Fourth Street. Hood River, Oregon."
Letter Reads, "Dear Mrs. Lawrenson,
Proprietor of Grandma's Kitchen.
Dear Grandma.
According to order from State Board of Health you will have to give up management of your kitchen business or close it up, entirely. You should make your residence in some other house, and leave the kitchen business and the place entirely to your daughter Mrs. Nelson and her daughters, or close up the place entirely. I trust on monday morning you will send me word of the change.
I do not want to make a public affair of this but I will have to put it in the hands of the County Attorney with power to act immediately. This order comes from the Sec State Board of Health who will take up the matter immediately, you may telephone at my expense or write Monday.
yours in Friendship,
Dr Jesse Edgington."
Group of documents found in a box that belonged to Captain Charles Nelson and Family.Lexicon
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