Well Charley Im sorry you couldent see your ways clear to help me out but they wont be no bad feelings between the 2 of us on that acct. and we will try and forget it.
Your Bro. F. A. Gross .
Allison. Ill. Oct. 23.
Bro. Chas. Well Charley may be in a little wile from now we will be moveing out of here and buy a house on the L.S. and M.S. drive or some wheres. Im a stock exchange man now Charley and dont be supprised if you see in the papers where Morgan and Carmody and them fellows is borring money off of me and asking my advise a bout what to buy and so 4th.
Laying all jokes to 1 side I stand to make a pretty good peace of money say a bout a $1,000 and may be a hole lot more then that amt. but its pretty near a cinch it will be at least a $1,000.
The other day I figgured out where we was all out of dedt that is accept the intrust and paymunt on the house witch wont be do till Jan. 1 and Id payed back the $100 Id got off of him so I made it up in my mind that they wasent no use of me leaveing all these here war bribes get away from me so I got an other $100 off of the chief and ast Dick Harger what was the tip because Dick hangs a round up on Lasalle st. most of the time and he gets the good ones. So he says they was a tip out on crucial steal and maxwell commons and rumley so I says whats the prices of the diffrunt ones and he says I could fine out by looking in the paper.
Well I looked in the paper and finely found where they had the prices wrote down and I seen that rumley was the cheapest and of coarse a man would be a sucker to buy some thing that was 40 and 50 a peace when you could get a hold of some thing jest as good for 8. Only I thought that the 8 ment 8 cts. a peace and not 8 dollars but when I got up to the