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A days wages was $2.00, but starting on the 1st of November it was decreased to $1.60. They began driving sleighs on the 19th of November and that winter most of my work was on the stockpile and consisted of putting up drywall along the track to help keep the ore from spilling on to the tracks.
December 21st - Jens Peter moved in and lived upstairs.
March 9th - Jørgen Andersen moved in with Doctor Syr. He hadn't had work since we arrived here and was boarding with us.
April 7th - Captain Merry promised to pay $2.00 a day for masonry work.
April 11th - Jens Peter left and moved into a house of his own.
April 13th - Jørgen Rasmussen moved in with us.
The night between the 19th and the 20th fires broke out in both Negaunee and Ishpeming.
May 17th - Jørgen Rasmussen moved out again.
From the 6th-18th of July I did some carpentry and plastered walls at Carsten Nielsen's place.
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23rd of October 1875 - We lost Jens Petersen back in Mosebølle.
27th of November 1875 - King Christian the 9th went to an exhibition in Paris.
February 27th 1875 (probably '76) - Hans Petersen died in Vallebo.
April 24th 1875 (probably '76) - Jens Peter Hemmingsen was born.
April 11th 1876 - Hans Christian got bitten by Robert's dog.
November 30th - We butchered a cow.
Mother hurt her back lifting something and was out of commission until the 1st of March 1877.
On the 30th of October 1876 - Lightning struck the chimney of James Trembath's house. I was in the house at the time and was knocked out but otherwise okay.
In the year 1876 - Shoes for our family cost us $45.30.
Hans Christian and Maria began seeing the priest in the fall of 1876 and that following spring of 1877 they were confirmed in Ishpeming by Pastor Dahl who had come up from Green Bay Wisconsin.
May 9th 1877 - Hans Christian began working with me.
June 13th 1877 - Niels Johansen left for Colorado.
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