From: Karamurat, Dobrudscha
19 March 1928
Honored Mr. Brandt!
I want to report that our hunters are presently busy hunting for polecats or rather catching polecats. It is no wonder since the pelt of a polecat brings 300 lei.
Even Mr. Felix Kreis, who was our grain buyer in Constanza, has given up the buying of wheat. He bought himself 15 polecat traps and one hears that he is doing a good business. Naturally, the other polecat hunters are now jealous and scream; “Felix stay with your own job and don’t attack ours!” It is just like the proverb says; “Cobbler, stick to your last!”
I would like to give Mr. Magnus Seifert, who is the organist in Emmental, Bessarabia, a slight nudge in the ribs, since it has been a long time that he has written to me.
With a greeting,
Romanus Bogalofski
From: Karamurat, Dobrudscha
20 March 1928
Honored Editor Mr. Brandt!
Even though I am still not a reader of the Staats-Anzeiger I am daring to write a few lines to you.
Mr. Dominikus Goetz from Dakota writes to me regarding a certificate of baptism. I have to tell him that this is not an easy task, since everything here was lost during the war. He now has to write to me the month and the year and where, the child was born and who had been the godfather and godmother. Then I will try my best and will probably have success.
Further, I have a small favor to ask. In the year 1924, Stanislaus Arnold emigrated from here to Canada. I bought his grain and gave him cash for it, but his departure was hurried so that we forgot to deduct the cash during the settlement. Now someone will say that is not the paper’s problem. Slow down, because I have a good idea! To make the affair short and easy, Mr. Arnold should send me the Staats-Anzeiger for 2 years and we will call it even.
Leonhard Wolf