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[[preprinted]] January 23 [[/preprinte]]
Monday
good day all day. Men (Joe ?? Jim) made tobacco beds 40 0yds or 4-10x10 Robert and I went to school. I got big tags for car. coat including 2% sales tax $139.50 I went to Marlboro in afternoon to get some keys made + got mother washing tub.

[[preprinted]] January 24 [[/preprinted]]
Tuesday
Nice warm clear day all day. got out manure to stalks in morning. Sera came and did washing + ironing. dot came up in afternoon and stayed awhile. I carried load of hay to proctor with tractor, called Judy up at night. Got key to car.

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January 23 - 1813--American prisoners taken by British War of 1812 massacred by Indians in Michigan.
1845--Congress set the Tuesday following the first Monday November as national Election Day.

January 24 - 1838--Seminole Indians defeated by U. S. in Florida.
1898--California began celebration of Golden Jubilee.
1908--Boy Scouts organized in England by Baden-Powell.
1943--Roosevelt and Churchill and Casablanca conference. [[/preprinted]] [[/page 1]]

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[[preprinted]] January 25 [[/preprinted]]
Wednesday
Men made 200 more yds in tobacco beds 2 10 x 10 yds. plowed some land by newborn, + harrowed. but all day rep to 27°, called Judy up at night, still the same sweet girl. Mary Robert and I went to Waldorf to movies to see "Christopher Columbus"

[[preprinted]] January 26 [[/preprinted]

Thursday
nice day 77°, men finished making tobacco beds. 11,000 sq yds., ground feed in afternoon. hald fodder in morning. Went to basketball practice at night. Then looked one game. got home 11:30. Mrs. Freeman.

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January 25 - 1759--Robert Burns born in Scotland.
1840--Earthquake shocks felt in the state of New York.
1915--First transcontinental telephone conversation held between New York and San Francisco.

January 26 - 1837--Michigan admitted to the Union.
1886--Khartoum fell and "Chinese" Gordon was killed.
1939--Franco's forces captured Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War. [[/preprinted]] [[/page 2]]