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APRIL 4
Tuesday
Good day all day [[?]] up to 80 degrees

APRIL 5
Wednesday Good day all day. [[?]]. later all day. I carryed [[?]] from school to [[?}] High School  [[?]].  got back 3:PM during school. planned [[?]] up at night. man came [[??]] got 1 ton of hay.

April 4-1704-First newspaper in U.S. printed in Boston, Mass.
       -1897-Discovery of big gold deposits reported in Yukon.
       -1933-U.S. Navy Dirigible "Akron" crashed off N.J. coast

April 5-1768-Chamber of Commerce established in N.Y.
       -1910-Railway tunnel opened through the Andes Mts
       -1915-Jess Willard won the world heavyweight boxing championship
       from Jack Johnson at Havana, Cuba

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APRIL 6
Thursday Good day all day. lot of awful [[?]]. [[?]]grass seed from [[?]] other place with [[?]] all day. [[?]] mary and Robert to church. at night got 35 gallons of [[?]] from Jim Smith [[good guess?]].  called Judy up at night and she [[?]] still loved me.  I am glad. 

APRIL 7
Friday Good day but windy.  I plowed [[?]] my piece of land all day and [[?]] into the [[night?]]. plowing during the [[?]] the from [[?]][[?]][[?]] in the morning. 

April 6-1512-On this Easter Sunday, Ponce de Leon discovered Florida.
        1828-Joesph Smith organized the first Mormon church.
        1896-The Olympic Games were revived in Greece.
        1917-The U.S. declared war on Germany.

April 7-1862-Second day of the Battle of Shiloh in the U.S. Civil War.
        1891-Phineas T. Barnum, circus magnale, died.
        1911-Count Zeppelin carried passengers in his dirigible.
        1939-Mussolini invaded Albania with armed forces.