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JULY 9
Sunday, fair day all day singing [[?]] spirits of the day, Robert tay was come & bought yellow cow & calf, gave $190.00, daddy & I drove on other place & over to [[West?]] to get rent, I went up to Bobs before dinner. Adina May wanted me to stay for dinner (nice girl) Went to see [[Kent?]] and also Peggy got to bed 9: PM.

JULY 10
Monday not to good a day, striped and packed tobacco all day raining in afternoon and had about a flood at night. Bob + I went to movies at Waldorf at night got home 12:15 A.M. saw Adina May, Mrs. Via & Mr. Via called Bob up in afternoon, Aunt Kady picked 28 qts blackberries in 2 1/2 hours.

July 9---1846---U.s. flag hoisted at Monterey, Calif.
         1864---Gen. Lee Wallace defeated by Confederates at Battle of Monocacy.
         1943---Allied troops invade Sicily.
July 10--1863---Clement C. Moore, author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas," died.
         1884---Grover Cleveland nominated for U.S. Presidency.
         1919---President Wilson laid the Covenant of the League of Nations before the U.S. Senate.  

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July 11
Tuesday fair day all day, tied the [[?]] down, finished trashing my wheat had Ned Holkeys feeding the trashing machine [[Randal]] Pickles in back to shove over [[?]] to [[trashed?]] [[balers?]], I got 113 bales of straw + 72 ba of wheat off of 4 acres. Mr [[?]] came to see me, Mr Decker got some hay, up to Bobs in afternoon saw Mr & Mrs Via & Adina May visiting at night.

JULY 12
Wednesday good day all day, down on other place [[wiith?]] tractor and truck and got all the rest of the tobacco.  daddy & Robert carried load of tobacco to Waldorf in afternoon, I started cleaning out barnyard with tractor and [[?]] loader up to Bobs in afternoon before gotten Mary from Work. saw Adina May.

July 11---1804---Alexander Hamilton mortally wounded in duel with Aaron Burr.
          1863---Drafting of soldiers for U.S. Civil War begun in N.Y.
          1890---Wyoming admitted to the Union.
July 12---1817---Henry David Thoreau born in Concord, Mass.
          1906---Captain Dreyfus restored to rank in French army.
          1918---Czar Nicholas of Russia executed by Bolsheviki.