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AUGUST 26
Saturday good day all day. We cut tobacco all day and set it in the barn [[?]] on other place, I went up to see Admina Mae + got home 12:30 at night, Jack [[Dipson?]] came and got a barrel of corn, $9.00.


AUGUST 27
Sunday good day all day. nobody went to church. Kent [[Rallings?]] came down in the morning. Down on other places, Janet, Grace, Bonnie, Milton + [[Willie?]] [[Ann?]] [[?]] for the day. Also [[?]] [[?]] to go over took Admina Mae to the movies at night saw "Treasure Island" got home 11:30 called Adina Mae up in afternoon,

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August 26–1346–At Battle of Crecy, firearms and cannon used for the first time.
1873–First U.S. kindergarten established in St. Louis.
1911–Paris newspapermen went round the world in 39 da., 43 1/2 min.

August 27–1776–Colonials defeated in the Battle of Long Island.
1783–Hydrogen-filled balloon ascended in Paris.
1916–Italy declared war on Germany.
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AUGUST 28
Monday good day all day. Joe did not work. the other men + I cut tobacco all day and hung it up have cut [[491?]] sticks so far. Wallace Robey was up here in the afternoon & I went up to see Adina Mae at night and got home 11:30 [[?]] came & got one ton of hay.

AUGUST 29
Tuesday fair day all day, but some [[?]] in afternoon. Uncle Harry + Aunt Patty Townshend was down late for the day. Margaret Ward was [[?]] [[?]] for the day I called Adina Mae up when I went after Mary [[?]] school [[?]] [[?]] [[?]]

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August 28–1749–Goethe born in Germany.
1910–Kingdom of Montenegro proclaimed.
1913–Palace of Peace dedicated at The Hague, Holland.

August 29–1769–Edmund Hoyle, card game authority, died.
1809–Oliver Wendell Holmes born at Cambridge, Mass.
1916–Hindenburg appointed head of the German General Staff.
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