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[[underlined]] May 27 [[/underlined]]
Left Washington, B&O. at 4 P.M. for St. Louis, El Paso & Calif.
Corn just coming up.

Dark after Harpers Ferry.

[[underlined]] May 28 [[/underlined]]
Breakfast at Cincinnatti.
A cold night, frost on ridge
Crops backward.
Corn not up

[[underlined]] Vincennes [[/underlined]] - Ind.
Winter rye headed out
wheat small & poor.
Corn up in one field.

[[underlined]] St. Louis [[/underlined]] 5:27 P.M.

[[underlined]] May 29 [[/underlined]] Kansas City 7:50 A.M.
Left K.C. at 9:55 AM.
[[underlined]] Topeka [[/underlined]] 
Crops ahead of Ill. & Mo.
Corn up in rows
Rye & some barley & wheat [[fields?]]
some alfalfa

Transcription Notes:
Kept Venon's spelling, anything I'm unsure of is in [[?]] - @siobhanleachman Vincennes, Indiana -@meg_shuler