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Jubilee letters expected had arrived, then there were Christmas cards & letters from our families. It is always nice to get mail.
Dick went out almost immediately, and except for lunch was gone almost all day. He was busy arranging for licenses, the motor unpacking etc.

[[underline] Thursday, January 9, 1936 [[/underlined]]
Spent most of the morning getting really settled. I always feel more at home after I've unpacked a few things. Dick & I spent a little time doing stamps
It is nice to have our radio again. The first program we heard was Al Pearce. Station WLW comes in better, at night than some of the short wave stations.

[[underlined]] Friday, January 10, 1936 [[/underlined]]
I didn't do much in morning. In the afternoon I went for a short walk along the Esplanade and down the main shopping streets. I stopped in a shop to buy some thread and Listerine, and was amazed to be addressed by name. I understand that 

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it is not at all unusual, in a town as small as this, for people to know of the arrival of any new whites. I even had a beggar call me mistress Blackwelder but I didn't give him anything for the honor.
I went to the library last, and was very impressed with the tidyness of the place as well as with the good [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] assortment of books. I had quite a talk with the assistant Librarian, Miss Louise Harbin. She seems a very intelligent person. I borrowed "The Curate's Wife" by E.H. Young. The membership fee is 5 s and one pays 1s6d a quarter subscription.
To-day I heard about the recent trouble in St. Vincent. It seems they had quite a riot there one Thursday afternoon last month. Increased taxes and inefficiency were the underlying causes. There was a great deal of stone throwing and several people were shot by the police. It is surprising that no whites were killed, altho' a number were injured, and pretty well frightened. The Governor has forbidden people to talk or write about