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[[vertical notation in red in left margin]] Mendoza - Argentina [[/left margin]]
[[red underline]] traveler aspires and which the latin hotel keeper supplies his client [[/red underline]]
Driving in the open in this well lighted court gives an air of opera - scene suddenly interrupted by loud cries and manifestations in the street. Several carriages pass in succession, carrying banners [[red underline]] "vote for the Radical Party" [[/red underline]] etc. [[strikethrough]] Saw [[/strikethrough]] In the beginning I thought it was some [[red underline]] small revolution [[/red underline]] but it is simply the way [[red underline]] here of preparing for election. [[/red underline]] Sunday is [[red underline]] election [[/red underline]] Saw [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] such carriages with [[red underline]] floating banners [[/red underline]] and signs several times. Always for the [[red underline]] "radicals" [[/red underline]] which seem to be the party in power. So much that they
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have plastered their signs on many [[red underline]] private and public buildings. [[/red underline]] Some smaller number of signs of conservative candidates timidly posted here and there have been obliterated or crossed over. Next day in the [[red underline]] Zoological Garden [[/red underline]] public property saw the [[red underline]] "Radical" [[/red underline]] election signs [[red underline]] posted on the buildings and even on the Lion's Cage [[/red underline]] and no other signs allowed.
Went to bed early, rather tired and hot. During the night heard thunder and a shower fell on  the cement walk framing my room. This is the [[red underline]] very first sign of rain we have had since Panama Canal [[/red underline]] entrance. [[strikethrough]] T [[/strikethrough]]
March [[overwritten]] 4 [[/overwritten]] 3. [[red underline]] Slovenly chamber [[/red underline]]