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Mendoza - Argentina [[/vertical annotation]]
my walk thru town 
At [[red underline]] about 12 M. I returned and finally got my cash at the rate of about 23 pesos for every $10 [[/red underline]] american. A money changer offered 20 pesos for ^[[10]] American paper Dollars and 22 pesos for 10$ American Gold coin
The general appearance of the man in the street is not so good as in Valparaiso or Santiago. [[red underline]] Italian immigrant type predominating. [[/red underline]] More flying [[red underline]] motor cars [[/red underline]] and coaches with [[red underline]] political manifestations [[/red underline]] mostly young people, sitting with ^[[a flagstaff]] [[red underline]] Argentina banner [[/red underline]] in their hand, sometimes accompanied by [[red underline]] Italian [[/red underline]] banner, or banner of their party. Yelling
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names of their candidates and throwing handbills 
The [[red underline]] Partido radical [[/red underline]] seems to have everything its [[red underline]] own way here. [[/red underline]] The posters are pasted everywhere one private residences as well as [[black underline]] public [[/black underline]] buildings. Seems party in power here. [[strikethrough]] Natio [[/strikethrough]] and hardly any other posters appear. Those [[strikethrough]] who [[/strikethrough]] I saw were either torn off or defaced, or portraits of candidates blackened with a brush. Saw these [[red underline]] political posters at entrance ^[[gates]] of Zoological park, [[/red underline]] and on its several buildings even [[red underline]] on the Lion's case! [[/red underline]] 
Took a coachman, whose Spanish is better than that of the average man in the street. Says [[red underline]] he is a Spaniard [[/red underline]] and seemed to have [[red underline]] considerable contempt [[/red underline]]