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Argentina [[/vertical annotation]]
more and more [[red underline]] indifferent to their [[/red underline]] service. 
The sleeping car porters [[red underline]] smoke more and more cigarettes [[/red underline]] and give less and less attention to cleaning [[strikethrough]] dust [[/stikethrough]] overabundant dust. [[red underline]] W.C. is very dirty [[/red underline]] worse than the worst kept day-coach in U.S.
It is quite hot but not too humid. I see [[red underline]] no motor cars [[/red underline]] in the plains but big [[red underline]] trucks pulled by 8 or 10 horses [[/red underline]] bunched together in an apparently irregular fashion.
The [[red underline]] locomotive is fired with wood [[/red underline]] and everywhere along the stations there
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Buenos Aires [[/vertical annotation]]
are large heaps of brown cord wood. Coal too expensive and oil is still too far off. Our train is somewhat late. We are approaching B. A. ^[[Buenos Ayres]] now. Water in sight. Muddy.- [[red underline]] La Plata River, [[/red underline]] outskirts of the city rather raw 
Then better houses, a park. (Palermo) finally at the Retiro Station. Coach 2 horses drives me to [[red underline]] Hotel Plaza. [[/red underline]] Coachman wants five pesos instead of one, "on account of strike". I give him two and he is satisfied. 
At [[red underline]] Plaza Hotel [[/red underline]] they give me a little room just big enough for a bed and to turn around it for 12 pesos a day