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[[vertical annotation in left margin written in red]] Uruguay - Montevideo [[/vertical annotation]]
[[red underline]] Champagne [[/red underline]] at the present high prices [[red underline]] seems rare.[[/red underline]] 
^[[Italian]] Vermouth + some bitters + some carbonic water seems the preferred beverage in the cafés, just before meals. [[strikethrough]] Most business [[/strikethrough]] Almost all business closes between [[red underline]] 12-2 P.M [[/red underline]] 
The windows shades being drawn and doors locked 
Most theatres begin at 9:00 or 9:30 and last till about or [[red underline]] after midnight [[/red underline]] several representations being given in succession
For $2.62, our money, got an excellent dinner including one bottle of wine in the best restaurant
This is Saturday and I notice even in the poorer quarters near the water front that the negro maids as well
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as white are washing and scrubbing the cement floor of the houses as well as the side-walks. Rooms etc. seem well kept, also outside well painted brass [[strikethrough]] signs [[/strikethrough]] sign plates or brass handles all well shining, same cleanliness and orderliness in show windows 
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[[red underline]] Why do not they keep as clean about their W.C and bath rooms? [[/red underline]] and why do hotels keep their rooms so cheerless and [[strikethrough]] dark [[/strikethrough]] ill-lighted or ill ventilated in dark inside corners?
March 20. (Saturday) [[strikethrough]] Left [[/strikethrough]] changed 100 pesos [[strikethrough]] Argentine [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Uruguay]] to 378 milreis Brazil, or about 1:4 or 100/378 = about [[red underline]] 26-27c per Am Dollar [[/red underline]] 
Paid for train and sleeper to [[red underline]] Mercelino Ramos [[/red underline]] 56 Uruguay Dollars + excess baggage from Santa Anna
[[red underline]] Bakelite cigarette holders sold in  Montevideo [[/red underline]] as