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[[margin, red pencil, written vertically]] Brazil - Panama [[/margin, red pencil, written vertically]]
We enter the state of [[underlined in red]] Panama [[/underlined in red]] leaving the state of [[underlined in red]] Santa Cathorina [[/underlined in red]] We are 3300 feet. Our sleeping car conductor brings the tale that a [[underlined in red]] General strike has been declared in Rio. [[/underlined in red]] and [[underlined in red]] everything is stopped there, [[/underlined in red]] Trains etc and that some [[strikethrough]] body [[/strikethrough]] delegate at the station [[strikethrough]] ind [[/strikethrough]] invited him to strike too after he reaches [[underlined in red]] Sao Paulo. Castro. polish settlement [[/underlined in red]] church steeple He made two photos of it [[strikethrough]] March 26. [[/strikethrough]] 10 [[underlined]] 40 [[/underlined[[ A.M. Piraxy Hotel [[strikethrough]] Viannia [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined in red]] Vianna [[/underlined in red]] stop for lunch, excellent and [[underlined in red]] unexpectedly clean [[/underlined in red]] Cleanest place I have seen for a long time! Paid 5 1/2 Mil Reis for lunch and 1/2 Bottle of Portugese
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wine. Got [[underlined in red]] first newspaper [[/underlined in red]] since [[underlined in red]] we left. [[/underlined in red]] Confusing news of [[underlined in red]] strike in Rio. [[/underlined in red]] How shall we get there? [[underlined in red]] and how shall I get home? [[/underlined in red]] Railroad line [[underlined]] extremely [[/underlined]] sinuous, always same landscape, rolling prairie interspersed with little streaks of streams and bunches of A[[?]]nas 
March 27. (Saturday) All up early at 5 [[underlined]] 30 [[/underlined]] A.M. We are nearing [[under;lined in red]] Sao Paulo.[[/underlined in red]] Plant of [[underlined in red]] Armour & Co [[/underlined in red]] same construction as plant of Gen. Bakelite Co. A factory of Ceramics, then a Glass-bottle blowing works. - the incandescent swing of bottles in the distance look like fireflies. then a chemical works - South American