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To day, Hays wired for [[red underline]] $1000 [[/red underline]] to brace up [[red underline]] Nina's account [[/red underline]] Sent check to Harris Upham for this amount. - Stock market going lower and lower. Afternoon drove Redman to Matheson Hammack then to Fairchilds where met Armour. Redman left 10. P.M. I drove him to station. [[red underline]] Murray [[/red underline]] is ill again in bed, some stomach trouble Feel intensely tired.
[[underline]] April 5. [[/underline]] Went to visit [[red underline]] Bretts' place with [[strikethrough]] Mar [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Celine]] early morning and stayed till 12.M. He has built pretty Spanish Style house in the Hammack and keeps 6 men digging and planting on his place. Gave him one of my Okees. Dredging a channel from the Bay to his garden thru the marshes. His place is only [[red underline]] 200 acres [[/red underline]] but looks as if it were 2000! Told me he
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was a cowboy in his younger years after he had lost all he had in a business venture. Telegram of [[red underline]] Hays ^[[who]] urged [[/red underline]] me to transfer my [[red underline]] Preferred to the members of my family. [[/red underline]]
[[underline]] April 6 [[/underline]] Went to visit Mr. Cole's garden with Celine
Wrote to [[red underline]] D. D. Jackson [[/red underline]] there should be no error about our [[red underline]] $1000 fellowship in Columbia [[/red underline]] and that our pledge does not extend beyond June - 1932. We shall later decide what to do further. [[red underline]] Further considerable drop in stocks and bonds since those politicians [[/red underline]] of the American [[red underline]] Legion want to issue 2 1/2 Billion [[/red underline]] Dollars in fat money for distributing amongst veterans!
[[underline]] April 7. [[/underline]] [[red underline]] Kirk Brown [[/red underline]] here [[strikthrough]] by [[/strikethrough]] at 3PM had driven from Fort Pierce