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few people one; loosing seemed to be the luck of most of the betters.  Hartmann after losing $100.00 returned with me at 3 A.M. to the hotel.
[[boxed left]] Oct. 1 [[/boxed left]] The fall weather here has been quite perfect each day being cool & bracing & partly overcast.  This morning I took a trolley ride thru the French quarter Siccawei & thru the country to the village of Tiki-wei some 6 miles away.  The french quarter has several french schools, its own french policemen & all the streets and shop signs are french names.  At Siccawei

Transcription Notes:
Hartmann's gambling loss of US$100 in 1917 is approximately US$1,900 in 2017 (source: https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm and http://cpiinflationcalculator.com/).