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St. Augustine, Monday March 31 - 1930
Shipped by Express collect the box parts
and one of Outlines to Peat-ole Museum. Also,
my lawyer willie collect to 58 Stone st.
St. Augustine April 2-3-4-1930
Attended some of the Ponce de Leon-Memora-
der celebration of the discovery of Florida, and the
founding of the village of St. Augustine. The city
persists in getting its history wrong making the date
of discovery April 2-1513 when it is 1572. Then
they let the Fountain of Youth advertise their
false small spring that Ponce never saw, or at least
that town and the slightest part of. What these people
should read is Parkman's book, but I am thinking
the city father are either all good Roman Catholics
or old business men fearing to damage their
myth account of the discovery with the false
"Fountain", which is no fountain at all.
Paid my hotel bills and at 8.00 P.M. April 4, I
arrived for Cincinnati, Ohio, when I arrived to-
moning early at 9.30, P.M. All in all this has been
the dullest April I any anywhere. What's much worse than
as reported but a great deal more than Cleveland.