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Franklin McMillan Diary, 1929-1930
Frank McMillan 1929-1930 Diary 32.pdf
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Jan 9th Cleaning up in front of the house. Got car back they claimed drive shaft beat & gears chipped in rear end. cost $42.00
Jan 10th. Stiff this morning after raking the yard, played shuffle board again guess we will have to join costs $1.00
Jan 11th Sat. Started for Daytona Beach - started out No 3 highway going north. the same way we came here at first. the first place is Winter Park about 5 miles it is quite a nice place some nice homes there. then a small place called Maitland around here they grow acres of ferns they have a Lattice work roof over them and sides around them the same some have acres in one block all covered they ship the ferns north at this time of year the next place is Sanford, and the other side of it. there are thousands of acres of celery. at all stages of size. some just planted and some ready to ship. we crossed the St John River then and on to De Land Orange city. was there one time when we were here before 20 years ago and waited half a day for a train one house and a station
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