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neighbor left for SF tonight for surgical attention to his leg, which is not doing well

Friday Aug 5

Same -- Hot -- 85 deg -- Evening attended the Finlayson-Jose musicale at Pipers Opera House -- Thoroughly crowded as long as a live soul could get in -- Very good indeed -- Bed at 2 -- Miss Flora Finlayson and Dickie Jose were both brought up in Reno, and now come from there to their field of triumph -- Kickie has a peculiarly beautiful [tenor?] and alto voice -- a mezzp tenor, as it were, ad she is rich contralto "sympathetic," etc -- Both are young. She about 19 or 20 & he a little older -- Good team --

Catheters Rec'd $3 Bro Sam

Saturday Aug 6

Cooler, with slightly blustering winds -- PM wrote letter to wife, but too late for mail -- Evening down town -- Home at 11 -- read, wrote, etc, Bed at 2 -- Received dozen asst English flexible catheters from P Wakelee & Co, druggists, San Francisco this morning by mail -- They cost $3 -- Number fours [No 4] --

Sunday Aug 7

Clear & hot -- 84 deg -- About home all day -- Evening down town -- Looked in at keno, etc -- Home at 11 -- wrote nice, 2 page letter to Bro Sam, relative to annexed clipping from the Memorial of July 28 -- Bed at -- [2] --

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