Mrs. Culp's Diary, Friday, January 8, 1937

Mrs. Culp bought two sweet potato plants to grow and brought some plants to the rental house at 317 S. Edison Street. She wrote a letter to her son Frank and her sister Trude, who lived in Atlanta. It was a clear day in Tampa and "very warm."

On the national stage, President Roosevelt had ordered two battleships to be built "in response to foreign power…