For the second day in a row, Thelma does not disclose her activities other than to list minor expenses: rides for seven cents, a nickel to cash a check, another nickel to buy a newspaper, plus $1.71 on “eats.”
It was the 211th birthday of George Washington and President Roosevelt gave a radio speech about the first president. To read about it, you’ll need to be a Bootie — a paid subscriber to Bootleggers, Baptists and Everything in Between. Please consider upgrading your subscription for just $5 a month (that’s 16 cents a day, just a penny more than Thelma paid for her incidental expenses today!) You’ll get to read the full diary entry and have access to the archive going all the way back to April 2021.
The postcard above is from my personal collection and will appear in my upcoming book Methodists and Moonshiners: Another Prohibition Expedition Through the South…with Cocktail Recipes, due out this fall from Evening Post Books.
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