Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Oct. 26, 1943

They get a coat cleaned and buy milk; civilian toll of war is estimated

Lowell is still writing vaguely about his work at the station. His handwriting isn’t nearly as neat as Thelma’s, and I can’t decipher what he is saying! Maddening.

Their expenses that day included 59 cents for cleaning a coat and, for the first time, a separate entry for milk, 32 cents. Maybe they got a cat?

Readers of the Times-Picayune may have been shocked by a statistic given in a wire story on the editorial page today. Paid subscribers can read on about the cost of civilian life in war.