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1st. Tuesday. Bright hot.
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2nd. Wednesday. Bright. Steamy.
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Seoul home. Mr. 宇佐美 left Seoul 9:05 a.m.
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3rd. Thursday. Cloud and sun. Stewing heat.
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Seoul home. Terrible heat―Steamy when cloudy, burning when sunny. 5:15 p.m. a vigorous passing shower.
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4th. Friday. Rain. Cool.
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Seoul home. Rain from about 1 a.m. Big down―pour all day long―Sure enough rainy season has begun.
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5th. Saturday. Cloud and sun. Hot.
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Seoul home. The South Korea has suffered from flood―too much rain. The last rain in Central Korea, though of short duration has caused much damage. The Seoul-Wijoo line and the Seoul-Wonsan line had interruptions by washouts.
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6th. Sunday. Bright. Hot.
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Seoul home. A Korean(朴□□) who had learned cooking in America, started a small cake and ice-cream shop a few blocks below the Central Y. on the Jong-no-street(鐘路通) . The police―the almighty police―refuse to give him permit to sell tea or coffee!
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7th. Monday. Cloud and sun. Steamy heat.
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Seoul home. Steamy heat tempered by vigorous showers in the afternoon.
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Went to the Station to see(逢迎) Their Highnesses Prince and Princess 李垠 arrive 7 p.m. Torrential rain from 6:30 far into the night.
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8th. Tuesday. Rain. Steamy.
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Seoul home. Rain all day.
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9th. Wednesday. Rain. Cool―Steamy.
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Seoul home. Fine misty rain all the day long. Am afraid we are going to have another such flood visitation as we had in 乙丑 or 1925.
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10th. Thursday. Rain. Cool.
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Seoul home. A torrential pour-down between 5 and 6 a.m. Drizzling and misty rain all the day. The 漢江 reported to have risen 27,000 feet yesterday afternoon. Flood, flood everywhere in Southern Korea.
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11th. Friday. No rain―Sun. Steamy.
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12th. Saturday. Rain from 3 to 12. Cool.
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Seoul home. Rain all the a.m. Stopped in the afternoon. Began raining again after dark.
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13th. Sunday. Rain. Cool.
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Seoul home. The rain is working havoc all over Korea. Thousands of homes reported destroyed. Thousands more submerged while rice fields under water by tens of thousands tsubos. Two years of terrible drought then a year of terrible flood.
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14th. Monday. Rain. Cool.
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Seoul home. Tremendous rain from 3 or earlier a.m. all the morning. The 漢江 rose to 30 ft. yesterday afternoon according to a paper. Rain stopped about 4 p.m. The muddy flood actually surged around 27 ft. mark under the 漢江 bridge.
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A hill or mountain 八公山 in Tai Koo gave a slide burying almost whole of or part of two villages, killing nearly 200 people.
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15th. Tuesday. Clear. Hot.
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Seoul home. 4 p.m. went to the Seoul Ground to see the baseball match played between the Kei-O team, the strongest college team in Japan and the Industrial Bank(殖銀) team, the strongest in Seoul. Yi Yung Min(李榮敏) the only Korean in the Bank team made a clean home run by sending the ball over the fence. Was pleased to see the Japanese crowd cheer him. The Kei-O's made very few mistakes and won the game 4 to 1―which was a foregone conclusion. All I cared for, anyway was to see the splendid play which the only Korean in the show made. The Japanese ought to take in more Korean in their teams―that will promote Japan-Korean good feelings than mere talk about friendship etc.
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16th. Wednesday. Rain. Steamy.
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17th. Thursday. Rain. Steamy―Hot―Sticky.
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Seoul home. Between 7 and 10 a.m. and 7:30 and midnight―Vigorous showers with half an hour or an hour's intermission.
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18th. Friday. Cloudy. Steamy.
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Seoul home. A terrible typhoon visited the Eastern coast of Korea from Fusan up through the entire length of the coast causing immense damages to life and property on land and sea.
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19th. Saturday. Clear―Cloud. Hot.
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Seoul home. Yesterday typhoon has worked havoc all along its terrible track drowning hundreds of people, upsetting and sinking hundreds of fishing boats, blowing down and destroying thousands of houses.
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Left Seoul 8:45 for Song Do. From 水色 Station to 陸谷 and some distance beyond the latter point all the rice fields under water 3 to 5 ft. deep both sides of the railroad.
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21st. Monday. Sun and cloud. Steamy heat.
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22nd. Tuesday. Cloudy―Sun. Steamy heat.
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Seoul home. By the 1:30 p.m. train came to Song Do with family.
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23rd. Wednesday. Sunny. Hot.
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Song Do home. Went to Seoul 3 p.m. train. Attended the Boy Scout general meeting held at the Y. 8~9:30 p.m. Slept in Seoul home.
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24th. Thursday. Sunny. Steamy.
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Song Do home. Returned to Song Do per 9:05 a.m. train.
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25th. Friday. Sunny. Steamy hot.
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26th. Saturday. Sunny. Hot.
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Song Do home. Picnic at 暢幽坮. Torrential rain between 5 and 6 p.m.
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27th. Sunday. Sunny. Hot.
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Song Do home. Worshipped at the Northward Church. The singing and the sermon all had the effects of the heat―languid and drowsy.
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28th. Monday. Sunny. Hot.
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Went to Seoul 8 a.m. train with 璋善. Found Seoul very hot. Returned to Song Do per 4:30 p.m. train.
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29th. Tuesday. Rain. Sticky.
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Song Do home. Rain from midnight―all through the morning. Frequent showers in the afternoon.
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30th. Wednesday. Cloudy. Cool both ends of the day.
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31st. Thursday. Beautiful. Hot mid-day. Cool both ends.
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Song Do home. Our dear 文姬 had to go home inspite of our and her wishes to stay here longer. Her husband is one of the meanest niggardliest, dirtiest, parasites I have ever seen. He simply torments our Mary to death. He exacts the most slavish obedience from her. It makes me sick to see how silently and helplessly our dear 文姬 suffers. Yet the law of the land is such that she can't free herself from this wretch. He says his ideal character is that of Abraham Lincoln! Think of a Abe. L. unkind and ungenerous to his wife! Think of Abe. L. trying to live off his wife.
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