Friday, May 11, 1934

Nadine, Ruth Ray and I walked to school and home together. I got Mother a baking pan.

The Epperson  House
52nd and Cherry, Kansas City, Missouri

Built by eccentric French architect Horace La Pierre in the early 1920s, the
Gothic style Epperson House has 54 rooms and a tunnel that connects the
two wings of the building. Uriah Epperson died in 1927, only four years after
its completion. His widow donated the castle to the University of Missouri-
Kansas City in 1952.

Epperson House is rumored to be haunted and has been featured on “Unsolved
 Mysteries” as one of the top five haunted houses in the United States.

Thursday, May 11, 1933

Played baseball outside in Gym today. Have a Mathematics test tomorrow. It rained and hailed, also.

Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone - 1931 mug shot
A notorious gangster who ran an organized crime syndicate in Chicago during the 1920s,
 Capone, was both charming and charitable as well as powerful and vicious. He became
an iconic figure of the successful American gangster before being convicted of income tax
evasion and sentenced to 11 years in federal prison. His incarceration included a stay at Alcatraz.
In the final years of Capone's life, his mental and physical health deteriorated due to neurosyphilis.
 On January 25, 1947, he died from cardiac arrest following a stroke in Miami Beach, Florida.