Thursday, January 19, 1922

Mild, fair, bright & melting. Arose 8 A.M. Odd jobs & errands in A.M. Dinner. Candled eggs in P.M. Down street. Bowled. Up to see Jessie Robertson. To Church to K.S.P. meeting and then to lecture on "Business Success" by Ridgeway. Furnace session. To bed 11:30 P.M.

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Jessie Robertson is probably the young woman who lived in Schenectady with her parents and worked (as did her father) at the electrical company (GE) in 1920 as a tracer. Since I had never heard of that occupation, I had to look it up on the Old Occupations website:

Worked in a draughting office, copying engineering diagrams, using tracing paper. In the days before photocopying, plans and diagrams for mining and manufacturing industries were copied by hand. It required accuracy, patience and a knack for using the pen without producing ink blots

It sounds like a very important job! By 1925, Ms. Robertson was working as a stenographer, a more gender appropriate job at the time, I'm sure, but I wonder if it was as much fun.

I'm not sure who Ridgeway is, but he was probably a local speaker. I'm not sure what a "furnace session" is either, but maybe it was about furnaces?