Datebook 1922: Wednesday, January 11, 1922

Cold, windy. Snow all day. Arose 8:30 A.M. Breakfast. Out on business. Bro't cases from hospital. Fixed up eggs cases to ship etc. Up to school after Ruth. Shoveled walk. Supper. To High School to evening course in Typewriting. Bowled. To bed 10:30 P.M.

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So I guess Stanford is shipping eggs after all--perhaps by Postal Service? Notice the snow doesn't cancel the Typing class (as it would today, no doubt).

I discovered an interesting follow-up to the "market gone to smash" story of yesterday. The stores buying the eggs at low prices had a different opinion of the downturn; they were thrilled and passed their savings on to their customers, as the below ad from January 10th indicates:

Found through Google News Archive Search

About this blog . . .

I've created this blog to make a record of the hand-written journals of Stanford Stillman Closson (1900-1982), who was in his life a Methodist Minister, grandfather, father, brother, husband, son and friend. This is the fourth installment of Date Book, covering 1922 (the first three cover 1919-1921). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1922 to January 1, 2016, for instance--with one entry per day.

The daily entries are pretty short, though, so in addition to recording the diaries, I'm also annotating them, giving additional information about the people, places and events mentioned by Stanford.

And this year, because Stanford moves to Boston when he starts his graduate program at Boston University, I will be adding information about early 1920s Boston as well as Schenectady.

Through these annotations, I hope to convey a sense of Stanford's life and times. And of course, I'm also hoping to give his descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1922

Wednesday, January 11, 1922

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