Datebook 1922: Tuesday, May 23, 1922

Beautiful, bright, warm day. Arose 6:40 A.M. Breakfast. Sorted eggs all A.M. Shower at Y. To Dr. Town's for Exam for N.W.L.I. About town. To dentist's. Mowed lawn at corner. Played tennis with R.E.P. at Riverside. R. To A'A.M. To bed 11 P.M.

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I'm assuming that N.W.L.I. is the name of a life insurance company and that Stanford had to get a medical exam to get the insurance. There was a company by the name of Northwestern Life Insurance Company from Omaha doing business in 1922, so that may be the one Stanford is buying from.

I'm not sure, but I think R. is Ruth, and that A'AM is Amsterdam?

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

Tuesday, May 23, 1922

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