Wednesday, March 29, 1922

Beautiful, bright, cool day.  Arose 7:45 A.M. Breakfast etc. Out on errands and business. Dinner. Home in P.M. Typewrote letter to Hanford. Supper. Church League tournament in evening. Bowled doubles with Anderson & Singles. Walked around. To bed 11:30 P.M.

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So, he's now typewriting his letters! That typewriting class is already paying off! I wonder if Hanford kept any of those letters?

Tuesday, March 28, 1922

Very mild damp day with some rain in A.M. Arose 7:45 A.M. Cleaned up cellar, soot out of chimney etc. Got ready and shipped 100 empty egg cases to Trombley Bros. Supper. To College with Ruth Pettit to Minstrel Show. Very good. To bed 12 P.M.

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The minstrel show was no doubt put on by the college students. Some of the Union students claimed "minstrel show" as an extra-curricular activity in their yearbook entries. No indication if it was a black-face minstrel, but it probably was. Stanford actually expressed an opinion of this show!

I couldn't determine why Stanford was shipping empty egg cases to Trombley Brothers, but it must be that they got money back on them since they were not using them at the time, maybe because the season was over?

I hope Stanford was careful around that soot. It was a dangerous substance!

Monday, March 27, 1922

Rainy, wet and mild all day. Arose 7:45 A.M. Breakfast. Out on business all day. Bowled at star in P.M. Supper. Home in evening. Wrote letters, read etc. To bed 9 P.M.

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A fairly routine day for Stanford. I think his father will miss him when he leaves for college in the fall. I wonder if he's made his decision yet?

Sunday, March 26, 1922

Beautiful, bright, warm day. Arose 9 A.M. To Church. Communion. To S.S. Dinner. For ride in afternoon. Called on Reynolds. To E.L. social hour and devotional meeting. About 75 present. To Church. Ran lantern for stereopticon slides. Home. Talked. To bed 11 P.M.

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I'm guessing they are all missing Hanford. And I think Ruth must be pretty busy too, since we don't hear much about her these days. I wonder what slides they saw? 

Saturday, March 25, 1922

Cloudy, cool, day. Arose 6:30 A.M. Breakfast. Candled and finished looking over 53 cases of eggs for storage. Around town on business. Dinner. Down town, shower at Y. Supper. To automobile show at armory with father in evening. To bed 11:30 P.M.

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Another automobile show! Well, I guess cars are pretty popular around this time. Below is an ad for the Steinmetz electric truck in the March 18th Schenectady Gazette promoting the upcoming show.

Steinmetz, some of you may know, was a famous engineer at General Electric. Below is a picture of the truck and an article from Motor Age describing its features.

And we thought we invented electric cars! I wonder why this one never took off?

Friday, March 24, 1922

Beautiful, bright, mild day. Arose 7:15 A.M. Breakfast. Out on business in A.M. & P.M. with dinner at noon. Bowled with Church League at night. Took 2 games from A.S.M.E. Our team to Sirkers for feed etc. A.J.O. took all home. To bed 11:45 P.M.

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Sirker's was a popular restaurant at the time and a frequently chosen site for banquets, such as the one for Ohio State alumni celebrating Ohio State Day on November 25, 1921, reported in the Ohio State University Monthly, volume 13, excerpted below:

Later that year, June 26, 1922, a jewelry store hold-up man fleeing from police fired at policemen in front of the restaurant. Here is an excerpt from the story in the Jeweler's Circular:

Poor Victor Phoenix! In 1920 he was a 16 year old boy living with his parents and working as a shaper in a brush shop in Troy. Six years later he was a violent thief. Here is an excerpt from the newspaper story the next day that tells a sad tale:

Victor went to prison for his crime, and was still there at the Clinton State Prison at Dannemora in 1930. By 1940, he was no longer in prison, apparently. He died in 1949, according to his grave stone at St. Jean's cemetery in Brunswick, NY, having never married. 

Thursday, March 23, 1922

Beautiful bright day but rather cool. Arose 7:45 A.M. Breakfast. Took Ruth to School. Home. Out on business. Dinner. Uncle Charlie here to call. Up after Ruth. Wrote in diary. Home in evening. To bed 10 P.M.

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For those of you who may have missed it, Uncle Charlie is Charles Cramer, Stanford's grandmother's brother. Information about him can be found in the 1920 blog at this post: June 3. Below is his picture, taken from someone's family tree posted on line. He was quite handsome; I think he looks a bit like Jason Vance. What do you think, Clossons?