Thursday, May 4, 1922

Overcast day with showers. Arose 8:30 A.M. Breakfast. Odd jobs. Dinner. Home in P.M. Cleaned up around etc. Supper. To Fraternity house. Talked etc. To bed 11:15 P.M.

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Pretty short entry today! We used to get the name of the fraternity, at least. 

Wednesday, May 3, 1922

Wonderful, bright, warm day. Arose 8 A.M. Breakfast. Out on business etc. Dinner. Worked on car. Interview with Mr. Dales. Supper. Home in evening. Talked. To bed 10 P.M.

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I wonder what Stanford's interview with Mr. Dales was about?

Tuesday, May 2, 1922

Beautiful, bright & warm. Arose 7:30 A.M. Breakfast. Took Ruth to School. Car to Havens for repairs etc. Dinner. Out on business after father returned from country place. Supper. Rode out to John Meyers. To bed 10:30 P.M.

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I wonder if he means he went on his bicycle to John Meyers? Just a little too brief an account to be sure. Havens is the Kissel dealer, so I guess that's where one took one's Kissel for repairs.

Monday, May 1, 1922

Beautiful, bright, warm day. Arose 7:30 A.M. Breakfast. Chored around. Out on business. Dinner. Out to make collections etc. Supper. Home in evening. To P.O. Talked. To bed 10 P.M.

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I wish we could see the letters Stanford was writing and receiving. Oh, well . . . 

Sunday, April 30, 1922

Beautiful, bright, cool day. Arose 9:30 A.M. Daylight Saving Time. Made toilet. To Church & S.S. Dinner. Read. Took nap. To E.L. Mr. Bird led. To Church with Miss Pettit. To Scotia a la foot. Talked. To bed 12:30 P.M.

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Saturday, April 29, 1922

Beautiful, bright, cool day. Arose 7:15 A.M. Breakfast. Out on business etc. Dinner. Home in P.M. Cleaned out garage, storehouse etc. Supper. Down town, shower at Y etc. Home, to bed 10 P.M. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS BEGINS

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Interesting that New York and Schenectady continue to adopt daylight savings time. According to Wikipedia, it was a practice that was not adopted everywhere in the U.S. post WWI. Below is an excerpt from that article.

"The war's end swung the pendulum back. Farmers continued to dislike DST, and many countries repealed it after the war. Britain was an exception: it retained DST nationwide but over the years adjusted transition dates for several reasons, including special rules during the 1920s and 1930s to avoid clock shifts on Easter mornings.[39] The US was more typical: Congress repealed DST after 1919. President Woodrow Wilson, like Willett an avid golfer, vetoed the repeal twice but his second veto was overridden.[53] Only a few US cities retained DST locally thereafter,[54] including New York so that its financial exchanges could maintain an hour of arbitrage trading with London, and Chicago and Cleveland to keep pace with New York.[55] Wilson's successor Warren G. Harding opposed DST as a "deception". Reasoning that people should instead get up and go to work earlier in the summer, he ordered District of Columbia federal employees to start work at 08:00 rather than 09:00 during summer 1922. Some businesses followed suit though many others did not; the experiment was not repeated.[14]"

Friday, April 28, 1922

Fair, bright, cool day. Arose 6:15 A.M. Breakfast. Out on business. Odd jobs. Dinner. Copied for father. Looked over eggs. Supper. Home in evening. To mail box. To bed 9 P.M.

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I guess Stanford had to copy documents for his father--a tedious process, to be sure, if he was doing it by hand. Ah, the joys of cheap, easy photocopying! Those days were still to come in 1922. But there was a machine to copy documents by then, although from the description, it seems a cumbersome process:

Both Rectigraph and Photostat machines consisted of a large camera that photographed documents or papers and exposed an image directly onto rolls of sensitized photographic paper that were about 350 feet (110 m) long. A prism was placed in front of the lens to reverse the image. After a 10-second exposure, the paper was directed to developing and fixing baths, then either air- or machine-dried. The result was a negative print, which took about two minutes in total to produce, which could in turn be photographed to make any number of positive prints. (from Wikipedia)

Here is an ad from 1920 that depicts the Photostat machine.