Monday, January 30, 1922

Fair, bright, clear, chilly day. Arose 7:45 A.M. Breakfast. Father & I out on business. Dinner. Candled eggs. Down town. Bowled etc. Supper. To High School to evening class in typewriting 7-9 P.M. Took walk. Home. To bed 10 P.M.

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A routine day, it seems.

Stanford never describes the process of egg candling, so we don't know if he used a special device for it. But apparently there were some inventors who were trying to improve on the device for candling eggs.

Below are two drawings of egg candlers from the U.S. Patent Office. One was patented in 1920, the other in late 1922. The latter seems to be capable of candling multiple eggs simultaneously, making the process faster and more efficient, I would think.

Patent Images

Patent Images

Sunday, January 30, 1922

Beautiful bright, cool day. Arose 9 A.M. Made twalay. To Church & Sunday School. Dinner. Fooled around. Took little ride about town. To Epworth League. To Church. Ran lantern. Good seminar on 100% daughter. Up to Mildred Swarts. T.B. 1.

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100% daughter is one of the Methodist Church's themes, as discussed in this excerpt from a current United Methodist Church website's FAQs:

Like all Christians, we believe in the Trinity. We believe in one God who is expressed through three distinct characters called: Creator, Redeemer & Sustainer (or Father, Son & Holy Spirit). This is much like our roles here on earth. All at the same time, we are 100% friend, 100% brother or sister, 100% daughter or son, 100% partner, 100% student or worker. In that same way, we believe God is 100% Creator (Father), 100% Christ (Son, Redeemer) and 100% Holy Spirit (Sustainer).

I guess Mildred Swart is still in the picture!

In case some of you were wondering what Stanford meant by "twalay," he is pronouncing the word toilet as if it were French. 

Saturday, January 28, 1922

Fair cool day. Arose 8 A.M. Out on business in forenoon. Dinner. Haircut. Down town. Bath at Y. Home. Cleaned up. To K.S.P. district council supper & meeting at Y. 6-9 P.M. To Strand with Merris. Good picture. Home. To bed 11:30 P.M.

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Merris is a family friend first identified in the 1919 diary at this post. He and Stanford enjoyed a variety of entertainment that evening: not only a "good picture"--The Man From Lost River--but a singing performance from Melda Allporte, some pictures from the ice carnival (mentioned by Stanford in an earlier entry), some comedy and a newsreel. And the theater had its own symphony and organ to provide the music. People got a lot for their money at the movies in those days! Incidentally, the cost of the show was 35 cents, 25 cents for the balcony. All these excerpts were taken from the 27 January Schenectady Gazette.

Friday, January 27, 1922

Beautiful, bright, cold day. Arose 7:30 A.M. Read paper etc. Out on business. Dinner. Worked and delivered in P.M. Out to Uncle John's to call. Stayed to supper. Bowled with Church League. Home. To bed 11 P.M.

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The paper that Stanford was no doubt reading, the Schenectady Gazette, carried the notice of upcoming bowling matches to be held that evening. Stanford was probably a member of the First Methodist League. They were to play against Trinity Lutheran at the Star Alleys. Stanford doesn't give us the scores or tell who won, so we'll have to wonder. Below is the piece about the bowling leagues. The other leagues are kind of interesting. I wonder who bowled in the Theatrical League--workers at those theaters? And what about the Liberty League? Maybe that was just a city league with people from all over.

Below is an excerpt from the front page that day--what Stanford must have read that morning. The front page articles are interesting in their similarity to the news of today: Democrats vs. Republicans and police brutality. Not much changes, I'm afraid.

Thursday, January 26, 1922

Cold, clear, bright day. 10 below ZERO. Arose 8 A.M. Breakfast. Cut some wood. Played dominos with father. Dinner. Played piano, etc. Cleaned up cellar. Down street. Bowled at Star. Supper. Wrote letters To bed 9:30 P.M.

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Cold weather doesn't keep Stanford at home--not even ten below!

The temperature did prompt a newspaper report, however. This piece appeared in the next day's (27 January) edition of the Schenectady Gazette:

Wednesday, January 25, 1922

Cold, bright, clear, sunny day. Arose 9 A.M. 6 below ZERO. Around house in A.M. Dinner. In cellar in P.M. sawing & splitting slab wood. Supper. To High School 7-9 P.M. to typewriting class. Home. Talked etc. To bed 10:30 P.M.

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I wonder if the wood Stanford was chopping was used to heat their house? I always pictured them as heating with coal.

Tuesday, January 24, 1922

Cold, bright, clear, breezy day. 6 below ZERO. Arose 7 A.M. To Amsterdam to make collections. Out to make deliveries in Dorp. Around house doing odds & end. Russell & Merlin left for Buffalo on 5:40 A.M. train. Dean Ripton class here. To Union-Colgate B.B. game. Score 13-16. To bed 10 P.M.

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Dorp is an affectionate name for Schenectady. Following is a bit of history about the name, taken from the Charles B. Knox Gelatine Co. Inc. Edition of The Old Mohawk-Turnpike Book, located on the Fulton County NY GenWeb site.

"Old Dorp"

Schenectady is notable as the place where Holland Dutch influence was dominant longer than in any other city of the Hudson valley (the Mohawk being part of the Hudson watershed). Holland Dutch was preached in the churches of the Dutch Reformed denomination until long after 1800 and it was spoken somewhat generally up to 1850 and even thereafter. Some years ago, two Schenectady men, who spoke the Dutch language of their fathers, paid a visit to Holland. They were surprised to find that the natives found difficulty in understanding their Schenectady Dutch because it was of an ancient form and much mixed with words of Indian origin. During its somewhat sleepy existence in the mid-nineteenth century, Schenectady was affectionately known as "Old Dorp" (Dutch for "old town"), a name frequently applied to it even today by the people of the Mohawk valley. 

The old Colonial Holland Dutch section of the town still largely exists in the streets of the river section, formerly enclosed by the ancient stockade. Here still stand many houses, in the Schenectady Dutch style, built before or shortly after the Revolution. It is a section of Dutch Colonial Schenectady well worth careful preservation.

The Union-Colgate game was previewed in the January 24th newspaper. Below is an excerpt from the report. Too bad they lost!