Datebook 1924: December 2017

Beautiful, bright & cold. Arose 10:15 A.M. Washed. Dish of corn flakes. Put new licenses on Ford etc. Our family, father, mother, H.H. & I to Benedicts for dinner. Succulent turk etc. Fine dinner & Christian fellowship. Played rook, checkers, sang songs, talked etc. Home after bowling with H.H. Each won one and tie the third. Played louisa [game] with M & F [Mother & Father] and checkers with F. To bed 10:30 P.M. Thankful for life with the joys it brings.

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The Benedicts are the family of Marion Benedict, who is engaged to Hanford, Stanford's twin brother.

Louisa was a popular game in 1924.

At right is a description of it that appeared in a catalog of the time.

Stanford doesn't say what brand of corn flakes he was eating, but below is a 1924 ad for Post Toasties, Kellogg's rival in the corn flakes market.

From Attic Paper

If you are interested in a fuller account of the day for Stanford and Mary Leah, see the letter each wrote on this blog's page, Letters.

Some interesting information in these letters. Stanford mentions the upcoming presidential election (Calvin Coolidge is re-elected) and the planned voyage of the new Navy airship, the Shenandoah, to gather weather data at the north pole. Read about the zeppelin here.

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 sixth installment of Date Book, covering 1924 (the first five cover 1919-1923). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1924 to January 1, 2018, 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, including pictures and other information gleaned from the internet.

And this year, as Stanford continues his studies at Boston University, he becomes engaged to Mary Leah and has his first preaching assignment. I will, therefore, be including some of his and Mary Leah's letters as a way of fleshing out the rather brief entries he includes in his diary.

Through the diaries, the letters and other 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.

Tuesday, January 1, 1924