Datebook 1924: Wednesday, January 2, 1924

Bright & cold. Just ZERO. Arose 8:30 A.M. Breakfast. Father & George to Amsterdam. Wrote letter to M.L. Dinner. Helped unload 152 cases eggs. Downstreet, to dentist, (Dr. Kimsur[?]) etc. Home. Talked. Supper. Played ROOK with father and H.H. Read & talked. To P.O. To bed 11:45 P.M.

Thankful for a good home.

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That's a lot of eggs! See the January 2nd letter from Stanford to Mary Leah (continuation of January 1st) in the first Letters page in this blog for more information about Stanford's day.

Rook is a card game still in existence. Below is a photo of what the game looked like in 1924. The E-Bay seller wants $60 for this set. I wonder what it cost in 1924?

From E-Bay

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.

Datebook 1924

Wednesday, January 2, 1924

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