Monday, November 10, 1919

Fair autumn day. To college 8 to 3:30 P.M. Chemistry laboratory in P.M. Home. Fooled around. Candled eggs. Over to church to help make arrangements for social. Down to Quinn's after Hot chocolate. Home with Doris Smith.

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Quinn's, I discovered from a publication of the time, was a drug store in Schenectady.  Here is a story that appeared in a drug store trade journal (National Drug Clerk) about marketing for the upcoming Christmas season, with its example of an effective ad from Quinn's Drug Store in Schenectady:



 You can see that "Schenectady Husbands" are the target of the ad from Quinn's proclaiming their fine hair brushes and combs.

Also interesting is the reference in the above article to "fattened purses" due to "enormous salary increases," a feature of the soon-to-be-roaring twenties that eventually brought about the stock market crash ten years later.