Datebook 1919: Thursday, October 30, 1919

Cool wet damp muggy day. To college 9 to 12 M. Fooled around in P.M. Candled eggs, played piano etc. Over to social at church at night. Down after Wilber Hayes. Fine time. Hallowe'en decorations. Home with Doris Smith. To bed 12:30 P.M.

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On the internet, I found a page from the Ladies Home Journal, October 1919 issue that shows various ways of decorating your house for Halloween festivities. Perhaps Stanford's house was festooned with some version of these:

My favorite is the cat's face in the fireplace!

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 and son. I'm starting with the first one, written in 1919, but I plan to record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--May 5, 1919 to May 5, 2013, for instance--with one entry per day. So it will take a year to get through the first diary.

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. By doing this, I hope to convey a sense of 1919 Schenectady, New York and the people Stanford interacted with. Of course, I'm also hoping to give Stanford's descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1919

Thursday, October 30, 1919

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