Datebook 1920: Saturday, March 13, 1920

SNOW AT NIGHT. Overcast cool wet day with rain and few inches of snow. Arose 7:30 A.M. To college 9-12:15 M. Home. Studied etc. Took nap in P.M. Read. Played piano. Over to church at night. DeJeu Magician. Very good. Bowled at Star. Home. Dressed. Russell, Marion & Merlin here. Talked. To bed 12:30 P.M.

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DeJeu was a popular magician in the 1919-1920. I was unable to obtain more information than that about the person. I guess they had the man performing at the church, which is kind of interesting.

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 second installment of Date Book, covering 1920 (the first covers 1919). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1920 to January 1, 2014, for instance--with one entry per day. So it will take a year to transcribe this second 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 1920 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 1920

Saturday, March 13, 1920

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