Datebook 1923: Thursday, January 4, 1923

Overcast with snow. Arose 8 A.M. Shovelled etc. Candled eggs. Dinner. Read. Down street. To ΦΝθ for supper. Pleasant time and good eats. Took Mildred Swart a la Kissel to Church to hear Welsh Male Chorus. Very good. Home. Talked and lunch. To bed 12:30 P.M. Thankful.

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Mildred Swart is another of Stanford's girl friends. You can refresh your memory of her at this post: April 1, 1921.

The Welsh Male Chorus is actually the Welsh Male Glee Singers, advertised in the Schenectady Gazette for that day. Below is the ad:

I couldn't find out anything more about them, however.

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, cousin, nephew and friend. This is the fifth installment of Date Book, covering 1923 (the first four cover 1919-1922). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1923 to January 1, 2017, 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.

And this year, because Stanford is living in Boston, attending Boston University School of Theology, I will be adding information about early 1920s Boston as well as Schenectady.

Through these 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 1923

Thursday, January 4, 1923

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