Datebook 1923: Monday, May 14, 1923

Beautiful, bright, cool. Arose 7 A.M. Breakfast etc. Studied. Last class of course in Hebrews 10-11:30 A.M. Ernest, H.H. & I to Shanghi to dinner. Walked about. Nap. Class & chapel. Talked & studied. To G.T.L. Volley ball. Supper at Waldorf's with H.H. Studied. To bed 1:45 P.M. Thankful for health.

Advertising in the sky, words written in smoke emitted from an aeroplane. Very wonderful.

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Skywriting was a fairly new phenomenon in 1923. The first public instance of it was only in November 1922. Here is a description of the event:

1922 Nov 28, Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gave the first public skywriting exhibition, spelling out, "Hello U-S-A. Call Vanderbilt 7200" over New York’s Times Square. 47,000 called.

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

Monday, May 14, 1923

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