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| Helen Korngold, December 1919, New York City |
August
Monday 4
Hung up clothes. Went to Darlene Young’s in evening. Clarence Hirsch went. Had a nice time. Tired.
Tuesday 5
All tired. Ironed until 3. Played at Aunt B[Beryl Fry] with kids. Home. Flora Siegfried came over in the evening. Talked a lot. Went to bed.
Wednesday 6
Lazy.
Thursday 7
Quite the same
Friday 8
Cleaned up. Temple. Met some nice people.
Saturday 9
Fooled around. Went over to Grandma’s – Driving in the evening.
Sunday 10
All-day picnic at [illegible, Pickers?] with Choral Club- had a wonderful time.
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| Helen's diary pages |
NOTES:
Aug 5
Flora Siegfried (1890) on the 1900 St. Louis Census was at school, daughter of clothing merchant Joseph Siegfried (Austria/German-born in 1860) and his wife Fanny. Other siblings were Minnie, Jennie, and Celia. They had a servant Mary. By 1910 Flora was a bookkeeper. In 1920 Flora was still a bookkeeper and her sisters were stenographers, all employed in clothing manufacturing. By 1930 Joseph had passed and Flora was a stenographer still living at home.
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In the news:August 10, 1919, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Dr. M. M. Madden, a "negro attorney" of Oklahoma City, OK, was a delegate to a conference at the Free Will Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Louis, MO, which proposed the creation of a "negro state" as a way to end race problems.
Page one article in August 10, 1919, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Solution of Negro Question
Perhaps less controversial was the battle of the cursives.
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