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| Helen Korngold, December 1919, New York City |
In 2001 I discovered a diary in a Lansing, Michigan shop. I was charmed by the writer and brought the diary home with me. I spend years researching Helen Korngold. This year I am sharing the diary every week along with my research notes.
Helen recently graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
June
Monday 23
Riding
Tuesday 24
Unexciting
Wednesday 25
Jr. Council Card Party at Highlands. Karol & Hyman took us home.
Thursday 16
Big night. Went slumming. K & Sofie Stampfer – Clara Marx & Hyman Stein – Bill Weiser & myself – we had a wild time – Hop Alley & all low-class cafés.
Friday 27
Cleaned up & slept
Saturday 28
Party at Levy’s
Sunday 29
Ida came over - Aunt B.
NOTES:
June 25
Karol Korngold, Helen's brother
June 26
Hop Alley was the name for Chinatown. It may have gotten that name for the opium addicts, or hop heads. See articles here and here.
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| Hop Alley in 1925. St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
June 28
Mae Hannah Levy (born 1897) appears in the Washington University class of 1918, and was active in hockey, the Woman’s Athletic Assoc, the YWCA and French Club. She appears on the 1916 and 1917 City Directory as a student living on Waterman St. Alfred Levy on the 1920 St. Louis Census is a president of a white collar manufacturing factory. His family included Gussie, son Moe and daughters Mae H. age 23, Adele, and Ruth. Alfred has an ancestry.com family tree. Mae married Perez Falk in 1923 and he died Dec. 11, 1923. The 1930 St. Louis Census shows Mrs. Mae Falk, widow, living with her parents.
The 1900 St. Louis Census shows Perez, age 13, living with his parents Max and Laurie and siblings Kenna and Edmund. Max was a traveling salesman for a hat wholesaler. Perez Falk’s WWI Draft Registration shows he was born July 20, 1886, in Joplin, Mo and worked as a traveling salesman. He had black hair and blue eyes. A family tree on ancestry.com shows she also married Isodore Miller. Mae died in 1981.
June 29
Aunt Beryl Frey, her mother's sister
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On June 28 the Treaty of Peace was signed, formally ending WWI.
Note also the article "Women to Attend Ratification of Suffrage Measure"
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| June 23, 1919, St. Louis Post-Dispatch. College pranks. |
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June 23, St. Louis Post-Dispatch ads include this rather risque photo for sports fashions |
And my favorite ad!
