
A bite-size taste of history each day based on the diaries of ordinary people of the 1920s-1940s, plus book reviews, economic commentary, and an occasional vintage cocktail recipe to wash it all down.
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They go to preaching; senators castigate Hoover for failing to support jobless measure
As I have pointed out before, Myra and her family do not seem to have been regular church-goers. Today, however, she noted they “went to preaching in mo...
Cold cereals, including new Grape-Nuts Flakes, pitched to kids and adults
Myra didn’t write in her diary today. Maybe she was too hot, as the mercury remained stuck in the mid-90s.
Heat wave blasts the South; newspapers are full of cooling advice
Myra’s husband Sid and son James went to Montgomery today, a Friday. “Ho as blazes,” she commented. She wasn’t kidding; the National Weather Report for that day gave the hig...
‘29 years old today,” Myra wrote, and that’s all she had to say about her birthday.
In celebration, for all my readers, I am posting a collection of birthday cards from the 1930s. But, as always, I ask you to become a paid subscriber if yo...
Alabama college girl wins fame penning a novel that was made into a film
Myra did not write in her diary today — I expect because it was too hot — but maybe not as hot as it was at a Montgomery movie theatre, where a film starring Sylvia S...
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Author of biographies, history mystery series and two books on Prohibition, "Baptists and Bootleggers" and "Methodists and Moonshiners," both with cocktail recipes.
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