The Diary of a 1920's Housewife...

This is the story of a lady. A lady I have grown to love, admire, and continue to be intrigued by. And after many years, I have finally decided to share her story. This is the personal diary of a wife and mother living in Akron, Ohio just before the Depression. These are her words transcribed from her personal diaries beginning in 1925. Fascinating stories from the mundane like household chores and shopping lists, to her frustration with depression and an unhappy marriage.

Thursday January 8, 1925 - Wonderful Moonlight

Quite warm today. The snow has melted from the sml limbs of the trees, just coats the larger branches. Harriet hurried back to school at noon to see basket ball game.1
Mrs. Rians + Mrs. Houston here this P.M. I ironed.
Bill went away after dinner.
Ret'd at 12:00.
Nellie + May here.2

Wonderful moonlight.

Post3 $.05
Papers $.04
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$.09
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1. So not sure if girls come home for lunch - or is school only 1/2 day.
2. Not sure who these are - maybe the daughters friends? She seems to always refer to her friends by Mrs so and so.
3. Post - mail?

1920's Ohio High School
Boys Basketball team

This is the Diary of a Lady and Her Most Personal Thoughts...

I came across these diaries almost 10 years ago, and I have researched this family much over the years but have always come to a dead-end. I thought that perhaps this would be the best way to let her voice and story live on.

Each blog is another entry in her diary, exactly as it is written and spelled - however family names have been changed.
Many abbreviations are used, so footnotes will be added where necessary.
She didn't write everyday, so any missing days are just that - blank, nothing written.
Any family relations will be explained in footnotes as discovered.
Any photos posted in footnotes are added by me...just for fun.

If this is your first visit to this blog, you can read the entries in chronological order by clicking the archives below - then clicking "Newer Posts" to continue to the next one. Enjoy!