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Monday, January 27, 1913: We three all worked on line all day. We had dinner over town at the Pembina Hotel. We had a very good dinner Weather was very soft all day with a little rain fall but not enough to do any harm. Two thoughts here: 1) I Googled “Pembina Hotel” just to…
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First, the furnace, then the trip to New York, then the water heater leaked all over the floor, so, new water heater, then, it wasn’t the water heater, it was a condensation drain that led outside that should have gone to the laundry drain but went through the sill plate (who knew???) and froze which…
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Thursday, January 23, 1913 Weather about the same about 8° with out snow but cloudy. Steve and I worked up to the pembina bridge this morning and got back about 11.30 for dinner This afternoon we all went up to Entwistle gravel pit to run in a P.L. worked all after got in about 5.30…
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Weather very mild with very little snow about 10° below. We all stayed in the car all day on account of the snow. We all got some mail. I only got three one from Agatha Laurena [?] and a real estate one from frig [or possibly Peg?].
Karen has heard me say this a million times… When I talk about the diary in my genealogy presentations, I describe the hardships that were everyday living for my grandfather and the men he worked with. And yet I get nervous when I can’t find the remote control for the TV!!! Here’s the 21st of…
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Although in this entry, Clem did not put a “$” sign on the “windfall”, he did underscore the “30” which is how he usually wrote dollar amounts. The underscore won’t copy over to this post, but trust me….it’s there! And I can easily see how he meant to say he had $5.30 left for the…
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Wooops! Missed the 17th because of the mix-up in the pages where Clem wrote his daily entry on the wrong page and…. Oh, never mind, it’s too hard to explian here… Here’s the entry for the 17th: Cullerne bill the outfit out and there was no trains west, so we stayed in car all day.…
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I may not have time to post tonight…We’re still on the road heading to my sister’s house. I hope the kids have let the dog out a few times! Diane’s grandson has asked to see some of the genealogy artifacts I’ve collected. He saw the Grand Trunk Pacific stories on the blog and wants to…
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I really love teaching genealogy! I have to say that it doesn’t matter if it’s a large crowd or a small, intimate group. Tonight I met 4 very enthusiastic “students” of family history research in the first of 5 sessions being held at The Yellow House Community Center of Learning in Palmer, MA. Nancy, Emy,…
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Sometimes I try to imagine what my grandfather would think if he could see this blog…100 years after he wrote the words and took the pictures! What a world!!! “Lest We Forget” On Sunday, January 19, 1913, Clem and his co-workers decided to “sleep in”. He didn’t get up until 8 o’clock!! Half the day…
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