September 6
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
September 6, 1997
Up at 7:00. Mrs. Deering took me 2 work. Closed with new guy, Brian. Chris and Matt came 2 see me! :) Chris got me sick. I feel like shit. Went 2 Kim’s after work and got bag. Came 2 Dad’s. Went 2 bed at 7:00.
Marcy S., age 20, Tennessee
September 6, 1944
Another beautiful day but cooler. Slept late. Thought a long time before getting up. Busy all morn and afternoon. Mary called about 3 and I told her I’d be down after the dentist’s. It clouded up and rained a bit. Went down a little early and waited in office til 5:30! Then had a session in the chair for 45 minutes. It was a bad cavity in an upper tooth and he numbed the jaw. Even so I could feel the drilling. He put a cement base in and it took quite a while. So didn’t get home till 6:30. Clearing. Met Betty Bowman. It was hard to laugh or smile ’cause the numbness hadn’t worn off. Telegram from Helen Elliott saying she’d gotten me a room. Good supper. Then I got ready to go calling. Heard Ashley singing and then making dreadful gurgling noises in the bathroom. Sounded so funny. About 7:30 I started up to Mildred Lane’s but felt oddly frustrated and restless. I wanted Ashley to come out so badly — I really don’t understand myself sometimes. Finally went in, though, and visited with Mrs. Mildred and Mrs. Julian. Mrs. Rodgers came down so I didn’t have to go up to see her. Home about 9 and found Mum and Pop listening to radio. Didn’t feel like going to bed so went over to visit with Clure. Ashley was still there and was apparently not going out for the evening. Clure and I sat in the living room and had a nice talk. She said that Kimmie and I were her “guiding lights” because we were such wholesome girls. Well, I had never thought of myself as wholesome but will try to get used to the idea. Pop came once to see if he could get a room for a girl from Monterey who is coming to be his stenographer. I heard Clure say that Mr. Pace was leaving the 15th. So I guess he’s still going to Arabia. I felt very good though. Left about 10, feeling happy and nice inside.
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
September 6, 1887
Have been working at the store all today as Charley Case went to Reed City. Irvie came back today noon; he is not feeling well and is going home soon. I did not have any telegraph business to tend to today but I called the Frankfort operator up and asked him a question, which he answered. The wind has blown considerable today and it lightnings and thunders tonight.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Abbie B., age 22, Kansas
September 6, 1871
Philip continues to improve, his appetite is coming back.
I tend the ox—must dip up so much water for him. This a. m. washed, p. m. baked two loaves of bread and a pie. Had the ox to feed and water this evening again.
Will answer letters now.
*(kansasmemory.org, Kansas State Historical Society, copy and reuse restrictions apply)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
September 6, 1862
I have done nothing of importance today. Let down a skirt that was too short & read a good deal & knit. Sister Jane & the others came this evening. I was very glad to see them. Miss Eliza Neilson came over this evening with them. She is going to school in Asheville. She is a very pleasant girl. We enjoyed the evening finely. I do enjoy my friends very much & my sisters are very pleasant good girls & Sister Jane is so kind & motherly. She is devoted to her babe. It is a sweet little delicate thing. It sucks the negro woman very well.
*(Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family, Eds. Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell, used with permission.)
Samuel P., age 35, London
September 6, 1668
(Lord’s day). Up betimes, and got myself ready to go by water, and about nine o’clock took boat with Henry Russell to Gravesend, coming thither about one, where, at the Ship, I dined; and thither come to me Mr. Hosier, whom I went to speak with, about several businesses of work that he is doing, and I would have him do, of writing work, for me. And I did go with him to his lodging, and there did see his wife, a pretty tolerable woman, and do find him upon an extraordinary good work of designing a method of keeping our Storekeeper’s Accounts, in the Navy. Here I should have met with Mr. Wilson, but he is sick, and could not come from Chatham to me. So, having done with Hosier, I took boat again the beginning of the flood, and come home by nine at night, with much pleasure, it being a fine day. Going down I spent reading of the “Five Sermons of Five Several Styles,” worth comparing one with another: but I do think, when all is done, that, contrary to the design of the book, the Presbyterian style and the Independent are the best of the five sermons to be preached in; this I do, by the best of my present judgment think, and coming back I spent reading of a book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my letters and warrants and method will be found another gate’s —[?? D.W.]— business than this that the world so much adores, and I am glad for my own sake to find it so. My boy was with me, and read to me all day, and we sang a while together, and so home to supper a little, and so to bed.
*(The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S., edited by Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A., London, George Bell & Sons York St. Covent Garden, Cambridge Deighton Bell & Co., 1893.)